#h2o 2x10

[landonmikaelson]

Cleo Sertori in H2O: Just Add Water 2x10

[opalsiren]

what is your h2o comfort episode? not your favourite episode or the best episode necessarily, just the one you always return to when you need comfort and familiarity. for me it's 2x10 'missed the boat'

[juicenet]

now that i’m rewatching season 2 (specifically 2x10 missed the boat), i understand why people get annoyed with charlotte. in the first half of season 2, she pursues lewis when he’s ostensibly not that interested. she can come off as “needy”. but… her liking a guy isn’t a crime. especially when the guy in question is single, and initially only rejects her because he’s afraid of hurting his ex-girlfriend’s feelings. charlotte’s not trying to “steal cleo’s boyfriend”, either, because cleo broke up with lewis before charlotte ever really entered the equation. (but cleo still feels ownership over lewis even when they’re not together, and that’s a problem).

and others might argue that charlotte’s intruding upon the mermaid secret, so we shouldn’t like her. but she’s intruding inadvertently. as the viewers, we’re supposed to feel uneasy when charlotte asks lewis to take her to mako island, but it’s not like charlotte knows that lewis is trying to keep the mermaid secret. in fact, she simply wants to find the places that her late grandmother sketched in order to feel closer to her. there’s nothing evil about her intentions, even if we know that she’s getting dangerously close to finding out about mermaids.

tl:dr; with the way the show frames charlotte, it’s understandable that she’s an unpopular character. but if you look deeper, her motives aren’t malicious, and they only seem to be malicious because the viewer knows more than she does about the situation at hand.

[charlotterenaissance]

[juicenet]

i just found the french names of all of the h2o episodes and i’m having a field day 💀

here are some of my personal favorites, with their literal english translations included:

1x05 “something fishy” -> “la petite espionne” (the little spy)

1x25 “dr. danger” -> “la science attaque” (science attacks)

2x09 “riding for a fall” -> “herbe folle” (wild grass)

2x10 “missed the boat” -> “cléo contre charlotte” (cleo vs charlotte)

2x13 “moonwalker” -> “panique sur l’île” (panic on the island)

3x02 “jungle hunt” -> “juste un mauvais rêve” (just a bad dream)

[juicenet]

which "h2o: just add water" episodes centered each character? a quantitative analysis

hello, 2021 h2o enjoyers! lately, i've been thinking about how many h2o episodes focus on a specific mermaid. naturally, i wondered—which main mermaid (cleo, rikki, emma, and bella) has the most episodes dedicated to their character arc? and what percent of the show focuses on that character? so i wrote up this quantitative analysis and... yeah.

caveats:

-there are many h2o episodes that don’t center any specific character, which is why these episodes are not included on the list.

-there are some episodes that focus a lot on on lewis, charlotte, will, et cetera. however, i decided to only compile episode lists for the four main mermaids.

-there’s no perfect methodology for this type of analysis. some episodes that i included in one character’s category also included a substantial plot point for another character. i just tried to use my best judgement; typically, if an episode mainly revolved around [insert character], significantly contributed to a character’s arc, and/or if that character had the most screen time in that episode, i labeled it as [insert character]-centric.

under the cut, you’ll find each character’s episodes!

list of cleo-centric episodes:

season 1

1x02 pool party

1x03 catch of the day

1x08 the denman affair

1x12 the siren effect

1x14 surprise!

1x16 lovesick

1x19 hurricane angela

season 2

2x05 hocus pocus

2x06 pressure cooker

2x07 hot water

2x10 missed the boat

2x16 double trouble

2x19 the gracie code, part one

2x25 sea change

season 3

3x03 keep your enemies close

3x07 happy families

3x09 the sorcerer’s apprentice

3x13 to have and to hold back

3x17 a magnetic attraction

3x24 too close for comfort

total: 19 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in the series*: 19/78 or ≈24%

list of rikki-centric episodes:

season 1

1x06 young love

1x09 dangerous waters

1x10 the camera never lies

1x18 bad moon rising

1x22 fish out of water

1x23 in too deep

season 2

2x03 the one that got away

2x08 wrong side of the tracks

2x11 in over our heads

2x24 three’s company

season 3

3x05 big ideas

3x12 crime & punishment

3x16 the dark side

3x18 into the light

3x21 the jewel thief

total: 15 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in the show: 15/78 or ≈19%

list of emma-centric episodes:

season 1

1x04 party girls

1x07 moon spell

1x11 sink or swim

1x15 the big chill

1x21 red herring

season 2

2x04 fire and ice

2x12 fish fever

2x14 get off my tail

2x17 moonstruck

total: 9 episodes

divided by the number of episodes in which emma appeared: 9/51 or ≈18%

divided by the number of episodes in the series: 9/78 or ≈12%

list of bella-centric episodes:

season 3

3x02 jungle hunt

3x06 secrets & lies

3x08 kidnapped

3x10 revealed

3x11 just a girl at heart

3x20 queen for a day

3x23 beach party

total: 7 episodes**

divided by the number of episodes in which bella appeared: 7/26 episodes or ≈27%

divided by the number of episodes in the series: 7/78 or ≈9%

overall, 50 episodes (or ≈64% of all h2o episodes) focus more on a specific character’s arc, leaving 28 episodes (or ≈36%) that focus more on the group as a whole.

what does this analysis tell us? well, unsurprisingly, far fewer episodes center emma or bella. but 18 episodes center cleo—does this mean that she's the main main character of the series? i'd argue that the writers framed her character this way. still, rikki, emma, and even bella are hardly minor characters. after all, h2o is about the Power of Friendship in this trio of girls who have been brought together by the mermaid secret—and each girl is supposed to play a roughly equal role in all of this.

footnotes:

*cleo and rikki were the only mermaids to appear in all 78 episodes of h2o. therefore, i didn’t break their screen time down any further like i did with emma and bella, who appeared in 51 and 26 episodes, respectively. (no, emma wasn’t in all 52 episodes of her two seasons—she didn’t appear in “the gracie code, part one”.)

**i feel like i should add that most of bella’s episodes are also will-centric. while she has more episodes dedicated to her in season 3 than cleo or rikki, this doesn’t necessarily translate to more character development or meaningful plot lines. i’ll let you form your own opinions on that, though.