#so they'd probably be too old to reprise their roles

[kaythefloppa]

I know that Wild Kratts is one of those shows where the main [human] characters don't age despite it still being a quasi-continuity driven show, but it does admittedly make me sad that the WK kids from the earlier seasons are now relegated to (presumably permanent) background cameos because of this.

[serendertothesquad]

Seren's Studies: Odd Squad UK -- "Should Odd Acquaintance Be Forgot" Episode Followup, Part 2

Ooooooh Ozzie origins. Oooooooooooh big bad origins. Ooooooooooo origins. Does it scare you?

Let's continue below the break!

(A post-editing note: I was informed that Leonie is, in fact, a girl, and not a boy like I thought. I'm keeping the LGBTQ+ theory because we've already gotten gay triangle villain and they could extend that to child villains too, but keep in mind that Leonie is a girl and not a boy. That's my bad.)

Setting aside the fact that they used the right flashback effect this time...Orli, please. Stop talking about math, just for a second. I'm begging.

Equilibrium! Starlight Glimmer! Equality!

...Sorry, I'm just tossing stuff out there.

Ohhhhhhhh...Barb E. Q.

Okay, that's actually kinda clever, NGL. But man, they are taking any schtick and applying it to people, huh?

I get that Oxandra is part of the Terrible Three, but...Onom was unique in that he went out onto the field a lot. Why are we extending that to her as well, as opposed to her staying in the Lab?

Kinda feeds into my complaint about departments not being a thing anymore.

To be honest, I expected all of them to hate even numbers, so restricting that to one of them is a nice touch.

LMAO WHAT THE FUCK????????? I JUST DID A WHOLE COUGH AT THEM HAVING OWLS??????????????????????

You guys think Agent Owl is there too? From "Follow the Leader"? In disguise?

OH OH F U C K GEE JESUS CHRIST ORWELL JUMPSCARE HNNNNNNNNGH.

Fucking threw my phone because whoof was I not expecting that.

No, no, no, that's the TripAdvisor bird. Or...uhhhh...shit, that one owl mascot for that one glasses company who I forget.

You can easily get them mixed up, Orwell. 'S okay.

"Well, they were smart, but they needed some guidance."

Congratulations, Ozzie! You just described every fucking child villain in this entire fucking franchise.

HoooOOOOOOOOOOLD UP. He made them a manual? He...didn't tell them to read the thick red book seen in past seasons, which definitely sure as hell wasn't written by him?

That's...very stupid. Give 'em the Agent's Handbook and go re-fictionalize that instead of breaking continuity like this, Ozzie.

See, this is actually playing into the psychology of children. You show a kid floating stuff and they'd probably laugh at it.

Look at all those Eggman's robots Lorem ipsum text!

He...oh my God, he printed the manual backwards?

CASE IN FUCKING POINT. Even putting aside the fact that this is incredibly flawed, there's an Odd Squad printing press that would have spotted the mistake like *snappy fingeys* that. Ozzie is not a part of the Odd Squad printing press.

This seal man thing is both hilarious and creepy at the same time.

And this is just stupid and contrived at the same time. Poor Ozzie's got such a lack of confidence that he has to make a cake to celebrate not 6 years of working together, but 6 days.

So if the almighty leader likes symmetrical numbers...man, he'd have a hell of a time with Villain X then, huh?

AND WHAT THE FUCK MAKES YOU THINK HE QUIT BEING A FUCKING DIRECTOR BY RUNNING AWAY?????????? THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BRUH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS LOGIC.

...Okay, I blame Tasha more than I blame Ollison, but still. Ozzie got overwhelmed and ran away. That doesn't mean he quit on the spot; if he had, that would have been enough reason for Ollison to drop this promise of revenge. Ozzie still quit, but it was far away from their prying eyes.

Making a case in point as to why this show really should be animated: if it were, he could've gone to the Big O or the Little O and gotten this straightened out. But both Millie and Shazdeh are too old to reprise their roles now, in this live-action hybrid feature, and so this is what we're stuck with: Captain O doing what they should've done.

Ohhhhhhh, so the Department of Help was created just for him? Okay, makes sense! I kinda thought that was the case!

But it doesn't explain why he plopped Opie into it (or why Captain O did) after he got promoted versus just dissolving the department and letting her stay in Mail. AFAIK, we never got an actual reason for why Opie became the new head of the Department of Help beyond "yeah, you're nice enough and you'll do great". She's nice, but she's insanely stupid, which doesn't bode well for a help-based department.

...Unless they put her in there because she's too stupid for the field...?

For a half-second, I actually thought this would be Silly String, which, in this universe, has binding properties.

...'Scuse me while I go weep.

No...no, Ozzie, no. You explicitly said they were smart but needed a little guidance. "Smart but needs guidance" does not mean "is brain-dead enough to not recognize a book was printed backwards".

God, this is just so painfully convoluted. Olando's backstory made more sense than this and it was tainted only by bad writing! Even The Shadow's backstory made more sense than this and the only problem with her was strictly in her reformation!

I hate everyone who told me Mark wrote this episode, because y'all are fucking liars. And if Mark, Tim, and/or Adam had written this episode, it would have been so much better.

Fool them once, okay, sure.

Fool them twice, fine, I guess.

Fool them thrice, it's getting a little concerning.

Fool them four times, now it's irritating.

Fool them five times, your ass is getting ground into the soil before you're dead.

"you left us! abandoned us!"

uses a gadget that's designed to put their ex-leader out of commission

Leaving you, putting them to sleep, it doesn't matter. The point is that, either way, you have no guidance.

Considering we saw Oxandra wielding at least one gadget as a villainess, who's to say she doesn't have more on her person that can inflict direct harm on her enemy that doesn't put them out of commission, but instead wounds them enough to where they can't do much of anything, like, say, the pies from the pienado?

I've heard talks that this gadget is, in essence, a gun, and firing it at Ozzie would kill him. I'm...somewhat inclined to agree. It's a little muddled because of bad writing (and again, we've had death allusions written by more experienced writers who did it much better, like the aforementioned pienado), but sure, fandom founder deems this a murder attempt. It's about the closest we're gonna get in this trainwreck of a series/season. (I also wanted my "stuff that got past S&P" count to go past 75 and straight to 100. Thinking back on it now, there's no way 12 episodes can amass 15 incidents.)

...Oh.

Huh.

Well then.

WELL THEN.

Talk about fuckin' unexpected 'cause WHOT???????

The fact that she has enough power to fight off the effects of the gadget before succumbing to them is fucking wild, and frankly, huge props to her.

That being said, this has impact, but with more episodes and more time to explore this story, it could have hit so much harder. I'm feeling the same emptiness as I did with Olando and his backstory. And funny enough, both backstories can be attributed to one thing:

Shitty fuckass writing.

History really is doomed to repeat itself, and this franchise is slowly getting cooked.

This, on the other hand, is just incredibly bad editing.

Now, see, if I enter into a state of delusion big enough, I can imagine that the pattern on this key is the symbol of the Big Office department.

Which would be cool, but no one decided to really think of that because we're playing by Precure rules now where seasons aren't canon to one another. (And Precure actually does it a lot better when you don't have someone screeching in your ear about the franchise timeline.)

Can...can the oddness get out by itself? Because there is no way they got into the lift and released oddness themselves, on their own physical power, within se- hold the fuck up, is that our first look at Headquarters?

...Oh my GOD IT IS. WHAT THE HELL. LITERALLY JUST A WHOLE-ASS FIXTURE IN TOWN LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO.

It's not in the death context, of course, but given how Captain O is out of commission and given the fact that this is a finale episode, they got balls to drop "dies" like this outta the fuckin' blue. They could have easily gone with "I hate it when my battery goes!" or a simple "aw man, I lost the video!"

(On to Part 3!)

[firstagent]

90% - One last ship teases for Meimi and Meichi. I doubt either will become canon, but they can always tease! 50% - Should Iori get a speaking role, Megumi Urawa will reprise her role. They'd presumably bring Urawa back to voice Armadimon and a 12-year old Iori probably wouldn't sound that different from a 9-year old one. 10% - Uncomfortable attempts at sexualizing Ordinemon. I want to believe they wouldn't, but I can't help but fear the worst...

90%- One last ship teases for Meimi and Meichi.

A LITTLE HIGH- The thing about Meiko’s interactions is they drift from character to character every movie. Determination was heavy for Mimi, Confession was Takeru (and a little Sora), Loss was more for Sora, and Coexistence was primarily Taichi. Don’t be surprised if Future shifts it again to Yamato (in contexts beyond saving her life) or Koushiro. I’ll put this at 60% since it’s so easy to drop something, but Mimi and Taichi have had their turn with her so don’t expect a lot.

50%- Should Iori get a speaking role, Megumi Urawa will reprise her role.

LOW- One reason for recasting the humans was not just to reflect them being older- it’s to get a consistent, younger cast who are all active in the industry (much as I love the dub of tri., it’s an adjustment getting used to half new voices, half old). An appearance by the 02 kids amounts to a cameo, and what’s the fun of a cameo if they don’t have the original voices? Urawa is still active and even had a recurring role in Xros Wars, so there’s no reason not to expect her to return to voice Iori if he has lines, doubly so if their partners do too.

10%- Uncomfortable attempts at sexualizing Ordinemon. 

A LITTLE LOW- Despite the design, it could be tricky to find a way to sexualize an abomination sent to devour the world. But if there’s an opportunity I’m sure they’ll give it a try!

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