All posts by STH235SilverLover

Belos' plan is as flawed as it is immoral if you really think about it. First of all, it's EXTREMELY convoluted, which of course makes it more likely to fail (to quote Scotty: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."). Secondly, more magic folk will probably arise on King's corpse and those of his children after each one of them grows up and expires, so witches and demons will live on anyhow. Last but not least, Belos does what he does for narcissistic vainglory he'd never get in the 21st century, so his entire scheme was totally pointless from day one.

For all the pain and suffering Belos causes, it was only a matter of time before everything went to hell for him. He's THAT self-destructive.

Hmmm... Are the forums less active on weekends, or do ya'll just find this poll boring? My apologies if it's the latter. 😅

Anywho, Vee can probably tattoo herself anytime she wants by shapeshifting one on. I had a hard time suggesting where, however. Putting it on the outer side of her left hand or wrist would be consistent with the other Hexsquad girls (whose tattoos are on their left arms), but those spots are exposed in Luz and Vee's graduation photo, and as far as I know, the tattoos aren't supposed to show in the polaroid montage (also, the wrist location is already taken by Hunter. Furthermore, nearly all shots of Vee in the epilogue have her right side facing the camera.

Why not both? Gravity Falls' Journal 3 and Lost Legends are set during the events of the show, while The Book of Bill is a sequel set not long afterward. Likewise, Marcy's Journal coincides with the main events of Amphibia, while Strange Voyage is a sequel to it (for the Amphibians, anyway; Sprig is the protagonist of the miniseries).

In The Owl House's case, I imagine graphic novel anthologies would explore concepts that never made it into the show proper due to the shortening, e.g. Hunter and Darius' relationship (especially after Belos' death), Willow and Boscha officially settling their rivalry as the former vowed in For the Future, Luz learning to cast non-glyph magic via Stringbean, and most of all, Vee stories galore.

FUN FACT: I was ready to create this post a week ago, but decided to put off doing so until today, knowing it marks 5½ years since The Owl House first premiered. 😉

Eh, could've been better, I guess. It was great all the same, though, considering the lousy hand Disney dealt Dana and her crew.

Absolutely—if only because Disney owning the IP rights to such an LGBTQ+-inclusive show is as hypocritical as Belos himself (their mistreatment of Moon Girl and Win Or Lose proves that, if TOH's shortening hadn't already) and I'm worried they'll someday greedily make some kind of half-a$$ed continuation (or CGI/live-action remake... 😣 *shudder* 😬) bereft of Dana's vision or input. Also, I'd rather subscribe to Netflix than Disney+ or Amazon Prime.

In the nearer term, I'd say it'd be better to release the show on Blu-Ray with restored deleted scenes and all three Season 3 specials re-edited together into a movie (for lack of a better word) with some extra shots of Vee thrown in.

For the Future, hands down. Sure, the poster is well-drawn and colored, the Emerald Trio's character arcs conclude acceptably, the Nocedas make amends, and Stringbean finally debuts. Otherwise, however, it's just a dragged-out filler episode and among the series' weakest, especially considering it's the last one Amity, Willow, Gus, and/or Hunter play major roles in.

Like @TigaTheDragonLover said, the whole Kikimora/Boscha subplot was totally pointless and wasted precious runtime the showrunners already had little of to work with. The spotlight they hogged should've instead gone to the Collector, the Clawthornes, Amity, and Vee (the latter of whom really should've come along and shared the Nocedas' reconciliation moment, IMHO) or been used to better-pace the Emerald Trio's subplot.

What shocks me about King's Tide, and why it ties with Hollow Mind as the show's darkest episode in my book, is how EVERYTHING that could possibly go wrong for the heroes DOES, and to a degree never before seen in an animated TV series as of its original air date.

Eda tries to sabotage the Draining Spell? She gets caught red-handed and loses that same hand as her lover seemingly dies in her arms, all while she, Lilith, and Hooty can only helplessly watch.

Luz intends to warn Eda and stop Belos herself? She fails miserably to do either, damn near gets the entire Hexsquad (including herself) killed trying, and loses the Clawthornes to the Collector, with her eyebrow being permanently scarred in the process. By the end, her four best friends, foster sister-to-be, mother, still-inactive palisman, and Eda's Grudgby jacket are literally all she has left.

Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter try to help Luz? They just get the ever-living crap beaten out of them alongside her before being run out of their homeworld on rails and stranded on Earth, effectively orphaning them.

King frees the Collector to stop the Draining Spell? He succeeds, but his plan works too well and causes another apocalypse, with him ultimately being forced to sign his own freedom away and give Luz the boot to save her.

That's not even getting into the apocalyptic and visceral imagery; the Draining Spell itself, Belos' transformation into his lich form, King's skull being cracked, the Hexsquad's injuries and ruined clothes by the time Belos is done with them, the thunderstorm the kids show up on Earth amid, that creepy-as-hell final shot where Belos' sentient slime closes the inert portal door at the end of the credits—all of it.

All in all, King's Tide is quite possibly THE bleakest, scariest, and most depressing season finale in ANY cartoon show EVER.

@RavenclawGaming123 & @DuchIsYourRuler Indeed. If you dug straight through the Earth from Connecticut, you would end up in the Indian Ocean over 1,000 km southwest of Australia! 🤣

They're all enjoyable in their own right and as good-looking any other character (Willow is a freaking HOTTIE in her 1st Earth and epilogue outfits), but are always treated as second-fiddle to Eda, King, and to a lesser degree Hooty both in and out of universe (Luz almost leaving them to fend for themselves on Earth in favor of going back for Eda in King's Tide was just plain stupid, even for her).

Amity and Hunter are among the best-written and developed characters short of the Owl Trio (Luz and King, mainly). However, Amity's plot relevance drops off sharply in the latter half of Season 2B (Clouds on the Horizon notwithstanding)—despite Lumity being one of the main reasons for the show's popularity and acclaim—while Hunter starts out as an antagonist and his interactions with Luz (even after he turns good) serve mainly to highlight her personality flaws (misjudgment of character, total inability to think things through, unhealthy secretiveness, etc.). Willow and Gus are largely filler characters who mostly appear in filler episodes, only a few of which they're the main focus of, while Vee is only part of the group for one episode before being sidelined again, which combined with her lack of a Flapjack tattoo in the epilogue makes the officialness of her membership debatable.

Due in no small part to Season 3's shortening, the Hexsquad has a lost of missed potential, too. Hunter's crush on Willow and bromance with Gus are so adorable, yet come up too late in the series to be fleshed out to the max, and Vee really should've gotten to share Luz and Camila's reconciliation moment in For the Future. And let's not forget how the entire group, sans Luz, gets unceremoniously benched in Watching and Dreaming to make way for Eda and King; even Raine gets a bigger role than they do! This continues into the epilogue, where Amity's loss of prominence is more obvious than ever as she's largely overshadowed by Willow and Hunter (case in point: that scene outside the hospital in Latissa), and Gus and Vee have been fully reduced to extras. Even their last lines reflect this: Vee gets three short sentences, Amity, Willow, and Gus get one each, and Hunter doesn't get any.

@TigaTheDragonLover It's even worse than that. The Archivists, the Collector's own siblings, set him up, massacred his new friends in front of him, framed him for it, and left him to serve life in solitary confinement (one of the worst possible criminal punishments, mind you). Unless the Archivists themselves are now dead, they succeeded where Belos would fail years later and got away with it scot-free! 🤬

That's not even getting into the fact that jailing the Collector for a crime he didn't commit also orphaned King before he'd even hatched, and The Titan had to live with both acts while being unable to apologize for either one. 😭

@CallistoArt Go for it! I did that myself once. If you want, you can also make a third poll using whatever choices garnered 20+% of the vote share in the first two.

Let's face it: who HASN'T this happened to at least once?

@CallistoArt One day, their descendants will live all over him.