I remember in 2015 I saw a promo for this series and it reminded me of many of my favorite series like Camp Lakebottom and Wander Over Yonder for their character designs.
At first glance this series seems quite funny and quite good ... but sadly it is not, since although the animation looks good, the biggest problem is the main plot of the series.
Yes, let's move on to the main story of the series.
This story focuses on Blake Myers, a young 13-year-old boy who is adventurous, brave and knows all kinds of skills and tricks like Parkour. His best friend is Mitch de la Cruz, a chubby dark boy. Both boys like to do all kinds of things that any kid at that age would do: playing, training, and having fun together. What they had no idea is that Blake in the future will become a kind of space ranger that protects the world from alien threats. Up to this point the plot could work but sadly it also sounds pretty pathetic upon meeting its antagonists, who happen to be ... Alien Squirrels from the future? ... Ok, listen up, the clichéd plot of aliens wanting to conquer the world is fine but Seriously? Alien squirrels ... Who in this world would create such pathetic stereotypes of villains? I mean that the creator has worked on series like Phineas and Ferb and Dr. Heinz Doof is an example of a pathetic villain, but he is a pathetic villain that does make sense in the story and at the same time is comical and it works. But why on earth would squirrel-shaped aliens be a good idea to be villains?
Anyway, three of these alien squirrels known as The Squaliens are sent back to the past with an important mission: Get Blake and prevent him from fulfilling his goal of being a space ranger.
At first glance you might think that the series contains a lot of action and comedy and from time to time it works. But sadly the plots of the episodes are not so original and it relies too much on doing all kinds of clichéd plots like:
An episode about being shrunken, an episode about switching bodies, an episode about traveling back in time to the prehistoric times, or an episode where you are turned into an old man.
I have noticed that many of its plots are only taken from other children shows:
And to top it all off many of the episode developments make absolutely no sense at all: for example, in the "Get Inked" episode, the Squaliens happen to switch bodies to Blake and Mitch with an octopus and a penguin, which is absurd and it doesn't make any sense.
I find it sad that this series would not have been so good.
However, I must admit that there was a time when I liked to watch this series.
The series would have been better if they had been more original, with more sense and with less absurd aspects.
