The Dragon Prince Spoilers - Blog Posts
Okay, so, now that I’ve had time to calm down and think instead of just freaking out, I’d like to actually talk about what I liked in season two.
All of the sibling relationships. All of them. Soren and Claudia’s and Callem and Ezran’s relationship were just so impactful and made me so so emotional. But also Sarai and Amaya. While we didn’t see a lot of them together, I think we was obvious from what we did see just how much they cared for each other. Speaking of witch-
SARAI. She was everything I’d hoped she would be and more. God, I love her personality, her voice, and most of all her relationship with her family. She really cared about them and her people and it showed. She was amazing.
And AMAYA. MY WIFE. She’s such a badass, I love her so fucking much. I want her to step on me ugh- But really, her fight scenes were amazing.
The humor. While I will admit the comedy in the show is quite... corny, I’d say, I still love it so much. Like, that parrot is the funniest thing ever, don’t fight me on this.
All of the magic we got to see was so exciting for me. I love it a lot, and I loved getting to see more of it.
Aside from his relationship with Ezran, I loved Callum this season. I love Ezran too, of course, but Callum and scenes involving Callum are what really made me emotional. Plus, I really enjoyed getting to watch his struggle as he tried to learn who he was. It was pretty relatable to me personally.
I LOVE AARAVOS. He’s horrible, and I love him. His design is beautiful, his voice is beautiful, and he’s a genuinely compelling character. I can’t wait to learn more of his backstory.
And I loved Lujanne. She was not at all what I was expecting, but she was so endearing. She was a goofy, sweet, grandma who I enjoyed every minute of seeing.
I was not offended by the queer death, and I’m very happy about that. I was a little miffed at most, but I feel that they handled it pretty well.
The music and voice acting was great as always, absolutely no complaints there.
And last but not least, DRAGONS. I fucking love dragons man, I cannot wait to see even more of them.
I know this isn’t the best written and most in depth list of good things about the season, but I just had to share because I really really love this show so far. Thanks to everyone who actually read this far.
I've been kind of obsessed with them since I watched the last season. I think Soren needed to be comforted by Corvus... They never really talked about what happened and it didn't sit well with me, so I drew this.
Sorvus Nation how are we feeling?!
C: "I got you" S: "I know"
this happens at 8:08 of episode 9 season 7
my live reaction:
THEY PULLED THE FUSCKING UNO REVERSE ON OUR ASSES!!!!!
THE BIRD. THE FUCKING BIRD.
I THOUGHT Y'ALL WERE CRAZY. HOW THE FUCK WERE YOU RIGHT???
HOW??????
Let this be a lesson for those who thinks their built different when facing
A LITERAL DEMIGOD!!!!!!
THE SNORT I SNORTED.
i cannot believe that tdp surprise dropped a week early and then proceeded to canonically give viren and aaravos a kid together???? holy shit???? i love this show so much
... is Callum going to use dark magic to trap Aaravos in a coin? In the s6 finale he picks up Runaan's coin, and Rayla found K'ppar's coin earlier last season- what if they use the remaining quasar diamond to free him, Callum learns the spell and succumbs to the dark magic- what if that's the choice thats the sacrifice HOLY SHIT
Callum 'I would do anything for you.' Rayla 'pick the greater good.' What if the greater good is him giving himself over to darkness, what if the greater good means he needs to be the one to trap Aaravos forever.
What if Claudia comes around instead, leaving the path she thought her father wanted her to follow-making her way back to Terry and betraying Aaravos in one fell swoop.
The theme of book 7 is literally 'sacrifice' and is probably going to be titled Dark since the other seasons have the primal magic names already. I am so fucking hyped
YES OUR BOY IS SAVED NOW
Wholly agree with this (and love it!), just gonna add a couple things:
First, and I can't believe we're here, but: Aaravos might have just made it on the best cartoon dad list, AND JUST FROM ONE EPISODE! That's gotta be a record.
Second... I think this point could get even more sad, so sorry in advance; Leola was executed for breaking Cosmic Order, right? Because she gave magic to humans... Aaravos also gave magic to humans, and a far worse kind at that, while being a menace to any other form of Order he could find..... and was imprisoned. I'm sorry, WHAT?
And while we're mentioning it, let's look at that prison, shall we? It's a big pearl, sure. Inside it, it's a near-perfect replica of the home Aaravos and Leoa lived in before her execution. Outside, it rests among bones that could very well be LEOLA'S REMAINS, inside a body of water that Aaravos made with his tears over the span of 100 YEARS!!! And someone chose THAT as his prison, like they're trying to rub salt on the wound.
All this, on top of your point, makes me think that they, while definitely not wanting humans to have magic, were more concerned with getting rid of a child they could not understand or control, while trying to keep "one of the Great Ones" with them, and subsequently got petty when that (unsurprisingly) backfired.
The whole situation reeks of toxicity and ableism under a perfect facade.
Ok ok ok SO!
I think everyone has realized that Leola was autistic. It was heavily implied both through the flashback images and Aaravos' narration-
She lined up her toys, flapped her hands (it was also shown in the trial scene), seemed to be sensitive towards loud sounds (like the other startouch elves when they talked), and walked on her tiptoes. All of those are classic signs of autism.
But there's one thing I haven't seen anyone else bring up, and that's that her giving her human friends magic and breaking the "cosmic order" or whatever could also be because of her neurotype!
Autistic people tend to have very strict senses of morality and fairness, and will disregard rules if they don't fit their idea of right or wrong. Personal example here, I used to constantly do things I was told not to because I thought the rules in question were bogus.
It's not hard to guess that Leola would find the rules about humans not having magic to be unfair- after all, her and all the other elves, and even the animals around them are full of it! So in the mind of an autistic child, this would be incredibly unfair. And she had the power to "fix" the situation! So why wouldn't she?
Why wouldn't she try to help her friends? Because it would break the cosmic order? That's vague as hell and she was a KID!
And the startouch elves atomized her, for breaking a rule she probably only half understood and thought was stupid. Because she was autistic.
Had this thought and wanted to share, makes the whole thing even more tragic.
I finally caught back up on The Dragon Prince, and I gotta say, I'm glad the newer seasons got rid of that odd and awkward pacing and writing issue that the fourth season had.
Also... (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE DRAGON PRINCE SEASON 3, 5, & 6)
Not me crying while Viren sacrificed himself to cast the cinder heart spell. Damn-
Not me also crying during Aaravos' flashback with his daughter, oh my god. They really had to have him tell her to 'close her eyes', didn't they? (Also, I'm not the only one who suspects Leola had autism, right?)
I also didn't expect how much blood was in these two seasons. WOW. What age is this series geared towards again? TV-Y7? First Viren gets stabbed in the chest in season 3, now there's a bunch of blood spread in a ritualistic rite for dark magic? Yikes! (Also, in season 3, Soren stabbed Viren in the heart, right? Now Soren has Viren perform dark magic that requires a rune in his heart. Coincidence? I don't think so.)
Oh, but I love this series. I cannot believe that they actually got me to care about Viren, though.
I also gotta say, I love that none of my theories end up being right. I have so many every season, and then the story just keeps taking a left turn to somewhere completely different.
Anyway, now I'm just gonna sit in a box like a cat and wait for the next season.
Okay, but notice that when Viren turns into a statue, he has a tear rolling down from his eye, similar to The Dragon King (Not even going to try to spell out his name.)
That + The ‘She is not an asset, she is my daughter’ line from the previous season makes me think that there might be some delicious dramatic irony centering around Viren’s killing of The Dragon King. (Perhaps with Aaravos taking up Claudia as his assistant in Viren’s place? Who knows?)
That’s just me reading a little deep into a random line and the imagery in this teaser being so similar to The Dragon Kings, so I could be way wrong though, lol.
Either way, I’m big hyped for this, holy shit-
Impossible is just another kind of possible.
Okay so when viren threatened rayla he said he had a whole collection of moon shadow elves in his little coin purse
In the flashback he says he has “just the fate in mind” for her parents before it ominously fades to black...
Guys I think her parents might still be alive
