Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Area 51 Adjacent
Season 1, Episode 12
October 25, 2015
Quickly
The gang sees a UFO.
Thoughts, Details and Recap
The gang is driving through the desert. They start talking about extraterrestrials and nearly hit a guy screaming about aliens.
The art of the desert landscapes is well rendered. It's a beautiful vista.
The gang search for the crashed UFO. They are attacked by a luminescent green extraterrestrial. Then they are arrested by the military under suspicion of being aliens. Scooby is muzzled. I find the dissonance of the talking and extremely anthropomorphized Scooby in a muzzle. They are transported to Area 53. They are interrogated. The interrogation goes about as well as can be expected.
The facility is attacked by the extraterrestrial. Daphne tries to communicate with the extraterrestrial. They flee with the help of General Stall's key card. They find a bunch of outdated equipment. Although given the highly secure nature of the facility, old computers could have legitimate value like the ones at nuclear facilities. They can't be hacked. But that's not the case in the facility, it's made clear they have been denied funding.
There's an alien craft and a highly destructive crash. Daphne's devastated by the fact that the alien is hostile because her dream of hanging out with aliens. Shaggy reassures Daphne that the life she imagined with aliens is exactly the life she has.
They capture the alien and unmask the General who wanted funding.
This is a really good episode. It has some great artistic touches, real stakes and an interesting motivation.
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