The small number of male characters is due to meddling, actually. There's quite a few more in season 2, all over the scale of "likeable" to "dislikable." Fancy Pants is awesome.
Honestly the only gender related hiccup I noticed was Shining Armor; he's Twilight's big brother, and has some horrible "your big brother is your protector" undertones. I felt his general attitude toward his younger sister absolutely grating. That can be justified by assuming the creators were just having fun with the "Knight in Shining Armor" trope, as his name suggests, though. Hopefully he never shows up again.
Honestly I REALLY REALLY have to watch this show. If only because of this accusation.
I mean it is one thing just for a character to have a condensending older brother who believes it is his job to protect his younger sister and POSSIBLY that she feels that way too. but for that scenario to play out like "That is how things should be" is another.
and this isn't just some dumb TVshow critic who finds any little character flaw to mean that the show wants children to copy that character. This is a Bay12games viewer meaning there is actually some clout (I can't believe I am not being sarcastic).
Well it's not very big of an implication, but I really think it's there. You have an extremely self sufficient female character, who for the entire series up to this point been able to take care of herself, and then during the season finale her big brother shows up and there's a song about how he was "always there for her" and such. Always there for her, despite never doing a damn thing for her on-screen, and in fact never even being mentioned at all. And he thinks he can use condescending and "cute" pet names while noogieing her, as a stereotypical big brother protector would.
Grr.
If you're looking for horrible unfortunate implications, no, it's not that bad. But enough to get on my nerves a bit.
The Night the Clown Cried parts 1 and 2 seem very disjointed, with the villain having entirely different motivations for each one despite being the same guy
Sometimes this happens if the writers back out of a twist or of an event that happened.
It is very possible that they written a much better second part but either thought it was too risky or that it did too much too soon. It can also happen if they written the first part and then tried to shoehorn a certain ending and noticed that the motivations don't match so they change it.
They did have to back out on one of the twists:
After part 1, the bad guy won, the town was on fire, and it was heavily implied absolutely NO ONE wanted the gang in Crystal Cove anymore. Next episode, everything's back to normal for no reason.
It's hard to imagine a better part 2, since I fucking LOVED that episode, but yeah it didn't really fit with his previous established motivations. It could be they had a really awesome idea and just decided to go for it without changing part 1.
There are lots of "good ideas" in season 2 so far now that I think about it, but... Disjointed really is a good word. I love the return of Hot Dog Water and her... ahem, "friendship" with Velma. But she seemed a bit shoehorned in to the plots so far.
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