Naomi, “Shadow Ridge”, Review!

 “Enigma” Re:cap - the military has detected an electromagnetic signal, someone is looking for something, Naomi arrives to debate Esme for class president.  She gives a little praise for Esme’s honesty.  Of course, the students cheer for her.  Greg has gone to the forest and found the stone realizing that his daughter is being hunted!  After the debate, Naomi wants cheeseburgers with Annabelle, she goes to her locker.  Then, she sees the mysterious man who confronted Zumbado!  He appears when she turns the corner and the bounty hunter wants to return her to Earth-29.  She uses her power to knock him down and sees him everywhere she turns.  

Naomi starts to run the field and teleports a spear to his hands!  Dee flies in with his wings to attack the bounty hunter.  Naoi’s powers fail.  The bounty hunter teleports, but Dee is able to predict where he will show up and punches him out!  Later, in the classroom, Naomi is crying and Dee tells her that the bounty hunter is missing.  Dee says her powers may have drawn the bounty hunter.  He says he will protect her.  Naomi says her powers failed due to her fear.  Dee shows her neck tatoo, for Qyeala,  which he explains is the name of the woman he loved whom he lost.  He admits that he was too afraid to tell her how he felt.  The next day, Greg reports to Steel about the loss of signal and no trace of anything.  

Night, Naomi finds Nathan practicing out in the field, and tells him she dropped out of the class president race.  She flashes back to moments with Nathan and kisses him.  On their first date, Nathan is walking with Naomi eating some ice cream.  She says her favorite place was Tokyo where she got her first comic book.  His favorite place is Germany.  They go on a date watching The Matrix and holding hands in the theater.  Later, Naomi is practicing meditation going over meeting Zumbado, her parents, and the encounter with the bounty hunter.  Her eyes snap open. Dee congradulates Naomi on her first meditation.  Naomi tells Dee about her dreams facing the bounty hunter.  The next day, Naomi tells Annabelle about her meditation.  


NAOMI - - “Shadow Ridge” - -  WILL MEYERS, KACI WALFALL - - Photo: Danny Delgado/The CW -- © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.


They are headed to Shadow Ridge for a leadership retreat.  Naomi can’t wait to go camping, sees Nathan, she tells Annabelle that she is going to camp with him.  A teacher assigns Annabelle and Naomi to another jeep.  Anthony is the driver.  The caravan of red jeeps, all of the same model and make?, a very elite school. Nathan joins Naomi and Annabelle as the counselors welcome them to the camp.  The head counselor, Camp Direcor Richard (Steve Alderfer), points out the girls and boys cabins with counselors in the middle, no cell phones, and they going to camp out in the woods.  At night, by the campfire, Counselor Mary (Malone Thomas) tells the story of ax murderer, Moonshine Jimmy.  


Naomi passes around a note to Nathan.  Counselor Jeff (Brett Newton) jumps up to surprise them.  The note reads to meet Naomi at the Old Cup Tree.  The next day, Steel has brought Jennifer to decipher glyphs that may be extraterrestrial.  He shows Jennifer and Greg the photo of the stone!  The moon has risen, Nathan is surprised by Naomi, he wanted to have a talk with her.  He is wondering why she suddenly broke up with him.  Naomi senses someone, it is Anthony stumbling out of the woods, saying he saw Moonshine Jimmy.  Next morning, Naomi checks Anthony at the medical office, he was walking at night seeing a blue color that made him dizzy.  Naomi says she will help him.  


NAOMI - - “Shadow Ridge” - -  ALEXANDER WRAITH, CRANSTON JOHNSON - - Photo: Danny Delgado/The CW -- © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.


They hear from the counselors during a trust exercise that a similar a researcher, Belinda, that had a cabin outside of the camp.  At the used car lot, Dee asks about a motorcycle from Zumbado, he wanted to know about the bounty hunter.  Zumbado says that Dee broke their deal.  Dee says that the bounty hunter has to be stopped with Zumbado.  The friends head out at night to the cabin.  They go in to see cookies being made.  Nathan finds a trace of the blue glow and they leave to see Director Richard!  In the morning, they have to clean the tables as punishment, Annabelle has found a charger for the camera Naomi found at the cabin.  Jennifer wonders how the military found the rock.  She worries about Naomi and wants to leave.


Greg tells his wife that they will protect their daughter.  At the science lab, Annabelle and Nathan have brought in trash bags to check on bear fossils to distract Counselor Susan (Melanie Jeffcoat) as they take the charger.  Annabelle asks him about Naomi and he wonders about her secrets.  Nathan goes over the map of the camp at a site that was excavated.  Dee points out the location of Yaeger to Zumbado.  He is told that the bounty hunter has a device for their targets.  From the camcorder they see Belinda (Denise Arribas) look at the glow and the camera becomes shaken and the camp lights flicker.  Belinda says the chemical is damaging the eco-system.  This Scooby Doo mystery seems somehow tied to the other worlds and Naomi!  The latest episode of Naomi moves away from the familiar Port Oswego setting for Naomi and friends, but still has intrigue with her parents and the temporary(?) team of Dee and Zumbado!  


Four Discs out of Five!  


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