Here for the mad runs

She grows up in the poor parts of Gardania with her little sister Emiliy, and their mom Maria (headcanon name). Maria is sick, and presumably she can’t work because of it, so Blair has to provide for all three of them. Then this scholarship to Princess Charm School comes along, and the only reason she even accepts it is because of her family. Becoming a Lady Royal isn’t even her own dream; she just knows this is a way she can take care of them if she tries hard enough.

Her school days start out rough, but once Miss Privet tutors her, Blair really comes into her own as a potential Lady Royal, even inspiring her roommates, who are in line to become princesses of their own kingdoms.

Then the conspiracy part of the plot comes in. During a class fieldtrip/immersive study at the palace, the girls see a portrait of the late Queen Isabella and realize Blair may be the lost princess Sophia. Of course, Blair finds this ridiculous and brushes it off despite the evidence. Then Dame Devin announces they’re going to bulldoze her home, almost sending Blair back home. But then Prince brings her Emily’s drawing - a picture of Maria finding Blair on her doorstep. “I’m ready to fight”, she says. She feels a duty to Gardania (especially its poor), of course, since she’s a citizen of it, but her first priority is to her family. Emily and Maria are everything to her, and nothing will stand in her way to take care of them.

I love the way we see Blair truly blossom into a Princess. She works hard the entire film, motivated solely by the immense love she feels for her adoptive family. Gardania does need its true ruler, but that’s not her end goal. I have to hard disagree with people who didn’t like that she was a Princess after all. Sure, it feels a little against the message of “There’s a princess in every girl” because she’s an actual lost royal, but her princess potential shines through before she discovers and accepts her identity. Like Miss Privet said to her, she had “character without confidence”. She already had the qualities a Princess or Lady Royal might need. She just needed to believe it herself.

Really I never watch Bollywood movies by myself but Rohan and Abhi's gayness literally forced me to. Shanaya is like there's for a third of the movie my glorious queen but c'mon. The whole movie is just Rohan falling for the new kid

he wants that cookie so effing bad or is he joking

So I watched Game Over and personally unlike the Crunch (which I loved), it was okay, Shakes's burn out is so real, and that's what I want to focus on.

The burn out Shakes's felt, wanting to quit, was expected and bound to happen, the amount of times he almost died, the stress and pressure from the media and even other people's expectations of him, and a lot of the time burn out doesn't need a clear reason to be something that someone is going through and or feel. Shakes's also did something that I recognised after this re watch that I ignored at first but honestly I shouldn't have, he intertwined his entire life with football, being a Striker in the Super League is already a lot so players tend to cope by having or doing something outside of that, even if it's something small or large, El Matador and North Shaw are perfect examples of this, North Shaw does extreme sports as well as exploring other sports outside of football, especially surfing, and El Matador has his own toy line, and multiple (successesful) business ventures outside of his football, as well as his house being private property and not seeming to have a football pitch, but a large amount of empty space, and although the separation isn't complete, the fact that there is a distance makes the chances of burn out less likely because they have something to go back and forth with, It doesn't have to be big either, Klaus and Rasta have theirown thing too, Cool Joe and his club and music, Big Bo is literally married, everyone has got their own things going on.

Shakes's however doesn't have the tiniest bit of separation, gaming is great but in an earlier episode it was shown that he plays football games, and apart from communities that he helps out, and his own, that has a whole football court, not a large one, but it's still a big reminder, and then his two friends are both massive football fans, which he has gotten them to do espionage for games to see if there is foul play, and if it's not any of that he seems almost incredibly bored.

And Shakes's teammates and the entirety of Strikaland are constant reminders of football, for obvious reasons, even if they stopped talking about football, and they just hung out, it would still be a reminder. The entire episode felt like a way to show Shakes's that "Hey you love the game, but you are also deeply obsessed with it, and if you don't stop there will be consequences"

It's also what I meant in an earlier post when Shakes is really obsessed with the game the same way Skarra is with him, it can be detrimental to the person.

There are more points and things that did make me only be okay with the episode rather then love it, but I definitely don't hate it.

Also I'm only really talking about the show, never really the comics just because the content seems slightly different as the show adapted and left out things.

I also forgot to introduce myself so I don't know if anyone wants that and I'm making an OC...so yea.