Jasmine takes a dark turn in the newest Aladdin installment.

I still prefer the rubber suit from Annihilation.

So a few weeks ago the fourth episode of Mortal Kombat Legacy had came out and I was so bored with it, that I got lethargic over the idea of having to recap each and every one of these episodes where barely anything would happen at all. Hell, episode 3 had almost nothing go on in it. So now I’ve decided to do the remaining episodes in chunks that way I should have more to say and not struggle with recapping the dud episodes.

So it’s been three weeks since the Johnny Cage episode and Mortal Kombat Legacy continues to lull and disappoint. The fourth episode is a loose origin story of both Kitana and Mileena, that also tells the story of Shao Kahn taking over Outworld and eventually killing Sindel. Afterwards Kitana grows up believing that Shao Kahn is her real father.

Baraka is shown among the troops who invade and he looks a hell of a lot better than he did in the Rebirth trailer. Even though he just looks like he’s wearing a generic costume that almost made it into a Lord of the Rings film. Plus he has hair for some reason. Even still he looks way better, and at least he isn’t some fucking guy who carves his teeth into fangs, I mean, what the hell was that shit about?

Overall the entire fourth episode is just a 8 ish minute detailing of the sister’s origin, half told in live action, and half in really cool looking animation. Honestly though, I could do without. Just look at these instead…

Onto Episode 5. So maskless Shao Kahn watches his two adopted daughters fight each other in training, and quite surprisingly it’s the most Mortal Kombat thing that I’ve ever seen come out of this series, but it isn’t much.

Later Kitana and Mileena are sent to kill anybody who could reveal the truth about King Jared and his impostors. What kind of a name is Jared for a king anyway? Well they find the real King Jared who says a mere two lines saying that everything that Kitana has been told is a lie, and she just buys it. He then promptly gets stabbed to death by Mileena. But through the power of forced flashback Kitana suddenly remembers everything and in the next scene Shao Kahn brings up taking over Earth Realm.

Episode 5 is much less boring than 4 but it falls into all the same problems that Legacy’s first two parter, episodes 1 and 2, had. The second part is shorter than the first, almost the first 2 minutes of the second part is filled up with a “previously” recap, and the two episodes had NO reason to be split up. As a whole… It’s less than stellar.

At least the animation was very stylish and appealing.

Now episode 6 is a major step up and is the best episode this series has had since the very first episode. However even episode 1 didn’t win me over so this episode isn’t exactly expanding my balls either. But it’s not bad.

It begins with this disclaimer…

Why the hell wasn’t this in any other episode up until now? Or hell there was a great place to stick it and that was the very first episode. This just seems like a retroactive reaction to MK fans tearing this series a new asshole. And speaking of assholes this episode focuses on Raiden who gets launched to Earth in a bolt of lightning — Terminator style. However he is bolted inside the courtyard of an insane asylum where as soon as he mentions that he’s the god of thunder he’s immediately taken in as a patient. So I guess somebody was watching Mortal Kombat and thought it needed to be more like K-pax.

So Rayden is quite hostile in the facility so their first logical step of action is to give him what I think is a lobotomy. Don’t ask me I’m no mental warden. What’s worse is when they realize that the first one didn’t work, because you know he’s a god, they just give him a SECOND one. After several failed escapes Rayden manages to coax a fellow patient into killing him by stabbing him in the heart. This causes him to explode into lightning particles and then reappear in an alley somewhere else… In the same body? If he could just transport from one place to ano… No, fuck it. The rules aren’t clear and I don’t really care. He’s off to stop Shao Kahn now.

Does he hold a candle to Christopher Lambert? I DON'T THINK SO!

So that’s my opinion on three more boring episodes of Mortal Kombat Legacy. Can’t wait for more…