I am SO thrilled with episode six! It's definitely my fave so far. We have injury, fire, Sharpteeth galore, the Mysterious Beyond, everything rolled together! When Red Claw jumped out after Petrie was talking about bad luck again, I was actually taken by surprise!  :blink:

I think the animation in this episode is MUCH better. The characters' faces were not so deformed as the other episodes. I would even say it looked like movie-quality animation (well, from what I could tell from the recording, anyway!)

I love Spike's 'talking' hee hee. He makes the cutest sounds! And yay for a return of a song from the movies, Adventuring!

The plot was pretty good too. I think traveling to see the gysers is cute and a believeable thing for the kids to do. Petrie's character remains a little over the top, but I can live with it. He's cute.  : Plus he mentioned Uncle Pterano! Yay!

My only problem is that in this episode they made the Mysterious Beyond into some normal place that isn't mysterious at all. Firstly, they never show how the kids got out there. It's supposed to be blocked off from the Valley, isn't it? Secondly, the kids never once mention that the adults don't want them to go out there or ask the adults permission, and from what we've seen of the movies we know that is true. We never see the adults in this episode at all, so we don't know their reaction. The episode ends before the kids really return home, so we don't see the kids getting in trouble for being out there.

So is the series going to make the Mysterious Beyond just another setting for the kids to go to and have adventures? Time will tell, I suppose!