Review (spoilers):

I’m probably going to be biased on this one because it was one of my first episodes, I love this episode. It’s classic Zim, but it’s short and sweet. Some people don’t like it’s resemblance to the pilot episode, I personally don’t mind. I mean the pilot episode didn’t air until ten years after this one so it’s not like they were two exactly alike stories back to back, the pilot episode probably wasn’t ever meant to air anyways.

The episode opens with a situation that’s an exaggerated version of something that I think has happened to almost everyone in their class when they were kids, someone decided it would be fun to mess with the paste. Then it rains, something as normal as air to us and the one new kid is worried by it. Both of these could happen, someone spills paste, someone that may have just moved from somewhere without rain won’t stop freaking out about the rain. Everyone has seen something similar to those things; well Jhonen Vasquez and Frank Conniff (Head writers for this episode) turned this into a whole story!

We find out Zim is allergic to rain water, now he has been exposed to water before and withstood it (attack of the saucer morons and others) but he supposedly always bathes in paste. It has been suggested that Zim is allergic to the pollution in the water. I think that’s brilliant, what if aliens come to earth all the time, willing to offer us amazing advances, but the pollution in the water and air kills them? Makes you wonder.

Its fun to see Dib and Zim confront each other in this episode; you seem to learn more about each character, Dib, Zim, and Gaz each with a rage boiling inside them from the events occurring around them added on to horrible childhoods or lives, Gaz neglected by her family, Dib, the nerd and outcast, both of whom lost their mother (or so I assume), then Zim, the Irken that went wrong. There’s a wonderful little montage where they make their weapons, that’s enjoyable. Oh and the ending, Zim tells GIR not to disturb him, and so when he gets stuck on the way to his base GIR doesn’t, that was pretty awesome. xP Overall this is a great episode, nothing’s drawn out (except the rain song I guess, that clocks in at around 47 seconds!!) , it’s simple and easy to follow, and hilarious! One of my favorites definitely.

Here’s Ms. Bitter’s in her cloak from “Voting of the Doomed”

And here’s Zim on his desk, inspired by the episode “Career Day” I had to guess what color things were so the wall’s probably the wrong color, but it’s still a decent picture.

Hope you like ‘em! Now to review… THE FOLLOWING REVIEW MAY BE CONSIDERED SPOILER-ISH

REVIEW:

So I was pretty disappointed when I watched the pilot episode, I was hoping for the voice of Zim to be Richard Horvitz’s and I hoped they would’ve revised some stuff, such as the color of Dib’s shirt… and GIR’S voice, I mean REALLY you can hardly understand that voice in the pilot. The graphics of course aren’t perfected and it’s jerky at times, but that’s okay, it was after all the pilot.

Now I know you’re thinking “The Invader Zim team wasn’t there, how could they fix anything?” Well I know, but still… But I suppose Nickelodeon went out of their way to do this at all… Anyways, before I’m spammed with hate mail for saying bad stuff let me get to the good stuff.

The opening narration cracked me up as it always does, I wasn’t sure if they were going to air that or not, but they left it as it was, a treat to those who haven’t seen it, but a disappointment to those who have seen it and wanted some new treats… SORRY! Back to the good stuff. The overall story is pretty good, it makes sense, it’s easy to follow, it’s funny, and oh yeah there’s an epic battle with a giant robot involved.

I do like this episode a lot, don’t get me wrong, I simply wish they had fixed it for TV, because I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of OMGIR’s locked themselves in their rooms and cried through Christmas after hearing the one scene with GIR in it.

The color of Dib’s shirt really isn’t that important, but just to make sure I wasn’t over thinking things, I let my little brother, who hadn’t seen the pilot before watch it, he said it was good but he preferred Richard Horvitz voicing Zim instead of Billy West, don’t get me wrong Billy West is great, but Richard is simply perfect for Zim. Needless to say my brother wanted GIR’s voice fixed, and he wished the graphics were better. I excuse the graphics though, because they can’t mess with that.

It seems this is the same pilot you can find all over the internet, which I already have a guide for. I’ll make a new guide to the episode soon, as the old one was not the best. So all in all, seeing as it’s only about fifteen minutes this episode, while imperfect, is still a good episode, there are hidden jokes and cameos and everything. So if you recorded it, watch it, if you didn’t, you tube it, it’ll be worth your time.

Nick is really making a fuss about Zim, the pilot, the redoing of the page on the website, this vote. I think this is a good sign. I mean the Invader Zim fan base has grown so much recently, and we’ve bugged Nick about it so much. We’ve definitely made it known that Zim lives. Operation Head Pigeons, the group responsible for my over-obsessive-ness towards Zim seems to be winning, I think if we keep it up Zim will return.  So vote for your favorite Zim moments. There have already been over 20,000 times people have taken the time to watch and vote, free Zim moments, who could resist? Try for yourself here.

~Tallest Nat

And another Dib picture I made before Summer!

K guys! So spread the paranoid paranormal joy and wish everyone a happy Dib Day!

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS MAY BE CONSIDERED SPOILERS!!!

I know it’s not much, but don’t worry I’ll probably overload the site with photos after the episode airs!

Then again maybe I’ll just play it safe and ask the robo parents… Anyone planning on going to InvaderCON? I’m not! Because they put it in California… Grrr…. Oh well enough moping here. Tickets for the I’m making waffles Breakfast and “Dinner of Doom” sold out VERY quickly, but there are still tickets for DoomCON at a discount of $10 off! On You can watch 4 FULL EPISODES there is a whole bunch of new stuff!! Click here for Invader Zim on Nicktoons.com Oh yeah, in case I didn’t mention it earlier, all this is happening because ZIM IS COMING BACK!!!! ZIM IS COMING BACK!!!! ZIM IS COMING BACK!!! Look at OHP’s facebook or website if you don’t know why I’m mindlessly repeating myself….   OHP.com     I have minimal information on what’s happening cuz my computer is dumb… DUMB LIKE A MOOSE!!!! But you know, When I find out you will!!! So until then, Help get Zim back!!!