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Earlier this year, I asked the question if Anne was gaslighting Marcy in all in by saying the three had good memories and fun together despite ignoring Marcy‘s interests/needs. People told me that that is absolutely not true so I would like to know what was possibly mentioned/shown in the show that proves this. Because I feel like this was possibly one of the most subtle things about the show.

Personally my Top 5 barring True Colors would be

5. The Second Temple

6. Battle Of The Bands

7. Barrel’s Warhammer

8. The First Temple

9. The Third Temple

So earlier this year, I made a post asking if the increase for shipping the calamity trio started in early 2021 due to season 2B, with me also giving the opinion that 2B is my favorite half season and how I think that’s what the majority thinks, but then I got an interesting comment from someone named u/TinTamarro said 2A is far better than 2B due to the world-building being at its best.

Since then that had me thinking, how does the majority actually rank the half seasons of Amphibia and if 2A was actually the usually agreed magnum opus of the show, which leads to this post. Also if Tin sees this, I would love to hear how you would rank the rest of the half seasons of the show from worse to best.

As for my ranking from worst to best:

6: 3B (Commander Anne-The Hardest Thing): While Sasha’s redemption arc is not the worst one of all time, it still was incredibly rushed, and there was a lot of potential for better episodes that could lead up to the final three episodes. The last three episodes are good, but they do sting knowing how all the character arcs were rushed (Not to mention how everyone who is not a plantar but Anne was done dirty) and mostly saved for the last three episodes, and instead spent most of the half season and bringing back familiar faces from season one or two episodes. This is the only part of the show I would actually say was bad.

5. 3A (The New Normal-Escape To Amphibia): Even though Sasha and Marcy were also done dirty in this part of the show, I still enjoyed the episodes for what they were. Most of them were just OK and could’ve been used for something better instead, but at least I wasn’t disappointed or bored like I was with 3B. Pretty ok. Favorite episode is Olivia & Yunan and least favorite was Spider Sprig (shocker).

6. 1A (Anne Or Beast-Prison Break): I really am tired of hearing people constantly bash this part of the show for saying it’s so filler based, when literally every first season of every show is supposed to build the base by introducing the characters, showing their flaws and weaknesse, etc. It’s not the best part of the show, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, in fact it’s pretty good for what it is.

7. 1B (Grubhog Day-Reunion): Basically, 1A but has more lore giving it a neat balance between lore/somewhat complex episodes (Bizarre Bazaar, Combat Camp, Anne Of The Year) and just pure fun ones.

8. 2A (Handy Anne-A Day In Aquarium): As I said before the world-building was at its prime here, however if you saw my original post, world-building is awesome and all but if you like the world building of the show over the dynamics this clearly would be your favorite part of the show.

9. 2B (Night Drivers-True Colors): Once again, this part of the show had just the right proportions of Sasha, Marcy and Anne to make this the perfect half season of the show.

I feel like people only rank how bad are Zuko (pre Season 3), Azula and Ozai so I wonder what about everybody else in the family (Well at least the ones we know from the show alone).

I mean, I would’ve thought it was Phineas and Ferb but, yep this is practically Disney’s new cash grab (Show reached a total of 530,000 views in its most popular episode that year).

If you’ve been following the fandom for at least a year or even since the beginning, you probably must be aware on who the fans of the show favorite the most: Anybody in the Calamity Trio. But if you have binged the entire show, you’re probably aware that most of the episodes have a focus on someone in the Plantar Family as Marcy focused or Sasha focused episodes were pretty minimal throughout the run and that has me thinking: why? Why do we seem to not give any attention to Sprig, Polly or Hop Pop for being good characters or at least any attention to the episodes, they play a main role in?

It almost makes me feel bad for any newcomers to the show: how they would go in thinking it’s all about three human girls in this new world when that’s only 40% of those episodes and the rest is focused on this goofy and quirky frog family (As they might think it’s some sort of ratings trap for the show but that’s not true).

Do you think the Plantars deserve a lot more love (Besides Anne because it’s so obvious that we all love her)?