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juicenet · 3 years ago

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top 10 gayest h2o episodes: a definitive ranking

i'm back with another ranking, but this time it's a little different! today, i'll be ranking the top 10 gayest episodes of h2o: just add water. (in MY opinion. i realize that this show has no canonically LGBT+ characters, but come on, the subtext. also, i write sapphic h2o fanfiction, what did you expect?) anyway, please don't take this too seriously, it's just for fun.

ranking below the cut!

honorable mention: 1x05 "something fishy"

i'm just going to link this post and let it speak for itself.

10. 1x26 "a twist in the tail"

the episode where the girls are "outed" (the official h2o jaw youtube channel uses this term, no joke) to dr. denman, zane, his father, and nearly the world. thankfully they're able to avert exposure with advice from their gay mermaid mentor/queer elder, miss chatham. however, they begrudgingly have to give up their tails (temporarily, though they don't know this). even with the challenges that being gay a mermaid poses, they've still come to love what they are.

9. 2x11 "in over our heads"

rikki almost dies trying to retrieve a deep-sea treasure and emma cradles rikki's head in her arms while trying to save her. so... yeah. emma also shows hostility towards rikki's boyfriend, zane... and i get that he was a mermaid hunter last season, but this also reads like emma is jealous of his relationship with rikki. but on the flipside, zikki is kind of like a het relationship for gay people. idk. there's a lot going on here.

8. 3x21 "the jewel thief"

rikki and bella's moon crystal necklaces gravitate towards each other and cause a city-wide electrical blackout. this is gay, please don't make me explain. oh, cleo also gets a matching crystal necklace in this episode and the girls all wear them to symbolize their "friendship" (or are they just in a throuple? nobody knows).

7. 1x18 "bad moon rising"

mainly put this episode here because of emma's iconic line to rikki: "if we're going somewhere we're going together" and then their smoldering gazes that follow. but, generally, the subtext is off-the-wall. when rikki loses control of her powers, she thinks she's a danger to society and tries to isolate herself—just like how gay people have been told for thousands of years that we're destructive to society. this one is kinda sad actually :(

6. 1x07 "moon spell"

not only are we introduced to camp gay miss chatham, but there's something really queercoded about embarrassing your family at a party (as emma does in this episode). she also calls rikki "rikki baby" and now i'm realizing that this ranking is pretty much a love letter to rikma.

5. 2x04 "fire and ice"

sometimes i think the writers just forgot who rikki's canon love interest was at the time?? half of these season 2 episodes frame rikki and emma as girlfriends. anyway, emma's desire to be rebellious and wild reads like a baby gay trying to be something they're not after coming out. in the b plot, nate tells lewis he's not "manly" enough and the latter struggles with this. maybe it was unintentional, but some lines make it seem like the show is queercoding lewis. i'm here for it, either way.

4. 2x17 "moonstruck"

a moonstruck rikki and cleo try to expose emma as a mermaid to ash, but without context, you'd think they're trying to tell him that emma's a lesbian and that's why she's been so secretive and distant with him. another mermaid=gay allegory? no one knows for sure, but sources (me) say yes!

3. 2x06 "pressure cooker"

ah, yes... another episode where the writers forgot that rikki and emma weren't dating, included multiple scenes of them on an actual date, and hoped we wouldn't notice. plus, we see that rikki is emma's phone wallpaper. cleo and charlotte also could've had an enemies-to-lovers moment here, but what do i know?

2. 1x01 "metamorphosis"

three teenage girls discover something life-altering about themselves and must stay closeted keep the secret from the rest of society. in the process, they become much closer to one another but also feel isolated from their families and other girls their age. are we reeeally certain that this isn't an allegory? sure, a lot of this applies to the rest of the show, but "metamorphosis" is the episode that started it all, so...

1. 2x18 "the heat is on"

this episode is actually the reason i made this ranking. not only does rikma's homoerotic feud cause a thunderstorm, but they (+ cleo) ditch their boyfriends at the juicenet to celebrate their "anniversary" of becoming mermaids. okay, straighties! bonus points for zane and ash's UST during that game of pool.

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it doesn't surprise me that this list consists mostly of season 2 episodes, because rikma was probably at its peak (imo) in the first half of season 2. it also doesn't surprise me that only a single season 3 episode is here. i'm not sure why that is—maybe it's emma's absence, maybe it's the way the tone of the show shifted considerably from the end of season 2 to the beginning of season 3. anyway, hope you enjoyed this :-)

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opalsiren · 3 years ago

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all zikki episodes are also rikma episodes. see:

in 1x18 'bad moon rising' aka the episode with the first ever zikki kiss emma gives rikki her jacket, reassures rikki that she's not alone, and lovingly cradles her in her arms in the moon pool, helping her to overcome the moon spell. as a zikki stan there are arguably more rikma than zikki moments in this ep

in 1x22 'fish out of water' aka the episode where cleo and emma find out zane and rikki are dating, emma absolutely loses it at the thought of rikki with someone else. yes it is partly because emma is The Responsible One and zane is practically hunting her, but emma seems just a little too invested in rikki's dating life for it to be platonic. also the look on her face when rikki walks down the steps at the bennett's place wearing the iconic red dress? that's lesbian activity

in 2x03 ‘the one that got away’ aka the episode where zane and rikki get back together emma is once again incandescently jealous of the mere thought of rikki hanging out with her ex. even when rikki reassures her nothing is going on emma acts all suspicious. notable moments include rikki telling her that she and zane are very much no longer an item and emma saying ‘good. that’s what you want, right?’ in a way that strongly implies she is madly in love with her

in 2x11 ‘in over our heads’ aka the episode with the underwater treasure hunt emma is furious at rikki and zane for lying about the monetary award involved in said treasure hunt, about ten times as pissed as cleo. let us reflect on the jealousy in her tone when she says ‘who knows what rikki sees in [zane]’ and ‘every time she’s around him, she loses it big time’

the prosecution rests your honour

#they keep trying to pit two bad bitches again each other. but rikmas and zikkis can be besties <3 #this is just a small sample also there are probably dozens of other examples of rikma moments in zikki episodes #also i'd say a lot of the byron x emma/emmash episodes also have tons of rikma moments but someone else can do the work on that one <3 #also also 2x18 'the heat is on' is like the gayest h2o episode of all time which is saying a lot #h2o just add water #h2o: just add water #rikma #h2o #.txt #queue

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