AVClub: I was expecting to see Ego, The Living Planet, when I read the synopsis of tonight’s episode, which involved a living planet taken control by a revived Ronan. Instead, we get Mandala, a newly created living planet thanks to the Cosmic Seed, a planet that is also a child. That could’ve been annoying, and at times, it is, but it’s also an audaciously perfect comic book development, along with Ronan’s rebirth. Guardians of the Galaxy’s silliness is best expressed through comic book terms over bad gag-writing; the characters’ ridiculousness needs to spring from the source’s most ridiculous cliches. Listening to Peter Quill force “car games” on his crew at the beginning of the episode is dumb. Listening to Peter Quill’s increasingly desperate attempts to communicate to his mentally-regressed, warring teammates is great, since comic books love nothing more than to come up with excuses to make teammates fight.
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