The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (1×08) Change on the Fly Review

For our review of the last episode of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, click here.

One of the biggest questions at the beginning of the series was regarding whether or not Alex’s “fun first” mantra would ever change and evolve over the course of the season along with the inevitable trajectory of the Don’t Bothers. This latest episode of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers gave us a glimpse of that as the team’s growing success arguably got to Alex’s head, leaving the rest of the team to keep up with the madness. However, as much as creating the team was to provide Alex and other kids a more supportive environment where winning wasn’t the main objective and that they can just be kids, sticking it to the doubters and the system that had opressed them for so long was just as if not more important to her as the Don’t Bothers’ success had her main rival Stephanie feel threatened by her which of course fueled Alex’s ego even more.

Meanwhile, the team’s success also caught the attention of the local news who were interested in their underdog story and Alex’s role in making it all happen. As a result, Alex threatened to alienate the team even more by ratcheting up the intensity of her coaching, arguably becoming the kind of adult she originally fought against but that’s what the feeling of winning did and wanting to keep that feeling alive was all that mattered. The team even had the chance to make the state finals if they could take care of business against their division’s tougher teams and unsurprisingly, they got on an unlikely winning streak in spite of Alex or was it really because of her? Alex took things even further, confronting Coach T. Or maybe it was all happening thanks to Koob and his supersitiong, thinking he’s found the strange secret to the team’s success, and he tries to get the rest of the group to hop on board.

The B-story saw Logan (Kiefer O’Reilly) feel bad that he’s the team’s weak link after Nick’s first goal made him the only player left on the team without one. However, Bombay was confident he can help him get back on track by teaching him how to skate. Already blessed with good looks, this made Nick even more jealous of him as hockey ability was the only thing missing from that seemingly perfect package. But little did Nick know, Logan didn’t exactly have it all. In the final game with States hanging in the balance, Alex has to decide whether to let Logan, who wasn’t exactly a sure thing on the ice, play at a pivotal moment. She started the team to put fun first, but she seems to have gone in another direction. And the team might just have to challenge her authority and that’s what they did by tricking her as Logan got on the ice and used what he learned with Bombay to score the winning goal much to the chagrin of Alex who did not appreciate having her authority challenged.

Perhaps something has to be done about it before it’s too late?

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Keith Noakes

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