Summer School: Chapter Twelve is directed by Greg Beeman who also serves as producer for the show and couple of other well known shows, the direction is good but not great. I liked the way he choose to shoot scenes though. The episode's script was written by James Dale Robinson and his writing was felt throughout the episode with overall great writing and fantastic dialogue. The cinematography is good, with the sets and locations being great. All the departments did a terrific job with this episode.
The episode follows the events of the previous episode with Courtney, Cindy and Charles McNider having escaped Eclipso's realm. Chapter Twelve follows: Courtney seeking help from the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Mike's search to find Thunderbolt leads him straight to his friend Jakeem, and Pat goes to extreme lengths to protect Rick.
There were a couple of good character interactions in this episode, but I didn't really find the acting to be quite on the same level as previous episodes. Luke Wilson gives a terrific performance as Pat Dugan, Brec Bassinger and Meg DeLacy deserves praise as well.
In my opinion, this was overall a good episode. But the thing is that it doesn't really feel like a penultimate episode, lots of things should have been in previous episodes. But having the entire cast in an episode was great to see and even Alkoya Brunson back as Jakeem Williams. My problem with the penultimate episode and many episodes before it is how the pace is too slow, and that the writers have failed in making Eclipso a menacing and frightening villain. He had the potential to both be great and frightening but ultimately failed with both, in my opinion. What could have helped was that people would have stayed dead, like Cindy for example. Seeing her "die" made me think Eclipso was a villain that could live up to his name at being one of the darkest villains out there but the writers have played it too safe. Yet here we are, the penultimate episode of a season that's been dragging on too long. The pacing would have been improved if it would have been a ten episode season instead of thirteen. It was overall a good episode but far from great.
The episode follows the events of the previous episode with Courtney, Cindy and Charles McNider having escaped Eclipso's realm. Chapter Twelve follows: Courtney seeking help from the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Mike's search to find Thunderbolt leads him straight to his friend Jakeem, and Pat goes to extreme lengths to protect Rick.
There were a couple of good character interactions in this episode, but I didn't really find the acting to be quite on the same level as previous episodes. Luke Wilson gives a terrific performance as Pat Dugan, Brec Bassinger and Meg DeLacy deserves praise as well.
In my opinion, this was overall a good episode. But the thing is that it doesn't really feel like a penultimate episode, lots of things should have been in previous episodes. But having the entire cast in an episode was great to see and even Alkoya Brunson back as Jakeem Williams. My problem with the penultimate episode and many episodes before it is how the pace is too slow, and that the writers have failed in making Eclipso a menacing and frightening villain. He had the potential to both be great and frightening but ultimately failed with both, in my opinion. What could have helped was that people would have stayed dead, like Cindy for example. Seeing her "die" made me think Eclipso was a villain that could live up to his name at being one of the darkest villains out there but the writers have played it too safe. Yet here we are, the penultimate episode of a season that's been dragging on too long. The pacing would have been improved if it would have been a ten episode season instead of thirteen. It was overall a good episode but far from great.
