BRUH THIS MOON GIRL & DEVIL DINOSAUR SHOW IS FOR THE CULTURE AND I'M ALL OVER THIS!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 THEY DEADASS GOT CHILDISH GAMBINO PLAYING OVER AN ACTION SCENE 🤩🤩
It just feels like all the episodes of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur are absolute bangers.
I loved that we got to explore more about Casey and her culture, and that her dads got more focus.
I'm glad because casey obviously loves them both so much, she has so much pride merch all over her room and she spends a ton of time with them when she's not with lunella.
I brought this up briefly in an earlier post, but I love Moon Girl. Can we talk about how great this brief chess scene is between Lu and Mimi? It's a master class in visual storytelling and foreshadowing.
Lunella and Mimi are playing a friendly game of chess and Mimi is on the losing end. Mimi's playstyle revolves around relying heavily on her queen to carry the game for her.
"The queen can win the game on her own cuz she got it like that" - she's not wrong about the queen being the single strongest piece.
But while the queen is the strongest piece, it's not invulnerable.
The visual comparison is made even more direct in how Mimi is playing with the black chess pieces believing the idea that the Black queen can do it all to bring her to victory. It helps convey the kind of attitude she as a Black woman approaches the world with and one that becomes highlighted later in the episode.
This ends up costing her as her granddaughter points out she can only get so far with just the queen and that it's the duty of the other pieces to support the queen rather than relying on one piece to win her the game.
The Black queen is also taped together, worn and weary from overuse.
The way this use this as a way to foreshadow the discussion of the emotional burdens of Black women and girls and the way should normalize having them take on the world alone is just so amazing.
They're also rightfully pointing out that this isn't just some internal "change yourself" thing, it's brought on by harmful societal expectations toward people of marginalized genders.
Mimi is by no means a bad player, but they use this as a way to showcase an attitude of Black women having to shoulder burdens alone that is thoroughly deconstructed and critiqued within the show.
This is a fantastic show and it's just full of loving moments like this.