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He's fun to draw I suppose ..

https://www.televisual.com/news/bbcs-books-go-jetters-go-spin-off/

WE'RE GETTING A NEW GO JETTERS SPIN OFF!!!!!

HEHEHE

I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!

LOOK AT THE NEW CHARACTER!!!!

HER NAME IS KYM!!!!!!

SHE'S SO CUTE OMG!!!!

(ALSO RHUGEAHWA I LOVE THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE ABOUT GO JETTERS ITS SO COOLIO!1!1)

I’m fashionably late

Anyway so ignore that really long hiatus I’m back for real this time. Had some ✨stuff✨ to take care of. Longer post to apologise. Also just so you know sometimes names will not be capitalised. The names just don’t register as names for my phone so it autocorrects to a lowercase and I can’t type the names four times every time on this post. Anyway!

Ubercorn and Glitch have a dynamic which evolved throughout the shows run, and honestly it is interesting. All throughout my stupid fan projects/AUs I do with friends and whatnot I tend to forget these guys because they’re not “main characters” but they have charm!

In S1 glitch is painted as a very one dimensional villain. I honestly don’t believe there’s a lore reason for this, but season one was meant purely as entertainment for younger children, keeping to a formula of “bad guy needs to be bad” and didn’t want to try and venture into the territory that a villain could be misunderstood. For the sake of this essay (and a lot of others) I do not consider every part of season one as canon and use discretion to find the reasonable parts. Having said that, I’ll get onto their actual dynamic in chronological order.

Academy days

As children, presumably the same age as the main cast of four now, ubercorn and glitch attended the academy as children. I unfortunately cannot tell you what they studied, as even when I rebalance old photos to try and figure out what colours the uniforms are, they don’t seem to add up to any of the modern ones. Which makes sense! They likely went to school back in the 1970s and I can imagine the academy uniform would have changed in 50 years.

There doesn’t seem to be any other characters with Ubercorns uniform so it may have been unique to him, maybe a course specialising to him seeing as he is a non human entity? Glitchs uniform looked to be mostly aligned with the uniform Kyan wears but it’s debatable if he was in those classes as he also has proficiency in other skills. (It is possible to study more than one subject at the academy/specialise in it, Lars is referred to as also studying botany in some official splash). In the very final episode Birthday Surprise glitch is shown to still be extremely flexible and athletic, above average in skill. Which means he may have actually been in that athletics course at some point in his GJA career. The uniform may have also been the one for the smarts based course Foz was on but the colours don’t seem as accurate to that.

In their academy days they appeared to be very close friends for most of it. Although it seems that they had a “team” (scrapbook in birthday surprise) it doesn’t look as though they were as close to them as the main team is to each other. Most of ubercorn and glitchs time was spent in a duo together. They frequently went on “missions” that went wrong, such as things crashing or breaking, (Svalbard seed vault confirms this) but they’d always figure something out together in the end. They used to refer to themselves as the “dream team” which is honestly really sweet.

At some point though, things fell apart. There is a common (theory? I think it’s canon? Saying? Idk man) that glitch was expelled, but I cannot find the canon source for this. It is canonical that he was “not a good student” but I don’t believe this to be fully true and will do an essay on this later should anyone want it. Either way things ended sour between these two. As of season two they were on tense terms. Glitch seemed to enjoy being better than ubercorn or frustrating him, and the dynamic did not seem healthy. It appears that instead of just falling distant there was likely some form of argument or event that caused a sudden falling out and bitter end to the dream team dynamic.

The show (excl S1 for reasons stated above)

Glitch adopts a “me first” dynamic for a lot of season two, but the show is a little more generous in giving him an actual personality and sides to him. You start to see why he is the way he is, and he even helps out in some episodes, proving he’s not all bad. The show moves away from the traditional “villain bad hero good” cliche a little in season two and it paves the way for an amazing final season. During season two certain episodes either allow you to sympathise with him by giving more on his backstory (such as the compass navigation episode) or outright let him become a hero for a while (map reader episode).

Season three is where things really do start to pick up and I have more to say here. Several episodes go the extra mile to blur the lines between hero and villain and instead paint glitch as a flawed *person*. Not a joke or a villain. There’s several episodes where he has the main cast of kids best interests in mind, where he’s right and trying to do good for people, and so on. There’s also episodes in S3 (and S2 but less so!) that paint the kids as not perfect, they show traits that are impulsive, selfish or reckless, traits that were previously only considered a bad thing glitch had, and it works even more to develop his personality. It also gives ubercorn more forgiveness and patience to his old friend than previous seasons. He’s less likely to immediately point fingers at glitch and will happily correct the kids if they’re wrong in their accusations! After Tala reveals glitch to be her uncle in the season three premier ubercorn seems to be a lot less harsh on glitch, possibly because he’s trying to set a good example?

Season three focuses a lot more on ubercorn and glitch and their friendship, you start to see a little of where it went wrong. It seemed like Glitch had some deep running jealousy of ubercorn and how “perfect” he was, and became self conscious of his own failures. Ubercorn never believed himself to be superior though, he’s always been a humble person, and he thought highly of glitchs unconventional intuitions and ability to fix things in a whim, and as a result never saw that glitch was feeling this way.

“Current” day

By late season three it’s clear the two have mostly patched their differences, likely due to the current cast of kids. They spend more time together and ubercorn even trusts glitch to help with teaching the children/taking them places sometimes (which, by the way, never ends well, he lost a child in a shopping mall and then almost accidentally drowned three others in a lake, and I’m not sure why ubercorn thinks it’s a good idea to let him keep looking after them 😭). He’s much more forgiving and takes humour in glitchs mistakes instead of insulting them.

While it’s impossible to know what happened after the shows run ended, it can be assumed they made up. After glitch HQ broke (meteor mayhem) glitch had to stay at the academy at least for a while (he was still there as of the final episode of S3). Maybe he settled down at the academy, or maybe ubercorn and the kids helped him build a new HQ. Either way, all the evidence points to a happy ending for the dream team.

Final thoughts/notes that didn’t fit anywhere here

I honestly think in part the current generation of kids ubercorn is teaching helped this relationship heal. Had ubercorn not gone into teaching, or not had his current class, things may have ended differently. A lot of the initial meetings and interactions were forced as a result of a mission or lesson involving the children after all.

I also feel like Tala attending the academy may have had a HUGE part in it. It’s possible seeing glitch had a relative who not only wasn’t awful but who saw the world and more in glitch made ubercorn rethink how he felt about his old classmate. Seeing how Tala is still so proud of her uncle despite his imperfections would have likely changed how ubercorn felt about glitch. Maybe ubercorn was only thinking in black and white until now, or maybe he simply didn’t stop to think past whatever negative feelings he felt. But that was challenged and broken down upon him realising not everyone sees things as he does. Maybe he had to talk with glitch to set up boundaries and figure out things relating to Talas relation (that she did want to keep secret seemingly) when Tala enrolled in the academy and that’s why they were more friendly as of S2-3 (likely when she started at the academy).

Been unexpectedly busy. Life just kinda runs at you yk? I want to get back to posting though, I have a cool question in my “ask me” regarding glitch and ubercorn that I really wanna get to and I’ve been rewatching some episodes I think have useful content for it!

Anyway for now have some little trivia/facts/observations from the show I think are interesting:

1. In honeybee hijack Tala is heard saying “they’re my flowers my bees and my..” before she’s cut off. I have a feeling she was trying to say uncle and it’s cool she was trying to tell them if so.

2. In “around the world in 80 days” Xuli cheats against Lars in their chess match by turning the board around. Somehow this actually confuses him.

3. Kyan is a good cook. This is common knowledge but I still think it’s cute and worth mentioning.

4. Everyone in the glitch family grows the moustache. Including the women/girls! Tala actually seems pretty fond of the idea.

5. There is actually a phone app in universe that can be used by civilians to call the go Jetters for help! Also seen in the terracotta episode!

She’s so wholesome. She looks up to the others, but not in such a way that it makes hanging out with them awkward for anyone. It’s a casual dynamic that works in the best way possible.

I find with a lot of “idol-admirer” dynamics, they’re either underdone to the point you don’t understand why the person likes who they look up to, or so overdone that you cringe every time the admirer opens their mouth. The show does a really good job of balancing so that while Tala does look up to her friends and their job, she’s not super over the top about it. She drops comments about things they do being why she wants to also be a go jetter, but doesn’t make it her entire personality.

I thought this account had been banned tbh, and then I tried again a few more times and it was fine? Idk tumblr you confuse me.

Anyway I don’t really have anything of substance to post today so I just want to say, why is the truckster such a large vehicle? This is not a deep dive where I answer the question it’s a genuine question I have. I know it’s an off road vehicle but the tyres alone are about 7ft tall???

I get that it’s an off roader and the back can store a ton of stuff (cave train trouble (S3) was a p good showcase of its limits) I just think the tyres are comically large, heaven forbid one of them breaks off and rolls away, it’d probably run several actual cars over like they were toys 😭

In Ronda Reunion (S3) they literally almost struggle to load this thing, because it’s just so comically tall (like driver like car?)

Anyway I’ll post interesting things soon, I just needed to get this off my chest bc why is it SO TALLLLL

So an obvious question has an obvious answer, no, there is no canon confirmation of any kind of dating or romance. But…

In terms of actual canon behaviour, I want to go on a ramble on if I personally think they were dating during the show, and if they would date after. As always, the following is nothing more than speculation.

I will tread carefully here, as I am aware that this is a popular ship, and not one I really want to upset any shippers of. This post is going to weigh up both sides of things, so please don’t start drama because it doesn’t align with your opinions personally!

I will first give an overview of my personal opinion, so you are aware of my stances and where any subconscious bias may occur, and then I will give an in depth analysis referring to the show itself. The in depth analysis is headered with larger text, if you just want to skip to that!

So, contrary to what most people might think, I actually have very mixed opinions about this ship. In terms of itself as a ship, I think it works well. There’s nothing super toxic, they get along and have common interests. Their personalities aren’t perfectly matched, but honestly I don’t think that’s a major dealbreaker. My issue comes in with the fact that it doesn’t feel very canon supported, which is sort of understandable due to the shows age group and short runtime.

Xuli and Kyan have an amazing rivalry and friendship in canon, and while I think that might extend into a romantic interest, in of itself it feels ever so slightly like some people just ship them for the sake of it. Like a girl and boy can’t be friends without a romantic involvement almost? I don’t mean this in a way against shippers, but sometimes I look at it through a fresh lens and I can perfectly see them happy as *just friends*.

Do not get me wrong, I do think they work well as a couple, and I want to disclaim that I DO SHIP THEM, I just don’t necessarily find that there’s too much backing in the actual canon show for them together, and it looks just like a girl and guy being friends for all of S1, and half of S2/3.

They have moments of good chemistry, such as Svalbard seed vault, boreal forests intro, and so on. But this isn’t romantic, because a kids show will usually avoid anything that may contain romance for controversy reasons, and to ensure the show can stay rated for everyone in all countries. So my conclusion in terms of my own opinion is that if you just look at canon, they’re friends. But if you add some headcanon and think of things outside of canon occurrences, they work well as a ship. There’s so many scenes where on the surface there’s nothing but when you think about it for too long, yup, they’re dating. They pair well together, they don’t seem to have any incompatibilities, and there’s a massive potential for a life together due to similar styles and interests. Me saying I don’t see much canon instance of them being a ship is not me disregarding the ship. I just like to look at both sides.

Now for the actual deep diving

I want to go in chronological order, starting with season 1. The dynamics are not well fleshed out at all in S1, and that means I can’t really draw much of a conclusion here. The entire team kind of just seemed like a class who just met, which is fitting when you look at canon progression, they likely *did* just meet. If they interacted in S1 dynamic style, I doubt it would have lead anywhere. However, the dynamic does change in the later seasons!

In S2 the team seem warmer to each other, they share more jokes and are in general closer. This is the season where I actually had a few moments I saw that I could possibly consider ship worthy. Such as the G.O flow scenes, boreal forest and so on. They have a slight hitch where Kyans playful competitiveness may not fit perfectly with Xulis more aggressive competitive nature in theory, but in practice this hasn’t really lead anywhere negative for them.

S3 doesn’t expand on them as much as I would have liked, but you get a few more scenes where they are getting along. A notorious one is situated in the end of symbiosis shrinkdown, where the pair who had been absent the entire episode finally show up, stating they were having flying lessons together. Even though Kyan is a competent enough flier, as shown in a few S2/3 episodes. Sounds legit. And totally not like a date. This is one of the things I place under my “no canon backing but if you read between the lines they are totally dating” category. In general, by this point, they know each other extremely well, and that is another grounds to say there’s 100% plausibility behind the dating theory.