Hi everyone, thank you for all the support over these 2 videos! This probably brings an end to the mermaid era on my channel, I might make a video on Mako Mermaids down the line but I still haven't seen it so that's kind of far away. I'm not entirely sure where to go next, so feel free to recommend me any shows/movies/games etc that you'd like to see me cover 😁 (Preferably non-Australian teen dramas, since I don't want my entire channel to be that lol)
by the power of Wikipedia to search out different countries tv show lists (teen dramas mainly), New Zealand is surprisingly small, only seen Mirror Mirror, Being Eve, haven't seen Children of Fire Mountain, Children of The Dog Star, Killian Curse, some of Amazing Extraordinary Friends (i didn't know it has 3 seasons and web chronicles with one of the main characters) or Maddigan's Quest and shit the Tribe is extremely popular yet didn't see much of it and that is a long one, i think some are of decent amount and they are the ones that are huge and as for movies, because damn there's a lot of them. i have check what other countries tv shows before video games is also my thing.
you thought some of the characters were evil in H20 like Sophie, Kim, Miriam, Charlotte, nah i think Dr. Hellegren from Ocean Girl (aka Jonathan Shiff's first created and produced show) honestly was more evil because jeez man.
But the thing about australian kid dramas is that they’re so fkn underrated and nobody is talking about them!! I might be biased because I grew up watching a ton of aussie and uk kids’ shows (sweden’s kids channel rents them because it’s way cheaper than anything american). But there’s a ton of gems that come from australia that nobody knows about, and it’s really sad. H2O was lucky enough to be bought by Nickelodeon and broadcasted in america but the rest are left forgotten :( If you ever change your mind my favourite has always been Parallax lol.
@@Cllocopine oh Parallax is a good one, but looking back it can be a bit confusing because of how many portals go to dif parallel universes. Ready For This is one of my fav Australian teen dramas almost kind of on par on Dance Academy
@@pokemaniac05 I never watched those since they weren’t on Swedish tv. I think we just bought the cheapest ones that nobody had seen lol. Parallax was my favourite by far (out of the australian shows) and I was so upset that they only made one season. My favourite thing is that Kathrine and Mundi are totally lesbians and the show was released back in 2004! Obviously they never actually get together but the way they look at each other, you can’t convince me that they’re just friends lol.
I feel like for S3 Cleo became the Emma and Bella stepped in to become the new Cleo since Cleo had experienced character growth during the other 2 seasons... or something.
Yeah, I feel like they took Emma’s leader attitude and split it between Cleo and Rikki since there would be no one to direct or come up with plans anymore. Without Emma they were stuck with a rebel and a ditz, they needed that kind of leader roll to balance them out hence why Bella became the new Cleo and rest had to change their personalities. Idk if that makes sense.
I think lewis leaving left such a drastic hole in my heart that I had blocked it from memory and only remembered when I went through the 7 stages of grief on my re watch through a few weeks ago.
Yesss, but then he finally showed up in the last episode just like the last 5 minutes. Him walking down the stairs and Cleo waving at him. I was thinking they really couldn’t bring them into one full scene, instead of making it separate. But then the next scene is that when they’re actually together
fr and his acting was terrible s3 bc he wasnt motivated but i mean what 20yo man would be interested in a kids mermaid show but still, when he came back it was just unsatisfyig like they should have done more
I feel like most people underestimate how mean Will was. He literally forced Bella to give up her secret and than blackmailed Bella and Cleo into giving up their secret (he only wanted to lead them to Rikki who was kidnapped if they told him everything) so really he was kind of a villain too
The old woman in season one was Louise, who is meant to be Emma's parallel. Cleo's 50s parallel is Gracie, who has already been dead for a while by the time season one starts. But yeah Max is Lewis.
One thing that was very brave of the writers in season 3 was how they broke up the main couples of the show. It felt very realistic and refreshing, as irl teen relationships don´t last forever.
It was nice to see Rikki reject Zane at the end and end the show single and be fine. I feel like that’s something I’ve never seen in shows for teens/kids where the character being single isn’t treated like it’s a tragedy and she’s fine on her own
It was also really nice when Zane said "some things are more important then money" to Sophie in the end when she tried to take the crystals from the moon pool. His character also kinda did a 180 in the very last episode of season 3.
True. I missed Lewis but they were so close to finishing school (why was he allowed to leave school early is he older?) it didn't make sense for him to give that up just to be with his school girlfriend. But it s nice for the end that he showed up. It's realistic, that he finds time he'll try to come to the graduation.
@juliannaoneill9997 It's not the fact that Zane and Rikki broke up itself that was the problem although they're really great together. It was how Zane was derailed. His character development was great.
One of the things I never understood about the girls revealing their secrets to their boyfriends is: why? Boyfriends come and go, but family is there. For instance, Emma was very close with her family, so they would've understood. Cleo's dad would most like have understood (NOT Kim, though), Rikki's dad, I think, wouldn't have cared, and Bella was like 9 when this happened. How could Bella have kept it a secret for so long?? I don't think I would've come up with valid excuses when I was 9.
I too was very frustrated that the girls didn't trust their parents enough to tell them while trusting boyfriends they'd known a few months with such a huge secret I could see the wisdom of keeping Kim out of the loop (she would be set for life blackmailing them all) but not their parents. The worst that might have happened would be one or more set of parent dragging their were-mermaid offspring to a doctor in hopes of "curing" her; And if the doctor was as unscrupulous as Evil Marine Biologist Lady their being publicly outed could wreck any chance for ever having a normal life (though if handled right fame could lead to being a very rich mermaid!). I think the main reason they never told even their parents was just that the writers relied heavily on their secret being in jeopardy to add suspense + humor to a lot of episodes. Another thing they seemed unnecessarily worried about was being captured and experimented on or even dissected. The girls might have been able to turn into mermaids but they were also human, Australian citizens (unless Bella was just there on a visa...) with birth certificates and all, and I couldn't see the cops or Federal Police just saying "Tough luck, she's a mermaids and has no human rights" if a teenage girl disappeared. If it was my daughter instead of a doctor I would hire the best lawyer I could find to make damn sure her human status was recognized and rights were protected,,. right after I had her take me to the Moon Pool during a full moon so I could be a mermaid too. It's been a lifelong fantasy and irrational obsession of mine (see picture...)
@@laikapupkino1767 Makes complete sense about the suspense + humour aspect for the show. Still, it was very annoying, especially because in the first season, Emma kept emphasising how in her family they never keep secrets from one another.
To be fair though Lewis and Zane weren't meant to find out, Lewis saw Cleo change when she had no choice but to ask for his help and Zane discovered them during his mermaid searching phase. Only one who the girls told willingly was Ash because Emma was feeling left out pretty much. Definitely wish we got too see Cleo's dad find out though he would've been the coolest. Then Will pretty much cornered Bella to prove his suspicions were right and she didn't expose the other girls too him.
@@TheMbangel you know i was always okay with their parents not knowing too much because with the exception of cleos family i don't think their parents are very involved in the story too much and also this is more of a comedy what do you think
I love Charlotte as a villain. At first, she's a sympathetic character with how terrible Cleo is to her and just being a new student at a big school. I also hate that Lewis gaslighted her about mermaids, but damn Charlotte ended up being a horrible person (and fish).
SEASON 2 WAS PERFECTION! Storyline was more mature. Soundtrack was the best. Girls became more mature. There was all the time something going on. And Charlotte was such a great villain.
The only reason Rikki and Zane "worked" was thanks to the toxic idea/storyline: the girl can change the bad boy. And I was so happy when they trashed it.
@@aleksandra5808 no, there's a line between being sassy and sarcastic and being just rude and an a**hole. Rikki was the first, Zane was the second, and you can tell the difference in so many ways. Rikki was always there for her friends, obviously she wasn't perfect, but she never did anything to purposefully hurt her friends and the people she cared about. Even though she could be a little bit mean with Lewis, you can see how much she actually cared about him when she put up an entire boat party by herself, just because she knew Charlotte's party would suck and Lewis wasn't gonna like it. Or their treatment of Mrs Chattham, neither of them liked her, Rikki was very straightforward with her and didn't pretend to like her, but Zane gave her a heart attack (or something like that) twice, never apologized and even tried to steal from her. He tried to STEAL from an OLD LADY, when his father is RICH. That's exactly my point, he wasn't just a typical moody teen, many of the things he did crossed the line to being a bad person. I could give so many examples of that, but I believe what I already said is more than enough to prove my point
@@tatianasalazar4066 I get it. I have mixed feelings on Zane exactly because the way he treated Miss Chattham makes him borderline irredeemable. But I do appreciate they didn't go the good girl/bad boy cliché because that is just the worst trope ever to me. At least Rikki can handle Zane.
Yeah, I didn't mind the idea that Emma wasn't in s3 and we got Bella instead, I didn't like the fact that they acted like she never existed (just like you said). One sentence of explanation why she's not around anymore isn't enough. They could sometimes say things like "We miss her" or "Emma would know what to do".
@@Olicia88 Right! Like they could have even been like oh I just talked to Emma on the phone or something, or mention that they got postcards from Emma. And it was so weird at the end when they talked about how they all were destined to become mermaids to stop the asteroid and like, what about Emma, or even Charlotte or the old lady and her friends who were mermaids?
i liked season 2 well enough but i never liked s3 since it felt way too far away from how the show started by bringing in a new girl. they couldve dealt with emma's actress leaving by focusing more on how the loss of emma affects the relationship between rikki and cleo and increased the feeling of 'us against the world' but. nope. also i completely forgot that sophie existed which is amazing because thats *my name* so characters called sophie tend to stick in my brain
I really love Bella, so I can't *completely* wish that your idea here was the one they'd gone with, but that definitely would have been a meaningful story to tell. It would have been much more realistic as well. There's no way that these three people who are so tightly bound by a huge secret would be so easily separated. The loneliness that would result in, I would think, would cause any one of the three by herself to reach out to the others often. (Although, I imagine that Emma told her family, because what else could she do?) Specifically with Emma, I think Cleo at least would have a strong desire to keep in touch, just because Cleo had been the timid one following leader Emma around. I wish they'd mentioned Emma every once in a while throughout season 3 instead of pretending she never existed after the first episode.
Charlotte did not break up cleo and Lewis, cleo broke up with Lewis because he was trying to fix things all the time when she needed a little space to deal with things. Cleo kinda started the whole thing with Charlotte by not being nice at first and looking through her diary. Cleo had every opportunity to say to Lewis she was wrong and wanted him back but she doesn’t so he moves on with Charlotte because she’s showing him attention. The girls are so standoffish to Charlotte before she got with Lewis all she wanted was friends. I don’t like Charlotte but when I was rewatching a month ago I could see how she perceived cleo and the others being not nice to her. Charlotte become so entitled and ego driven that it backfires when trying to take the girls tails away.
oblivious single mom + social isolation despite genuine attempts at friendship, sounds like a recipe for mental breakdown to me. i can understand why ppl find her annoying personality wise but she wasn’t some evil mastermind the whole time, just not super likable
I agree with most of this except that charlotte wanted friends. From the very first interaction, cleo is very friendly to her and then lewis walks in and charlotte has already decided in that moment that he will be hers. She has 0 interest in the girls and her interactions with lewis arent for friendship. Shes flirty off the bat while hes still with cleo. And she ignores his feelings and everything hes saying and forces herself on him. There is literally no moment in their relationship where he voluntarily acts like a boyfriend or even acts like he actually likes her. Even when he sets up that picnic date it's only because she complained first.
@@chandrawagner4061 I agree, that she pushed herself into Lewis, but Lewis never communicated with her that he wasn't ready for another relationship or still liked Cleo. And also in defence of Charlotte most people forget that Charlotte actually asked Cleo if she was okay with her asking Lewis out, and that there's be no hard feelings, to which Cleo foolishly said that her and Lewis were just friends. Cleo should have said she still likes Lewis but needs time to move on from him and see him as just a friend again before she ready to see him with another girl, and to also tell her to perhaps discuss the matter with Lewis too before coming onto him as he may also need time to move on
Biggest betrayal of season 3, replacing the lockets with the stupid rock necklaces. We had 2 seasons and 50 years of history with those lockets and there was no emotional connection to the rock necklaces. I hated it. And season 3 has the worst intro hands down. Why'd they do belle's voice like that?
Ikr? I wasn’t keen on the necklace replacements either. Especially when those lockets had so much history behind them to be passed down mermaid to mermaid, but nah let’s ditch them for sorta pretty but totally not sentimental rock necklaces.
I feel like season 3 seemed like something so different to the show. They fully replaced Emma like what would happen when Emma comes back to find they’ve fully replaced her? I liked Bella but she felt like just a replacement and nothing more.
Never thought that I'd do this, but here we go. Charlotte's character was very well written, and doesn't deserve the amount if hat that she gets. When we first meet Charlotte she is very nice and has a crush on Lewis. She doesn't try to break up Lewis and Cleo but also isn't afraid to befriend him. We don't really see her as much until Cleo and Lewis break up. Now I will explain a bit about Lewis. Lewis was Cleos friend. In season 1 the girls did not want to tell Lewis anything, they didnt want him to know that they were mermaids, they didn't want his help, and they didnt want him involved (and I'm referring to mostly Rikki and Emma, but Cleo did contribute to that). Now in season 2 he is more casted as Cleos love interest. He is still involved with helping them but more or less they think that they dont need him. He was kinda casted aside by the girls and they didnt really treat him fair and sometimes bullied him. This is where Charlotte comes in. Lewis had just broken up with Cleo and the girls took her side. Lewis has no one. Except Charlotte who had already been trying to befriend him. Charlotte treats him nice and doesn't make fun of him for liking nerdy stuff. But Lewis treats her like she's always number 2. She puts up with that because she doesn't have any other friends, and also because she likes him. As the season goes on we see Charlotte becoming a bit possessive. She wants to spend more time with Lewis, but Lewis always moves her aside for the girls. The girls also want nothing to do with Charlotte, and Lewis can't invite her to hang with their mermaids. But she doesn't know that so she just sees it as them casting her aside. Now when she starts dating Lewis he's still prioritizing the girls over her. He's spending more time with other girls then his own girlfriend. This is where her jealousy comes from. She likes Lewis and he likes her back but he loves Cleo and spends more time with her and makes Cleo number 1. This isn't what pushes her over the edge though. When Charlotte becomes a mermaid she is proud and happy. She feels more connected to her grandmother. And she can finally be friends with the girls and they won't cast her aside anymore. But they do. They don't like Charlotte, they don't want to be friends with her. They do decide to help her but only because they think that she can't handle being a mermaid, and that she needs help. They don't want to be friends with her. Now Charlotte has a temper. But only when it comes to her loved ones. She is extremely protective and is very loyal. She knows that the girls treat Lewis bad, she doesn't like how they cast him aside when he clearly puts them first. She becomes obsessive, and jealous at the same time because even though she is everything that cleo is she is still not number 1 for Lewis. So now we're at the end she steals cleos necklace, she does bad things and becomes who we as fans hate. She steals the necklace because of her jealousy. She wasn't enough for Lewis with being better then cleo so she tries to in some way become her. But when cleo tries to become friends with Lewis again and trues to spend more time with him. But Charlotte has always been pushed aside for cleo, and Lewis will always love cleo so he would jump back at the opportunity to get back with cleo in a heartbeat. And once again Charlotte would be number 2. She has so much bottled up jealousy and rage. She wants Lewis to be hers and wants them out of his life because as long as they're there then she will always be second. So she tries to get rid of them. It's the only way to get what she wants. They don't stay away from Lewis so she tries to cut off what she thinks is the only thing that makes Lewis want to stay with them. She has already become cleo so that's not holding him back but the mermaid thing is. There isn't really a reason why she suddenly decided to become good. The only reason I could think of is that she finally let go of her anger and jealousy and that she realized that she lost herself. I also think that some of it had to do with her dad. This is more of a stretch but it could be possible that her dad left her and her mom for another woman or family. This could be why she got so jealous and so mad and possessive of Lewis. Because she was left behind by her dad and with lewis. And she was second choice instead of first.
A great breakdown, Charlotte was actually my favorite character and I felt pr bad for her as a kid as I saw all of this. I think she was hurt, not really "evil".
Amazing explanation! A lot of people forget that the girls especially cleo kind of picked on her at the start. Cleo was mad at her taking an interest in lewis after cleo was the one who decided to stay friends it was unbelievable to me. Cleo could have saved a lot of heartbreak by telling lewis that she wants to continue things once she has her life under control then lewis wluld have never led charlotte on because if theres a chance with cleo he wont miss it. Also i understand lewis was annoying for ignoring charlotte's red flags but some of the time they were full on bullying him those parts hurt
brruuuhhh the astroid was intense. i dont remember the exact line but it was so iconic when they were like 'surely NASA would know about the astroid' ' 'well NASA doesnt know about mermades...' bahahbhjhahhh
Looked at from a distance H2O, while it has many good parts, is kind of medium, but for some reasons it's so compelling. Just the idea of "what if three girls turn to part-time mermaids" is so interesting. Liking fantasy, magic and the diving part of swimming... it just fits perfectly! And what should I say. Now as a grown-up I recently got myself a monofin... 😅
Byron didn't really have any character traits though. He was just chill all the time, kinda slow and I'm not sure if he ever found out about their secret.
If byron stayed longer and got into a relationship with emma i bet he'd help her so much with relaxing and letting go. And emma would remind byron of order and all that. Theyd lit be so perfect together we were robbed lf byron scenes
Actually Ms.Chatham was meant to be the Emma of the 90s. Gracie, Charlotte’s grandma, was the one who gave up her tail because she never got around to actually enjoying being a mermaid- unlike Cleo who did in fact eventually grow to love it.
Brittany Byrnes recently did an interview and yes she got so much abuse online from people who hated Charlotte (although the things she was attacked for weren't the villainy things but stuff like kissing Lewis or micromanaging the birthday party). She got attacked over her weight as well. As someone who's experienced people like Charlotte, I can understand what you call the 180 in the finale a little. Her personality is very manipulative and controlling. Abusive people like that are capable of being nice when they can see how it will benefit them. Charlotte wasn't sorry in that last scene. She was trying to get Lewis to feel sympathy for her and claim she had changed, in the hopes of him letting her into his life again. If she were truly sorry, she would have been grovelling and given the locket back at once and had more accountability (she minimises everything as "not being mermaid enough", glossing over the fact that she could have nearly killed the other girls). She's trying to see how much she can get away with and when Lewis is having none of it, that's why we never see her again. Her abuse tactics didn't work and she knew she couldn't play him anymore.
Honestly when I hear stuff like that I don’t understand how villains for shows are even cast. I mean I always hear how much backlash they get for it and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to deal with that. I also feel so sorry for them because it’s not like they write the script
Yeah I'm an actor myself and I would only ever get cast as the bad guy, and it was always an upsetting experience for me to play a villain (with a few exceptions). Thankfully not on as large a scale, but my rule is that I don't play them anymore outside of very specific circumstances. And certain villains like the abusive boyfriend I refuse to play.
I agree 100% with the people saying season 3 was a mess ! A MESS ! It's like... so many different ideas, no chemistry between them, Rikki and Cleo's personalities changed sooooo much (unrealistically), 2 unnecessary characters added to the plot: the evil redhead and this Will guy, who is a reallllllly bad actor and a really bad character, in my opinion. It is not even because of Lewis or Emma's disappearances, that the quality hit bottom. Simply too many ideas, but not enough care for any particular one. It's like they wanted to make it work faster and finish it faster . Previous 2 seasons had more character development, better character chemistry, better writing chemistry, better logic. I think Season 2 had the best balance, but Season 1 was also more than decent, despite the occasional bad acting. Season 3 simply had horrible writing, sorry, and it looked like a totally different show.
There is one but like it’s animated and you can really tell it was towards kids. It’s called H2o mermaid adventure. H2O and mako even though they were called kid shows, honestly they were more of preteen show.
So Bella gets a lot of un deserved hate and I'm going to say that she was a really good character. Most people see her as a replacement to Emma. They both have blonde hair, they have similar powers, and are both mermaids. And you pointed out that she was just a new cleo. But she was so much more than that. Emma was strict and a rule follower, a perfectionist and a someone who is always right. Cleo was bubbly and empathetic, she was very loyal and was always there for her friends. Bella is completely different, she puts her heart out there and isn't afraid to show emotions, she is bold and knows what she wants. She is more similar to rikki but rikki is more of a hothead and isn't afraid to bite back. Bella was very refreshing and good female representation (not her relationship with will though). She had nearly no flaws. She didn't treat Nate like the rest of the characters did, even after he tried to make a move on her. She still treats him the same. And she doesn't to too bad about people. She follows her heart and is very noble. She was there for her friends but knew when to take care of herself. She had self respect and called out wills weird behavior when he found out that she was a mermaid. She wanted to sacrifice herself for the world and didn't want her friends to get hurt. She wasn't loud or girly. Rikki was a tomboy and kinda mean. Emma was a straight a student and sorta nerdy. Cleo was basically the dumb one but very friendly. But Emma wasn't a stereotype and didn't try to be. She was just Emma, and she was happy with it.
@@Mausefell a character doesn't need to have flaws to be a good role model. She represented a lot of healthy characteristics and therefore showed a good representation of how to handle situations. No character is ever perfect as perfect is not a standard that can be applied to everyone and mean the same. An example is "H2O was the perfect mermaid themed show" everyone can agree and disagree on if what I stated is true, but in the end being perfect is just being better then others compared in a specific category. I think Bella did have flaws, she tried to see the best in people which causes her to be sometimes naive or blind towards other character actions or reasons behind those actions. I did not like her either but I am able to see that she is a good role model for young kids who look up to her, and like Charlotte for example, I didn't like her but she was a good character as well, (I don't mean in a good person way but more of written way).
I don't hate her but neither do I like her I have no empathy for Bella cus I barely know her. Bella for me is a S1 character trowed into the S3 Bella behavior is expected if it was a S1 character , and the biggest problem with her character is tht they didn't and couldn't develop her in a way tht she could be fit into the current world She is dumb and looks like Cleo in S1 Her story arc is awful. She is so naive in when dealing with Sophie. It's supposed to be a 3 main character show but it looks like Cleo and Rikki have their own relationship tht was built along the all series and tht Bella relationship with both Cleo and Rikki is so forced. Emma Rikki and Cleo friendship works cus they already knew each other and it took 2 seasons to be built, and then the creators to be make us swallow Bella Also if u think about it, what's the odds of another mermaid moving into their small city in Australia? Kind of convenient right?
The old woman (Louise Chatham) wasn't supposed to be like Cleo from the 1950s ! She was supposed to be like Emma from the 1950s ! Cleo from the 1950s, is Gracie - Charlotte's grandmother, Louise Chatham's mermaid friend from the 1950s (alongside Julia - Rikki's counterpart).
i love season 3 for introducing me to the actors of bella and will, and now whenever i see will in other (american) shows as an adult im like aww what a cutie
for me it would be *season 2 > season 1 > season 3* . even though season 2 & 1 are pretty close but season 2 had a better storyline and there were a bit more idk "filler" episodes in season 1 in my opinion. i always liked season 3 the least, i never liked will tbh he was kinda boring me, i didn't have anything against bella but i liked emma more & she just completed the trio better. + the fact that lewis left ugh no, just no haha. btw i never realized how manipulative charlotte was as a kid like that's some psycho evil crap for real lmao
I don't mind season 3, I think there's a lot less filler episodes in that season where random stuff happens just because. We learn more about mako and with Bellas arrival that there are other moon pools around the world and not just the one at mako Island. There are some seriously beautiful underwater scenes in all seasons but in season 3 we have some where they dive much deeper into the oceans. I think season 2 was my favourite one, main reason being the acting honestly. However It was definitely difficult to watch because of Charlotte and it was definitely more centered around relationships rather then the mermaid parts who were more of a side thing.
May I just say: HOW DARE YOU CALL THE SCENE AT 2:10 DRAMATIC- we got the best Lewis facial expressions!! and we all realized that Charlotte was gonna go full on villain mode!!! + the music
Even though I really dislike Charlotte and I always thought she was a bad character. Watching season 3, I wanted her to come back, The girl gave a drama, she made me frustrated but that’s how you know she played the role really well. There was another girl but it wasn’t the same
I have three different comments about this (other than that I just really love that you made these videos!): 1. (9:56) Fun fact: The theme song is actually sung by a different artist each season. I didn't notice that myself either because seasons 1 and 2 sound so similar. 2. One detail I missed in season 3 that you didn't mention was the color scheme. In seasons 1 and 2, Emma wore a lot of blue and white, Cleo wore a lot of pink and purple, and Rikki wore a lot of red and black. It's not a huge deal, but I wish they'd continued it. 3. I selfishly want you to watch and review Mako Mermaids. I thought it was terrible, and I only watched the first season. I'm curious to know what you would think!
Well tbf on Mako Mermaids' part, it was originally going to be a prequel, but then changed into a sequel when Season 2 was getting into development. it just misses the top 5 JMSP shows behind Elephant Princess, it sort of fights with Cybergirl in my fav bottom 5. Yeah also change/replace main characters a lot, another JMSP trope since Ocean Girl, of leaving some of it's main or support cast, Mako Mermaids is no exception. Also the Season 3 promo showed the one character that most of the fandom loves (i think you know what I'm talking about if you have seen it or the behind the scenes of it). Also goddamn it H2O fan dislike or hate Mako Mermaids with no even halfway or all of it, Jesus Christ.
The fact that people hated charlotte so much that some of them wanted her to just drown or fall into the pits of hell (definitely not me 🤡) shows how good of an actress Brittany Byrnes was. she has my respect 😌 Idk if it was just me but My sister and I were literally celebrating when charlotte started crying in the episodes where she blew up ‘Cleo’s face’ and lost her powers
Will has more chemistry with Rikki. I really wish they hadn't f*cked up Zane's character in season 3 but if it HAD to happen like that then Rikki should have just ended up with Will bc his relationship with Bella felt forced.
I honestly thought Will and Rikki were going to end up together after she saved him, because I thought he was starting to like her. Bella and Will relationship was just so obvious that was going to happen but honestly was forced in a way
I don't know how many others have already said this...but I read a theory that Bella's power is supposed to represent the Triple Point of Water, where water exists as all three states; as a solid, a liquid, and a gas simultaneously. There are some really neat videos demonstrating this experiment and the result of it looks gelatin like-like Bella's power?! Kinda neato if they thought about it like that I think??
I still love this show and still find it amazing. Except for season 3. It was nice but I never reach for rewatching it and other 2 seasons I rewatched so many times.
I never watched season 3 as a kid, I remember being so excited and watching the first episode and my brother and I were so disappointed Emma was gone and we didn’t like Bella, so we quit on that episode or the second one. Then I rewatched season 1 and 2 some time last year and didn’t want to watch season 3 since I never saw it but I was bored one day and started watching it. There were some good parts, I liked Will’s character and the plot around him but I never got to like Bella and the whole tentacle plot and asteroid was kinda ridiculous. I liked when it was girls dealing with normal problems in their lives with the addition of being a mermaid rather than the tentacle attacking them then save the world plot.
So, I gotta speak on the zane thing. My shipping heart is crushed by season 3 Rane/Zikki, but adult me appreciates the realism. Zane is an absolute dickhole in season 1. Hes consistently selfish, he's consistently rude except with Ricky, he strands cleo on a boat knowing she cant swim for no reason, he tries to sabotage the girls multiple times for no reason other than to be a cruel bully, AND cherry on top, he gives ms chatum, an old woman, MULTIPLE heart attacks, get her evicted, and sinks her house boat. And he never really apologizes or makes up for that. Hes sweet with Ricky, he tries to protect the girls, but even in season 2 where hes at his best,he does weird shady stuff. Like the amber gris or in the episode with the Ricky v emma/zane v ash, he completely mischaracterizes the events when he tells them to Ricky. Yes, he was trying to protect emma, but he left out the part where he was a total ass to do it. He doesnt fully explain the situation and instead exacerbates the situation to make himself look better to Ricky, causing a rift in Ricky and Emma's relationship. And he doesnt do anything to fix it. It's a hint that he's not made this miraculous 180. Ricky's love didnt "fix" him. And season 3 just continues that trend and it's very realistic. Zane's the bad boy that girls wish they could fix with their love but in real life, a girl loving them doesnt fix them. Everything he does in season 3 is actually consistent with his character. Hes selfish and doesnt care about bending the rules to get what he wants. It sucks but that's how it usually goes in real life.
100%! Zane is the perfect representation of a male narcissist. He shows that in season one while stranding Cleo out on his little boat knowing she can’t swim then throwing her into a pool an episode later, attacking Mrs Chatum like that etc. Season 2 his peak was still disappointing. He causes trouble then manipulates the situation with Emma rikki and ash . He pretends to fall off a motorbike and be injured at the start to win back rikki such an immature move etc. Then season 3 he completely shows his true colors. Dismisses the whole mermaid situation as silly mermaids business, doesn’t give any sort of help to rikki with any of it just makes it worse and then cheats on her.
This is such a good take on Zane's character. Love the realism. And I agree, when I was young I was really upset about it, but rewatching now I'm like.. good for Rikki lol.
I love Rikki she is my favorite character. How ever I hate Charlotte she is my least favorite character of h2o, but I love the actress that played her, honestly its hard to play an evil character, and then end up being hated on.
"in 2006, h20 became a beloved classic, amongst 10 year old girls is australia." me, a 16 year old girl who has obsessed over this show for 10 years: mhm, ok, yes, but youre missing something
Season 3 was my favorite, because it was the first show I watched „live“ meaning I was watching the episodes when they were aired on TV and talked about them with my friends. I just really wanted to know what would happen next, it was thrilling and I never experienced anything like this since lol 😂
Lots of people dislike season three because they didn’t like how they replaced Emma, or they thought it was too intense but… they didn’t really have a choice unless they wanted it to be JUST Cleo and Rikki, which fans probably would’ve been more upset about. And I really loved how season three linked everything together, like when they revealed that the day the comet entered the solar system was the same day that he water attacks started? I loved that! Although I would’ve liked it too explain why Rikki had a special connection with the water tentacle and the others didn’t, it was still probably my favourite season.
@@pokemaniac05 they couldn’t help it. Would you rather they just stopped showing Lewis with no explanation? Angus Mclaren left the show, and that was the day he needed to leave.
@@WillSolace27 speaking of characters being evil, Dr. Hellgren from Ocean Girl and his assistant Kellar, both from UBRI. with the 3 seasons out of the way with the 4th season ep 1, boy this might take a while, not as much as the Tribe tho, gosh 260 eps worth watching.
One thing i missed, in season 3, was the upgraded powers, i don't know why, but we don't see them in season 3, i LOVED the new powers, but i don't understand why they were removed from season 3 ;-;
thank you, i'm not the only one who didn't notice that, did the writers just suddenly forget or anything, the reason why i think, S3 wasn't going to be a thing, it was only going to be S2, but due to the popularity and demand from fans, S3 happened, but Claire Holt & Craig Horner (Emma & Ash) & pretty much Emma's family left, Craig Horner worked on the show, Legend of The Seeker, which i heard good things about tho it is very dif to the book series and what was mentioned by Claire Holt in the vid.
I would have loved to see them be explored more Would have made an interesting plot, also they should have added the change of Cleo’s and rikkis relationship after Emma was gone and how it affects them
just a sidenote: this show was huge in Latin America as well, given that a lot of Australian shows were aired on a channel called Boomerang and it reached us and we all LOVED it and consider it a must-watch and part of our childhood.
I discovered the show with season 3, so he was great for me and occupies an special place in my heart. Just after he ended I saw the reprise from previous seasons. Season 2 was the best, Charlotte was a perfect villain and I can understand her, I mean the girls and her boyfriend wanted to took off her powers, so she was preparing for war.
Just watched your season 1 review and then this and loved it. Hadn't watched h2o in years and when I saw a clip on it I instantly got hooked again. I feel like there isn't an age barrier for this show because it's just so iconic. Loved these videos dude well done 👊🏼
I love the more positive take in your review style, anyone can rip anything to shreds without mercy, but I like that the criticisms are there without being the majority content and basically point of the video. This show still makes me giddy like it did when I was a little girl. Very few shows "for GIIRRRLLSS" have so much heart, effort and detail in them so as a middle school girl this fantasy story brought to life was so enchanting!
I paused at 11:43 to come here & write another comment, but then lost my mind seeing my name & previous comment show up on screen !! 😂 thank you so much for including me in this SECOND masterpiece 🤌✨ I loved the way you wrapped this up- couldn’t be more true about the love & dedication of the people involved in the show that made it as enjoyable & memorable as it is. Also, those tails are STILL some of the best, non-CGI mermaid tails I’ve personally seen to date. They really outdid themselves way back in 2006!
@@TripleNeon of course! 🙏 Can’t wait to watch your channel keep rising & thriving- you’ve got serious potential and a great sense of humor. Keep up the great work 😊
Yes a sequel spinoff that originally was a prequel in S1, but then changed getting into S2 at least from what I read (yeah it had a weird production history before it aired), I know that Mimmi works in the same place that Cleo used to work there in H20.
@@pokemaniac05 mimi was American I don’t understand her accent sticks out so much when everyone else is Australian is she was in the same pod as ondina but she is Australian that kinda bothered me a little. I did like mimi but found it weird like to explain action unless I missed somewhere.
My little sister really loved this show and I watched the daily televised two episodes always together with her. Was a nice time, back then. Also, at first I thought, "my, god, such a Nickelodeon stuff again!" but with the time I really began to appreciate it. Its perhaps one of the best written teenager TV shows ever made. By the way, as I aways watched it in German, I didn't know about some of the weird scenes, as it seems to be the case that the German translation is somewhat more serious than the original, but still very funny.
Bella Is kind of what they did with Weilan, but I like her more than Bella because of Weilan's development in Mako Island of Secrets S3, especially with Ondina tho
I kinda hate Weilan. She’s so annoying and thinks she’s better than everyone else. But honestly I hate most characters in Mako mermaids lol. The only characters I like consistently are Mimi, Evie, and Zach, though Zach is annoying when he’s against the mermaids in the first season. I also like Serena for the most part but she’s just a bit too childish like I’d prefer it if she acted a little more grown up, especially when it comes to David. She acts like a five year old whenever he’s around and he does the same. I get that it’s a show for kids but it’s just such a step down from H2O, that managed to have natural feeling relationships while still being kid friendly.
@@Cllocopine well teens tho, not so much as kids, I've seen my fair share of Australian kids & teen drama shows (at when the teens were the main part of the said shows) like Dance Academy, Blue Water High, Ready for This, a few more that I know since doing the playlists and searching via Google, ABC iview, Kisscartoon, Dailymotion etc
@@pokemaniac05 Yeah I guess they’re more directed at teens. I was just early in my development or something lol, watched a ton of aussie shows from like 8-10 and then by 11-12 I stopped watching things that were dubbed and I didn’t like it if the characters didn’t kiss and if nobody died. I thought I was cool and grown up watching the vampire diaries and pretty little liars lol.
@@Cllocopine if i know the true definition of Kids tv shows focus on comedy with some drama back then, Round the Twist, one of the weirdest kids shows, heck one of the weirdest shows period that people have seen (unless someone has read the books by Paul Jennings which was the basis for S1-2).
I’m sorry but now you kinda have to do the spinoffs as well... Mako mermaids is kind of good when it comes to story, but it’s a downgrade in other parts like hardly any of the characters are that likeable and they don’t really have any personality, backstory or character development. The only characters I really like are Mimi, Zach and Evie. Sirena, Ondina and Rita are fine and the rest lowkey suck. Then there’s also the animated show that I haven’t watched since I was a kid so I don’t actually know my opinions on it. I liked it back then but I bet I would think differently now.
honestly the 2010s of JMSP shows was a bit shaky at points, i mean like Elephant Princess S2, i never seen Reef Doctors, Lightning Point was fine, Mako Mermaids i liked, not as much as H20, but i had a good time, Bureau of Magical Things was probably the one i was quite curious and ended enjoyed my time watching it, had fun and now with S2 on next weekend to end it all, excited to how it would end and a bit doubtful that a S3 will be a thing (H20, Mako & Ocean Girl are the only series to have 3-4 series, while the rest had 1 or 2 series
@@pokemaniac05 Yeah I feel the same, like I enjoy watching mako mermaids, I don’t get bored and feel like I have better things to do at least. But it’s nowhere close to the enjoyment from watching h2o. I just don’t really really feel connected to any of the characters. It’s fun to see the story unfold but I don’t really care what happens if I’m honest. Like I said I like a few of the characters but I never liked any of the relationships, the one I felt the most for was Eric and Ondina and he’s like a bad guy and shit. And it doesn’t even seem like any of the characters are friends, we’re supposed to think they are because they hang out together but none of them have any scenes to prove it. The only friendships I buy are Mimi and Ondina, Mimi and Zach, and Zach and Cam. But I hate Cam so I always wish they _weren’t_ friends.
@@pokemaniac05 Out of the ones you mentioned I’ve only watched elephant princess. It was one of my favourites as a kid but I only had the first sesson to watch over and over so I kinda got tired of it pretty quickly. The second season came to sweden years later and by that point I thought I was too old for kids’ shows lol. I watched pirate island too but I don’t think I ever finished it because I can’t remember the ending. But like I said in some other comment, I really like the aussie kids’ shows, they’ll always be somewhat of a guilty pleasure. I mean the acting and quality are really rough but there’s just something about it that makes them so enjoyable to watch.
I hated the first half of season 1 of mako mermaids then it got better but it’s not as good as original they kept swapping out the actors across the series so it was hard to get to know the characters.
i hate that the main 3 care so much that charlotte becomes a mermaid. they don't own the moonpool. they don't own mermaid powers. once they learned that charlotte's grandma was a mermaid, they should have told her everything. they should have accepted her the way they did bella. she only became a villain because they were mean to her.
The first time In watched the show (I was like 20 lol) I had to stop in season two, because Charlotte made me so angry. I think it's fair to say that she's the worst human being ever.
rikki and lewis were the best characters no doubt. and bella is a good character but her power should have been better. before we had fire ice and water, now fire water and gelatin? it would have been fire water earth- like WHAT- everything else i agree with
As a young child I obviously hated Charlotte, but seeing her again with a more mature eye you can kinda get her fall into "evil" (not really that evil either). From the beginning she wanted to fit in, maybe she was a bit nosy with the main trio but they (mainly Cleo) didn't exactly made her feel welcome. Charlotte also asked Cleo multiple times if she was ok with her making advances on her ex, while also clarifying that if she's not comfortable she would stop it, but every time she said yes and then get mad at Charlotte for doing the thing she allowed her to do. Charlotte was also dumped multiple times by her boyfriend for him to go and hang out with her ex (also he wasn't really caring, almost like he felt forced to be with her). Even when Charlotte found out about he mermaid thing and became one, that didn't turn her into a villain, she wanted to connect more with the girls now that they were all magical (and they still shunned her because she was more powerful) by the time they wanted to kinda help her with the full moon thing, it was already too late as she was tired of being pushed around and was already "evil" (and let's be honest, while she was in most of season 2, she was a true antagonist for like 4 episodes)
I love H2O I watched it because it popped up on netflix and i was like Oooo what's this. I started watching it, i fell in love with the show. I'm not sure if many people in NY love this show but i love it as a New yorker. I love how the actors did their best to portray their characters but i was a bit sad when lewis left the show and they made him go overseas to study. But I remember sam telling cleo that it may be hard now but later on the love can grow stronger. I love sam, she's a great stepmom. Season 3 did go downhill but i dont hate the characters. Bella i do like her but i felt like they could've give a better power than just making water to jello like substance. Lewis is an awesome character. Will.. i didnt really like his character tht much and for Charlotte in season 2, i first hated her but then again it wasnt her fault... she really could've been friends with all of them but cleo's jealousy.. the water being sprayed at her from the sprinkler... and lewis going to the cleo, rikki and emma to help them out even when he was dating her. But ngl i do love cleo and lewis together though. In a way i can see that is both sides made mistakes. I guess the writer didnt know how to make it better with emma (claire) leaving the show bc of her other show... 🤔 i felt like they could've made it more better. -but this is just my opinon
The inconsistencies were incredible. Like season 3 Ricky is always like ah I don't wanna study I wanna go shopping. Wasn't she the broke girl? She wasn't at the Café anymore due to the breakup so no job. That's a thing that I always thought is weird. The girls who live with 2 parents in a fancy house get jobs very young. The girl with the single dad who can't pay the bills never gets a job (season 3 she's unemployed again half the season)
charlotte is literally so awful i cannot stand her she makes my blood boil so props to the writers and her actress bc damn was she convincing, i never liked her even in the beginning so is super manipulative and even emotionally abusive to lewis and she’s a huge stalker always knowing where they are and finding ways to stick her nose into everything and the worst part is she gets away with it and it always works out for her bc she is so determined to sabotage the girls and be in lewis’ life as his main lady
I vaguely remember watching something behind the scenes where various tails were made for different things. I think they even put something in their eyes to help them see under water
@@whogoes_4113 unless those people are neutral or just hate because it's boring or so soap opera drama which ok that last i sort of agree, also Blue Water High or Mustangs FC, anything related to some sport teen drama ish mixed with mainly artists music
So thanks to Jonathan M. Shiff without him I think people wouldn't know actors like Phoebe Tonkin, Margot Robbie or Liam Hemsworth and also covid 19, one of the only good things happened was the whole search and watch was a mix of Australian kids & teen shows, JMSP shows included, Mako Island of Secrets while good as well despite some weird EPs mixed with the main plot, H20 imo is better. Tbf tho Ash (Craig Horner) had Cybergirl, a show probably mentioned a lot lately because it was my JMSP show ever aside from Ocean Girl seeing a bit also very dif from H20, but it was Jonathan's first produced and created out of 19 his team (only 7 were created and produced by him, one developed, 3 concept, 2 documentaries, a tv film and the rest he was producer/executive producer) he was his 1st role and also the actress who played Louise Chatham in H20 plays the mayor Buxton, mayor of River City, a fictional town in Queensland, Brisbane (which later Bureau of Magical Things is set there, 17 years later) Speaking of TBOMT, S2 is really good In the 12 EPs so far aired (go watch it Imo probably the best of 2010 JMSP shows and I do have seen most of the shows aside from 4 left that atm hard to find EPs in English or complete. I know the Teenventure Series YT has some of them & Sam Fox Adventures, I know that the H20 & Dance Academy has the full series, all of which blocked in Australia, I know So Fetch has some Australian tv shows that sadly on private with some exceptions and also I do have a lot of saved and created playlists on a lot of Australian kids & teen shows so go checked them out if you're curious or grew up with these one way or another. Yeah another JMSP shows love returnee actors from previous shows to appear and actors that would later appeared in future maybe as a main, support or recurring characters, TBOMT is basically that only way up with references from previous shows (mainly from the created and produced by Jonathan himself).
i feel like i'm kinda late but this show was popular even in my Kazakhstan and it's still one of my all time favourites! Thanx for video, think i'm gonna rewatch it soon
When I was a child, my sole purpose of watching h2o was my burning passion for Remma (Rikki and Emma Shipp) and since Emma left the show I went into shook and grief. I tried to give s3 a try but couldn't go past ep 4 or smt
The tails are FANTASTIC, except in Season 3. The end part of the tail (the flipper or whatever) looked so fake to me. Fun fact: Sophie's actress played Julia in Season 2.
honestly no other mermaid movie or series that came after h2o could fill my heart as much as this series did. I’m just often annoyed at the mermaid lore or the way the are portrayed as dumb fish or something. H2O is just classic and gives me nostalgia
Charlotte doesn't goes 180 by regretting everything in the end. She actually turns evil and attacks the girls BECAUSE of the full moon. The girls even try to warn her about it. She was manipulative before for sure but she wouldn't have gone full psycho without the full moon.
One thing I didn't like about will was at the start he was a bit like Zane and the mermaid but will with the tentacle, I also didn't like how he treated Bella at the beginning when he said "The best part about you is the mermaid". Lastly, I wouldn't say I liked how he pushed Bella to tell him her secret. but I liked him overall.
Hi everyone, thank you for all the support over these 2 videos!
This probably brings an end to the mermaid era on my channel, I might make a video on Mako Mermaids down the line but I still haven't seen it so that's kind of far away.
I'm not entirely sure where to go next, so feel free to recommend me any shows/movies/games etc that you'd like to see me cover 😁
(Preferably non-Australian teen dramas, since I don't want my entire channel to be that lol)
by the power of Wikipedia to search out different countries tv show lists (teen dramas mainly), New Zealand is surprisingly small, only seen Mirror Mirror, Being Eve, haven't seen Children of Fire Mountain, Children of The Dog Star, Killian Curse, some of Amazing Extraordinary Friends (i didn't know it has 3 seasons and web chronicles with one of the main characters) or Maddigan's Quest and shit the Tribe is extremely popular yet didn't see much of it and that is a long one, i think some are of decent amount and they are the ones that are huge and as for movies, because damn there's a lot of them. i have check what other countries tv shows before video games is also my thing.
you thought some of the characters were evil in H20 like Sophie, Kim, Miriam, Charlotte, nah i think Dr. Hellegren from Ocean Girl (aka Jonathan Shiff's first created and produced show) honestly was more evil because jeez man.
But the thing about australian kid dramas is that they’re so fkn underrated and nobody is talking about them!! I might be biased because I grew up watching a ton of aussie and uk kids’ shows (sweden’s kids channel rents them because it’s way cheaper than anything american). But there’s a ton of gems that come from australia that nobody knows about, and it’s really sad. H2O was lucky enough to be bought by Nickelodeon and broadcasted in america but the rest are left forgotten :(
If you ever change your mind my favourite has always been Parallax lol.
@@Cllocopine oh Parallax is a good one, but looking back it can be a bit confusing because of how many portals go to dif parallel universes. Ready For This is one of my fav Australian teen dramas almost kind of on par on Dance Academy
@@pokemaniac05 I never watched those since they weren’t on Swedish tv. I think we just bought the cheapest ones that nobody had seen lol. Parallax was my favourite by far (out of the australian shows) and I was so upset that they only made one season. My favourite thing is that Kathrine and Mundi are totally lesbians and the show was released back in 2004! Obviously they never actually get together but the way they look at each other, you can’t convince me that they’re just friends lol.
I feel like for S3 Cleo became the Emma and Bella stepped in to become the new Cleo since Cleo had experienced character growth during the other 2 seasons... or something.
Yeah, I feel like they took Emma’s leader attitude and split it between Cleo and Rikki since there would be no one to direct or come up with plans anymore. Without Emma they were stuck with a rebel and a ditz, they needed that kind of leader roll to balance them out hence why Bella became the new Cleo and rest had to change their personalities. Idk if that makes sense.
Also I think she became the Lewis when he gone. Doing so many experiments and winning the cience award.
I feel like both Rikki and Cleo took a bit from Emma, Rikki is the one who is strict about keeping the secret in place of her
I always thought Rikki became Emma (controller personality and even the job) while Cleo became Lewis.
I think lewis leaving left such a drastic hole in my heart that I had blocked it from memory and only remembered when I went through the 7 stages of grief on my re watch through a few weeks ago.
Yesss, but then he finally showed up in the last episode just like the last 5 minutes. Him walking down the stairs and Cleo waving at him. I was thinking they really couldn’t bring them into one full scene, instead of making it separate. But then the next scene is that when they’re actually together
fr and his acting was terrible s3 bc he wasnt motivated but i mean what 20yo man would be interested in a kids mermaid show but still, when he came back it was just unsatisfyig like they should have done more
@@isabellaa8875 i wish emma was with him
@@allicambridge2335all ages
@@isabellaa8875 from what I remember Lewis and Cleo did get back together and they moved to California together
I feel like most people underestimate how mean Will was. He literally forced Bella to give up her secret and than blackmailed Bella and Cleo into giving up their secret (he only wanted to lead them to Rikki who was kidnapped if they told him everything) so really he was kind of a villain too
The old woman in season one was Louise, who is meant to be Emma's parallel. Cleo's 50s parallel is Gracie, who has already been dead for a while by the time season one starts. But yeah Max is Lewis.
And Rikki’s 50s parallel is Julia
and Gracie is Charlotte's grandmother
@@emilysarah8312 yep
One thing that was very brave of the writers in season 3 was how they broke up the main couples of the show. It felt very realistic and refreshing, as irl teen relationships don´t last forever.
It was nice to see Rikki reject Zane at the end and end the show single and be fine. I feel like that’s something I’ve never seen in shows for teens/kids where the character being single isn’t treated like it’s a tragedy and she’s fine on her own
It was also really nice when Zane said "some things are more important then money" to Sophie in the end when she tried to take the crystals from the moon pool. His character also kinda did a 180 in the very last episode of season 3.
Rikki's growth and strength is amazing and I cheer when she dumps Zane
True. I missed Lewis but they were so close to finishing school (why was he allowed to leave school early is he older?) it didn't make sense for him to give that up just to be with his school girlfriend. But it s nice for the end that he showed up. It's realistic, that he finds time he'll try to come to the graduation.
@juliannaoneill9997 It's not the fact that Zane and Rikki broke up itself that was the problem although they're really great together. It was how Zane was derailed. His character development was great.
One of the things I never understood about the girls revealing their secrets to their boyfriends is: why? Boyfriends come and go, but family is there. For instance, Emma was very close with her family, so they would've understood. Cleo's dad would most like have understood (NOT Kim, though), Rikki's dad, I think, wouldn't have cared, and Bella was like 9 when this happened. How could Bella have kept it a secret for so long?? I don't think I would've come up with valid excuses when I was 9.
I too was very frustrated that the girls didn't trust their parents enough to tell them while trusting boyfriends they'd known a few months with such a huge secret I could see the wisdom of keeping Kim out of the loop (she would be set for life blackmailing them all) but not their parents. The worst that might have happened would be one or more set of parent dragging their were-mermaid offspring to a doctor in hopes of "curing" her; And if the doctor was as unscrupulous as Evil Marine Biologist Lady their being publicly outed could wreck any chance for ever having a normal life (though if handled right fame could lead to being a very rich mermaid!). I think the main reason they never told even their parents was just that the writers relied heavily on their secret being in jeopardy to add suspense + humor to a lot of episodes.
Another thing they seemed unnecessarily worried about was being captured and experimented on or even dissected. The girls might have been able to turn into mermaids but they were also human, Australian citizens (unless Bella was just there on a visa...) with birth certificates and all, and I couldn't see the cops or Federal Police just saying "Tough luck, she's a mermaids and has no human rights" if a teenage girl disappeared. If it was my daughter instead of a doctor I would hire the best lawyer I could find to make damn sure her human status was recognized and rights were protected,,. right after I had her take me to the Moon Pool during a full moon so I could be a mermaid too. It's been a lifelong fantasy and irrational obsession of mine (see picture...)
@@laikapupkino1767 Makes complete sense about the suspense + humour aspect for the show. Still, it was very annoying, especially because in the first season, Emma kept emphasising how in her family they never keep secrets from one another.
Yeah that bugged me so much too. I for sure think the parents would care and be more over protective of thier secret than the boyfriends!!
To be fair though Lewis and Zane weren't meant to find out, Lewis saw Cleo change when she had no choice but to ask for his help and Zane discovered them during his mermaid searching phase. Only one who the girls told willingly was Ash because Emma was feeling left out pretty much. Definitely wish we got too see Cleo's dad find out though he would've been the coolest. Then Will pretty much cornered Bella to prove his suspicions were right and she didn't expose the other girls too him.
@@TheMbangel you know i was always okay with their parents not knowing too much because with the exception of cleos family i don't think their parents are very involved in the story too much and also this is more of a comedy what do you think
I love Charlotte as a villain. At first, she's a sympathetic character with how terrible Cleo is to her and just being a new student at a big school. I also hate that Lewis gaslighted her about mermaids, but damn Charlotte ended up being a horrible person (and fish).
Yesss,like I felt bad for her
@@neveahcrew4812 same bro
Yes but he kinda had to, if he did tell her the truth he'd be a traitor
She gaslighted and manipulated him too so I can't really feel bad for her
@@problematicpeach9237 agreed. I only sympathized at the start
SEASON 2 WAS PERFECTION! Storyline was more mature. Soundtrack was the best. Girls became more mature. There was all the time something going on. And Charlotte was such a great villain.
yes zane being a villain again completely destroyed his whole arc in season 2 and undid so much of why he and rikki worked together i was so mad lol
The only reason Rikki and Zane "worked" was thanks to the toxic idea/storyline: the girl can change the bad boy. And I was so happy when they trashed it.
@@tatianasalazar4066 I agree
@@tatianasalazar4066 To be fair, Rikki was also a "bad girl". If it was that kind of storyline, Zane would've gotten together with Cleo.
@@aleksandra5808 no, there's a line between being sassy and sarcastic and being just rude and an a**hole. Rikki was the first, Zane was the second, and you can tell the difference in so many ways. Rikki was always there for her friends, obviously she wasn't perfect, but she never did anything to purposefully hurt her friends and the people she cared about. Even though she could be a little bit mean with Lewis, you can see how much she actually cared about him when she put up an entire boat party by herself, just because she knew Charlotte's party would suck and Lewis wasn't gonna like it. Or their treatment of Mrs Chattham, neither of them liked her, Rikki was very straightforward with her and didn't pretend to like her, but Zane gave her a heart attack (or something like that) twice, never apologized and even tried to steal from her. He tried to STEAL from an OLD LADY, when his father is RICH. That's exactly my point, he wasn't just a typical moody teen, many of the things he did crossed the line to being a bad person. I could give so many examples of that, but I believe what I already said is more than enough to prove my point
@@tatianasalazar4066 I get it. I have mixed feelings on Zane exactly because the way he treated Miss Chattham makes him borderline irredeemable. But I do appreciate they didn't go the good girl/bad boy cliché because that is just the worst trope ever to me. At least Rikki can handle Zane.
Bro not only Australian Girls love this show. Everyone in Germany loves this show
It’s huge in Spain and Latin America too.
got a fan base in South Africa too , this show is international baby!!!
Hell yeah. H2O war meine Kindheit bish
It's huge in the lusophone world
in Portugal tooo
hated that when claire left they just replaced her with a new girl, remade everything just like emma never existed
Yeah, I didn't mind the idea that Emma wasn't in s3 and we got Bella instead, I didn't like the fact that they acted like she never existed (just like you said). One sentence of explanation why she's not around anymore isn't enough. They could sometimes say things like "We miss her" or "Emma would know what to do".
Think of mako mermaids as an alternate continuity to h2o. Rikki only acknowledges herself, Cleo and Emma. Bella is never talked about.
@@Olicia88 Right! Like they could have even been like oh I just talked to Emma on the phone or something, or mention that they got postcards from Emma. And it was so weird at the end when they talked about how they all were destined to become mermaids to stop the asteroid and like, what about Emma, or even Charlotte or the old lady and her friends who were mermaids?
Yea the fact they never spoke about her was sad
@@equusquaggaquagga536 I could never get into Mako Mermaids, it feels like a cheap spin-off
i liked season 2 well enough but i never liked s3 since it felt way too far away from how the show started by bringing in a new girl. they couldve dealt with emma's actress leaving by focusing more on how the loss of emma affects the relationship between rikki and cleo and increased the feeling of 'us against the world' but. nope.
also i completely forgot that sophie existed which is amazing because thats *my name* so characters called sophie tend to stick in my brain
I really love Bella, so I can't *completely* wish that your idea here was the one they'd gone with, but that definitely would have been a meaningful story to tell. It would have been much more realistic as well. There's no way that these three people who are so tightly bound by a huge secret would be so easily separated. The loneliness that would result in, I would think, would cause any one of the three by herself to reach out to the others often. (Although, I imagine that Emma told her family, because what else could she do?) Specifically with Emma, I think Cleo at least would have a strong desire to keep in touch, just because Cleo had been the timid one following leader Emma around. I wish they'd mentioned Emma every once in a while throughout season 3 instead of pretending she never existed after the first episode.
I also forgot she existed which is how it should have been
U guess that means she’s forgettable lol😂
Charlotte did not break up cleo and Lewis, cleo broke up with Lewis because he was trying to fix things all the time when she needed a little space to deal with things. Cleo kinda started the whole thing with Charlotte by not being nice at first and looking through her diary. Cleo had every opportunity to say to Lewis she was wrong and wanted him back but she doesn’t so he moves on with Charlotte because she’s showing him attention. The girls are so standoffish to Charlotte before she got with Lewis all she wanted was friends. I don’t like Charlotte but when I was rewatching a month ago I could see how she perceived cleo and the others being not nice to her. Charlotte become so entitled and ego driven that it backfires when trying to take the girls tails away.
oblivious single mom + social isolation despite genuine attempts at friendship, sounds like a recipe for mental breakdown to me. i can understand why ppl find her annoying personality wise but she wasn’t some evil mastermind the whole time, just not super likable
Yep I'm totally with you here. To Charlotte, Cleo is the girl who broke the heart of the boy she loves.
I agree with most of this except that charlotte wanted friends. From the very first interaction, cleo is very friendly to her and then lewis walks in and charlotte has already decided in that moment that he will be hers. She has 0 interest in the girls and her interactions with lewis arent for friendship. Shes flirty off the bat while hes still with cleo. And she ignores his feelings and everything hes saying and forces herself on him. There is literally no moment in their relationship where he voluntarily acts like a boyfriend or even acts like he actually likes her. Even when he sets up that picnic date it's only because she complained first.
@@chandrawagner4061 I agree, that she pushed herself into Lewis, but Lewis never communicated with her that he wasn't ready for another relationship or still liked Cleo. And also in defence of Charlotte most people forget that Charlotte actually asked Cleo if she was okay with her asking Lewis out, and that there's be no hard feelings, to which Cleo foolishly said that her and Lewis were just friends.
Cleo should have said she still likes Lewis but needs time to move on from him and see him as just a friend again before she ready to see him with another girl, and to also tell her to perhaps discuss the matter with Lewis too before coming onto him as he may also need time to move on
Biggest betrayal of season 3, replacing the lockets with the stupid rock necklaces. We had 2 seasons and 50 years of history with those lockets and there was no emotional connection to the rock necklaces. I hated it. And season 3 has the worst intro hands down. Why'd they do belle's voice like that?
Ikr? I wasn’t keen on the necklace replacements either. Especially when those lockets had so much history behind them to be passed down mermaid to mermaid, but nah let’s ditch them for sorta pretty but totally not sentimental rock necklaces.
I feel like season 3 seemed like something so different to the show. They fully replaced Emma like what would happen when Emma comes back to find they’ve fully replaced her? I liked Bella but she felt like just a replacement and nothing more.
Never thought that I'd do this, but here we go.
Charlotte's character was very well written, and doesn't deserve the amount if hat that she gets.
When we first meet Charlotte she is very nice and has a crush on Lewis. She doesn't try to break up Lewis and Cleo but also isn't afraid to befriend him. We don't really see her as much until Cleo and Lewis break up.
Now I will explain a bit about Lewis. Lewis was Cleos friend. In season 1 the girls did not want to tell Lewis anything, they didnt want him to know that they were mermaids, they didn't want his help, and they didnt want him involved (and I'm referring to mostly Rikki and Emma, but Cleo did contribute to that). Now in season 2 he is more casted as Cleos love interest. He is still involved with helping them but more or less they think that they dont need him. He was kinda casted aside by the girls and they didnt really treat him fair and sometimes bullied him.
This is where Charlotte comes in. Lewis had just broken up with Cleo and the girls took her side. Lewis has no one. Except Charlotte who had already been trying to befriend him. Charlotte treats him nice and doesn't make fun of him for liking nerdy stuff. But Lewis treats her like she's always number 2. She puts up with that because she doesn't have any other friends, and also because she likes him.
As the season goes on we see Charlotte becoming a bit possessive. She wants to spend more time with Lewis, but Lewis always moves her aside for the girls. The girls also want nothing to do with Charlotte, and Lewis can't invite her to hang with their mermaids. But she doesn't know that so she just sees it as them casting her aside.
Now when she starts dating Lewis he's still prioritizing the girls over her. He's spending more time with other girls then his own girlfriend. This is where her jealousy comes from. She likes Lewis and he likes her back but he loves Cleo and spends more time with her and makes Cleo number 1. This isn't what pushes her over the edge though.
When Charlotte becomes a mermaid she is proud and happy. She feels more connected to her grandmother. And she can finally be friends with the girls and they won't cast her aside anymore. But they do.
They don't like Charlotte, they don't want to be friends with her. They do decide to help her but only because they think that she can't handle being a mermaid, and that she needs help. They don't want to be friends with her.
Now Charlotte has a temper. But only when it comes to her loved ones. She is extremely protective and is very loyal. She knows that the girls treat Lewis bad, she doesn't like how they cast him aside when he clearly puts them first. She becomes obsessive, and jealous at the same time because even though she is everything that cleo is she is still not number 1 for Lewis.
So now we're at the end she steals cleos necklace, she does bad things and becomes who we as fans hate. She steals the necklace because of her jealousy. She wasn't enough for Lewis with being better then cleo so she tries to in some way become her.
But when cleo tries to become friends with Lewis again and trues to spend more time with him. But Charlotte has always been pushed aside for cleo, and Lewis will always love cleo so he would jump back at the opportunity to get back with cleo in a heartbeat. And once again Charlotte would be number 2.
She has so much bottled up jealousy and rage. She wants Lewis to be hers and wants them out of his life because as long as they're there then she will always be second. So she tries to get rid of them. It's the only way to get what she wants. They don't stay away from Lewis so she tries to cut off what she thinks is the only thing that makes Lewis want to stay with them. She has already become cleo so that's not holding him back but the mermaid thing is.
There isn't really a reason why she suddenly decided to become good. The only reason I could think of is that she finally let go of her anger and jealousy and that she realized that she lost herself.
I also think that some of it had to do with her dad. This is more of a stretch but it could be possible that her dad left her and her mom for another woman or family. This could be why she got so jealous and so mad and possessive of Lewis. Because she was left behind by her dad and with lewis. And she was second choice instead of first.
Thanks for the analysis!
A great breakdown, Charlotte was actually my favorite character and I felt pr bad for her as a kid as I saw all of this. I think she was hurt, not really "evil".
Amazing explanation! A lot of people forget that the girls especially cleo kind of picked on her at the start. Cleo was mad at her taking an interest in lewis after cleo was the one who decided to stay friends it was unbelievable to me. Cleo could have saved a lot of heartbreak by telling lewis that she wants to continue things once she has her life under control then lewis wluld have never led charlotte on because if theres a chance with cleo he wont miss it. Also i understand lewis was annoying for ignoring charlotte's red flags but some of the time they were full on bullying him those parts hurt
brruuuhhh the astroid was intense. i dont remember the exact line but it was so iconic when they were like 'surely NASA would know about the astroid' ' 'well NASA doesnt know about mermades...' bahahbhjhahhh
Looked at from a distance H2O, while it has many good parts, is kind of medium, but for some reasons it's so compelling. Just the idea of "what if three girls turn to part-time mermaids" is so interesting. Liking fantasy, magic and the diving part of swimming... it just fits perfectly!
And what should I say. Now as a grown-up I recently got myself a monofin... 😅
Really??? I've always wanted to have one, but uh,😅 I probably should get better at swimming
"but overall ash is only kind of cool and kind of chill where byron is very cool and very chill"
Byron didn't really have any character traits though. He was just chill all the time, kinda slow and I'm not sure if he ever found out about their secret.
@@Electivedrop he didn't find out it was only ash who did
If byron stayed longer and got into a relationship with emma i bet he'd help her so much with relaxing and letting go. And emma would remind byron of order and all that. Theyd lit be so perfect together we were robbed lf byron scenes
Actually Ms.Chatham was meant to be the Emma of the 90s. Gracie, Charlotte’s grandma, was the one who gave up her tail because she never got around to actually enjoying being a mermaid- unlike Cleo who did in fact eventually grow to love it.
Brittany Byrnes recently did an interview and yes she got so much abuse online from people who hated Charlotte (although the things she was attacked for weren't the villainy things but stuff like kissing Lewis or micromanaging the birthday party). She got attacked over her weight as well.
As someone who's experienced people like Charlotte, I can understand what you call the 180 in the finale a little. Her personality is very manipulative and controlling. Abusive people like that are capable of being nice when they can see how it will benefit them. Charlotte wasn't sorry in that last scene. She was trying to get Lewis to feel sympathy for her and claim she had changed, in the hopes of him letting her into his life again. If she were truly sorry, she would have been grovelling and given the locket back at once and had more accountability (she minimises everything as "not being mermaid enough", glossing over the fact that she could have nearly killed the other girls). She's trying to see how much she can get away with and when Lewis is having none of it, that's why we never see her again. Her abuse tactics didn't work and she knew she couldn't play him anymore.
Honestly when I hear stuff like that I don’t understand how villains for shows are even cast. I mean I always hear how much backlash they get for it and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to deal with that. I also feel so sorry for them because it’s not like they write the script
Yeah I'm an actor myself and I would only ever get cast as the bad guy, and it was always an upsetting experience for me to play a villain (with a few exceptions). Thankfully not on as large a scale, but my rule is that I don't play them anymore outside of very specific circumstances. And certain villains like the abusive boyfriend I refuse to play.
I agree 100% with the people saying season 3 was a mess !
A MESS !
It's like... so many different ideas, no chemistry between them, Rikki and Cleo's personalities changed sooooo much (unrealistically), 2 unnecessary characters added to the plot: the evil redhead and this Will guy, who is a reallllllly bad actor and a really bad character, in my opinion.
It is not even because of Lewis or Emma's disappearances, that the quality hit bottom.
Simply too many ideas, but not enough care for any particular one.
It's like they wanted to make it work faster and finish it faster
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Previous 2 seasons had more character development, better character chemistry, better writing chemistry, better logic.
I think Season 2 had the best balance, but Season 1 was also more than decent, despite the occasional bad acting.
Season 3 simply had horrible writing, sorry, and it looked like a totally different show.
season 2 holds up, but season 3 was a mistake. would love another mermaid show after mako mermaids though, they're just fun to watch
There is one but like it’s animated and you can really tell it was towards kids. It’s called H2o mermaid adventure. H2O and mako even though they were called kid shows, honestly they were more of preteen show.
Instead of season 3 they shpuld have made a seperate show i think
So Bella gets a lot of un deserved hate and I'm going to say that she was a really good character.
Most people see her as a replacement to Emma. They both have blonde hair, they have similar powers, and are both mermaids. And you pointed out that she was just a new cleo. But she was so much more than that.
Emma was strict and a rule follower, a perfectionist and a someone who is always right. Cleo was bubbly and empathetic, she was very loyal and was always there for her friends.
Bella is completely different, she puts her heart out there and isn't afraid to show emotions, she is bold and knows what she wants. She is more similar to rikki but rikki is more of a hothead and isn't afraid to bite back.
Bella was very refreshing and good female representation (not her relationship with will though). She had nearly no flaws. She didn't treat Nate like the rest of the characters did, even after he tried to make a move on her. She still treats him the same. And she doesn't to too bad about people. She follows her heart and is very noble. She was there for her friends but knew when to take care of herself. She had self respect and called out wills weird behavior when he found out that she was a mermaid. She wanted to sacrifice herself for the world and didn't want her friends to get hurt.
She wasn't loud or girly.
Rikki was a tomboy and kinda mean. Emma was a straight a student and sorta nerdy. Cleo was basically the dumb one but very friendly. But Emma wasn't a stereotype and didn't try to be. She was just Emma, and she was happy with it.
@@Mausefell a character doesn't need to have flaws to be a good role model. She represented a lot of healthy characteristics and therefore showed a good representation of how to handle situations. No character is ever perfect as perfect is not a standard that can be applied to everyone and mean the same. An example is "H2O was the perfect mermaid themed show" everyone can agree and disagree on if what I stated is true, but in the end being perfect is just being better then others compared in a specific category.
I think Bella did have flaws, she tried to see the best in people which causes her to be sometimes naive or blind towards other character actions or reasons behind those actions.
I did not like her either but I am able to see that she is a good role model for young kids who look up to her, and like Charlotte for example, I didn't like her but she was a good character as well, (I don't mean in a good person way but more of written way).
@@Mausefell Yeah I understand your point. I think at the end of the day it's agree to disagree.
I don't hate her but neither do I like her
I have no empathy for Bella cus I barely know her.
Bella for me is a S1 character trowed into the S3
Bella behavior is expected if it was a S1 character , and the biggest problem with her character is tht they didn't and couldn't develop her in a way tht she could be fit into the current world
She is dumb and looks like Cleo in S1
Her story arc is awful. She is so naive in when dealing with Sophie. It's supposed to be a 3 main character show but it looks like Cleo and Rikki have their own relationship tht was built along the all series and tht Bella relationship with both Cleo and Rikki is so forced. Emma Rikki and Cleo friendship works cus they already knew each other and it took 2 seasons to be built, and then the creators to be make us swallow Bella
Also if u think about it, what's the odds of another mermaid moving into their small city in Australia? Kind of convenient right?
And so the quest continues for our hero as a descent into H20 madness grows greater, rapidly leading to H20 Heaven.
The old woman (Louise Chatham) wasn't supposed to be like Cleo from the 1950s ! She was supposed to be like Emma from the 1950s ! Cleo from the 1950s, is Gracie - Charlotte's grandmother, Louise Chatham's mermaid friend from the 1950s (alongside Julia - Rikki's counterpart).
I wish they would have explored that story line more. I loved the mystery
@@viis374 same
i love season 3 for introducing me to the actors of bella and will, and now whenever i see will in other (american) shows as an adult im like aww what a cutie
i saw Bella in a movie where she gets stuck on a dessert island.
@@RilianSharp yeah blue lagoon, i saw the original version and found out she was in a remake of it, never ended up watching it, but good for her
loved that scene when cleo’s mum talked😅😍😍😍 #joke
for me it would be *season 2 > season 1 > season 3* . even though season 2 & 1 are pretty close but season 2 had a better storyline and there were a bit more idk "filler" episodes in season 1 in my opinion. i always liked season 3 the least, i never liked will tbh he was kinda boring me, i didn't have anything against bella but i liked emma more & she just completed the trio better. + the fact that lewis left ugh no, just no haha. btw i never realized how manipulative charlotte was as a kid like that's some psycho evil crap for real lmao
EXACTLY
I don't mind season 3, I think there's a lot less filler episodes in that season where random stuff happens just because. We learn more about mako and with Bellas arrival that there are other moon pools around the world and not just the one at mako Island. There are some seriously beautiful underwater scenes in all seasons but in season 3 we have some where they dive much deeper into the oceans. I think season 2 was my favourite one, main reason being the acting honestly. However It was definitely difficult to watch because of Charlotte and it was definitely more centered around relationships rather then the mermaid parts who were more of a side thing.
May I just say: HOW DARE YOU CALL THE SCENE AT 2:10 DRAMATIC- we got the best Lewis facial expressions!! and we all realized that Charlotte was gonna go full on villain mode!!! + the music
Even though I really dislike Charlotte and I always thought she was a bad character. Watching season 3, I wanted her to come back, The girl gave a drama, she made me frustrated but that’s how you know she played the role really well. There was another girl but it wasn’t the same
I have three different comments about this (other than that I just really love that you made these videos!):
1. (9:56) Fun fact: The theme song is actually sung by a different artist each season. I didn't notice that myself either because seasons 1 and 2 sound so similar.
2. One detail I missed in season 3 that you didn't mention was the color scheme. In seasons 1 and 2, Emma wore a lot of blue and white, Cleo wore a lot of pink and purple, and Rikki wore a lot of red and black. It's not a huge deal, but I wish they'd continued it.
3. I selfishly want you to watch and review Mako Mermaids. I thought it was terrible, and I only watched the first season. I'm curious to know what you would think!
Well tbf on Mako Mermaids' part, it was originally going to be a prequel, but then changed into a sequel when Season 2 was getting into development. it just misses the top 5 JMSP shows behind Elephant Princess, it sort of fights with Cybergirl in my fav bottom 5. Yeah also change/replace main characters a lot, another JMSP trope since Ocean Girl, of leaving some of it's main or support cast, Mako Mermaids is no exception. Also the Season 3 promo showed the one character that most of the fandom loves (i think you know what I'm talking about if you have seen it or the behind the scenes of it). Also goddamn it H2O fan dislike or hate Mako Mermaids with no even halfway or all of it, Jesus Christ.
The fact that people hated charlotte so much that some of them wanted her to just drown or fall into the pits of hell (definitely not me 🤡) shows how good of an actress Brittany Byrnes was. she has my respect 😌
Idk if it was just me but My sister and I were literally celebrating when charlotte started crying in the episodes where she blew up ‘Cleo’s face’ and lost her powers
Will has more chemistry with Rikki. I really wish they hadn't f*cked up Zane's character in season 3 but if it HAD to happen like that then Rikki should have just ended up with Will bc his relationship with Bella felt forced.
I honestly thought Will and Rikki were going to end up together after she saved him, because I thought he was starting to like her. Bella and Will relationship was just so obvious that was going to happen but honestly was forced in a way
I refused to watch season 3 as a dedicated Emma fan when I was like 12
I don't know how many others have already said this...but I read a theory that Bella's power is supposed to represent the Triple Point of Water, where water exists as all three states; as a solid, a liquid, and a gas simultaneously. There are some really neat videos demonstrating this experiment and the result of it looks gelatin like-like Bella's power?! Kinda neato if they thought about it like that I think??
I still love this show and still find it amazing. Except for season 3. It was nice but I never reach for rewatching it and other 2 seasons I rewatched so many times.
I never watched season 3 as a kid, I remember being so excited and watching the first episode and my brother and I were so disappointed Emma was gone and we didn’t like Bella, so we quit on that episode or the second one. Then I rewatched season 1 and 2 some time last year and didn’t want to watch season 3 since I never saw it but I was bored one day and started watching it. There were some good parts, I liked Will’s character and the plot around him but I never got to like Bella and the whole tentacle plot and asteroid was kinda ridiculous. I liked when it was girls dealing with normal problems in their lives with the addition of being a mermaid rather than the tentacle attacking them then save the world plot.
So, I gotta speak on the zane thing. My shipping heart is crushed by season 3 Rane/Zikki, but adult me appreciates the realism. Zane is an absolute dickhole in season 1. Hes consistently selfish, he's consistently rude except with Ricky, he strands cleo on a boat knowing she cant swim for no reason, he tries to sabotage the girls multiple times for no reason other than to be a cruel bully, AND cherry on top, he gives ms chatum, an old woman, MULTIPLE heart attacks, get her evicted, and sinks her house boat. And he never really apologizes or makes up for that. Hes sweet with Ricky, he tries to protect the girls, but even in season 2 where hes at his best,he does weird shady stuff. Like the amber gris or in the episode with the Ricky v emma/zane v ash, he completely mischaracterizes the events when he tells them to Ricky. Yes, he was trying to protect emma, but he left out the part where he was a total ass to do it. He doesnt fully explain the situation and instead exacerbates the situation to make himself look better to Ricky, causing a rift in Ricky and Emma's relationship. And he doesnt do anything to fix it. It's a hint that he's not made this miraculous 180. Ricky's love didnt "fix" him.
And season 3 just continues that trend and it's very realistic. Zane's the bad boy that girls wish they could fix with their love but in real life, a girl loving them doesnt fix them. Everything he does in season 3 is actually consistent with his character. Hes selfish and doesnt care about bending the rules to get what he wants. It sucks but that's how it usually goes in real life.
100%! Zane is the perfect representation of a male narcissist. He shows that in season one while stranding Cleo out on his little boat knowing she can’t swim then throwing her into a pool an episode later, attacking Mrs Chatum like that etc.
Season 2 his peak was still disappointing. He causes trouble then manipulates the situation with Emma rikki and ash . He pretends to fall off a motorbike and be injured at the start to win back rikki such an immature move etc.
Then season 3 he completely shows his true colors. Dismisses the whole mermaid situation as silly mermaids business, doesn’t give any sort of help to rikki with any of it just makes it worse and then cheats on her.
This is such a good take on Zane's character. Love the realism. And I agree, when I was young I was really upset about it, but rewatching now I'm like.. good for Rikki lol.
Finally someone that agrees with me
I absolutely agree with everything
I love Rikki she is my favorite character. How ever I hate Charlotte she is my least favorite character of h2o, but I love the actress that played her, honestly its hard to play an evil character, and then end up being hated on.
Basically the best show to ever exist. Love ya brother. Awesome video. You're so right
"in 2006, h20 became a beloved classic, amongst 10 year old girls is australia."
me, a 16 year old girl who has obsessed over this show for 10 years: mhm, ok, yes, but youre missing something
Rikki was always my favorite mermaid out of them but tbh, Bella might be my second favorite.
Same agreed
Season 3 was my favorite, because it was the first show I watched „live“ meaning I was watching the episodes when they were aired on TV and talked about them with my friends. I just really wanted to know what would happen next, it was thrilling and I never experienced anything like this since lol 😂
Lots of people dislike season three because they didn’t like how they replaced Emma, or they thought it was too intense but… they didn’t really have a choice unless they wanted it to be JUST Cleo and Rikki, which fans probably would’ve been more upset about. And I really loved how season three linked everything together, like when they revealed that the day the comet entered the solar system was the same day that he water attacks started? I loved that! Although I would’ve liked it too explain why Rikki had a special connection with the water tentacle and the others didn’t, it was still probably my favourite season.
@@WillSolace27 well It wasn't that Emma or Lewis himself leaving halfway not in S3, I thought the story was a bit of a mess
@@pokemaniac05 they couldn’t help it. Would you rather they just stopped showing Lewis with no explanation?
Angus Mclaren left the show, and that was the day he needed to leave.
@@WillSolace27 speaking of characters being evil, Dr. Hellgren from Ocean Girl and his assistant Kellar, both from UBRI. with the 3 seasons out of the way with the 4th season ep 1, boy this might take a while, not as much as the Tribe tho, gosh 260 eps worth watching.
@@pokemaniac05 huh?
One thing i missed, in season 3, was the upgraded powers, i don't know why, but we don't see them in season 3, i LOVED the new powers, but i don't understand why they were removed from season 3 ;-;
thank you, i'm not the only one who didn't notice that, did the writers just suddenly forget or anything, the reason why i think, S3 wasn't going to be a thing, it was only going to be S2, but due to the popularity and demand from fans, S3 happened, but Claire Holt & Craig Horner (Emma & Ash) & pretty much Emma's family left, Craig Horner worked on the show, Legend of The Seeker, which i heard good things about tho it is very dif to the book series and what was mentioned by Claire Holt in the vid.
I would have loved to see them be explored more
Would have made an interesting plot, also they should have added the change of Cleo’s and rikkis relationship after Emma was gone and how it affects them
australian kids tv is unmatched, dance academy was also so good and for what
Thanks for singlehandedly making me want to watch H2O again because you reminded me of my favorite episode, the diving record one
Please do a review of the spin-off, Mako Mermaids!
Looking for this comment! I hope he watches it. Me and my brother used to talk about it a lot
i never realized nate was supposed to be ha-ha funny, i loathed any time he was on screen (w the exception of the perfume episode)
oh yeah that ep, seen that, one of the funnier H20 eps
Byron was my favorite i was so mad when he wasn't apart of season 2 or 3. Like imagine Byron finding out they were mermaids
Yea that would've been epic.I would've loved a storyline of Byron in season two, where he'd get jealous of Ash.
Ya that scene is over dramatic, but the look on lewis's face and that music is exactly how all of us felt watching it 😅
Yeah the way it felt seeing it happen, it did not feel over the top at that point 😂
just a sidenote: this show was huge in Latin America as well, given that a lot of Australian shows were aired on a channel called Boomerang and it reached us and we all LOVED it and consider it a must-watch and part of our childhood.
As a Aussie I remember being obsessed with H20 then with PPL - I remember when Emma left the actress was suddenly in PPL in season one.
yess I loved that she stared in both series and in TVD as well.
I discovered the show with season 3, so he was great for me and occupies an special place in my heart. Just after he ended I saw the reprise from previous seasons. Season 2 was the best, Charlotte was a perfect villain and I can understand her, I mean the girls and her boyfriend wanted to took off her powers, so she was preparing for war.
Have you watched mako mermaids? 3 new girls, mermaids turning into humans, and there’s a riki cameo.
Just watched your season 1 review and then this and loved it. Hadn't watched h2o in years and when I saw a clip on it I instantly got hooked again. I feel like there isn't an age barrier for this show because it's just so iconic. Loved these videos dude well done 👊🏼
I love the more positive take in your review style, anyone can rip anything to shreds without mercy, but I like that the criticisms are there without being the majority content and basically point of the video. This show still makes me giddy like it did when I was a little girl. Very few shows "for GIIRRRLLSS" have so much heart, effort and detail in them so as a middle school girl this fantasy story brought to life was so enchanting!
The look on lewis' face killed me 2:05
I paused at 11:43 to come here & write another comment, but then lost my mind seeing my name & previous comment show up on screen !! 😂 thank you so much for including me in this SECOND masterpiece 🤌✨
I loved the way you wrapped this up- couldn’t be more true about the love & dedication of the people involved in the show that made it as enjoyable & memorable as it is. Also, those tails are STILL some of the best, non-CGI mermaid tails I’ve personally seen to date. They really outdid themselves way back in 2006!
hahaha totally agree, and thank you
@@TripleNeon of course! 🙏 Can’t wait to watch your channel keep rising & thriving- you’ve got serious potential and a great sense of humor. Keep up the great work 😊
You should watch mako mermaids next tbh I honestly can’t remember anything that happened in it but you know it’s like a spin off of h20 I think
Yes a sequel spinoff that originally was a prequel in S1, but then changed getting into S2 at least from what I read (yeah it had a weird production history before it aired), I know that Mimmi works in the same place that Cleo used to work there in H20.
@@pokemaniac05 mimi was American I don’t understand her accent sticks out so much when everyone else is Australian is she was in the same pod as ondina but she is Australian that kinda bothered me a little. I did like mimi but found it weird like to explain action unless I missed somewhere.
@@natasha8966 actually the actress for Mimmi is she's Canadian.
szn1 intro hit DIFF😍😍
Nate actually cracks me up so much! definitely underrated
father, I thoroughly enjoyed this video 🗿🗿🛐🛐
My little sister really loved this show and I watched the daily televised two episodes always together with her.
Was a nice time, back then. Also, at first I thought, "my, god, such a Nickelodeon stuff again!" but with the time I really began to appreciate it. Its perhaps one of the best written teenager TV shows ever made.
By the way, as I aways watched it in German, I didn't know about some of the weird scenes, as it seems to be the case that the German translation is somewhat more serious than the original, but still very funny.
Bella Is kind of what they did with Weilan, but I like her more than Bella because of Weilan's development in Mako Island of Secrets S3, especially with Ondina tho
I kinda hate Weilan. She’s so annoying and thinks she’s better than everyone else. But honestly I hate most characters in Mako mermaids lol. The only characters I like consistently are Mimi, Evie, and Zach, though Zach is annoying when he’s against the mermaids in the first season. I also like Serena for the most part but she’s just a bit too childish like I’d prefer it if she acted a little more grown up, especially when it comes to David. She acts like a five year old whenever he’s around and he does the same. I get that it’s a show for kids but it’s just such a step down from H2O, that managed to have natural feeling relationships while still being kid friendly.
@@Cllocopine well teens tho, not so much as kids, I've seen my fair share of Australian kids & teen drama shows (at when the teens were the main part of the said shows) like Dance Academy, Blue Water High, Ready for This, a few more that I know since doing the playlists and searching via Google, ABC iview, Kisscartoon, Dailymotion etc
@@pokemaniac05 Yeah I guess they’re more directed at teens. I was just early in my development or something lol, watched a ton of aussie shows from like 8-10 and then by 11-12 I stopped watching things that were dubbed and I didn’t like it if the characters didn’t kiss and if nobody died. I thought I was cool and grown up watching the vampire diaries and pretty little liars lol.
@@Cllocopine if i know the true definition of Kids tv shows focus on comedy with some drama back then, Round the Twist, one of the weirdest kids shows, heck one of the weirdest shows period that people have seen (unless someone has read the books by Paul Jennings which was the basis for S1-2).
I think Evie was the best beginning of season 2, I liked what they did with her character until season 3.
But the old woman was like Emma in the fifties!
The music of this show is so good! I love the whole aesthetic of Australian mermaids, it just fits so well!
i love how he casually says “and the asteroid was destroyed by a mermaid laser” I WHEEZES
I’m sorry but now you kinda have to do the spinoffs as well...
Mako mermaids is kind of good when it comes to story, but it’s a downgrade in other parts like hardly any of the characters are that likeable and they don’t really have any personality, backstory or character development. The only characters I really like are Mimi, Zach and Evie. Sirena, Ondina and Rita are fine and the rest lowkey suck.
Then there’s also the animated show that I haven’t watched since I was a kid so I don’t actually know my opinions on it. I liked it back then but I bet I would think differently now.
honestly the 2010s of JMSP shows was a bit shaky at points, i mean like Elephant Princess S2, i never seen Reef Doctors, Lightning Point was fine, Mako Mermaids i liked, not as much as H20, but i had a good time, Bureau of Magical Things was probably the one i was quite curious and ended enjoyed my time watching it, had fun and now with S2 on next weekend to end it all, excited to how it would end and a bit doubtful that a S3 will be a thing (H20, Mako & Ocean Girl are the only series to have 3-4 series, while the rest had 1 or 2 series
@@pokemaniac05 Yeah I feel the same, like I enjoy watching mako mermaids, I don’t get bored and feel like I have better things to do at least. But it’s nowhere close to the enjoyment from watching h2o. I just don’t really really feel connected to any of the characters. It’s fun to see the story unfold but I don’t really care what happens if I’m honest. Like I said I like a few of the characters but I never liked any of the relationships, the one I felt the most for was Eric and Ondina and he’s like a bad guy and shit. And it doesn’t even seem like any of the characters are friends, we’re supposed to think they are because they hang out together but none of them have any scenes to prove it. The only friendships I buy are Mimi and Ondina, Mimi and Zach, and Zach and Cam. But I hate Cam so I always wish they _weren’t_ friends.
@@Cllocopine how about your thoughts on the other JMSP shows I pretty much mentioned earlier.
@@pokemaniac05 Out of the ones you mentioned I’ve only watched elephant princess. It was one of my favourites as a kid but I only had the first sesson to watch over and over so I kinda got tired of it pretty quickly. The second season came to sweden years later and by that point I thought I was too old for kids’ shows lol. I watched pirate island too but I don’t think I ever finished it because I can’t remember the ending. But like I said in some other comment, I really like the aussie kids’ shows, they’ll always be somewhat of a guilty pleasure. I mean the acting and quality are really rough but there’s just something about it that makes them so enjoyable to watch.
I hated the first half of season 1 of mako mermaids then it got better but it’s not as good as original they kept swapping out the actors across the series so it was hard to get to know the characters.
That moment when you realize Will forcefully outed Bella and she still dated him.
i hate that the main 3 care so much that charlotte becomes a mermaid. they don't own the moonpool. they don't own mermaid powers. once they learned that charlotte's grandma was a mermaid, they should have told her everything. they should have accepted her the way they did bella. she only became a villain because they were mean to her.
The first time In watched the show (I was like 20 lol) I had to stop in season two, because Charlotte made me so angry. I think it's fair to say that she's the worst human being ever.
rikki and lewis were the best characters no doubt. and bella is a good character but her power should have been better. before we had fire ice and water, now fire water and gelatin? it would have been fire water earth- like WHAT- everything else i agree with
Yes, Nate was ICONIC
Can't wait for you all to discover the other classic show by these creators "Wicked Science". It had all the drama
As a young child I obviously hated Charlotte, but seeing her again with a more mature eye you can kinda get her fall into "evil" (not really that evil either). From the beginning she wanted to fit in, maybe she was a bit nosy with the main trio but they (mainly Cleo) didn't exactly made her feel welcome. Charlotte also asked Cleo multiple times if she was ok with her making advances on her ex, while also clarifying that if she's not comfortable she would stop it, but every time she said yes and then get mad at Charlotte for doing the thing she allowed her to do. Charlotte was also dumped multiple times by her boyfriend for him to go and hang out with her ex (also he wasn't really caring, almost like he felt forced to be with her). Even when Charlotte found out about he mermaid thing and became one, that didn't turn her into a villain, she wanted to connect more with the girls now that they were all magical (and they still shunned her because she was more powerful) by the time they wanted to kinda help her with the full moon thing, it was already too late as she was tired of being pushed around and was already "evil" (and let's be honest, while she was in most of season 2, she was a true antagonist for like 4 episodes)
I love H2O I watched it because it popped up on netflix and i was like Oooo what's this. I started watching it, i fell in love with the show. I'm not sure if many people in NY love this show but i love it as a New yorker. I love how the actors did their best to portray their characters but i was a bit sad when lewis left the show and they made him go overseas to study. But I remember sam telling cleo that it may be hard now but later on the love can grow stronger. I love sam, she's a great stepmom. Season 3 did go downhill but i dont hate the characters. Bella i do like her but i felt like they could've give a better power than just making water to jello like substance. Lewis is an awesome character. Will.. i didnt really like his character tht much and for Charlotte in season 2, i first hated her but then again it wasnt her fault... she really could've been friends with all of them but cleo's jealousy.. the water being sprayed at her from the sprinkler... and lewis going to the cleo, rikki and emma to help them out even when he was dating her. But ngl i do love cleo and lewis together though. In a way i can see that is both sides made mistakes. I guess the writer didnt know how to make it better with emma (claire) leaving the show bc of her other show... 🤔 i felt like they could've made it more better.
-but this is just my opinon
I'm amazed that there are people who are seeing it on Netflix for the first time... Jetix days were the best!
The inconsistencies were incredible. Like season 3 Ricky is always like ah I don't wanna study I wanna go shopping. Wasn't she the broke girl? She wasn't at the Café anymore due to the breakup so no job. That's a thing that I always thought is weird. The girls who live with 2 parents in a fancy house get jobs very young. The girl with the single dad who can't pay the bills never gets a job (season 3 she's unemployed again half the season)
charlotte is literally so awful i cannot stand her she makes my blood boil so props to the writers and her actress bc damn was she convincing, i never liked her even in the beginning so is super manipulative and even emotionally abusive to lewis and she’s a huge stalker always knowing where they are and finding ways to stick her nose into everything and the worst part is she gets away with it and it always works out for her bc she is so determined to sabotage the girls and be in lewis’ life as his main lady
This was my childhood. I’m glad it’s not forgotten
I vaguely remember watching something behind the scenes where various tails were made for different things. I think they even put something in their eyes to help them see under water
I enjoyed S2 the least because so much screen time went to the love triangle and jealousy plot lines and it was very predictable.
PLEASE DO DANCE ACADEMY
hell yeah, that show needs more credits of great Aussie teen drama, that and Ready for This (which are done by some of the same people)
@@pokemaniac05 the writing is fantastic, the character arcs EVERYTHING
@@whogoes_4113 unless those people are neutral or just hate because it's boring or so soap opera drama which ok that last i sort of agree, also Blue Water High or Mustangs FC, anything related to some sport teen drama ish mixed with mainly artists music
So thanks to Jonathan M. Shiff without him I think people wouldn't know actors like Phoebe Tonkin, Margot Robbie or Liam Hemsworth and also covid 19, one of the only good things happened was the whole search and watch was a mix of Australian kids & teen shows, JMSP shows included, Mako Island of Secrets while good as well despite some weird EPs mixed with the main plot, H20 imo is better. Tbf tho Ash (Craig Horner) had Cybergirl, a show probably mentioned a lot lately because it was my JMSP show ever aside from Ocean Girl seeing a bit also very dif from H20, but it was Jonathan's first produced and created out of 19 his team (only 7 were created and produced by him, one developed, 3 concept, 2 documentaries, a tv film and the rest he was producer/executive producer) he was his 1st role and also the actress who played Louise Chatham in H20 plays the mayor Buxton, mayor of River City, a fictional town in Queensland, Brisbane (which later Bureau of Magical Things is set there, 17 years later)
Speaking of TBOMT, S2 is really good In the 12 EPs so far aired (go watch it Imo probably the best of 2010 JMSP shows and I do have seen most of the shows aside from 4 left that atm hard to find EPs in English or complete. I know the Teenventure Series YT has some of them & Sam Fox Adventures, I know that the H20 & Dance Academy has the full series, all of which blocked in Australia, I know So Fetch has some Australian tv shows that sadly on private with some exceptions and also I do have a lot of saved and created playlists on a lot of Australian kids & teen shows so go checked them out if you're curious or grew up with these one way or another. Yeah another JMSP shows love returnee actors from previous shows to appear and actors that would later appeared in future maybe as a main, support or recurring characters, TBOMT is basically that only way up with references from previous shows (mainly from the created and produced by Jonathan himself).
Phoebe is kinda famous since she played in tvd an to
As well as Claire
@@_iconriah and also the Originals. Cariba Heine was into Blue Water High, Dance Academy for a few EPs
@@pokemaniac05 yeah to is the originals
i feel like i'm kinda late but this show was popular even in my Kazakhstan and it's still one of my all time favourites! Thanx for video, think i'm gonna rewatch it soon
It’s so true about charlotte when I watched it my second time I skipped all the charlotte episodes
When I was a child, my sole purpose of watching h2o was my burning passion for Remma (Rikki and Emma Shipp) and since Emma left the show I went into shook and grief. I tried to give s3 a try but couldn't go past ep 4 or smt
The tails are FANTASTIC, except in Season 3. The end part of the tail (the flipper or whatever) looked so fake to me.
Fun fact: Sophie's actress played Julia in Season 2.
No, it was amrita tarr and sophie was portrayed by taryn marler
honestly no other mermaid movie or series that came after h2o could fill my heart as much as this series did.
I’m just often annoyed at the mermaid lore or the way the are portrayed as dumb fish or something. H2O is just classic and gives me nostalgia
brother throwing all the banger songs in the world to a H2O video :DDD
brilliant
i just think they could have done a better arc development with Zane in season 3 , he basically turned into zane of S1
Charlotte doesn't goes 180 by regretting everything in the end. She actually turns evil and attacks the girls BECAUSE of the full moon. The girls even try to warn her about it.
She was manipulative before for sure but she wouldn't have gone full psycho without the full moon.
Until this day, although i am 21 one now, everytime i go swimming i try to swim like a mermaid.
Btw ur music choices and editing are both 👌
One thing I didn't like about will was at the start he was a bit like Zane and the mermaid but will with the tentacle, I also didn't like how he treated Bella at the beginning when he said "The best part about you is the mermaid". Lastly, I wouldn't say I liked how he pushed Bella to tell him her secret. but I liked him overall.
Heyyy, I think a good video idea would be, if you’ve watched Mako mermaids (H2O’s ‘sequel’), you could do a what’s better comparison sort if thing
YES
@@jacelyn2635 eh I think a lot of fans have done that already
I hate how they replaced Emma in the last season
We don't talk about season three. I only watched it once and never again!!
will you cover the reboot, mako mermaids??