Has the idea of the big reveal completely lost its effectiveness on South Park Because after a season packed with them, the plot device does nothing for me. Watch South Park Online at Couchtuner. Eu. As Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman wait for the school bus, Kyles little brother, Ike, tries to follow Kyle to school Kyle. South Park Season 16 Episode 12 Tv Links' title='South Park Season 16 Episode 12 Tv Links' />South Park Episode Guide. Please read the following before uploading. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember Abuse of the TV. Club. Has the idea of the big reveal completely lost its effectiveness on South Park Because after a season packed with them, the plot device does nothing for me. Tonights revelation that Troll Traces CEO, Bedrager, is actually a troll himself should have been the biggest bombshell of the season. Icarly Season 1 Ep 11. But instead, it lands with shrugits surprise ruined by the simple fact that weve seen too much of this sort of thing already. From Gerald being Skankhunt. Member Berries being more intelligent than we initially thought, this has been a season filled with characters fooling others about who they really are. While thats not always a bad thing those first two reveals were some of the strongest plot points of the season, the comedic gut punch devolves into a one handed shove when it plays out the same exact way every single time. Zoom in on the characters face. Ominous music. A wicked smile as they reveal their true intentions. Repeat next week. What could be a resonant running theme is now nothing more than old hat. Also, Bedrager being flat out malicious instead of just misguided strips Troll Trace of much of its terror. Yeah, his final speech about purposely riling everyone up and preying upon human beings ugliest instincts is a somewhat chilling reference to Donald Trumps rise to power. But we already have a suitable Trump surrogate on the show, and Troll Trace was always a hell of a lot scarier when it came from good intentions. Before, it was an innovation that supposedly sprung from Denmarks desire to fight online cruelty. It was ill informednot just spitefuland thats what made it so frightening. You could see how it could happen in real life. You could see how oversensitivity and the desire to protect ones self could lead to a serious threat to free speech. Now though, its just another troll move in of itself albeit the ultimate troll move, orchestrated the entire time by someone who gets off on fucking with humanity on a global level. Its power relies on the goals of a single supervillain, and that suddenly feels lazyan unfortunate symptom of the fatalistic everything and everyone sucks outlook that South Park sometimes falls back on in its weaker storytelling moments. To be fair, there are some isolated stretches that work well within it, particularly Geralds cowardly backpedaling. Not only does his groveling expose common internet trolls for what they really are it shows how weak the case for detached, ironic humor truly is, even when it gets passed off as half baked intellectualism. The more Gerald tearfully tries to defend his despicable behavior as some kind of socially important satire, the more pathetic he becomes. Mr. Garrison has a similar unraveling, proving himself to be more and more childlike as he grapples with whether or not to bomb Denmark. True to the real life Donald Trump, hes easily swayed by whoever taunts hims the loudest and most recently, vowing to attack when Mr. Slave says he doesnt have the balls to do so, then backing down when Kyle uses the same tactic. Its one of the episodes few moments of laugh out loud humor, tinged with a bitter sting since were witnessing this sort of behavior from our president elect literally every day. The CartmanHeidi storyline also continues to make headway, becoming one of the only threads where a clear endgame is in sight. When Heidis Emoji analysis allows her to actually figure out the necessary trajectory to Mars, Cartman cant handle it. He only likes the superficial idea of Heidi being intelligent, not her actually being intelligent and all the complexity that comes with it. Its much easier for him to laugh at the same dumb vagina reference over and over rather than take her seriously as a person. But thats only one of many disparate subplots that has to reach some kind of satisfying conclusion in just one more episodes time. What about the Member Berries Where the hell did Hillary Clinton go And like everything else, the CartmanHeidi relationship still gets steamrolled by Not Funnys dud of an ending. I suppose one could defend it as being slyly metafictionalthis idea of everyones inability to stay away from the internet leading to all of us getting trolled all the time, even by the show itself. But as I said, that feels like a copout. South Park has proven time and time again that it can do better than the rehashed gotcha moment. Hopefully next weeks finale will get away from this conceit, which seems to be turning into the default strategy for the season. Stray observations. It seems strange that Mr. Slave would be on the side wanting to bomb Denmark. Hes always seemed more rational than that. Then again, this is a man who shoved Paris Hilton up his own ass. Was anyone else reminded of Charlie Brown and Linus brick wall conversations when Butters and Cartman talked about girlfriends while leaning on the railing For a minute, I was hoping wed get another episode centered around Harrison Yates. I dont know if Geralds ever been more horrible than when frantically throwing his own sons under the bus. Watch The Final Cut Online Freeform. Could you just say.