Throwing out my thoughts of amphibia and my funny journey with it is that I didnât fall for it on sight. I remember watching the first two to four episodes coming out with âthat was fine, albeit maybe not for me.â Itâs good for a childrenâs show on the Disney channel but donât know if it had anything to offer me beyond that. I wasnât expecting anything more deep from Anne and sprig nor like them as much. Itâs funny because I thought the exact same thing of gravity falls after watching like the first two episodes.
I wouldâve respectfully dropped it if it werenât for the fact that not only was I keen on watching as much of the 2010âs era of cartoons as possible, but want to expand my palette and watch/experience as much media as I humanly can. I think I recall hearing sort of good things from it so I got around watching more and came out of s1 with âthat was okay, Iâm glad I watched it.â Reminiscent to something like Wander over Yonder, which is a different flavor of a show but shares the same kind of quality. And I do have a soft spot for WoY even if it doesnât get as much recognition but would be lying if I said it was as great as the big story driven animated shows people are talking about. The main cast and their swag grew on me, I appreciated the frogs of wartwood, and the slapstick has a strange charm that hits that sweet spot of entertainment value I kind of yearn haha. Thereâs even this innovative execution with the way the characters deliver their dialogue. I dig it. (theyâre basically like the gravity falls s1 eps though only half as clever). The only real nitpick that may bog the show down for others is too much screen time of mayor toadstool (like the writers had an easier time making a conflict for an episode relating to the mayor doing something shitty and not giving any continual consequence just to excuse making him do something bad again for story material). Itâs at the very end when heâs finally the only wartwood member left to respect Anne/have a form of redemption that the season reaches a sense of gratification. Though the show also has this weird formula of characters being told not to do something, only for them to do something, and end with them learning to not do the thing, which hilariously could be nearly every episode of the show.
After the way s1 ends I immediately jumped into the 5 available episodes season 2 had. And despite them being more of what the previous season is like anyway, theyâre a little wackier and establish the world a little more. Those s2 episodes in addition make the show feel worth while and fun as heck. Itâs probably the fact that it goes in a direction I wouldâve wanted them to do earlier, to move away from wartwood. But since I finally started warming up to characters like Wally and Mrs. croaker, it just so happens that Anne and the plantars leave. Left me like âwaitâŠwhatâŠbut I like them now đ„șâ
After time went on and s2 and half of s3 had been out i decided to hop back in. But instead of continuing off of s2, with how much I liked season 1 and know how it generally goes, I decided to rewatch from the very start. And I absolutely loved it, so much more than I was expecting. I wouldnât love this show as much without Sasha, Marcy and the story threads of season 2 and a bit of s3. But the showâs main appeal to me is Anne Boonchuy and the Plantars.
