Jacob Haslam

I watched it, but cringe It was hard to watch even before I started reading reviews. I don’t care for forcing wokeness into it but the dialog was just so bad it made me squirm. And like noted a lot of the plot didn’t make sense. Im pretty convinced i could have wrote it better myself. The low frame rate effect was used way too much. Isn’t that only for when you’re emphasizing something significant? Cheapens the effect and is distracting. A lot of the songs didn’t fit the tone at all. It doesn’t explain or build up who the enemy is, so when they attack it doesn’t make sense or even feel that scary. It really needed an extra episode to stretch out the exposition to get to know the characters and the enemy. Most the characters had 0 depth starting out. The prince had potential when it started hinting his flaws but instead of exploring them so you could hate him then love him he got over himself in the first episode. It could have been a conflict with him being disappointing to his mom and needing to grow up but no. Smh. The princess didn’t make sense, it made it seem like she didn’t want to be feminine or a princess at all but there was no conflict about it. Seemed like the queen never tried to princess-fy her daughter or even make her feminine but somehow thought she’d suddenly do the betrothal thing. That doesn’t make any sense. Or it would’ve been interesting if she was pretending to be a good princess for her mom at the begining and then lost it later (a trope yea, but it works) A lost wokeness opportunity even, she could’ve tried to prove gender role doesn’t matter. Why does it throw the long hair dude into it without even explaining who he is? It could have explained it when the queen visited him. Instead its confusing. Why did the foreign prince go out if he was so wimpy? The queens vibe is nothing like the old character. She just seems like a tired lady that lets things happen but then somehow goes and fights, inconsistent tone. It didn’t make sense why the queen just agreed for her daughter to go. There was no reason to think she was best suited to the task. Did she want her to learn a lesson? How would she know she’d return safe? It would have been a good opportunity to do the “you haven’t seen what I’ve seen..” monologue before reluctant concession. Also why does it go back to the queen saying willows a bad sorcerer when he already proved himself and had that arc? Why did they go from elora being so dumb to being revealed in one episode? It didn’t even give her depth or make you like her first. Character development who? Either give her an interesting ark so she finds out later or make everyone feel underwhelmed and disappointed so she has to prove herself, make it make sense smh. When they killed off the old guy traveling with them it was a lost opportunity because you had no reason to care, nor did the characters. Seemed like they forgot within 5 seconds. No lesson, no emotional impact, nothing. At least make Elora seem affected, to help her arc, please. Lost opportunity. That just goes to show how murky the story telling was though. Thanks for reading my ted talk :)