Idk Why Rise Of Red Is On My Mind So Much When It Hasn't Been Since I Stopped Watching It, But Anyways--here's

Idk why rise of red is on my mind so much when it hasn't been since I stopped watching it, but anyways--here's how i would slightly modify ror because i feel like writing this. I'll probably take it down tmrw. Anyways:

-The start of the movie pretty much stays the same, but uma's the acting principal until mal and ben come back and find a permanent replacement for fg, not the permanent principal.

-It goes pretty much the same way, but qoh realizes that "taking over a high school" doesn't equate to "a coup," so she takes a bunch of important people hostage instead, i don't write politics so don't come at me. Anyways, red still sentences Cinderella with treason, etc.

-Also minor changes: when red first meets chloe, she's kind of startled by Chloe's bubbliness, but starts to answer nicely--yes, i'm princess red, i mean there's kind of a barrier over wonderland rn, but you know--and then her mom looks back and red quickly does the whole jabberjocky line. Idk I just feel like red would be excited to make new friends away from her mom's influence.

-Also, qoh takes members of uma's crew hostage or something, just to further dissuade her from acting up, at least rn.

-They go back in time, meet bridget and ella, etc. The villains are pretty much the same, but hook doesn't have his hook yet (chloe can be all confused and clarify it for the viewers), and idk why hades would be there. He's a god. I did love the hades x maleficent background moments tho so...that's smth i guess?

-Anyway, they're all making fun of bridget, and ella tells bridget not to care what other people think of her, but it really gets to bridget, which is obvious to the viewer; and then people, not even the villains, just a few normal "good guys," start trying to get chloe and red to ditch bridget and ella. Obviously they refuse, but bridget's embarrassed and has a terrible idea.

-She starts to tell ella about it, and red and chloe cause like plot, and ella and red are just like "be careful, watch your words, do you want someone with you?" and chloe's like, "girl wtf you are NOT supposed to do that and it's for a reason." And then she and ella have their "get your hands dirty" scene or something like it way earlier in the movie.

-But bridget sneakily follows the villains to the black lagoon, where we meet uliana's big sister ursula, who's chilling there to talk to her sister. And bridget makes a deal with ursula that every cupcake she makes will make whoever eats it like her and want to be her friend, but in exchange, bridget will have to give up her love of baking. She struggles with it, but uliana says something that reminds bridget of the incident and agrees.

-Red and chloe track down ella and stuff, and chloe breaks the vase, as it happens in the film, and ella gets pissed, which is understandable. And then ella gets grounded.

-When bridget goes back to school, she makes cupcakes and hands them out again, and now everyone loves her and wants to be her friend, and everything's happy! But when red and chloe tell her ella's been grounded, bridget's kind of distant and doesn't seem all that interested--too wrapped up in her new friends and the popularity she's never experienced in her life. But now she's desperate for it not to end, but she also hates baking now. So, you know, not all THAT happy.

-Red tells Chloe they should sneak ella out of her house to go to castlecoming, and chloe's obviously not big on rule-breaking, but she's warming up to minor infractions, especially now that bridget's acting weird--they don't know about her deal with ursula, so they both think chloe's protests pushed her into acting like that, and chloe'll also be established as not having been popular growing up, so she doesn't want to alienate her new friends.

-So they have their red-blue friend(ship) development, and break ella out of her house, and manage to run into fairy godmother (who's a recent graduate in this version, not a current student). She's still been struggling with her magic, but manages ella's look, with the same caveat. Ella stops by the dorm to get Bridget, but Bridget's left a note saying she's getting ready with a bunch of her new friends. Oh, and red and chloe also get makeovers, cause i want outfit variations!

-Everyone's chilling, but ella's feeling kind of left out because bridget's with her new friends; charming notices her and dances with her, and she starts to realize he's not really stuck-up and he's actually pretty nice. In keeping with the fairytale, he doesn't recognize her and is kind of sad because he thinks ella isn't there, and thinks this is, like, a new kid or someone's cousin idk and idc. Anyways, red and chloe are celebrating; everything's great.

-Until one of uliana's gang eats one of bridget's magic cupcakes, wants to become her friend, and she gets pissed because she doesn't want her crew deviating from her. So she starts talking about the deal bridget struck with ursula, which never specified that people would want to REMAIN bridget's friends after the initial cupcake, and a bunch of them start laughing at her.

-Bridget is obviously humiliated, and ella tries to get to her, but uliana or her crew attack her, charming tries to defend her; the clock strikes midnight, ella decides to leave and meet up with bridget in the dorms later when she's not being fucking attacked, she drops her shoe, etc. Bridget only saw ella with charming, though, and thinks ella abandoned her, so she doesn't go back to their dorm. Red and Chloe look for bridget but don't find her, and red mentions breaking into merlin's office to see if he has, like, a crystal ball or something to find her location.

-Chloe protests again, because following the rules earlier would have saved everyone so much trouble and pain; but red argues that bridget could be in danger, and they can't waste time looking in places she's not.

"get your hands dirty" reprise because i like that song okay sue me.

-And ofc chloe eventually agrees to go through with it.

-Meanwhile, bridget's at the black lagoon, trying to strike another deal with ursula.

-In this new deal, nobody would ever be able to harm bridget again, but in exchange ursula demands her softness of heart or whatever. And bridget hesitates, and goes to take a walk to think about it, replaying the years of bullying in her head.

-Red and Chloe break into the office and find a crystal ball, and use it to find bridget at the black lagoon; they almost get caught by merlin, but they escape, although in the scrying ball's reflection you can still see bridget talking to ursula.

-Red and Chloe find bridget heading back into the grotto and hurry to try and talk her out of the deal, telling her that ella tried to help her, that they like her, that if people need to be spelled to want to be her friends they're idiots, and they just met her and they like her, so why shouldn't anyone else?

-And bridget goes back to the dorms, but there's something unfinished/ominous about the way it all plays out; even red and chloe mention something like, "well, that was anticlimactic." But they go home, everyone's alive and happy and loves each other!

-Except the qoh and ella aren't necessarily friends; they're just also not enemies. They talk to each other very formally: "queen bridget" and "queen cinderella," almost on the cold side. But both red and chloe are too happy to really notice, except very briefly in passing.

-Back in wonderland, maddox hatter is very aware that something's gone wrong.

It's like 1 am and i only watched the movie once, so if you're going to criticize me be nice about it.

I literally have not stopped thinking about this since the season ended.

I can’t believe Janai and Amaya got back from the battle and literally just put their wedding clothes back on and picked up exactly where they left off. like “oh yeah we just had to go and deal with the haters outside the church who didn’t want us to be married. now where were we.” icons

yessss and if they don't include it in season 7 i'm rioting

I just know Amaya’s petty ass is gonna be all over janai, playing perfect loving wife whenever they have to interrogate Karim, just to piss him off

Janai: And you, treacherous brother of mine what do you have to say for yourself?

Karim: I did what I-! Ok, can she, just, stop that, it’s really distracting.

Janai: Uh.

Amaya, on her tiptoes, basically wrapped around janai like a koala: [Stop, what? Loving and caring for your sister, like you wouldn’t?? Hm? Motherf-]

Karim: I do not understand the language of hands but she is moving angrily enough for me to assume she is yelling profanities at me is she not?

Janai: You assume correctly.

No because we are not talking about this season ENOUGH and I will be using this opportunity to insert my opinions thank youuuuu.

I think I've already mentioned this but Claudia being so codependent on viren, begging terry to tell her what to do, being in limbo because viren's not there to tell her what to do? At first I was kind of irritated cause I wanted to see my girl go full-on villain, but in retrospect it makes sense. She's always done what other people wanted to do, basing her own desires off of theirs: she stayed with viren and soren because her mom told her to, she's done pretty much everything except saving soren because her dad told her to, etc. It makes sense, and how there's only aaravos left to guide her.

And speaking of aaravos, his backstory? It fits so well with the themes of kids and parents and cycles, and of course it would motivate him to do all the terrible things he's done. The audience immediately understands why he did that. Leola deserved better ughhhh they were so cute.

I will say justice for the sunfire elf plotline, though, because tdp proved in arc 1 that it can DO politics. It would've been fun to see that in a different system and with different characters. I really liked it this season, obviously, but I feel like it would've hit better with a stronger plotline in seasons 4 and 5. Ofc, as usual, janaya were highlights cause I love them, and their wedding vows had me crying over my own singleness. :,) It's fine though.

Idk if i've ever mentioned this one but RAYLA AND HER PARENTS? I don't usually cry at movies/shows but I was BAWLING. The reflection being little rayla hugging her parents? "We know you have such an amazing life ahead of you?" UGHHH I HATE THIS SHOW SOMETIMES WHY DID IT DO THAT TO ME.

Overall, I definitely think it was probably the best season since season 3. Here's hoping they keep it up through season 7 (and the potential arc 3???)!

i finished the dragon prince season 6 recently, and it has occupied my brain all day, and I’m craving to discuss the season with anyone who’s willing to listen, so to all those that watched TDP season 6, what was your opinion on the season as a whole? What did you think of Rayllum, the story progression? What do you think will happen next?

basically, if there’s anything you want to ramble about regarding TDP, just comment below/ message me and I’m more than happy to indulge you with my TDP thoughts/ listen to your own

My girls are going through it i fear

she's going to suffer a lot this season:( isn't she?

Can I just say that I was legitimately disappointed they brought viren back at first because i was down with him being dead? Like, I ended up loving the way they went about his story, but when season five ended I was like "okay, that's a good ending for him." I knew they were probably going to bring him back, but I kind of wanted to close the chapter on him.

But I LOVE that he's the one who leaves claudia, not the other way around, the parent leaving the child; I love that we saw how dependent claudia is on her dad, insisting that she can only know the right thing to do if he tells her what it is because she's always done as he says (except, like, saving soren instead of zym's egg, but anyway). I loved him writing his confessions and deciding not to give them to soren because it would just be another burden on soren, who needed to be strong. I love viren admitting that he led claudia down the path she's on now, he's at fault, he's the reason his family split apart; i love soren getting to see his father one last time and doesn't forgive his father or even really reconcile with him.

And I LOVE how viren ends up going out, and I love that they made us believe he'd used soren's heart. For a moment there I was like "oh, shit, he ended up doing the whole 'blood of child' thing, that's crazy!" But then soren comes out of nowhere, and it turns out that viren is using his own heart and i loved every second of it. We've seen how viren seems to not care about soren, even telling claudia near the beginning of the show to save zym's egg instead of her brother and his own son. We've seen him doubt soren, mock soren, humiliate soren, and gaslight soren. And we know soren would give up his own life for katolis and the people living there, without hesitation. While viren, for all his talk of being a servant, which he probably genuinely meant at some point, ends up doing a lot of things for his own self-interest. Even when he and harrow go to kill thunder, harrow hesitates. Viren has to convince him, which in the long run causes harrow's death. He tries repeatedly to take power in katolis "For the good of katolis" despite the fact that there's a council that, frankly, seems to be running things fine, and legitimate heirs out there. When the other human kingdoms won't go to war because of a lack of information (reasonable), he sends literal assassins after them. He turns a bunch of humans into essentially mindless beasts without asking their input or seeming to care about what it'll end up doing to them. And he goes out using his dark magic for something good, using his own body instead of someone/thing else's; and when he says "i am a servant," now, it's the truth, that's the role he's playing. Viren does unquestionably bad things, and i literally just said he's selfish while claiming to be selfless, but everything he does, however questionable, does stem from a place of love for katolis. In retrospect, i'm not sure there was any other way to finish him off (probably for good now; season 7 will probably be too crowded to bring him back, and they just shouldn't), than with him doing what he always claimed to do and never quite achieved: using dark magic to help his people.