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HOP POP IN THE OWL HOUSE!!!!!

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Jake Reviews Amphibia: Handy Anne and Fort in the Road

It’s finally here... the second time i’ve said that in three days but hey, Amphibia is back! After a years hiatus due to the show being shoved out in a month to get it on disney plus faster (Yet they STILL don’t have wonder over yonder so I can finally watch season 2. God damn. ), one of the best new shows of a year stuffed with them is back! I was excited about this one from the start. A great premise, a gravity falls pedegriee, and the wonderful Brenda Song, who I had a crush on when I was younger despite not really watching the first suite life that much, though I will admit what I saw was pretty decent and had a wonderful cast especially song and Phil Morris as Mr.Mosby.. it was just overshadowed by i’ts two leads being really sterotypical (the cool but dumb hustler and the stick in the mud nerd) and I was more of a nick middle schooler anyway so I barely touched it. Granted if I could go back in time and trade which shows I watched i’d trade it for Zoey 101 in a heartbeat, another show with awful leads but the rest of the main cast was really good concidentally. 

Anyways I did watch more of on deck to  kill time and absolutley hated it. Seroiulsy the show really sucks: Zack and Cody were turned into basically worse versions of Zack Morris and Ross Gellar, worse because while their just as douchey as those two, Mark  Paul Gossler and David Schiwmer can actually act and Cole Sprouse could not yet. I do say yet since Cole Sprouse has grown because he wasn’t half bad in the one season of riverdale I watched. Riverdale, what happens when you have the entire writers room snort a line of coke and then tell them to write the most insane archie fanfiction they can and stitch the results together. Just with Archie alone from what i’ve seen in read he’s started a vigilante posse ala homer simpson, nearly joined hte mafia, been framed form murder, had the local cheerleaders do a number for him while he played prison football, escaped prison to hide in canda from both his former mafia boss whose also his girlfriend’s dad and the cult based on a  DnD knockoff, got mauled by a bear and LIVED, and now is a superhero apparently. WHy I haven’t gone back to at the very least review this clusterfuck is a mystery.  But the point is the twins were really terrible at the time, and if the fact Dylan’s only major role recently is in the sequel to After, that film based on self insert one direction fanfiction, which somehow got a sequel while Birds of Prey probably won’t because god really does hate me. So it was bad and she deserved better, got better with the social network but hadn’t done much i’d seen, so a new cartoon starting her in her elment and in a great show for once had me pumped.  And.. my faith paid off. The show is beautifully animated, ahs a wonderfully morbid and fully fleshed out world, top notch voice acting (including BIll Farmer who is so unreconizable as hop pop I thought he was voiced by charlie addler), great jokes, action and storytelling. Just a slam dunk that left be jonesning for me. And now in one of the best weeks for animation in a while, more is here. I do mean that: 3/4 of disney’s major animated shows returning and close enough finally airing it’s a good time.  When we last left our heroes: Hop Pop buired the box that brought anne there and lied to her about it which even a year later I think is a terrible decision.. one made for understandable reasons as he clearly knows something more about it than she does, but one that’s bound ot backfire whens he finds out her new grandpa lied to her and betrayed her. The plantars also spent the season preparing to leave wartwood. Soon after, Anne was forced to finally stand up to her manipulative, if to my utter shock still caring about her and possibly being into her? I mean it’s not like I haven’t seen the “villian whose overcompensating for a terrible past and likes manipualting people redeemed and ending up smooching the somewhat reckless but good hearted heroine” before. 

Anyways Sasha ends up nearly falling off a giant tower, Anne tries to save her, with the rest of her new family pitching in, and Sasha, realizing just how terrible she’s been just.. let’s her self fall, only saved because Grime caught her. And just remembering that sequence god dman.. the fact they actually got the rights to lean on me for it really dosen’t help. But the day was saved and while Anne had a huge bundle of trauma, the family was ready to finally set out soon. And now a year later i’ts time. Now i’ve gotten all the personal stuff out of the way, let’s hop to it and see what the new season has to offer. Full review with spoilers under the cut!

Handy Anne

So the Plantars are finally setting off. We don’t touch on the Sasha thing much, just a quick bit at the begining to show that while Anne is insiting she’s fine it really traumatized her. I do like kids shows starting to show more that sometimes heroes just DON’T bounce back after something like this, especially young ones. While it’ isn’t nearly to the extent of Steven Universe spending an entire season having his lack of thearpy and unresolved issues slowly destroy him, it’s still nice to see. But the main thrust of the episode is it’s vacation time brother!

Yup after a few episodes of build up last season with the valley clear, Hop Pop has bought a suprisingly nice and affordable wagon (As Polly excitedly explains someone died in it) so they can finally set out to hopefully find Anne a way home. Their going to Oregon! I mean To newtopia, the beating heart of Amphibia: a bustling metroplis built on knowledge where they can hopefully find a way to get Anne and friends back home, while Anne hopes to find Marcy. The rest of the kids are also excited just to get out of the valley for the first time.  Everyone’s pumped.. but Anne starts to worry when she finds out Hop Pop has asked his friend Chuck, the “I grow tulips” guy from the bug ball episode last season who I forgot about but was reminded why I love him and am glad to have him back, to watch the house as given Amphibia is hard enough to surivive on a good day, let alone if your a stationary building. And Chuck dosen’t insprie confidence so Anne decides to fortify the house. And her reasoning.. is actually really sweet and shows how much she’s grown: Instead of like most times where her impulsivness is the reason shenanigans and life thretaning situations happen here.. she’s hit with the hard relization her new family is basically risking everything, their home, their farm, their chuck, to help her get home. 

So Anne decides to armor up the house, getting a fuck ton of shovels and a ton of suplies from the blacksmith guy who suprisngly for once DOES have what she needs for her veggies, to the point his not backtracking weirds anne out, and gives her a tub of goo. This can only end well! Meanwile the rest of the family pack. Polly having maybe 3 possesions gets done quick, Hop Pop is being anal reteitive as always with his ascots (hilariously done and Bill Farmer really is the MVP of this series), while Sprig’s gone half insane just picking out which slingshot to take as he never left, which polly of course exploits.  But things natrually go wrong as the goo creates veggie monsters the family fights (with sprig even calling fight time because this is normal to them at this point) the next mornign and then one colosus that destroys the house... and Anne’s anger and heartbreak over it .. awakens something. See something I hadn’t heard about and didn’t notice at the ebgining of the series was anne’s eyes flashing blue while fighting the mantis in the first episode. Many couldn’t tell if it was leading somewhere or just an animation error. Here though her eyes go bright blue in close up with it being clear this is part of her.. the question what is it and why? Just what power does she have now? And will it save the world or destroy it? Questions for later Anne saves the day, an admits she screwed up but Hop Pop is understanding: He’s touched by her actions but also explains their not just doing this for her: their with her all the way and any sacrifice is worth it. And I like that part of hop pop: while he can be overbearing, just see next episode.. he does genuinely mean well and has genuine wisdom, something they sometimes forget with grandparent characters in animation. He’s crotchety and a stick in the mud, but he’s still throughly nice and understanding and it shows here: He’s going to get his daughter back whatever it takes.. almost.  Hop Pop calls on chuck who in a whilrwind of tools and tulips fixes the place.. and proves to be every bit the legend I thought him. He sells tulips and he’s great. We’ll miss you chuck. But as they get ready to leave Anne brings up the box and Hop Pop, remembering what he did, hastily says it’s better with their contacts. WHich again just seems short sided: while he is trying to protect her, especially since next episode confirms there was some sort of apocalypse once so odds are her being connected to it might not be the best, he can’t dance around her connection to it forever, and hiding the fact some apolcaypse was caused by it is only going to backfire when some vilian reveals it or anne finds it out for herself. Taking her to a place full of infomration where he’ll now have to work to hide the truth is just asking for this to backfire. Not bringing it is one thing, dangerous people could still get the box and use it for their own ends.. we’ve seen female newt sabertooth in the promos and we’ve met Grime. But not telling her is just setitng himself up for a big and deeserved fall soon. But with that settled our heroes set out! 

Final Thoughts I:  Overall this was a good start to the season: my one real complaint is the town didn’t really see them off or anything, so the large and loveable supporting cast is just.. absent unless the series returns to wartwood at some point and it would’ve been nice to see them once last time. Even star vs, as bad as season 3 was, knew we wouldn’t be seeing most of the earth cast for a whie and had marco have a meaningful sendoff before he left. But.. given how tight the phacing seems to be this season judging by episode titles alone, and they only had 11 minutes here. I do think it could’ve been in hte next episode, but it dosen’t ruin a decent, fun start to the season really rooted in character stuff. Not the series finest 11 minutes, but still really good and a good way to start us off. 

Fort in the Road: 

First off your welcome for that episode screencap. Now this one’s also simple, but ends up having a rather sizeable revelation nestled inside. The Plantars are going down the road and while the kids want to you know explore, see places, actually enjoy the trip especailly since Sprig and Polly have never been anywhere else before, Hop Pop, being hop pop, instead just wants them to sit and be quite and follow his rules. I mean it is hte grind but you can at least make it FUN for htem; Just look at this guy. 

It took an episode longer than I thought to refrence the trail to oregon given this season is about a wagon trip, but I’m glad to do it .. and do it again. I will fit pays to be an animal in here somewhere I swear it. WE’ve got time left in the road trip.  Anyways this goes down terribly, though some rules like not posing dramatically as it smacks of hubris and never ends well. But understandably the kids are annoyed about it: Anne can’t even compallin because i’ts not in the rules.  So naturally as Hop Pop should’ve seen coming at the first opprotuunity Anne fakes being cart sick and they run off to see a weird looking ruin with Hop Pop chasing them and leaving the cart to polly because that can’t end well but he’s on a short time.  And this is where the season drops a 10 ton atomic bombshell. Anne being kinda magic in the last episode and it being fully part of things now is intresting and shocking.. but this is miles ahead of it and casts Hop Pop’s actions: Turns out whatever the clamamity box did set techniology in amphibia back to a little above the dark ages. I mean they have full light thanks to lightning bugs, but their still leagues behind.. but were once up to at least mid 2000′s levels of technology. The machine seen requires a disk to stop, but it’s still far beyond what I expcted from this world. Naturally Hop Pop shows up furious, then gets stuck on the assembly line with the kids deseprate to save him, with spirg ending up doing sow ith the rule book. Also we get Anne’s wonderful repsonse to Sprig asking what a disk is:  “I don’t know! i’m from another dimension not the 90s!”  They surivive, the factory blows up and the kids apologize and agree to go back to the boring way things have been going.. but Hop Pop thankfully realizes he’s been a bit overbearing and actually gives a good reason why: He’s never taken then out of the valley before and simply got overprotective. This is his family after all, all he has left of his kid and all he really has left beside Sylvia and the farm. It’s understandble he’d go a bit overboard. But Hop Pop decides to compromise a bit in a nice moment: while the impalment fields are obviously a non starter, he does get the kids ice cream (Anne even admits at this point she dosen’t pick the bugs out anymore), and they genuinely enjoy the trip while Sprig (in a hilarious bit of lampshadng as he does it repeadtly) wonders jsut what they were making.. and as I spoiled it was robots.. one of whom is now following them. Wether this means new doom or the plantars getting a new robot family member I don’t know i’m hoping for the latter. Everyone needs a vision in their life.   Final thoughts II: While having a bit of an obvious conflict with an obvious resolution the character work combined with the MASSIVE plot bombshell really make this enjoyable and I hope to find out more about just what the hell happened and what these robots are for. Just another good solid episode and an excellent duo to start the season.  Next week: Things take a turn for the western and Anne learns to hunt and more about the glow. And with the glow you need to grow to glow... until then i’ll likely have mor ereviews on this channel, I recently reveiwed all of season 1 of close enough if your curious, and until next time.. play us out Willie!

I love what i’ve seen of this throughly stupid movie. Bye ya’ll! 

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Anne: What if I do this thing?

Hop Pop: Don't.

-Later when chaos ensues-

Anne: Well who could've seen this coming?

Hop Pop: ...

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theyre very good wingmen

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I haven't been able to draw in a while so I sprawled these out as soon as I could

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The planters

Ima gonna be drawing these guys a lot I think

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I think many of us have had this theory that the pink frog(?) who betrayed andrias all those years ago is a descendant of the planters. I have a feeling now that the hat will either get accidentally destroyed in the final fight OR there’s some secret in the hat (like maybe some message on how to defeat andrias) and it’s been passed down from planter to planter just in case andrias gained the calamity box again. It would explain a lot…

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Amphibia characters family make up

With True Colors about to come out the Amphibia fandom is alive with a buzz on the characters and I want to talk about one intrstesing topic that has played a role in the characters. That is the make up of thier families back home.

Anne  Boonchuy: We know that Anne is Thai American. Her parents own a Thai restaurant and have taught her to cook many of their dishes, I imagine that she helped out in their restaurant back home. In season 1 it is implied that her parents are still together, but in season 2 she mentions her mom a lot more than her dad, even going as far as to figh in a derby challenge to win her mom a souviner. This could hint to Anne being a mama’s girl back home, and just having a closer relationship with her mom than her dad. One final member of her family is her little rescue kitty domina, whom Anne definetly see’s as her baby, and was the first family member she admitted to feeling homesick for.

The Planters: We have all noticed that Mom and Dad Planter are nt around anymore. Given the mosters and dangers that roam amphibia it was pretty hard to imagine that they were just away n buisness trips. After The Rain confirmed that they were killed and eaten by a pair of Herons that invaded Wartwood a few years back. We also learn that during this attack Hop-pop was away on a trip. Because of this Hop-pop wrongly blames himself for the lose of his son and daughter in law, feeling like if he had been their he could have doen something to save them. Likely he would have eaten as well and Sprig and Polly would have been left with no one. Regardless this played a big part in how he raises Sprig, Polly, and now Anne. Why he has so many rules, acts overprotective most of the time, and why he t times struggles to allow hem to take the risks they need to.

The Flour’s and the Sundew’s: It is also worth mentioning that Sprig and Polly are not the only frog children to lack parents. We have seen no sign of Maddie and Her sisters Mom, or Ivy’s dad (all though one brief scene in Ivy on the run where Wally shows up right after Ivy’s mom mentions meeting her father on a trip had a few people wondering). It is possible that both these frogs were also caught by the Herons. IF so it could explain why Felicia takes her daughters “Training” so seriuosly, and why Maddie’s sisters are so attached to her and obsessed with spening time with her, as she could be the only other female in their lives.

Captian Grime: Or Grimithoy. In Barrel’s Warhammer we learn that Grime has a sister Beatrix. Beatrix controls the Western Toad Tower, while Grime until recently controlled the Southern Tower. This means that Grime and Beatrix are both very high up in the Toad Hiarchy. Like for all we know the Newts are the only ones above them. We also know Grime earned his rank for feats of ferocity he showed during his time as a Gladiator. Maybe Beatrix was one too, Toad females are shown to be warriors just like the males. It is also hinted that Grime and Beatrix have a rivalry going between them. IS it wrong that I want to see them have a match? Not to the death obviously, just to see whom is the tougher toad.

Sasha Waybright: We have gotten a good look at Sasha’s complex in the last few episodes. We know that her obsession with control stems from being afraid of losing control/having no control. We also see that despite the two of them clearly loving her, she is worries that if Anne and Marcy will not want her as a friend, should they stop needing her to get by. A lot of people have thoerized on how this relates back to her home life.She is hinted to be rich, she is mentioned to have a pool at her house. But some people have wondered if she suffers from abuse, a lack of love. That is a bit extreme though. Honestly what seems likely to me though is that Sasha is a child from a broken marriage, and that maybe she hasn’t really seen one her parents since the divorce. Nor being able to make her parents stop fighting could be where her fear of not having control comes from. Likewise if one of her parents walked out on her she could see that as “They didn’t need me so they left me”.

Marcy Wu: We know nothing about Marcy’s family back home. She hasn’t mentioned any of them and the many flashbacks we have seen of her life on earth are always of her losing herself in a game. Think about that, her whole life back home is losing herself in games and imaginary worlds, Marcy is also the one who has seemed in the least hurry to go home. Is it really any wonder fans theorize that she might betray Anne and Sasha to have them all stay in Amphibia forever. Anne and Sasha are the only people she is even implied to have missed, and as of the third temple she has them back while still being in her dream fantasy world.

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Would anyone buy $1-$2 short story commissions? This is for an emergency for my roommates

If so, I’ll link my paypal to you when I’m finished

I’ll do:

Ship stories

Wholesome content

Au ideas

I’m iffy on lore, depends how dark it is

I won’t do:

Nsfw

Gore stories

Any unconsensual stories

Pedophilic/ age gap ship stories

Incest

Anything extremely detailed

-if it’s weirds me out, I’ll either ask questions or I won’t do it

-If it’s anything with ocs or shipkids, you need to tell me a bit of information about them

If you’re not interested, please reblog this!!

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Why hello Aldrich

The First Temple thoughts!

Ah the famous meme

I saw someone once point out that the reason there needs to be a second person for this challenge us because the person solving this temple needs to have a person on the opposing side.

Okay, now all three have been commanders.

I just want to point this out. Anne’s theme is not only her theme, but also the theme of unity. Of friendship.

It plays a LOT in the show, but in the above image, you can’t hear it. Instead, it gets replaced with music that is no one’s theme.

You can hear it here, where Beatrix, Tritonio, and Hop Pop are all getting along.

On the flipside, you can also hear it here, but it’s in a minor key and keeps changing keys to create tension.

This is the only time you can hear Anne’s theme in the entire episode, not counting the end credits. (Honestly, it feels like a breath of fresh air to me because it’s used so often)

“You wouldn’t be saying that if you were the pawn”

Oh but Sprig, she is.

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Amphibia Frogs

Sprig Planter

color hued skin for brighter pink

Hopidiah Planter

Captain Grime

picrew - mrs.magpie

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Bro are they drunk

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In season 3, I want Grime and Hop pop to watch suspicion island together and become besties or maybe something more

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Friendships I am here for in Amphibia

Sprig and Anne, obviously Sprinne against the world.

Grime and Sasha, everyone who keeps saying Grime is bad for Sasha because he doesn’t try to tell her she is wrong/cannot be a leader; stop. This her digimon

Polly and Frobo.

Marcy and Joe Sparrow

Grime and Hop-pop. I wish we could have had at least on episode of them bonding over having to wrangle the crazy kids the have adopted

Lady Olivia and General Yunnan. I did not expect this one, but it is awesome.

The three Girls. Marcy it will be okay, y’all can video chat, talk through social media, call...

King Andrias being violently haunted by the angry ghosts of his former friends.

Polly and Domino the Cat

Hop Pop and Anne’s parents

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Amphibia Character Theme Songs

Anne: Avril Lavigne “I’m With You”

Sprig: Avril Lavigne “Keep holding on”

Hop-Pop Art Garfunkel “All I Know”

Polly: Avicii “ The Nights”

Sasha: Stablio “Flawed Design”

Captain Grime: Imagine Dragons “Warriors”

Marcy: Linkin Park “Leave Out All The Rest

King Andrias: Se it off “Wolf in Sheep’s clothing”

Wally: Bon Jovi “It’s my life”

Ivy: One Republic “All the right moves”

Maddie: Hex Girls “Earth, Wind, Fire, Air