#Our Blue and Green World

[rainbowyumy]

After reading a few more people talk about the "Blue and Green World" special, it made me realize that the villains have little to no purpose in the plot other than Paisley's rushed redemption arc and to give the Kratt Brothers a reason to use their suits in a heroic way (cause it's a "magical girl but for boys" show for kids.)

I mean, the "brothers fighting" plot would've been the perfect opportunity for the villains, especially Zach, to use it at their advantage. Zach would've made them turn against each other to either divide the team as a distraction or use the suits for his schemes.

If I have the power to change the special, It would go out like this:

The brothers fight due to laundry day, but they cool off after the team calm them down. Zach, spying on them and was looking for a way to distract the Wild Kratts from foiling his schemes, has an idea to make the brothers believe they said horrible things about each other behind the other's back. This would cause the brothers to rival each other, using their suits and their interests to compete who is better due to the rumors. Eventually, after Zach takes the rest of the team out of the picture, the brothers found out about Zach's plan and using teamwork, they reconcile and apologize for their misunderstandings, as well as saving the day. (I bolded that because, may I remind you, they never have apologize in the special, which is wild considering its PBS Kids.)

[jokerislandgirl32]

Something (Else) I Noticed In The New Wild Kratts Special!

Placing the observation below the cut because of spoilers!

I just wanted to let anyone who’s not a fan of Paisley’s redesign/redemption outfit know that this will (most likely) not be her official outfit from this point forward in the show. The outfit we see her in at the end of Our Blue and Green World is her beach wear/swimwear outfit (if that’s the right term for it).

We know this because Aviva, Koki, and Jimmy Z are all wearing their beach/swimwear outfits too. These outfits are quite similar to their regular outfits (such as same color scheme), but they are shorts/short sleeved/tank top versions of their regular outfits. See the comparison pictures below, the left image is of their traditional outfits, and the right is of their beach/swim outfits.

So, it is likely that we will see Paisley in this same color scheme, but the length/style of the pants and shirt will be altered. So the pink and teal combination is likely to stay, even though I know some of us fans (like me) have already expressed disinterest in it. But if the color does not change, maybe we can hope her outfit will turn into a suit of some type similar to what she wore as a villain (I at least hope so). I must also say that I do love the new hair style and flower, and I hope they will not leave her new design!

I don’t know if any of this helps, but I wanted to share this observation!

[be-the-creature-fan]

Wild Kratts Our Blue and Green World Review Part 1

Spoilers Ahead

So... on 3/30 a bit of the episode Our Blue and Green World was posted by GonnaGoWild on YouTube. And since I'm gonna be hecka busy this week I'm gonna get a head start on my thoughts for this video and then write the rest of the review for when I actually watch the entire special. So without further a do...

Oh my... that's a lot of laundry

That right there is a LIE! (Tazzy Chris) (The Stars of the Tides) to name a few instances of the Kratt Brothers fighting.

I mean I expected a Musical number but what is This?!?

But ok this part was pretty funny 🤣 but why did they draw Chris like that?

BRUH CHRIS LITERALLY FELL INTO A MUD HOLE FROM ABOUT THAT HIGHT AND WAS TRAUMATIZED, AND YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT HE HITS THE METAL FLOOR AND IS COMPLETELY UNSCAVED?!?!?

Oooooo they angwy

Look at their Angwy walk

So far from this video, I don't know what to expect from this Special, but I have high hopes and I'm sure regardless of what happens it'll be an enjoyable watch.

[tentacledsnakelover]

My thoughts on Our Blue and Green World (Spoilers Included)

I actually just wanted to discuss the big twist of the special, that being Paisley becoming an ally of the Wild Kratts team. When I first saw the episode, I was in shock. It felt like it came out of nowhere and I swear I could feel my brain struggling to comprehend what I just witnessed. I could barely follow along with the rest of the special.

However, after having some time to think about it, I think this is a twist that, while could definetly have been better executed, was done in a way that doesn't really pull a full 180 on Paisley's character to the point that it feels like a character assassination. Here is why I think that.

All the villains of Wild Kratts have one thing in common: They disrupt nature. Though while Zach, Donita, and Gourmand all actively hunt animals to use for their own gain, seeing them nothing more than resources, Paisley merely sees them as an obstacle, a hinderance to her plans. This is where Paisley really differs from the villains in a way that her redemption makes sense. Paisley's goal to pave comes from a good place.

We have heard Paisley say that she paves for the sake of mankind, creating usable space out of 'yucky', useless nature. Her methods of mass paving are destructive, but the goal itself is selfless. Paisley paved out of a sense of duty, which differs from the motivators of the other villains.

Zach, Donita, and Gourmand, on the surface level, represent corporate greed, and how some people just want more and more, but Wild Kratts shows that greed is not the sole motivator. They say pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins, and the show proves this. Pride is an enabler. It allows us to justify our actions in a way that makes sense because we supposedly deserve something. Zach sees himself as the world's greatest inventor and smartest person, Donita sees herself as the world's greatest designer, and Gourmand sees himself as the ultimate chef with a rare talent.

All 3 of the OG villains have a sense of entitlement to do what they want, and take from nature, because in their minds, they are above nature.

I certainly feel Paisley's redemption could have been handled better, but I am glad she is starting on the path to redemption, and that the writers made the switch before she could cross a line of no-return.

[blackaleycatt]

On the topic of Zach having a villain solo (which would be epic). I think it would be cool if all three on the villains sang a song together. I don't know how well Donita can sing tho.

Also it would be cool to maybe have a duet between Zach and Aviva as Athena Karkanis can sing as well. I love a good villain/hero duet.

This is the best example i've got lol

[firowisteria]

I edited the Blue Whale power suit, see.

I feel like if Martin was inside, controlling the suit like the sperm whale power suit, it would emphasize just how huge the whale actually is.

[kaythefloppa]

Remember when I said that Season 7 taking 2 years to animate must've had something to do with something big in store they were planning for us, one that would definitely make up for the hiatus?

Appollo has hit me with the gift of prophecy.

[volleypearlfan]

I haven't seen the new wild kratts special yet. they redeemed paisley? genuinely unexpected

[rainbowyumy]

That's exactly what I was thinking!!!

general thoughts on the wk “our blue and green world” special (for funsies)

they had me in the beginning, by the end they completely lost me tho lolol

!! SPOILER WARNING FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T SEEN THE EPISODE YET !!

things i liked:

the intro was!! very good!! loved how they started in space and then gradually zoomed into earth, that was really fun :D

always excited to see how the background of the final shot changes in these specials !!

right away i am so glad they finally color corrected everything i couldn’t stand how bright everything was in season 6 T_T

chris being able to just effortlessly fold his t-shirts into a stack made me laugh lol

i don’t care if anyone says the song sounded flat as hell. the disbelief i had when it first came on. “what is this music what is goin- IS THIS A SONG??” the pure, unadulterated joy i experienced from it. it may be cringe but it has set me free.

idk. i’m just glad to see all these characters back after the hiatus :D

the resplendent quetzal is!! so cool!! so pretty!! i’d love an episode just dedicated to it

saw someone say this already but common aviva W for inventing two creature power discs at once !! it’s her world we are simply all living in it

BLUE WHALES ARE AS BIG AS TWO BRONTOSAURUSES?? waow

i think ever since i’ve gotten past the age of. elementary school. martin’s nicknames for animals have been kind of hit-or-miss for me? (though it might just depend on who’s writing the script i dunno) but i liked kablooey!! (kabluey?) it’s a very cute name :D

zach remembered that he has hacker bots he can use (which are. arguably his best invention?? i’m pretty sure?? i get why they don’t use them every single time zach shows up bc that would get old quickly but it establishes that despite being a whiny man-child who couldn’t tell a walrus from a wombat or a wallaby, he can still be a threat to the wk team)

indri lemur my beloved 🫶🫶

and everyone’s been talking about that so um. let me throw my hat into the ring then.

i can see the intention behind trying to redeem paisley, but it just. doesn’t really match with what’s been established by her character?

the entire special hit me with subsequent punches of “wow this is a kid’s show and i am NOT the target demographic” when they were talking about the water cycle and explaining global warming. so it makes sense, in a sort of wish-fulfillment kind of way that they’d try and redeem the villain whose goal is arguably the most realistic out of the main four.

zach’s main gimmick is using wild animals for his own technology. donita uses wild animals for fashion. gourmand cooks and eats wild animals. yes, the latter two can and do happen in real life (not… really sure about zach’s but that’s not the point). but paisley’s gimmick was never about harming animals, but destroying the environment they live in, in order to build things for humans instead. she’s the kind of person who you’d most likely encounter in real life. redeeming paisley has nothing to do with her character (a businesswoman who finds nature “yucky” as seen in the spirit bear and Asian elephant episodes), instead her general gimmick. wouldn’t it be nice if we could get the people destroying animals’ homes to truly see how beautiful nature can be? so much so that they stop trying to destroy it and instead attempt to help preserve it?

(this is just a personal nitpick but paisley’s new design absolutely is NOT working for me srry)

after i watched the special i had some ideas abt how it potentially could have gone instead?:

don’t redeem paisley at all: again, i get the general idea of why they did this but also. it doesn’t?? line up with her character at all?? the way she was acting in the beginning was fine and perfectly in character for her. she just wants nature out of the way in order to complete her plans, and she has no time for zach being overly concerned with the wild kratts. you could argue that her knowing that dolphins and whales weren’t fish but mammals was foreshadowing to her redemption, but like… paisley’s not dumb?? donita has also corrected zach on not knowing his animals in the past so unless you’re also going to argue for a possible donita redemption in the future then. yeah. i dunno. the other villains didn’t need a redemption to make the special they were in interesting, i don’t see how this one should be any different.

another redemption fake-out, but do it much earlier in the story: i have. my own gripes about how the plot of this special went but we’ll save that for later. have paisley initially be dismissive of the wild kratts’s presence, but once she learns that the kratt brothers are arguing and that aviva, koki, and jimmy are spending all of their time trying to get them to make up, pounce on that opportunity. have her go all over-the-top (like she did in her canon redemption) and trick the wild kratts into thinking she’s turned good, only for her to turn on them in the second half. this might be too similar to “a creature christmas” though. this one would take up more of the plot if that’s any consolation?

give a hint to a paisley redemption arc, but don’t make her do a complete 180 right away: if they’re adamant on redeeming paisley (again, i see the general idea behind this gimmick-wise), then they could still do it and make it fit with her character. remember that paisley’s intentions are not to harm animals, but their environment (which is not any better, making that clear). she can still have her awed-by-coral moment, but maybe. tone it down?? she can have second thoughts about going with the plan, but have zach or rex* encourage her to continue. she steels her resolve, but remembers the coral, and hesitates. and the kratt brothers use that last-minute hesitation to defeat zach’s zachbots and paisley’s pavers. have paisley question why she couldn’t go through with it as she and zach leave madagascar. you could have aviva or one of the other wild kratts theorize that paisley has started to have a change of heart after seeing what nature is capable of, if left to thrive. but again: don’t redeem her right away. hint at it, and then explore it whenever she appears as the main antagonist in an episode of season 7.

*i’m admittedly not caught up on all of wk, but like. did paisley fire rex or something. WHERE WAS HE THIS ENTIRE SPECIAL??

as for the plot point of the kratt brothers fighting… yeah that definitely could have gone better.

(again, minor nitpick but jimmy saying that this was the first time he’s seen the brothers fight,, then implied that it happened every single laundry day,, but also he’s definitely seen them fight before? or had disagreements at least?? isn’t that the premise of at least two different episodes not counting this special. this script is also Not My Favorite. not sure how to explain it but some of the dialogue seems a little awkward?)

ik that the brothers get into danger 24/7 but i feel like. martin should be a little bit concerned that chris was getting squeezed to death by a green anaconda?? like you don’t have to make him overtly worried to the point of apologizing, but you could at least. make him look at chris with concern? i get that the point is that “oh no the brothers are fighting so they won’t help each other when one’s in danger” but. martin your brother is dying STOP SMILING NONCHALANTLY.

the resolution between the brothers was. kind of rushed? all it took was chris complimenting martin (“nice one, bro!”) and then activating some creature powers and then everything was fine. is. is that all it took?

if you liked it then that’s 100% fine !! i’m glad you enjoyed it :D it just wasn’t for me

just my personal preference but i think i would have preferred it if we spent more time with the brothers solo (martin at sea and chris in the rainforest) and have them come to their realizations that the planet needs both blues and greens to thrive separately. like martin sees the planktonic soup and acknowledges that the creatures who live in the ocean need a little green to survive. or chris sees how important rivers are in the amazon and remembers how the rivers will eventually flow into the ocean. and both of the brothers remember their adventures with each other (or aviva, koki, and jimmy remind them). they can still be stubborn and not forgive each other, but i’d like them to at least like. acknowledge each other’s pov and respect it.

or: do something with aviva trying to program two creature power suits at once (the brothers are both in madagascar at this point). like, what if there was a creature power suit malfunction where martin is a blue whale at first, but then turns into an indri. and chris starts our as an indri but then his suit malfunctions and he becomes a blue whale. the bros swap places, with martin going on land and chris going to sea, and then they realize that the other had a point - the land is home to so many wonderful creatures and so are the oceans. and how both are connected and make the earth their home. boom, reconciliation.

also another personal preference thing, i really wish they spent more time with kablooey/kabluey and mambiky (?). i’m here for cool creatures and i wanna see more of the cool creatures !! is that so much to ask for !!

also also. i think the indri-conda was born bc someone saw the pun potential and to that i say. no comment.

i still have. a lot of thoughts but i think i’ll just leave it there for now. ik i criticized it a lot but i did genuinely enjoy the special :D i’m happy to have the brothers back from hiatus and can’t wait to watch the other episodes !!

[littleartidiot]

This drawing is so cute, look at these guys bro helping bro

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Our Lady Of Mysterious Ailments & The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

books 2 & 3 in the Edinburgh Nights series

paranormal mystery set in a climate-ravaged future Scotland, plagued by ghosts and magic

follows a 15yo Black girl who’s finally gotten an in to learn scientific magic properly - but it turns out to be an unpaid internship, so she has to take more jobs delivering ghost messages and investigating mysteries to take care of her gran and little sister

in book 2 she’s investigating a strange illness centred on a magic school for boys

and in book 3 she’s attending a global magician conference held in a creepy castle - when someone’s murdered, and they’re locked in until she figures out the culprit

Zimbabwean magic, friendship, disabled characters, no romance (so far)

[jokerislandgirl32]

Some Zach Screenshots from Our Blue and Green World

Below cut because of spoilers!

He’s such a moody brat, but I love him so!

[jokerislandgirl32]

Me encanta! Buenos puntos!

Anoche me vi las dos partes de del especial película de los wild kratts y solo puedo decir tres cosas.

La primera: la primera parte fue divertida, pero como ver un episodio normal de ellos, me encantó ver a los hermanos pelear puesto que no pasa muy amenudo

Segundo: pero la segunda parte Ohhh....exquisita, se resuelve el problema principal y podemos ver a los villanos actuar, aunque no hubiera estado mal resolver ambos problemas al mismo tiempo, pero igual me encantó

Ver a Zach y Aviva discutir así parece más una pelea de padres divorciados me encanta!

La redención de Paisley por otro lado la sentí algo apresurada, más considerando el poco tiempo en pantalla que tiene, aunque también creo (y esto ya es una teoría) que el personaje en realidad fue escrito para ser un villano por un tiempo corto y tal ves el inicio para redimir a los villanos, si ese es el caso entonces estubo bien (espero que el siguiente sea Zach ^^)

Además que cuando se enfrento a Zach este se retira sin pelear, admito que no entendí mucho porque no se inglés pero ay que reconocer que Zach save cuando perdió jjajaj

Y tercero: esta escena

Literalmente yo estaba como "te entiendo Paisley yo tampoco me negaría a un Chris riendo y jugando con un animal" y después resulta que estava viendo el arrecife. Quede en esa escena XD

Y eso fue todo lo que tenia que decir usualmente me guardaría mi opinión pero tenía ganas de publicar algo de mi serie de la infancia favorita y aproveche la oportunidad

Gracias por escuchar

Aquí un pequeño bonus

[yes-asil]

Wait wait I just noticed one of your posts mentioned a new season of wild kratts coming out, that shows still going?!! it was my favourite childhood cartoon, I thought it ended years ago :OO (also boop)

Wild Kratts is still alive and kicking! Season 7 is currently coming out in uneven intervalls, so that's fun!

(Boops you back!!!!)

[fictionadventurer]

🌠

[blackaleycatt]

Our blue and green world spoilers

I actually liked the song that Martin and Chris sang. it was adorable. They're obviously not professional singers but that song is definitely stuck in my head now.

Paisley's redemption makes sense and I feel like it was the most realistic for her to be the one that gets redeemed.