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This is an issue I've been dealing with for a while, to the point where I literally got a VPN just to be able to watch the episodes on YouTube for free, instead of having to scour Dailymotion just for a few bad video quality episodes.

This show was literally MADE and first released and made popular IN AUSTRALIA.

And I don't think it's just because of the area I'm in, because I used the VPN to set my location to every other listing in Australia.

My first assumption was it was because of the internet ban for kids, but neither of the YouTube channels, that I've found, have the H2o episodes listed as kid's content (at least I don't think so, because comments and floating screen are enabled) (fyi, that second feature of Youtube Kids is literally so stupid).

I just find it kinda unfair if the episodes are just blocked from Australia, because why are we getting blocked from watching OUR media, but the rest of the world gets to see it?

There are certain aspects of H2o that a lot of America viewers don't even actually understand, and just make fun of. And I'm trying to hate on them for that, because there's multiple aspects of American media I don't understand.

But H2o is an AUSTRALIAN show.

It's an Australian show that, at it's core, is meant to teach kids about protecting Australia's sensitive ecosystems that are constantly under threat (there's a good reason season 1 & 3 's major villains centred around developing and exploiting Mako Island)

It would have been so cool if Cleo had kept her siren powers even after the full moon. Like, if she got this rare ability, separate from the core abilities of the Moonpool.

It also could have added some interesting conflict with her and Charlotte, with Cleo still having something that Charlotte doesn't, even after Charlotte has become a mermaid with all the other powers. And Charlotte would have fully convinced herself that the only reason Lewis liked Cleo was because of her siren abilities.

But, of course, Cleo would never use her abilities on Lewis, and would only very reluctantly use them on others (at least on purpose).

I feel like her having latent siren abilities would make so much sense, since she has a natural magnetism even when she was still very shy and insecure. So many of the male characters in the show seemed to have some level of interest in her at some point or another.

Was Charlotte manipulative?

Short answer: Yes, but this is supposed to be character analysis and deep dive (lol), so let's try asking how and why first.

Personally, I'd say Charlotte was more spoiled and entitled than necessarily manipulative in the purest (malicious) sense.

It's shown through her interactions with her mother that Charlotte is VERY much used to getting whatever she wants (Lewis's birthday party).

Her mum's a very successful businesswoman, and as a result her family is very well-off and a bit snobbish. You could say that Charlotte is very ambitious and driven as a result, but more often than not she seems to just expect to be given whatever she wants, simply because she wants it.

She wants Lewis, she practically forces Lewis into a relationship (Lewis ABSOLUTELY should have been more upfront with his feelings and wishes, but Charlotte was also very dismissive when he tried to express himself).

She wants Lewis to spend more time with her, she turns off his phone and invites herself to Cleo's family camping trip.

She wants images of her grandmother that Cleo was GIVEN from Max/Lewis, she lies her way into Cleo's house, invades her bedroom and steals the tapes from her.

She wants to become a mermaid (both to connect with her grandmother AND make Lewis like her, because now she has the ONE thing (in her mind) that Cleo has that she doesn't), she goes into the Moon Pool and becomes one.

In multiple instances throughout she and Lewis's relationship (and before), Charlotte saw Cleo and the girls having things that she didn't: their close bond and friendship with eachother and Lewis, a mysterious secret that she isn't privvy to, pictures and tapes of her grandmother, her grandmother's locket, and finally their powers.

Throughout the show, Charlotte sees these things she doesn't have and tries to take them for herself, and if she can't have it for herself, she'll do everything she can to (subtly) dismantle it.

I do feel sorry Charlotte in some aspects. Lewis was a pretty crappy boyfriend to her, and Rikki (moreso than the other girls) was pretty mean to her from the start. But regardless of how jealous or insecure Charlotte felt, her actions went WAY to far.

Also: Why did she NEED to have that specific locket. It's literally already been shown that Charlotte was given a whole briefcase of things from Gracie (her grandmother, spoilers lol). Charlotte already showed WAY too much of an interest in that locket, before she had any idea who it had belonged to (she literally just snooped through Cleo's room and put the locket on. Who even does that?!), finding out it was her grandmother's just gave her a better excuse.

And besides, it was a FRIENDSHIP necklace. It symbolises the connection the girl's have to eachother, so why would Charlotte want it when she hates the other girls? Charlotte literally just wanted the locket because she knew it meant something to Cleo, and she wanted to hurt her.

And it also like I said, Charlotte was jealous of the close friendship the girls had, and wanted to take her own piece out of them, either in the hopes of shaking the foundations or as a way of getting a taste of what it feels like to have such close bonds.

Charlotte wasn't friendless. She was shown in Lewis's party episode to have many friends, but she doesn't really mention them or appear to hang out with them outside of the episode. She says she's known them her whole life, but then how does the friendship come off so shallow?

Was Charlotte manipulative?

Short answer: Yes, but this is supposed to be character analysis and deep dive (lol), so let's try asking how and why first.

Personally, I'd say Charlotte was more spoiled and entitled than necessarily manipulative in the purest (malicious) sense.

It's shown through her interactions with her mother that Charlotte is VERY much used to getting whatever she wants (Lewis's birthday party).

Her mum's a very successful businesswoman, and as a result her family is very well-off and a bit snobbish. You could say that Charlotte is very ambitious and driven as a result, but more often than not she seems to just expect to be given whatever she wants, simply because she wants it.

She wants Lewis, she practically forces Lewis into a relationship (Lewis ABSOLUTELY should have been more upfront with his feelings and wishes, but Charlotte was also very dismissive when he tried to express himself).

She wants Lewis to spend more time with her, she turns off his phone and invites herself to Cleo's family camping trip.

She wants images of her grandmother that Cleo was GIVEN from Max/Lewis, she lies her way into Cleo's house, invades her bedroom and steals the tapes from her.

She wants to become a mermaid (both to connect with her grandmother AND make Lewis like her, because now she has the ONE thing (in her mind) that Cleo has that she doesn't), she goes into the Moon Pool and becomes one.

In multiple instances throughout she and Lewis's relationship (and before), Charlotte saw Cleo and the girls having things that she didn't: their close bond and friendship with eachother and Lewis, a mysterious secret that she isn't privvy to, pictures and tapes of her grandmother, her grandmother's locket, and finally their powers.

Throughout the show, Charlotte sees these things she doesn't have and tries to take them for herself, and if she can't have it for herself, she'll do everything she can to (subtly) dismantle it.

I do feel sorry Charlotte in some aspects. Lewis was a pretty crappy boyfriend to her, and Rikki (moreso than the other girls) was pretty mean to her from the start. But regardless of how jealous or insecure Charlotte felt, her actions went WAY to far.

Also: Why did she NEED to have that specific locket. It's literally already been shown that Charlotte was given a whole briefcase of things from Gracie (her grandmother, spoilers lol). Charlotte already showed WAY too much of an interest in that locket, before she had any idea who it had belonged to (she literally just snooped through Cleo's room and put the locket on. Who even does that?!), finding out it was her grandmother's just gave her a better excuse.

And besides, it was a FRIENDSHIP necklace. It symbolises the connection the girl's have to eachother, so why would Charlotte want it when she hates the other girls? Charlotte literally just wanted the locket because she knew it meant something to Cleo, and she wanted to hurt her.

And it also like I said, Charlotte was jealous of the close friendship the girls had, and wanted to take her own piece out of them, either in the hopes of shaking the foundations or as a way of getting a taste of what it feels like to have such close bonds.

Charlotte wasn't friendless. She was shown in Lewis's party episode to have many friends, but she doesn't really mention them or appear to hang out with them outside of the episode. She says she's known them her whole life, but then how does the friendship come off so shallow?

It would have been so cool if Cleo had kept her siren powers even after the full moon. Like, if she got this rare ability, separate from the core abilities of the Moonpool.

It also could have added some interesting conflict with her and Charlotte, with Cleo still having something that Charlotte doesn't, even after Charlotte has become a mermaid with all the other powers. And Charlotte would have fully convinced herself that the only reason Lewis liked Cleo was because of her siren abilities.

But, of course, Cleo would never use her abilities on Lewis, and would only very reluctantly use them on others (at least on purpose).

I feel like her having latent siren abilities would make so much sense, since she has a natural magnetism even when she was still very shy and insecure. So many of the male characters in the show seemed to have some level of interest in her at some point or another.