Ghosts of the Sargasso(Venture Bros Series Review Episode 7) #review #cartoonnetwork @ZC-Infinity

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In Ghosts of the Sargasso, Team Venture travel to the middle of the ocean where an abandoned space ship prototype is allegedly resting on the bottom. But an inexperienced crew isn't the only hazard the voyage is about to have. The beginning of the episode's pretty cool, a flashback to the days of Venture Senior and his own team of heroes. Where we see him express genuine concern for his friend Major Tom piloting the doomed spacecraft. ...Or he just doesn't want the prototype ruined. Either way, it's nice to see some humanity from him, and it's a nicely thrilling scene, even if it's mostly just a reference to a couple David Bowie songs. The rest of the episode, I don't have very strong feelings for. The present team go out to find the sunken ship that Doctor Venture can patent and profit off of. But as he goes down to find it, their boat is boarded by a group of ghost pirates who quickly take everyone hostage. ...And that's your plot. Most of the episode is comprised of switching between the misadventures of Doctor Venture walking along the bottom of the ocean, and Hank, Dean, and Brock having to deal with, honestly, the most pathetic pirate crew in the history of the seven seas. Their shtick is that they're not actually ghosts, they've just been living on a trapped pirate ship for over a decade, ambushing passing ships just to survive. And it's only now that they've decided to actually hijack one of those ships and get back to the mainland and some decent food. Which, seeing as this ship contains Brock, was a bad time to grow some sense. And with that, I'm genuinely struggling to come up with anything to say. It's the slowest paced episode so far, where we're either just watching Doctor Venture making overly dramatic journal entries, or the pirates trying to maintain order on a ship with two hormonal teenage boys and a psychotic killing machine. I guess it's interesting seeing Dean and the pirate captain shoot the breeze, where the captain admits most of their inventory, including their fake guns, was from a Toys R Us cargo ship. While seeing Brock instructing Hank to be his undercover rescuer was nice, building on how Brock does trust Hank. And yeah, the episode is worth watching just for the scene where Brock takes out his captors with one of the pirates he has trapped in his ass. Another plot kind of starts when an actual ghost actually does appear on the Venture ship, which, thanks to Orpheus, they recognize as the remains of Major Tom. So they get his ex-wife on their communicator, who, along with her new husband, has to tell him he's dead and to move on. Right before Brock just tears him to shreds and throws him overboard. So... That happened. Yeah, I don't have much to say about this one. It's not bad, it's just not at the same level of quality most of the show has been so far. It's clearly a filler episode, which is fine, and the pirate captain does become a recurring character, it's just not something I'm going to remember in a week. And once they found the ship, how were they planning on getting it back home?

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