Darna Episodes 28 - 29

I hate to say this but I'm finding myself disappointed in Tree Woman. Her main cause is to wipe out mankind so that the trees and flowers can take over the Earth. Yawn. Her fruits have - hatched? - and the two prostitutes she killed earlier are now reborn as her disciples. And I was right, the short one is a man. They are both absolutely annoying. It was bad enough putting up with the bimbos over at the newspaper. Now I have to hate on these two.

Watson goes running to the orphanage to alert Narda that Eduardo is leaving San Martin. They rush to the airport to stop him. Now that she's revealed her love for him, Narda and Eduardo are a couple. A broken-hearted Valentina swears vengeance.

Tree Woman and her flower girls go marching into town and kill a whole lotta people. The annoying disciples get a firetruck and hose Tree Woman up. All that water causes her to grow into a giant. Unfortunately the CGI of a giant Tree Woman looks absolutely ridiculous.

Just as Eduardo is heading over to the orphanage to shower his gal with flowers and chocolates, Valentina attacks him. He's able to hold her off with his still developing super strength but in the end she knocks him out with a big rock. She uncovers her head and is about to finish him off with her snakes when out of nowhere Consuelo appears and attacks. Valentina tries to remind her mother that she's her daughter but Consuelo doesn't remember. She goes running off with Valentina chasing after her. It just so happens Consuelo runs right into the killing fields of Tree Woman et al.

Narda hears about the attack of the giant tree and she goes to her room to get her magic stone. Only now does she realize the stone is missing. She and Carding search for it frantically. One of the other orphans tells them she saw Serpina with a bright shiny stone earlier. Narda and Carding find Serpina and try to talk her into giving the stone back. Serpina runs into a storage room and turns into a snake before Narda and the boy come in. They begin to search the room. Carding finds the snake instead and Narda throws a vase at it. The snake slithers back behind some stuff and Serpina reverts to her human form. Narda doesn't see this nor does she make the connection of snake disappears/Serpina appears. At least this time Narda is able to convince the girl to give the stone back.

Shooting at the giant Tree Woman is useless, yet the soldiers keep firing at her. (Her invincibility is one of Darna's powers that Tree Woman absorbed from the stone.) Crazy Consuelo runs up and throws a rock at the giant monster. Tree Woman uses one of her root/tentacles and wraps Consuelo up in her grip. Valentina calls upon her snakes to save her mother. What can snakes do to a tree? Obviously nothing as Tree Woman laughs insanely (as she has been doing all along) and sends the reptiles on their way.

Father Mateo goes out to battle Tree Woman with a crucifix and a bucket of holy water. Sadly, neither weapon works and Tree Woman continues to grate on my nerves with her squealing laughter. She also wraps Father Mateo up in her roots. Gabriel, after narrowly escaping the clutches of the gay flower disciple, starts climbing the bean stalk  --er, Tree Woman. She brushes him off, laughs, and starts to step on him when Darna finally arrives.

Darna frees Consuelo and Father Mateo from Tree Woman's grasp, then the two women face off. Darna throws those two annoying disciples into a garbage bin. Thank you for that, Darna. Tree Woman knocks our superheroine down. Just like Hercules and Antaeus, Darna picks the giant tree up from the ground. With her roots not touching any soil, Tree Woman loses strength. Darna hurls the monster away.

Hey look, I found a picture I can steal:

Darna

The ungrateful people of San Martin apologize to Darna and welcome her back with open arms. Father Mateo takes in the amnesiatic Consuelo and cares for her in the church. Transformed back, Narda takes Grandma Loleng to the church because Darna recognized Consuelo as Loleng's long lost daughter. Mother and child are reunited although poor Consuelo has no memory of Loleng. Narda asks if Consuelo remembers Alicia. There is a breakthrough as Consuelo has flashes of memories and she at least realizes Narda is Alicia's child but that's all she does remember.

They take her back to the orphanage. Consuelo, who seems a bit simple minded now, asks Narda to call her mother. Watching all this (as she always does) is Valentina. Oh, she's getting crazy now. In her mind Narda has not only stolen her man, she's stolen her mother. Valentina waits until Eduardo leaves before confronting Narda. She even pulls the rag off her head and shows off her snake hair.

Tree Woman and the Annoying Disciples are reunited as well. I am just so disappointed Tree Woman is turning out to be a flake of a villainess. 

Before Narda can transform, Valentina knocks her to the ground and is about to attack Narda with her hair when Eduardo drives back up. He comes to his girlfriend's defense and pushes Valentina back. Valentina orders up a python to wrap around her ex-boyfriend and crush him. (Many women in the world would like the power to summon a python to crush an ex.)