u/Double_Difficulty_53

HBO isn't even interested in having the show on the platform so...

People keep bringing up the gender imbalance but that is not an issue for me. A much bigger problem is how underutilized all the new characters are, they either get booted out super early or even if they make it to late premerge they just don't let them get a character arc going.

Assuming that episode 13 will be a Rescue Island episode again and episode 14 is the merge, the only way for the new characters to not be outnumbered during premerge is if the next episode is a double elimination of the favorites. And even then they wouldn't get to outnumber them and the best they can hope for is to be on equal numbers.

Like, I'm tired of seeing the same characters over and over again. I legit don't know why they even created new characters for this season. This season should have just been called AS 2 + DuNurAra plot because that's what it feels like.

I know Isabel wasn't in the Blue Team at the time of Lynda's elimination but only 3 people voted for Lynda (Ana had the double vote advantage) and she disliked Lynda so it works well enough imo.

Movie is obviously Madagascar 2.

Just watched Wish for the first time, it wasn't good but that is not what I came here to talk about.

The end credits could have been a nice tribute to the 100 years of the studio but I feel like they really miss the mark. For starters, all images are just the outline of the characters and for the most part the images they chose give "first png that appears on google images when you search that character". Secondly, there are a handful of films not represented. All the package films with the exception of Ichabod and Mr Toad, both Rescuers movies, the Black Cauldron, Meet the Robinsons and all the sequels they made starting with Winnie the Pooh 2011 but since the originals are already represented I guess that is fair, even though Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 both got represented.

Thank God, Once Upon a Studio exists and properly gives the love it deserves to the movies and the shorts.

Don't get me wrong, having so many seasons with characters returning is on itself a problem and ONC clinging to the past and I wish that the next season can be either an entirely new cast or if characters are returning then only from S5 fans. However, the biggest problem for me is the returning dynamics of characters. Don't you get tired of just characters interacting with the same other 3 every season? I like the Fiore and Alec dynamic but it is very played out at this point and I started enjoying Fiore this season a lot more once Alec was gone and she had to change her strategy. Same with Rosa and Lake, Tom and Gabby and the Cyan alliance as a whole. Season 4 characters generally don't have this problem because they weren't in AS and thus they are forced to create new dynamics.

I would be okay with more returnee seasons but please, mix up the dynamics a bit and don't bring back the same characters over and over again. I know this would probably go against the title of Fans vs Favorites but if more obscure S1 and S2 characters like Nick, Kai or Lill were sprinkled in alongside some of the favorites we already have I feel this season would have been more interesting.

You know what I mean. A move that is objectively dogshit gameplaywise but that it is so iconic, so entertaining and so enjoyable that you honestly don't care.

Mine is definitely Isabel forcing the tie breaker between Marissa and Anastasia. Not only did she tank her social game but she also didn't get the biggest threat of the 2 out. But dammit, it was easily the most fun and exciting moment of the merge for me. Not the tiebreaker itself, that was just a sympathy dump on a character that at the time frankly didn't deserve it. But the ceremony building up to it? Oh that was glorious.

I don't know man, what else do you want me to say?

The title is pretty self explanatory

The risk was just not worth it, not even for a risk analyst.

I couldn't stand her a single episode and her plot with Aiden dragged on for so long and caused the elimination of so many potentially interesting characters for nothing. Evie was such a waste of space this season, never funny and never charming.

The one moment every person said she was iconic in is not really iconic. Aiden would have gone either way and she had no effect on that outcome. She just voted the one person that even if faking it was supporting her in the show.

One of the worst DC characters ever, at least she didn't merge and isn't coming back.

While the first Aladdin is unarguably the best piece of media related to Aladdin, I will say that Iago is probably the one character that is consistent and I would even say improved in the sequels.

I find it a bit phoney how quickly he turns on Jafar and befriends Aladdin after he defended him in the second film but otherwise I feel it was a natural progression for his character without losing what made him character unique.

In most other appearances not related to Aladdin like House of Mouse or other crossovers he is portrayed as a villain sidekick again ( normal seeing how that was his most known appearance) but in the Aladdin continuity he is kept a good guy, even in the Jasmine segment of that weird Princess follow your dreams direct to video film they kept Iago a good guy which is a bit surprising since that movie doesn't feel like it was made by the same people who did the first 2 aladdin sequels and the 90s show.

I honestly kinda prefer him as a good guy and yet somehow I think he is the best villain sidekick out of any Disney movie in the original.

Shocked with some placements honestly but on rewatch some movies got better for me and some a bit worse. This isn't a super formal ranking either. Depending on the day I might swap some around.

There are also some films I have fond memories and feelings towards but that objectively I don't like as much. The clearest example would be Jungle Book, I have a lot of nostalgia and fond feelings towards the movie but I find it kinda boring. Meanwhile I don't have those same feelings for Dinosaur or Moana 2 but I had a better time with them overall.

This is so odd, picking a somewhat forgetable/ not that remembered film and make a sequel comic so many years later. The crazy thing is, this seems to be high quality based on the illustrations and not just something made to make some fast cash.

I don't know, it looks cool and it is interesting to see Arthur as an actual king but I am still baffled by the decision. Also, the witch on the right looks weird, the design clashes so hard with everyone else's. Arthur's design is a bit weird too but not too much.

My current ranking in terms of intelligence for these 8 would be:

1. Sam

2. Fiore

3. Tess

4. Isabel

5.Logan

6. Nick

7. Lake

8. Aubrey