15:25 “How did you make Poof work?” Well he’s an actual character for once, you can’t say much about a baby because they are literally developing as their own person
Right mayb it's jus me but I'm really not all that impressed wit Peri's transformation in a new wish he was a baby in the original and any baby outside of the "baby genius/evil baby genius" archetype tend to be a mish mash of random actions sounds and crying as opposed to actual characters so credit to the writers but we're with a blank slant and had free range to make adult Perri into whoever they wanted basically
Funny thing is this is actually the SECOND Baby character Enter admitted was vastly improved in it's sequel Nicktoon. As Enter admitted to hating Dil in Rugrats but saying he's his favorite character in All Grown Up.
It’s basically like the Rugrats or Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm from the Flintstones. They’re most known as babies, but as babies, they don’t really do much or have something unique to their own. This is why we get spin-offs of them as teenagers. Because they wanna add to them, as characters, their own personalities.
@@baryardeni9731 Eh pretty sure they were Teenagers in the Pebbles and Bam Bam show so Hanna Barbera could capitalize on that scooby Doo auidence since yeah a lot of their 70s series either involved teens solving mysteries or teens getting together in goofy hijinks. But as shown with Cave Kids and even Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs you can make shows with Pebbles and Bam Bam as kids or even babies and still have them have some personality.
the fact they not only revived Cosmo and Wanda's relationship to a healthy one but they got everyone latching onto Peri with his first appearance XD I give them credit for pulling it off. also man am I glad it was a stylized CG design instead of a possible rugrats reboot CG job
You know it's sad when the CGI in A New Wish is more stylized and better than the Rugrats 2021 reboot and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years. Even though SpongeBob and Rugrats are the two franchises Nickelodeon likes prioritizing most of the time.
I honestly find it amusing how quickly the Internet went crazy for Peri after his first appearance. 😂 It's as if it took seconds for all this fan art to show up.
One thing I really liked was how cosmo and Wanda picked Hazel themselves. It’s the only time I can remember them being enthusiastic about their job and it really set the stage for their relationship being centred around teaching life lessons. I’d really love it if we got more interactions between hazel’s parents and her godparents a bit like on founders day when she was running around with C&W while her parents sold books. It feels very natural for the neighbours to babysit occasionally, and I feel like it makes the premise a little more relatable.
Yeah, although C&W interaction with Hazel's parent was hillarious, Hazel hanging out with them looks natural by outside perspective. "Oh, my kids love to visit our retainee neighbor in front of our apartment room."
In the OG series, Cosmo and Wanda basically acted as full-time surrogates for Timmy, since his own parents couldn’t even be bothered to do the bare minimum 90 percent of the time. Hazel doesn’t have that problem, as Marcus and Angela are openly supportive of their daughter and just seem to struggle with work-life balance. In her case, Cosmo and Wanda come across more as the quirky uncle and aunt who try to help nudge Hazel out of her comfort zone.
Well Duh. . . When Babies Grow up; THEY Change into something VERY Different than what they were like as Babies; It makes sense for Peri to have Changed from Infancy to Adulthood. . . and Infant Characters are Significantly better after they get Aged up; Just look at how Much Better Dil Pickles became in ALL GROWN UP. . . or How Much Peri's character Exponentially Improved as an Adult compared to how he was as a baby!!
Peri did the Dill thing from Rugrats- where the baby character in the initial show ends up being the most interesting character as a grown up / teen in the sequel series.
I love the parents’ nickname for their daughter; Hazelnut (and the one her older brother gave her; Small-Fry). That’s just so cute. And I also like the fact that Hazel’s parents are NOT neglectful, brain-dead morons who are constantly going on about how happy they would be if they didn’t have kids, and … they also have actual names. Seriously, fuck Mr and Mrs Turner. But in all honesty, one thing that this reboot has over the original series is that most of the adults at the very least are trying to be helpful and benevolent compared to the original where those adults would range from being useless at best to unfunny at worst. Now, while her parents being loving and supportive of their daughter does kinda defeat the purpose of Hazel receiving fairies, on the other hand Mr and Mrs Turner got so unfunny as time went on, so really, I can give it a pass in that regard.
The thing is, Hazel had to move to a new town without her brother. Of course she would start friendless and miserable. Still a better reason to get fairies than "not being perfect all the time" or worse, "being related to Timmy Turner".
She can still get fairies; She has moved to a new city; without having any friends initially; She Doesn't have her Brother there with her to help her adjust, due to him being in college; She's socially awkward It's more of an Interal misery than an external misery(where the universe just takes a dump on you; like it did for Timmy Turner]
They made Poof an actual character - and made Cosmo and Wanda clever and helpful? They remembered what made the show good in the first place (the character dynamics of Cosmo and Wanda being surrogate parents for the neglected Timmy, a source of stability in his otherwise unstable life) and improved on it? I'm impressed!
As a big fan of the "ascended extra" trope, I am absolutely in love with the fact this show took a kid who appeared in one episode of the original series and promoted him to one of the main antagonists.
The best part is that it actually fits, it doesn't feel like pointless fan service. Of course Dale would take over the Dimmadome family business eventually and become an important rich guy, it only makes sense, it's just that the writers are getting the most out of this by expanding on the concept.
@@RandomDragonEXE Considering how he was trapped in a cellar and forced to make lemonade for Vicky for god-knows-how-long, it's actually really realistic that Dale would spoil his own son rotten. Both of them need therapy.
Imo, Dev might be the best written character in the show. Poor rich kid didn't need someone to magically him him stuff, he needed someone to love him. He didn't need someone Peri, he needed someone like Cosmo and Wanda.
@BugsyFoga A glitch in time? Oh dude it is really good, I recommend it. Last time I checked there was a free reading of it on YT if you want to preview it (I own the novel and the graphics are gorgeous!)Characters in character and it continues the story after phantom planet and opens up the series for a whole sequel series that I hope gets made
They even did the “Magical Backup” thing in a much more serious way. Like in the original the fairies explode and turn into confetti. In “A New Wish” the fairies vomit rainbows and cough up confetti. They have bulging cheeks and have a sickly green complexion. And they actually die from it. Like holy crap that is some deep stuff.
@@nicholassims9837 Not necessarily. Immortals can still be killed, just usually not by natural things like aging or sickness. In the case of ANW fairies are still immortal, but it's insinuated that Magical Backup is the only way they can die "naturally". Otherwise, yeah, (presumably) if a third party doesn't kill them, they'll just go on living forever.
@@AxelKNG still when the Magical back up happened in the orginal series it wasn't death threatening seen in Same Game where after Wanda got it she just told Timmy to make another wish and we later see she's fine and in Fairly Idol Norm when he was a fairly and was giving to Timmy by Chester , Timmy refused to make a wish for a week and Norm does blow up but its treated more like an inconvenience
@@nicholassims9837 I know. That's why I specifically said that "in the case of ANW" it's a death sentence, because it is. I didn't say anything about that being the case in FOP. It was just a funny joke in the original, it's taken more seriously in the sequel. Also, my point was that they're still immortal in the new show, which they are. Without someone or something directly harming the fairy in question, the only way they can die is Magical Backup, which is entirely preventable.
I like how Peri’s head shape is normal, but Irep is still a cube, just makes me think something went horribly wrong with Irep specifically. But to be fair that was also his defining characteristic. If you gave him a normal head it could be hard to tell it’s him specifically.
He was born late… (after Poof was instead of along side him) not to mention how cunning and intelligent he was on his first day of being alive. I think the extra time between his and Poof’s birth boosted him.
It’s so refreshing to see the internet come together to praise something they were initially (understandably skeptical of) and for this show in general to both stand on its own and use nostalgia as either launching points for plots or just be rather inventive (instead of just: HEY HERES THE THING YOUR RECOGNIZE OH MY GERSH!!! 😯)
Also wow: If I had a nickel for everytime a nickelodeon baby character who was seen as the moment the show jumped the shark, only to become the best part of a follow up show. I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?
I still don't feel that satisfied because the people... judging the show by saying offensive things about it were essentially let off the hook and were allowed to fade into the background. (Kinda beating around the bush since I don't know what will get auto deleted)
Absolutely agree about the last part, Hazel's two new friends need an episode similar to when Timmy had Chester and AJ come for a sleepover and they fought over superheroes, or were in a videogame together, those episodes felt great because we could see Timmy actually being happy without the help of magic and truly made their friendship feel real.
I'm hoping that the fact that they know about Cosmo and Wanda now will increase their relevance. I was talking to my sister about it, and she compared how they and Antony are allowed to share Hazel's secret now with how in Wizard's of Waverly Place, Alex's best friend Harper learns about her wizard life. They probably did that so Harper could play a bigger role in the series without the Russo's having to hide their secret from her. Among other things, I'm really excited to see where this goes.
You know you’re in good hands when Butch Hartman isn’t involved in the writers room, and instead has the head writer from Infinity Train bringing The Fairly OddParents back with dignity.
@@03bgood Yeah. . . I Find Butch's Bully characters to be as loathsome as I find Katsuki Bakugou; Seriously; Susie is a better Bully Character than Bakugou; Because She Goes through a Better Character arc within a Single Chapter than Bakugou gets through 300 Chapters; ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE NEVER SUICIDE-BAITS KRIS THE WAY BAKUGOU SUICIDE-BAITS IZUKU, AKA THE MAIN CHARACTER OF BNHA!!
At this point, the only fairies that weren't here because of a wish by Timmy, are the Tooth Fairy and Cupid, and background fairies that were forgotten
Reminder you all that both new wish and Infinity train share the same writer. I also can’t wait for more characters from the original series to return someday.
my fairly odd parents headcanon that's based on LITERALLY nothing, is that for faries, it's normal for adults to pick out their own names. It's their name after all, but in the meantime you gotta call them something, so you pick something so parents will find a simple name with a single syllable and then when they're old enough they pick out their adult name. its kinda like elves in dnd.
Nickelodeon in a nutshell Stupid show with no context and no character development: keeps renewing it for Season 3000000 Show with actually good story development, character development: Cancelled after Season 1. COME ON NICKELODEON!!!
With any luck this will be the thing that breaks that pattern. Nickelodeon LOVES milking SpongeBob and FOP. Kinda annoying they don’t have any plans on where they’re streaming it domestically though. I’m gonna have to buy NordVPN just to support it.
They made Poof work by...giving him to the rival character. Honestly that creates so much interesting dialogue with the protagonist having Poof's parents; it's good to have some believable friction between characters, ya know? But yeah, weirdly, this is kinda the same problem Rugrats had that its spinoff sequel, All Grown Up, also solved: Dill actually being more interesting "all grown up" because we get to actually see a character be a bleeding character. I don't remember what review it was, but you kinda hit the nail on the head, "Babies aren't really so much characters as they are props." Go figure, how to make a baby a character is to...age them up. The fact that Rugrats had this solved several years before Poof's debut episode is just bonkers; Butch just...does not learn from history, does he? (Don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question. >.>) Eh, either way, all told, given from what I've seen so far, I'm very eager to see what direction they take this show in. It's very rare to have reboots that do BETTER than the original, but in recent years, this seems to be a trend that's been steadily growing, and I hope it stays on that track. We need more reboots, ESPECIALLY sequels like this, to establish what went wrong and fix the problems, whilst building upon the original framework in a meaningful way that feels like a genuine and organic extension to the established canon & lore, all whilst being viewed through fun and engaging characters that you either like because of their genuine charm factor, or hate for all the RIGHT reasons...but don't want to see less of them, and I think from what I'm seeing, this show is managing to tick those boxes quite nicely. It's refreshing to have the spoiled rich kid not be a complete ass for once; I like that. :3
Probably one of my favorite episodes of this show is when Mr. Crocker returned. And I believe the name change from Poof to Periwinkle (Peri) was because "Poof" is a bad word in other countries.
I love the contrast in how wishes can go bad for both godchildren For Timmy his wishes go bad because of how selfish they are and only fixes them when they are a problem for him … and never learns and does it again For Hazel even with some of her more selfish wishes she genuinely means well but her attempts to help aren’t always the right thing to do … it’s a good character flaw tbh she means well but she makes mistakes basically meaning it fixes the flaw that Chloe had Hazel’s heart is in the right place but she isn’t perfect and still has a lot of growing up to do
about jasmine and winn, honestly im expecting more if they get a s2 because (finale spoilers) they _know about fairies now_ like thats a BIG deal isnt it? it wouldnt make a lot of sense to make that decision if they didnt hope to do anything with it
Let’s hope this show gets a season 2. Nickelodeon has done an awful job at marketing it, to the point where people only started noticing it through clips on Twitter. Also, it’s locked to TV and won’t be streaming on Netflix until November for some reason
Yo I get to watch it on Netflix in 2 months? I’m looking forward to it now actually. Mostly cause the fairly odd parents on Netflix rn is represented by the fucking 5th through 8th seasons rather than the first 4. Meaning what’s available on Netflix for fairly odd parents rn is ass. I’m excited to see something awesome from it.
To quote Gigguk on Boruto, "It's like we've been seeing this beloved dead horse being beaten for about five years now, and just when we're all ready to let it go, they give it one last beating. Except out of nowhere, the horse gets up and starts running. But this time it's not just a horse, it's a majestic f'ing unicorn flying over the rainbow, and it is glorious."
At first, this show caught me by surprise, as I had no idea why FOP improved so much all of a sudden. But then I saw a video by a youtube channel named Ghosted, which presented a theory that Cosmo and Wanda hating eachother was actually the root cause of most of the problems that ruined the original show, with one problem leading to another in a chain reaction. And that conversely, A New Wish fixing Cosmo and Wanda's relationship is what lead to a bunch of other problems getting fixed as a consequence. At some point in the original show, Cosmo and Wanda started hating eachother, which then caused both of them to get flanderized where Cosmo got dumber and Wanda got smarter so that they could both make fun of eachother. Which then caused Timmy to become even more reckless, selfish and vengeful with his wishes, because otherwise Wanda would be way too smart to let disasters occur. This already causes the show to become an unpleasent mess, which the writers then try to solve by making Cosmo even dumber and more reckless in an attempt to make him funny, which only ends up making the show even worse. This culminates in them trying to add new characters in yet another desperate attempt to save the show without knowing why it got so bad to begin with. And the reason why A New Wish suddenly improved so much is because Cosmo and Wanda being nice to eachother again removes the seemingly inocuous root that was causing many of the other problems.
i'm gonna be real: as an adult, the new shows tone hits a lot better than the og. they're right. hazel and dev are literally just timmy and remmy buxaplenty but less aggravating and done much better, giving them actual motivations and traits that balance out their flaws. the issue with timmy is that he was always kind of a selfish little prick who often failed to consider the consequences of his actions, was never really allowed any sort of character progression and frankly as an adult that can get grating (a la cailou). it's a lot more entertaining and easier to relate to if most of these problems are instead caused by forces around hazel or her own lack of perspective (because she's, you know, a child). hell, even dev's whole arc feels more real than anything in the og show. the tone for a new wish is also less... cynical? which is also really cool in an age where mean spirited comedy & outlooks have pretty much worn out it's welcome with everyone. it also... weirdly harkens back for me to the nicktoons of olde, back in the kid empowerment era. i'm not sure quite how to put it into words, but for content i've never seen before for a show i came to feel was meh at best over the years, this made me feel like it was the mid-2000s for a second there. it was absolutely wonderful. i also wanna point out tho that the time fairy etc are all things established in the original show. the fairly odd parents is weird bc when you think about it, or at least the way i look at it - faeries are just kind of a for-hire version of how greek gods sorta work sometimes? like time isn't just a thing here, it's dictated by a person, a person with flaws who can be tricked. i think it's something hartman tried to sidestep, but it literally is just the concept of having a god of something without resorting to the term. that said, these characters don't need depth to be just part of how the universe works. the slow trickling in of all these characters is more just slowly resubmerging us in the decades worth of mythos and worldbuilding the previous series did, usually tweaking them just slightly so that they work a little better in a show w/ continuity.
Man… this show is a complete unicorn. It’s not perfect (I don’t think it’s particularly funny outside of a few shows) but the amount of care they put into this and how much love they had for the original show while doing it’s own thing entirely and it just all works. Appreciate it and show it some love!!! You don’t get that very often!
I can’t believe they gave us a live action reboot, Everyone hated it, immediately announced this show, no one was looking forward to it, and now everyone loves it.
According to Nicktendo, that show wasn’t even that bad and was comparatively better than seasons 9-10. Now I’m kinda sad we can’t legally watch it anymore
@@AJ-xc4qe Eh, I got the same vibe from it as most Nick kidcoms from the middle 2010's. As in, not completely terrible, but I'd rather be watching something else. The fact that Fairly Odder was Paramount+ exclusive meant that it was doomed to fail, why would you watch that when you have the biggest Nicktoons library of any streaming service at your fingertips?
He is involved, but he's being kept on a tight leash. There's also some evidence he knows just how hard the internet turned on him and is trying to course correct(Like, he uses tumblr, some person made a rant about him and he showed up within an hour). He's absolutely seen the Oaxis or Ghostcon blowback, I think half a decade of this was enough to wear him down.
@@kalkuttadrop6371 That would be fair, except many of the things he does are worthy of the hate, like claiming autism can be healed through the power of prayer.
@@NerdFromColorado I’m thinking it’s less about autism and more about something sinister and paranormal that is covered up with autism. Mathew 12:22-24 is a perfect example of this.
13:21 You really hit on a good point here, just as we have cultural and societal shifts, we have shifts in art, sort of a call and response, or the swing of the pendulum, or the tearing down of one dictator to build up a new empire
@@AkameGaKillfan777 along with certain word in the uk version Mario party 8 being altered along with the another certain slur word changed for the uk/European virtual console released of the original snes super Mario rpg game.
6:49 There's also a third group: The mean, snooty popular girl who has every character trait associated with the stereotypical "queen bee". They're followed around by a blonde-haired girl and 2 boys whose characters don't extend farther than "is a bully" (the 2 exceptions are Kwan, who turned out to be a decent guy; and Veronica, who had a severe inferiority complex and wanted to become Trixie). Seriously, the only difference between Trixie and Paulina is that Trixie secretly likes comic books, and that was only mentioned in one episode. Anyway though, I'm really happy to see Fairly Oddparents actually be a show again and not a rotting zombie!
This may be unpopular to say but I still enjoy the original Fairly Oddparents, in retrospect the program probably should have ended after 2006 or so. I agree that the program is mean spirited, but I oddly enough kind of related to that being bullied myself back in the day. That said, if this program ends up being better, I would not be surprised. The original is worthy of an above average review for the first five seasons in my book, and rather bad towards the end, but this sequel could be better, and if so more power to it.
I've never been a Fairly Oddparents Fan, not even as a kid in the 2000s, but I really love this review. I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the downfall of the appeal of mean shows.
I saw the leaked series bible before it came out and honestly thought it looked great. In a sea of unimpressive nostalgia reboots like Avatar or Percy Jackson I was super guarded and expected the series to be a flop on the basis that nobody cares about quality anymore. I've only seen one episode so far but I am absolutely in admiration for the showrunners because it was a worthy continuation. I'm almost hoping we don't get a season 2 just so we don't roll the dice and risk ruining this one good thing.
A New Wish really exceeded our expectations especially mine. When someone i knew leaked the designs for A New Wish two years prior i had the typical “why do they need to keep milking this ruined franchise again” and fast forward every episode that comes out keeps getting even better. Really hope Nickelodeon treats this show right. It deserves to keep going.
SPOILERS FOR FINALE: I'd agree with your assessment of Hazel to friends if not for the rule free wish she made in the finale that being that her friend's WOULDN'T have their minds wiped about the existence of fairies while everybody else's were Chester and AJ never knew about Cosmo and Wanda her friends however do.
this is probably the most through and positive review of FOPANW ive seen so far. i love how you went super in depth into the NEW characters and content and why this NEW vibe works so well. every other review is just like "omg they put my fav from the original in and treated them well!!1" and "i wonder where timmy is? wheres timmy? is that timmy?" and "poof is the newest tumblr sexyman i guess" while completely misunderstanding his character and place in the plot. if you only heard about this show through osmosis online, especially on yt, you would think dev is the main character and everything is about him and poof. you ACTUALLY talk about hazel and how she stacks up to the og and fares on her own and reference things she did in episodes that ARENT "a new development", "operation birthday takeback", or the finale "the battle of big wand". this makes your review feel more grounded and genuine as if you actually watched the show instead of drooled over the fandom highlights and tumblr sexyman memes. and you shared many interesting opinions as you did so. i agreed with how you respectfully pointed out how negative and mean the show was esp later on and how its refreshing to see more positive shows like anw in modern day without completely trouncing on everything that era/flavor of tv had to offer. though i do think the meaness was a main reason why the seasonal rot was so intense and the show became hard to watch later on. i especially like the indepth look at hazel vs chloe and how its the different writing approaches that make hazel work and chloe not. most other reviews just go "waaah its not timmy its some annoying girl and i want timmy back.. but at least she isnt AS bad as chloe :/" too many of these reviews reduce hazels personality to pointing out the gap in her teeth just like chloe as if that says anything about her and thats all they touch upon. i especially applaud you for making a fopanw review that doesnt mention Not Timmy™at all. too many people are just here for the nostalgia and are just waiting for their fanservice and references. while i watched the og as a kid too and enjoyed the crocker and vicky episodes, i dont believe or wish for any of those characters to become mainstays or for timmy to actually return at all. its actually incredibly ironic how multiple reviewers will note how constant rehashing of ips and cash cows is bad for the media 'environment' so to say, and then spend the rest of the video asking for timmy and whining about Not Timmy and acting like the only episode in this show are the vicky and crocker episodes and talking about the fragility of "handling callbacks well without dragging them out" i want more hazel and the dream team content. i think they wrapped up cookie way to quick in her second episode and i want her out of jail. i want that episode in the pitch bible covering peri and devs childish boss vs overworked intern dynamic. i want to see more winn and jasmine. i even want more gags with hazels creepy landlords. in fact... even just a 2 second cameo of timmy would be BAD for the show! The way theyve handled everything so far is really good! im impressed and i trust the writing team. i want to see what beautiful things they can create on their own with the new characters as well as old. i dont want them to use nostalgia as a crutch. The fandom is literally clinging to old memories in fear of change like hazel did in "fearless", an episode it feels like 90% of the fandom didnt even bother to watch cuz its all "poof" this and "timmy" that. sorry for the 5 page essay.. i just like to talk a lot abt cartoons lol.. TLDR: this video is a really great in depth review that respects the new content as well as the old without falling into nostalgia blindness or fandom highlight pitfalls. a lot of the points you make are well informed and interesting as a result.
Poof himself didn't ruin it. He was a sign of the path it would take, but he was mostly, a neutral addition to it... Sparky though was a direct hit on the reputation.
That's because Peri's an adult; and You can do A LOT more with an Adult as a character than you can for an infant; Infants can't do much of anything other than Cry, Sleep, & Poop
@@firepuppies4086Yeah, literally nobody liked Sparky, that’s why he was dropped after the season he was introduced. Hell Chloe coming back would be more likely than him.
A sequel series that surpasses the original in almost every way?! I guess even in today's increasingly bleak animation landscape, mircales can still happen.
16:23 Hopefully, Season 2, especially with the Season 1 finale situation, could have more Winn and Jasmine moments. I honestly am overall surprised at how well the sequel series flowed. Like it actually cared about both being its own thing and a sequel series. Nice work, A New Wish.
It is actually gratifying to hear that I am not the only person to dislike it when shows use being "mean" as a substitute for actual comedy; I still really liked the original Fairly Oddparents because it actually had really good humor despite its tone, but there are other mean cartoons without this level of writing that I just could not watch as a kid (CatDog comes to mind).
Funny thing is even in the Cerfitable Super Sitter review Enter points out that was just one of the last 22 minute episodes not the finale of the show. And you can't go "well that was years ago" when we just saw the re edit of that video come up a couple of a weeks ago and what he didn't rewatch it or something to see it more properly edited?
@@DianaGohan Something tells me TheMysteriousMrEnter was too lazy to re-recorded any of the audio and only made visuals changes to the re-edit because StarGiant Productions editing is garbage blah blah blah.
When I saw Peri's introduction I knew immediately that he'd become one of *those* characters that Tumblr fangirls will become obsessed with for a couple months.
MLP G4 was probably a foreshock of the attitude change against mean shows. To say nothing of the kids that grew up watching it that want more of it now.
I think Phineas and Ferb played a role too. To quote Doug Walker, one of the main appeals of that show is that "the characters are incredibly sweet, despite them living in a world that's very cynical and obviously plays on this predetermined fate that some of these characters are never gonna get what they want." I feel that afterwards, the "sweet and genuine characters living in a cynical world" has kinda been the norm in animation.
Now I'm wondering if this could work with a Danny Phantom or Jimmy Neutron reboot where they fix certain characters who were really annoying (Sheen/Sam) and make them entertaining or at least less annoying.
You should watch the animated DC movies from the 2010s onward, most of those movies are NOT retreads of the comics they are inspired by. Some you should check out first is Batman VS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Superman Red Son, and Superman/Batman Apocalypse. These movies are under the radar and most are solid.
I'm happy to hear you include that it's not as cynical as original, which isn't a pro or a con in this case. As you've said, it's a style, and while I do get a bit of a saccharine myself, I can't claim that the show is bad at all, or that it improved on the original on that fact alone.
I hold things like this against Korra or TNG or Extreme Ghostbusters or Milo Murphy. I want to see legacy characters but I don't want them to over shadow and I don't want them forgotten
It's insane how well this show turned out. I am in the camp that likes this show better than the original. I don't think Butch has a ton of involvement in this one, but man it fixed so many issues. Cosmo and Wanda are so much more balanced in terms of intelligence, Peri is an ACTUAL character, Hazel is a great protagonist. Hopefully Nick doesn't Nick and finally decide to kill off FOP the second it gets good again.
13:19 - 13:42 That in a nutshell perfectly explains why I can't enjoy shows like Rick & Morty or Bojack Horseman, no matter how many people swear up and down that those shows are "hilarious." I admit that I haven't seen those shows to completion, but there's a reason I haven't done that; from what I've seen of them, Rick & Morty and Bojack Horseman are straight-up misery pr0n, and if there's one thing I don't need in my life, it's misery pr0n... which, on reflection, may be the reason why I hate Beastars so much; because it doesn't even TRY having fun with itself.
I was never interested in Rick and Morty and Bojack Horseman. While it’s because I’m just a huge fan of South Park, I thought that most adult animation shows not only suffer from executive meddling but like this video, how the writers can easily lose focus on the show that the lore is completely gone
Same with me, I thought Smiling Friends would be the same as those shows, but then I gave it a chance, and man, it really breaks the standard format of adult cartoons.
Honestly, the main appeal for Bojack for me was the fact that the show used continuity to give the main character several chances to be a better person, instead of resetting to be a nasty miser because "it's easy" or "it's okay in TV Land", even when it seems impossible to change. Lines like "I was born with a leak" or "everything is meaningless" aren't the lines that stick with Me. Lines like "it gets easier" or "You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around" are what stick with me. It's not just about a miserable scumbag who hates life. It's about a miserable scumbag learning to be less miserable and embrace life in all its messy glory. Otherwise, Bojack's suicide attempt at the end would've worked, as opposed to him being rescued, and forced to accept that he's at rock bottom, and that there's no where else to go but up. It helps that, unlike Rick and Morty that goes back and forth on telling an ongoing story with its nihilism, Bojack's cynical side is meant to go in a direction.
@@kylemorello4787 I honestly don't get the appeal of Bojack at all. Maybe it's because I have an inherently sunny disposition, but I can't even FORCE myself to like nihilistic shows like Bojack. I can handle dark or even mean spirited shows, but even the darkest, meanest shows I've seen in my life - Beastars notwithstanding - at tried to have some fun with themselves (whether or not they succeeded); something that - in what I saw of it at least - Bojack never does. In fact, I got the impression that Bojack not only takes perverse pride in wallowing in misery, but also had active contempt for anyone trying to enjoy themselves (just like Beastars, now that I think about it). TL;DR: If I want to indulge in something that's just misery for misery's sake, I'll read/play I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
It's so refreshing to see Cosmo and Wanda being the two halves of a whole idiot again and have a happy marriage instead of following the annoying "I hate my husband/wife" trope that the old show stretched to death. All it took was getting Hartman's grimy hands off the writing team to make this show enjoyable again.
I didn't think Butch Hartman was even involved in this since I remember him making a big thing about leaving Nickelodeon years ago. Maybe now that Danny Phantom revival is on the table after all.
3:08 I think that example from Gumball really says it all as to why FOP (& Butch Hartman) Characters end up usually looking bad or unappealing when translated into 3D! Characters like Timmy, Chester, Cosmo, Wanda and ESPECIALLY Crocker & Timmy's Parents were designed to mainly look good from the SIDE! They're designs (whether it be the hair, the face or the portions) were just NOT meant to be seen or drawn in certain angles, such as Front-Facing! So, when you try to force their 2D designs into a Fully 3D Space, certain style aspects (such as the curved sideways mouth) will inherently end up looking off, creepy or hideous, even if model is pretty faithful to the original 2D design...
I think i got a hunch that this show was going to be something special the moment i heard the intro. Now tbf, i didn't expect it to be THIS good, but the intro felt like this big sign that the team understood the show and actually wanted to have a new spin. A familiar kind of new, and watching it the whole way was TRULY something special.
Everything is just done better than the original. A godchild that actually learns and grows, 2 loving parents, Cosmo and Wanda being wholesome and silly together, an overarching plot, consistency with the lore, and Hazel wished that her 2 friends and her brother to know she has fairies.
I never really hated Poof, so I’m glad to see him back all grown along with some other characters and what they’re up to now. I hope we see more of that.
Something I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention as a reason for this show's success is... This is the followup I wanted when I was a kid. I wanted to see who Cosmo and Wanda would move onto next! Very often, the original show brushes up against how Timmy would have to get older and say goodbye eventually. I wanted to see that part of the story! Seeing Cosmo and Wanda's next kid, with characters from the original series coming in occasionally in new roles - that is the direction I was interested in as a kid, not... magic babies and magic dogs and live action Drake Bell. I like that Timmy isn't around but his actions hang over this setting. Insane comparison but it feels like a JRPG sequel where you're seeing the new main character butt up against decisions made by someone they have nothing to do with.
15:21-15:30 Well, in terms of changing Poof/Peri's character you mean by making go from a baby to a young adult. He never really bothered me as a baby as he was just a baby with no defined personality, but also lacked any unlikable traits. Thankfully he grew into probably one of my favorite characters just being the normal guy in the room having to deal with these maniacs.
Its like today's bullies are written with some humanity in them! That's what's was wrong with a lot of 90s and 2000s cartoons; they were filled with very mean 1-dimensional bullies who not only had little to no humanity in them, but also zero redeeming qualities; such as characters like Wolfgang, Francis, and Dash. At least characters like Buford Von Stomm, Pacifica Northwest, and Amity Blight are written like real people with humanity in them and not soulless assholes who have no reason, but to be soulless assholes! Writers have moved past that. It's not healthy at all and comes off as dated and poorly written!
@@kylemorello4787was wrong with. Bullies being flat jerks not everyone needs depth as look at Eddy's older brother we don't know what he is other than being a child beater and that's all right we dint need any tragically or him having a soft side and him being a domestic abuser is all that's needed to make the Ed's accepted by the kids. Or Brintty Wrong the only morden Mean girl to never get nicer and again that's all right . Plus theys the opposite problem where they try to give the bully depth but it's too much of an ass pull such as Dimond Tara and Garble as them having an abusive mom and was just an act is a difficult pill to swallow to the point you would rather them stay bullies .
@@kylemorello4787 where would you place Kevin has his beef with Eddy is more jerk vs jerk as neither one has the moral high ground plus Kevin isnt a flat character
New wish surprised me. The writers learned from the mistakes of Butch and fixed certain characters (Cosmo) and created endearing new characters (Dev). I really hope a S2 is confirmed soon.
Wow, so happy to hear A New Wish is actually really good quality. Hope they either continue it or end it on a high note so it doesn't share the same fate as the original series.
2:09 No! Poof isn't the one with that title. I aould say that title goes to Sparky the magic dog 15:26 They can rewrite his character completly easily, because guess what, that is what puberty does 16:57 They now physicly can't become AJ and Chester, because spoiler alert: they now know about Cosmo and Wanda, thus will get a metric tone of screentime
Makes you think WHY didn't they do this instead of that odder live action non-sense?! In fact, this should happen after Channel Chaser (but Poof was in it, so that Peri would make sense) Hazel is just a gem and a sweetie and I'm so happy to see Cosmo and Wanda act like their two halves of a whole idiot characterization. Then there's Poof or should I say Peri our little baby is all grown up, despite what you thought about him in the past you can't help but feel like Cosmo and Wanda when you see him again
I think there is a big difference between being dark and being cynical or nihilistic. I don't think Bojack is nihilistic, neither is Moral Orel, Invincible or Daria. Stories generally don't just wear their heart on their sleeve, most find some way of hiding it, and whether that cover is dark or light, depravity or escapism, it's the heart underneath that really matters.
I think the show has the possibility to mitigate the human friend characters getting shafted just from the status quo change in the last episode of the season. By making Hazel’s friends in on the wish, they can more directly interact with a larger variety of plots.
I love how Peri's hair is a hybrid between his parents' hair styles.
Ooh, great observation! That’s a pretty unique and cute detail about Peri.
I didn’t even notice..
He is their son after all. Takes both styles from the parents of cosmo and wanda.
Yeah, an inversion of Wanda's curl with Cosmo's little hair spike, but in lavender matching his eyes. It's legit perfect.
@@JesusMartinez-rr2ry I like the fact he sounds like pilot Cosmo!
I'm not sure why we call it a reboot when it's clearly a sequel.
Because potatoes.
Yeah it's so annoying you would not call the legend of Korra a reboot why this
Because continuation is basically a dead term to people
A sequel can be a reboot, if the franchise died before and enough time passes.
It's like people misused the term "remake" and "remaster"
Poof/Periwinkle is exactly how a sequel series should use past characters, as in let them actually grow up.
Yup; If they were a baby in the OG Show; Let them become ADULTS in the sequel series!!
Bingo and this is a big if, if Sparky and Chloe return they need an overhaul heavily. Timmy I'm not sure about
@@djinsanity3575Sparky’s dead bro he’s a dog.
@@djinsanity3575 Yup. . . Chloe Sucks!!
@@coreythepeanut when that happened
15:25 “How did you make Poof work?”
Well he’s an actual character for once, you can’t say much about a baby because they are literally developing as their own person
Right mayb it's jus me but I'm really not all that impressed wit Peri's transformation in a new wish he was a baby in the original and any baby outside of the "baby genius/evil baby genius" archetype tend to be a mish mash of random actions sounds and crying as opposed to actual characters so credit to the writers but we're with a blank slant and had free range to make adult Perri into whoever they wanted basically
Funny thing is this is actually the SECOND Baby character Enter admitted was vastly improved in it's sequel Nicktoon. As Enter admitted to hating Dil in Rugrats but saying he's his favorite character in All Grown Up.
It’s basically like the Rugrats or Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm from the Flintstones. They’re most known as babies, but as babies, they don’t really do much or have something unique to their own. This is why we get spin-offs of them as teenagers. Because they wanna add to them, as characters, their own personalities.
@@DianaGohan man dill in all grown up really was one of the few saving graces of that show and imo is a weird/quirky character done write
@@baryardeni9731 Eh pretty sure they were Teenagers in the Pebbles and Bam Bam show so Hanna Barbera could capitalize on that scooby Doo auidence since yeah a lot of their 70s series either involved teens solving mysteries or teens getting together in goofy hijinks. But as shown with Cave Kids and even Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs you can make shows with Pebbles and Bam Bam as kids or even babies and still have them have some personality.
Hazel is what Chloe SHOULD have been
Why do we have a random black girl? Here comes a reboot...here comes random af minority because dIvErSItY.
Let's replace Chloe with Hazel, but then just kill Chloe.
Yeah;
and Without being Overshadowed by the Main Male Lead!!
Nice to see someone who gets it.
the fact they not only revived Cosmo and Wanda's relationship to a healthy one but they got everyone latching onto Peri with his first appearance XD I give them credit for pulling it off. also man am I glad it was a stylized CG design instead of a possible rugrats reboot CG job
You should know about healthy relationships.
The family dynamics you write are so believable, no one wants to let go of the Mew family.
You know it's sad when the CGI in A New Wish is more stylized and better than the Rugrats 2021 reboot and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years. Even though SpongeBob and Rugrats are the two franchises Nickelodeon likes prioritizing most of the time.
I honestly find it amusing how quickly the Internet went crazy for Peri after his first appearance. 😂 It's as if it took seconds for all this fan art to show up.
@@andykishore Kamp Koral made the mistake of trying to emulate the movie's artstyle on a TV budget.
One of my favorite things about A New Wish is how Cosmo and Wanda… _actually like each other_
After spending 10K years more together going back in time to present while retired.
this is what got me into the show again 👍 they’re so cute
One thing I really liked was how cosmo and Wanda picked Hazel themselves. It’s the only time I can remember them being enthusiastic about their job and it really set the stage for their relationship being centred around teaching life lessons. I’d really love it if we got more interactions between hazel’s parents and her godparents a bit like on founders day when she was running around with C&W while her parents sold books. It feels very natural for the neighbours to babysit occasionally, and I feel like it makes the premise a little more relatable.
Yeah, although C&W interaction with Hazel's parent was hillarious, Hazel hanging out with them looks natural by outside perspective. "Oh, my kids love to visit our retainee neighbor in front of our apartment room."
In the OG series, Cosmo and Wanda basically acted as full-time surrogates for Timmy, since his own parents couldn’t even be bothered to do the bare minimum 90 percent of the time. Hazel doesn’t have that problem, as Marcus and Angela are openly supportive of their daughter and just seem to struggle with work-life balance. In her case, Cosmo and Wanda come across more as the quirky uncle and aunt who try to help nudge Hazel out of her comfort zone.
"Changed everything about peri to make the character work"
You mean age up the baby be 50/50 of thier parents?
with some sublte tention cleary not yet resolved with no one knowing how to properly.
This channel has mentioned that babies are but objects from a writing/story standpoint. He got promoted from object to character.
do you want him to stay as a baby?
@@nadyanathania3847 I'm saying aging up a baby isn't really "changing everything about the character"
Well Duh. . . When Babies Grow up; THEY Change into something VERY Different than what they were like as Babies; It makes sense for Peri to have Changed from Infancy to Adulthood. . . and Infant Characters are Significantly better after they get Aged up; Just look at how Much Better Dil Pickles became in ALL GROWN UP. . . or How Much Peri's character Exponentially Improved as an Adult compared to how he was as a baby!!
Peri did the Dill thing from Rugrats- where the baby character in the initial show ends up being the most interesting character as a grown up / teen in the sequel series.
I love the parents’ nickname for their daughter; Hazelnut (and the one her older brother gave her; Small-Fry). That’s just so cute.
And I also like the fact that Hazel’s parents are NOT neglectful, brain-dead morons who are constantly going on about how happy they would be if they didn’t have kids, and … they also have actual names. Seriously, fuck Mr and Mrs Turner.
But in all honesty, one thing that this reboot has over the original series is that most of the adults at the very least are trying to be helpful and benevolent compared to the original where those adults would range from being useless at best to unfunny at worst.
Now, while her parents being loving and supportive of their daughter does kinda defeat the purpose of Hazel receiving fairies, on the other hand Mr and Mrs Turner got so unfunny as time went on, so really, I can give it a pass in that regard.
I agree with your statement
The thing is, Hazel had to move to a new town without her brother. Of course she would start friendless and miserable.
Still a better reason to get fairies than "not being perfect all the time" or worse, "being related to Timmy Turner".
@@reasyrandom Also her mother is not always around because she has a demanding job, but she does value all the time she has with her kids.
She can still get fairies;
She has moved to a new city; without having any friends initially; She Doesn't have her Brother there with her to help her adjust, due to him being in college; She's socially awkward
It's more of an Interal misery than an external misery(where the universe just takes a dump on you; like it did for Timmy Turner]
@@reasyrandom she's anxious as hell so she does kinda deserve them
Looks like this franchise about magic, has finally rediscovered it's own magic. Took em long enough.
Finally, they got rid of the pixies in the animation studio
It only took them 16 years.
They made Poof an actual character - and made Cosmo and Wanda clever and helpful? They remembered what made the show good in the first place (the character dynamics of Cosmo and Wanda being surrogate parents for the neglected Timmy, a source of stability in his otherwise unstable life) and improved on it?
I'm impressed!
As a big fan of the "ascended extra" trope, I am absolutely in love with the fact this show took a kid who appeared in one episode of the original series and promoted him to one of the main antagonists.
The way Hazel says, “DEV DIMMADOME!” cracks me up and I think he’ll be her Dinkleberg now that his memory wiped.
The best part is that it actually fits, it doesn't feel like pointless fan service. Of course Dale would take over the Dimmadome family business eventually and become an important rich guy, it only makes sense, it's just that the writers are getting the most out of this by expanding on the concept.
Same, just the simple cause and effect of his character took a turn for the worst (in a good way)
@@RandomDragonEXE Considering how he was trapped in a cellar and forced to make lemonade for Vicky for god-knows-how-long, it's actually really realistic that Dale would spoil his own son rotten. Both of them need therapy.
@@reasyrandom Doug said he lost Dale for seven years. So it was that long...or maybe less
Imo, Dev might be the best written character in the show.
Poor rich kid didn't need someone to magically him him stuff, he needed someone to love him. He didn't need someone Peri, he needed someone like Cosmo and Wanda.
And a friend like Hazel
Hard to process the fact that Fairly odd parents is actually enjoyable again
Hopefully one day Danny Phantom can get the same love... I'm not holding out hope, but it'd be nice. :3
@@bluestreaker9242 He recently got that graphic novel continuation, which i heard was pretty good
@BugsyFoga A glitch in time? Oh dude it is really good, I recommend it. Last time I checked there was a free reading of it on YT if you want to preview it (I own the novel and the graphics are gorgeous!)Characters in character and it continues the story after phantom planet and opens up the series for a whole sequel series that I hope gets made
@@BugsyFoga Interesting. :O
Kinda reminds me of when Avatar:TLA did the same thing.
@@bluestreaker9242I’m not sure about a Danny Phantom reboot with the death of Vlad’s voice actor
They even did the “Magical Backup” thing in a much more serious way. Like in the original the fairies explode and turn into confetti. In “A New Wish” the fairies vomit rainbows and cough up confetti. They have bulging cheeks and have a sickly green complexion. And they actually die from it. Like holy crap that is some deep stuff.
So they retcon Faries immortality
Your comment reminds me of the meme of SpongeBob and Patrick screaming on the baby RollerCoaster lol
@@nicholassims9837 Not necessarily. Immortals can still be killed, just usually not by natural things like aging or sickness. In the case of ANW fairies are still immortal, but it's insinuated that Magical Backup is the only way they can die "naturally". Otherwise, yeah, (presumably) if a third party doesn't kill them, they'll just go on living forever.
@@AxelKNG still when the Magical back up happened in the orginal series it wasn't death threatening seen in Same Game where after Wanda got it she just told Timmy to make another wish and we later see she's fine and in Fairly Idol Norm when he was a fairly and was giving to Timmy by Chester , Timmy refused to make a wish for a week and Norm does blow up but its treated more like an inconvenience
@@nicholassims9837 I know. That's why I specifically said that "in the case of ANW" it's a death sentence, because it is. I didn't say anything about that being the case in FOP. It was just a funny joke in the original, it's taken more seriously in the sequel. Also, my point was that they're still immortal in the new show, which they are. Without someone or something directly harming the fairy in question, the only way they can die is Magical Backup, which is entirely preventable.
I like how Peri’s head shape is normal, but Irep is still a cube, just makes me think something went horribly wrong with Irep specifically. But to be fair that was also his defining characteristic. If you gave him a normal head it could be hard to tell it’s him specifically.
He was born late… (after Poof was instead of along side him) not to mention how cunning and intelligent he was on his first day of being alive. I think the extra time between his and Poof’s birth boosted him.
Well, Anti-Wanda DID make sandwiches out of couch cushions while she was carrying him…
@@pinkiemeowstic89 yeah…
That's some deep thinking there man.
Broke: Foop was a cube because Poof was a ball.
Woke: Foop's body was cubic because of a birth defect.
I can’t believe Poof Fairly Odd Parents is a tumblr sexyman now
Was waiting for a comment like this
Real.
@@glizard77🤡
Irep as well, believe it or not. No guesses as to who he's usually shipped with
Same
It’s so refreshing to see the internet come together to praise something they were initially (understandably skeptical of) and for this show in general to both stand on its own and use nostalgia as either launching points for plots or just be rather inventive (instead of just: HEY HERES THE THING YOUR RECOGNIZE OH MY GERSH!!! 😯)
Also wow: If I had a nickel for everytime a nickelodeon baby character who was seen as the moment the show jumped the shark, only to become the best part of a follow up show. I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?
Like the bus driver being an allusion to "Bad Future Timmy" but not dragging too much
@@kingkirby1394let me guess you are referring to dil's glow up in all grown up
I still don't feel that satisfied because the people... judging the show by saying offensive things about it were essentially let off the hook and were allowed to fade into the background.
(Kinda beating around the bush since I don't know what will get auto deleted)
@@PipeGuy64Bit Seems like the best course...unless you'd rather have the haters you don't like be whipped in public.
This sounds like everything MLP Gen 5 should have been. Would have loved to see Flurry Heart get the Peri treatment.
YES!!!
Absolutely agree about the last part, Hazel's two new friends need an episode similar to when Timmy had Chester and AJ come for a sleepover and they fought over superheroes, or were in a videogame together, those episodes felt great because we could see Timmy actually being happy without the help of magic and truly made their friendship feel real.
I'm hoping that the fact that they know about Cosmo and Wanda now will increase their relevance. I was talking to my sister about it, and she compared how they and Antony are allowed to share Hazel's secret now with how in Wizard's of Waverly Place, Alex's best friend Harper learns about her wizard life. They probably did that so Harper could play a bigger role in the series without the Russo's having to hide their secret from her. Among other things, I'm really excited to see where this goes.
You know you’re in good hands when Butch Hartman isn’t involved in the writers room, and instead has the head writer from Infinity Train bringing The Fairly OddParents back with dignity.
Yup; He's Thankfully Hands-off with the show; ONLY being the executive Producer; AND NOT INVOLVED IN THE WRITING PROCESS!!
@@New3DSLuigi364true however there were more writers than him,
@@hype5456 But back then; HE was in charge of everything; AND THAT'S WHY EVERYTHING TFOP-Related prior to A New Wish was GARBAGE!!
He also had a very bad habit of writing shitty bully characters into his show. Not even Stephen King wrote bully characters as bad as he did!
@@03bgood Yeah. . . I Find Butch's Bully characters to be as loathsome as I find Katsuki Bakugou; Seriously;
Susie is a better Bully Character than Bakugou; Because She Goes through a Better Character arc within a Single Chapter than Bakugou gets through 300 Chapters; ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE NEVER SUICIDE-BAITS KRIS THE WAY BAKUGOU SUICIDE-BAITS IZUKU, AKA THE MAIN CHARACTER OF BNHA!!
Ngl I love the different fairies that govern the big wishes
Because it shows how much damage Timmy really caused
They had to double the number of rules after Timmy 😂
Cosmo: We had to deal with a lawsuit with Father Time a few years back.
Don't remind me. 🤦♂️
At this point, the only fairies that weren't here because of a wish by Timmy, are the Tooth Fairy and Cupid, and background fairies that were forgotten
Reminder you all that both new wish and Infinity train share the same writer. I also can’t wait for more characters from the original series to return someday.
That explains a lot. Infinity Train was such an amazing show, I still miss it.
It's fucking absurd that original shows get cannibalized to keep old shows alive, but at least they're actually doing it effectively.
Don't forget you also got some talent from Craig of the Creek, another great cartoon
WHAT?? Who is this writer I wanna meet him/her!
my fairly odd parents headcanon that's based on LITERALLY nothing, is that for faries, it's normal for adults to pick out their own names. It's their name after all, but in the meantime you gotta call them something, so you pick something so parents will find a simple name with a single syllable and then when they're old enough they pick out their adult name. its kinda like elves in dnd.
So anti-faries pick their name as infants and get an anti-name as adults?
Nickelodeon in a nutshell
Stupid show with no context and no character development: keeps renewing it for Season 3000000
Show with actually good story development, character development: Cancelled after Season 1.
COME ON NICKELODEON!!!
With any luck this will be the thing that breaks that pattern. Nickelodeon LOVES milking SpongeBob and FOP. Kinda annoying they don’t have any plans on where they’re streaming it domestically though. I’m gonna have to buy NordVPN just to support it.
@@parycartoons6840 It's not on Paramount+ and those jerks are blocking VPNs!
@@parycartoons6840and loud house as well btw
Nickelodeon: The money is always right!
It’s weird that Mr. Enter’s take is much better than A. S. K. Air.
They made Poof work by...giving him to the rival character. Honestly that creates so much interesting dialogue with the protagonist having Poof's parents; it's good to have some believable friction between characters, ya know? But yeah, weirdly, this is kinda the same problem Rugrats had that its spinoff sequel, All Grown Up, also solved: Dill actually being more interesting "all grown up" because we get to actually see a character be a bleeding character. I don't remember what review it was, but you kinda hit the nail on the head, "Babies aren't really so much characters as they are props." Go figure, how to make a baby a character is to...age them up. The fact that Rugrats had this solved several years before Poof's debut episode is just bonkers; Butch just...does not learn from history, does he? (Don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question. >.>)
Eh, either way, all told, given from what I've seen so far, I'm very eager to see what direction they take this show in. It's very rare to have reboots that do BETTER than the original, but in recent years, this seems to be a trend that's been steadily growing, and I hope it stays on that track. We need more reboots, ESPECIALLY sequels like this, to establish what went wrong and fix the problems, whilst building upon the original framework in a meaningful way that feels like a genuine and organic extension to the established canon & lore, all whilst being viewed through fun and engaging characters that you either like because of their genuine charm factor, or hate for all the RIGHT reasons...but don't want to see less of them, and I think from what I'm seeing, this show is managing to tick those boxes quite nicely. It's refreshing to have the spoiled rich kid not be a complete ass for once; I like that. :3
Probably one of my favorite episodes of this show is when Mr. Crocker returned. And I believe the name change from Poof to Periwinkle (Peri) was because "Poof" is a bad word in other countries.
I have yet to see evidence of the thing with Poof's name.
The writer's likely agreed that Poof is kinda a dumb name for an adult.
@@dalekrenegade2596 IIRC Poof is used to refer to homosexuals.
Yeah; It's a Slur for Men-loving Men
I think Peri just didn’t like the name poof as he got older. I mean it would be kinda embarrassing to be named after your first word
@@dalekrenegade2596 poof is a slur to gay people in the UK
I love the contrast in how wishes can go bad for both godchildren
For Timmy his wishes go bad because of how selfish they are and only fixes them when they are a problem for him … and never learns and does it again
For Hazel even with some of her more selfish wishes she genuinely means well but her attempts to help aren’t always the right thing to do … it’s a good character flaw tbh she means well but she makes mistakes basically meaning it fixes the flaw that Chloe had
Hazel’s heart is in the right place but she isn’t perfect and still has a lot of growing up to do
about jasmine and winn, honestly im expecting more if they get a s2 because (finale spoilers) they _know about fairies now_ like thats a BIG deal isnt it? it wouldnt make a lot of sense to make that decision if they didnt hope to do anything with it
I've been scanning this comment section for someone else who took note of this!
Let’s hope this show gets a season 2. Nickelodeon has done an awful job at marketing it, to the point where people only started noticing it through clips on Twitter. Also, it’s locked to TV and won’t be streaming on Netflix until November for some reason
Oh my God, give it at least a season 2.
Yo I get to watch it on Netflix in 2 months? I’m looking forward to it now actually.
Mostly cause the fairly odd parents on Netflix rn is represented by the fucking 5th through 8th seasons rather than the first 4. Meaning what’s available on Netflix for fairly odd parents rn is ass.
I’m excited to see something awesome from it.
@@staticaleel5068 They only have Fairly OddParents seasons 9-10 in my country, so it's even worse.
Nick may not or not may skeptical about this show, but surprisingly turn out different than what they anticipated
@@staticaleel5068in my country, it just isnt there
To quote Gigguk on Boruto, "It's like we've been seeing this beloved dead horse being beaten for about five years now, and just when we're all ready to let it go, they give it one last beating. Except out of nowhere, the horse gets up and starts running. But this time it's not just a horse, it's a majestic f'ing unicorn flying over the rainbow, and it is glorious."
Did he say that about BOREuto specifically?
Back in 2017 when the anime started airing.@@AkameGaKillfan777
It really says a lot about A New Wish when they made Poof work.
At first, this show caught me by surprise, as I had no idea why FOP improved so much all of a sudden.
But then I saw a video by a youtube channel named Ghosted, which presented a theory that Cosmo and Wanda hating eachother was actually the root cause of most of the problems that ruined the original show, with one problem leading to another in a chain reaction.
And that conversely, A New Wish fixing Cosmo and Wanda's relationship is what lead to a bunch of other problems getting fixed as a consequence.
At some point in the original show, Cosmo and Wanda started hating eachother, which then caused both of them to get flanderized where Cosmo got dumber and Wanda got smarter so that they could both make fun of eachother.
Which then caused Timmy to become even more reckless, selfish and vengeful with his wishes, because otherwise Wanda would be way too smart to let disasters occur.
This already causes the show to become an unpleasent mess, which the writers then try to solve by making Cosmo even dumber and more reckless in an attempt to make him funny, which only ends up making the show even worse.
This culminates in them trying to add new characters in yet another desperate attempt to save the show without knowing why it got so bad to begin with.
And the reason why A New Wish suddenly improved so much is because Cosmo and Wanda being nice to eachother again removes the seemingly inocuous root that was causing many of the other problems.
*YES. THANK YOU.*
i'm gonna be real: as an adult, the new shows tone hits a lot better than the og. they're right. hazel and dev are literally just timmy and remmy buxaplenty but less aggravating and done much better, giving them actual motivations and traits that balance out their flaws. the issue with timmy is that he was always kind of a selfish little prick who often failed to consider the consequences of his actions, was never really allowed any sort of character progression and frankly as an adult that can get grating (a la cailou). it's a lot more entertaining and easier to relate to if most of these problems are instead caused by forces around hazel or her own lack of perspective (because she's, you know, a child). hell, even dev's whole arc feels more real than anything in the og show.
the tone for a new wish is also less... cynical? which is also really cool in an age where mean spirited comedy & outlooks have pretty much worn out it's welcome with everyone. it also... weirdly harkens back for me to the nicktoons of olde, back in the kid empowerment era. i'm not sure quite how to put it into words, but for content i've never seen before for a show i came to feel was meh at best over the years, this made me feel like it was the mid-2000s for a second there. it was absolutely wonderful.
i also wanna point out tho that the time fairy etc are all things established in the original show. the fairly odd parents is weird bc when you think about it, or at least the way i look at it - faeries are just kind of a for-hire version of how greek gods sorta work sometimes? like time isn't just a thing here, it's dictated by a person, a person with flaws who can be tricked. i think it's something hartman tried to sidestep, but it literally is just the concept of having a god of something without resorting to the term. that said, these characters don't need depth to be just part of how the universe works. the slow trickling in of all these characters is more just slowly resubmerging us in the decades worth of mythos and worldbuilding the previous series did, usually tweaking them just slightly so that they work a little better in a show w/ continuity.
Huh, the fairies really do act like a full pantheon
A New Wish is a great example of how you make a proper sequel.
Don't think this qualifies as a sequel
@@johndavis9321Mm...pretty sure it does.
@@johndavis9321It's a continuation of the original show, which makes it a sequel.
@@reeses_unicorn we agree it's a continuation but imo not all continuations are sequels for example Daria
@@mitchfletcher2386 it's more a continuation than a true sequel
Man… this show is a complete unicorn. It’s not perfect (I don’t think it’s particularly funny outside of a few shows) but the amount of care they put into this and how much love they had for the original show while doing it’s own thing entirely and it just all works. Appreciate it and show it some love!!! You don’t get that very often!
I can’t believe they gave us a live action reboot, Everyone hated it, immediately announced this show, no one was looking forward to it, and now everyone loves it.
According to Nicktendo, that show wasn’t even that bad and was comparatively better than seasons 9-10. Now I’m kinda sad we can’t legally watch it anymore
It's weird how that works.
@@AJ-xc4qe Eh, I got the same vibe from it as most Nick kidcoms from the middle 2010's.
As in, not completely terrible, but I'd rather be watching something else. The fact that Fairly Odder was Paramount+ exclusive meant that it was doomed to fail, why would you watch that when you have the biggest Nicktoons library of any streaming service at your fingertips?
It’s hilarious that just getting rid of Butch Hartman allowed the show to make a comeback.
Butch Hartman is executive producer for this show
He is involved, but he's being kept on a tight leash.
There's also some evidence he knows just how hard the internet turned on him and is trying to course correct(Like, he uses tumblr, some person made a rant about him and he showed up within an hour). He's absolutely seen the Oaxis or Ghostcon blowback, I think half a decade of this was enough to wear him down.
@@kalkuttadrop6371 That would be fair, except many of the things he does are worthy of the hate, like claiming autism can be healed through the power of prayer.
@@NerdFromColorado I’m thinking it’s less about autism and more about something sinister and paranormal that is covered up with autism. Mathew 12:22-24 is a perfect example of this.
@@justice8718Am I stupid or are you referring to the scriptures?
The memory of the original show was beyond BUTCHered. Pun intended?
I defy you, Hartman!
Nickelodeon: What's it like eating crow?
Mr Enter: This is some serious gourmet shit
Something new to force-feed a family of 4.
I gotta say I love the “Care less” wish smash cut into the Weird Al song joke. I was literally thinking of that and then it happened. Nice job Enter ❤
I was worried about how this reboot would go and from what I'd seen it's surprisingly good and I do like that they made Poof/Peri an actual character
13:21 You really hit on a good point here, just as we have cultural and societal shifts, we have shifts in art, sort of a call and response, or the swing of the pendulum, or the tearing down of one dictator to build up a new empire
For anyone wondering why it’s Peri now, Poof is a slur in many countries. It’s easier to localise and generates less controversy.
It was kind of a goofy name for an adult to have anyway. A cute baby name, sure, but Periwinkle is definitely more fitting to his current personality.
Kind of like how in the PAL Version of Super Paper Mario, the characters don't say "shag" because it's slang for sex.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 along with certain word in the uk version Mario party 8 being altered along with the another certain slur word changed for the uk/European virtual console released of the original snes super Mario rpg game.
@@UltimateDragonX9999 What was the word in MP8?
@@AkameGaKillfan777 it’s was originally spatic that kamek in the us version of Mario party 8. Meanwhile I. The uk Version changed that word to eratic
It’s so nice to see Cosmo and Wanda as Two Half’s of a Whole idiot again
6:49 There's also a third group: The mean, snooty popular girl who has every character trait associated with the stereotypical "queen bee". They're followed around by a blonde-haired girl and 2 boys whose characters don't extend farther than "is a bully" (the 2 exceptions are Kwan, who turned out to be a decent guy; and Veronica, who had a severe inferiority complex and wanted to become Trixie). Seriously, the only difference between Trixie and Paulina is that Trixie secretly likes comic books, and that was only mentioned in one episode.
Anyway though, I'm really happy to see Fairly Oddparents actually be a show again and not a rotting zombie!
Put some respect on Kwan's name, he's a nice kid.
@@reasyrandom You're right. I honestly forgot that he turned out to *not* be a typical jerk jock like Dash. My bad!
Honestly without how unexplained Veronicas fixation was, we might as well say she was planning to kill and replace Trixie.
wherebwouod Amanda fall in ?
This may be unpopular to say but I still enjoy the original Fairly Oddparents, in retrospect the program probably should have ended after 2006 or so.
I agree that the program is mean spirited, but I oddly enough kind of related to that being bullied myself back in the day.
That said, if this program ends up being better, I would not be surprised.
The original is worthy of an above average review for the first five seasons in my book, and rather bad towards the end, but this sequel could be better, and if so more power to it.
"And it was a flavor that was super popular in the 90s and the late 2000s."
my god, no wonder I grew up a sensitive kid.
Me too unfortunately 😢
I've never been a Fairly Oddparents Fan, not even as a kid in the 2000s, but I really love this review. I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the downfall of the appeal of mean shows.
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this! Also, it’s about time we finally got something good Fairly OddParents related
You can say that again
For real.
I saw the leaked series bible before it came out and honestly thought it looked great. In a sea of unimpressive nostalgia reboots like Avatar or Percy Jackson I was super guarded and expected the series to be a flop on the basis that nobody cares about quality anymore. I've only seen one episode so far but I am absolutely in admiration for the showrunners because it was a worthy continuation. I'm almost hoping we don't get a season 2 just so we don't roll the dice and risk ruining this one good thing.
A New Wish really exceeded our expectations especially mine. When someone i knew leaked the designs for A New Wish two years prior i had the typical “why do they need to keep milking this ruined franchise again” and fast forward every episode that comes out keeps getting even better. Really hope Nickelodeon treats this show right. It deserves to keep going.
SPOILERS FOR FINALE:
I'd agree with your assessment of Hazel to friends if not for the rule free wish she made in the finale that being that her friend's WOULDN'T have their minds wiped about the existence of fairies while everybody else's were Chester and AJ never knew about Cosmo and Wanda her friends however do.
this is probably the most through and positive review of FOPANW ive seen so far. i love how you went super in depth into the NEW characters and content and why this NEW vibe works so well.
every other review is just like "omg they put my fav from the original in and treated them well!!1" and "i wonder where timmy is? wheres timmy? is that timmy?" and "poof is the newest tumblr sexyman i guess" while completely misunderstanding his character and place in the plot.
if you only heard about this show through osmosis online, especially on yt, you would think dev is the main character and everything is about him and poof. you ACTUALLY talk about hazel and how she stacks up to the og and fares on her own and reference things she did in episodes that ARENT "a new development", "operation birthday takeback", or the finale "the battle of big wand". this makes your review feel more grounded and genuine as if you actually watched the show instead of drooled over the fandom highlights and tumblr sexyman memes. and you shared many interesting opinions as you did so.
i agreed with how you respectfully pointed out how negative and mean the show was esp later on and how its refreshing to see more positive shows like anw in modern day without completely trouncing on everything that era/flavor of tv had to offer. though i do think the meaness was a main reason why the seasonal rot was so intense and the show became hard to watch later on.
i especially like the indepth look at hazel vs chloe and how its the different writing approaches that make hazel work and chloe not. most other reviews just go "waaah its not timmy its some annoying girl and i want timmy back.. but at least she isnt AS bad as chloe :/" too many of these reviews reduce hazels personality to pointing out the gap in her teeth just like chloe as if that says anything about her and thats all they touch upon.
i especially applaud you for making a fopanw review that doesnt mention Not Timmy™at all.
too many people are just here for the nostalgia and are just waiting for their fanservice and references. while i watched the og as a kid too and enjoyed the crocker and vicky episodes, i dont believe or wish for any of those characters to become mainstays or for timmy to actually return at all.
its actually incredibly ironic how multiple reviewers will note how constant rehashing of ips and cash cows is bad for the media 'environment' so to say, and then spend the rest of the video asking for timmy and whining about Not Timmy and acting like the only episode in this show are the vicky and crocker episodes and talking about the fragility of "handling callbacks well without dragging them out"
i want more hazel and the dream team content. i think they wrapped up cookie way to quick in her second episode and i want her out of jail. i want that episode in the pitch bible covering peri and devs childish boss vs overworked intern dynamic. i want to see more winn and jasmine. i even want more gags with hazels creepy landlords. in fact... even just a 2 second cameo of timmy would be BAD for the show! The way theyve handled everything so far is really good! im impressed and i trust the writing team. i want to see what beautiful things they can create on their own with the new characters as well as old. i dont want them to use nostalgia as a crutch.
The fandom is literally clinging to old memories in fear of change like hazel did in "fearless", an episode it feels like 90% of the fandom didnt even bother to watch cuz its all "poof" this and "timmy" that.
sorry for the 5 page essay.. i just like to talk a lot abt cartoons lol..
TLDR: this video is a really great in depth review that respects the new content as well as the old without falling into nostalgia blindness or fandom highlight pitfalls. a lot of the points you make are well informed and interesting as a result.
You can tell they actually TRIED. Peri stole my heart. They knew what they were doing. WELCOME TO THE SEXYMAN CLUB PERIWINKLE!
See, Nickoldeon?
We don't hate the Fairly OddParents.
We hate Butch Hartman writing the Fairly OddParents.
see what happens when you finally allow characters to grow up and evolve. you can make new fresh storylines and ideas
Ironic how the character that ruined the franchise ended up saving it, how the tables have turned.
That's because they've rebooted the character, to the point that Poof and Peri feel like separate characters. It's not the same character.
Poof himself didn't ruin it. He was a sign of the path it would take, but he was mostly, a neutral addition to it... Sparky though was a direct hit on the reputation.
That's because Peri's an adult; and You can do A LOT more with an Adult as a character than you can for an infant; Infants can't do much of anything other than Cry, Sleep, & Poop
@@New3DSLuigi364 is fiction Infants can fo everything, poof save the world in multiple occasions
@@firepuppies4086Yeah, literally nobody liked Sparky, that’s why he was dropped after the season he was introduced. Hell Chloe coming back would be more likely than him.
A sequel series that surpasses the original in almost every way?! I guess even in today's increasingly bleak animation landscape, mircales can still happen.
I'm not sure why TheMysteriousMrEnter calls it a reboot when it's clearly a sequel series. Did you see the video's title?
16:23 Hopefully, Season 2, especially with the Season 1 finale situation, could have more Winn and Jasmine moments.
I honestly am overall surprised at how well the sequel series flowed. Like it actually cared about both being its own thing and a sequel series. Nice work, A New Wish.
And more Antony.
It is actually gratifying to hear that I am not the only person to dislike it when shows use being "mean" as a substitute for actual comedy; I still really liked the original Fairly Oddparents because it actually had really good humor despite its tone, but there are other mean cartoons without this level of writing that I just could not watch as a kid (CatDog comes to mind).
Um, ackshually, it didn't end with "Certifiable Super Sitter", it ended with "The Kale Patch Caper". Or "Fancy Schmancy" in production order.
At this point; EVERYONE STOPPED CARING ABOUT THE OG SHOW AFTER CERTIFIABLE SUPER-SITTER
Funny thing is even in the Cerfitable Super Sitter review Enter points out that was just one of the last 22 minute episodes not the finale of the show. And you can't go "well that was years ago" when we just saw the re edit of that video come up a couple of a weeks ago and what he didn't rewatch it or something to see it more properly edited?
@@DianaGohan Something tells me TheMysteriousMrEnter was too lazy to re-recorded any of the audio and only made visuals changes to the re-edit because StarGiant Productions editing is garbage blah blah blah.
He covered it in the re-upload for CSS, it’s the point when the show became completely unwatchable and that’s why he says it ended with that.
When I saw Peri's introduction I knew immediately that he'd become one of *those* characters that Tumblr fangirls will become obsessed with for a couple months.
MLP G4 was probably a foreshock of the attitude change against mean shows.
To say nothing of the kids that grew up watching it that want more of it now.
I think Phineas and Ferb played a role too. To quote Doug Walker, one of the main appeals of that show is that "the characters are incredibly sweet, despite them living in a world that's very cynical and obviously plays on this predetermined fate that some of these characters are never gonna get what they want."
I feel that afterwards, the "sweet and genuine characters living in a cynical world" has kinda been the norm in animation.
The fairy godparents actually acting like godparents and actually caring about Hazel's wish and offering to update it is amazing!
Now I'm wondering if this could work with a Danny Phantom or Jimmy Neutron reboot where they fix certain characters who were really annoying (Sheen/Sam) and make them entertaining or at least less annoying.
You should watch the animated DC movies from the 2010s onward, most of those movies are NOT retreads of the comics they are inspired by. Some you should check out first is Batman VS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Superman Red Son, and Superman/Batman Apocalypse. These movies are under the radar and most are solid.
I'm happy to hear you include that it's not as cynical as original, which isn't a pro or a con in this case.
As you've said, it's a style, and while I do get a bit of a saccharine myself, I can't claim that the show is bad at all, or that it improved on the original on that fact alone.
I hold things like this against Korra or TNG or Extreme Ghostbusters or Milo Murphy. I want to see legacy characters but I don't want them to over shadow and I don't want them forgotten
13:50 don’t forget about Bob’s Burgers that’s also a cartoon that’s not mean it’s also a show that depicts a wholesome and healthy family dynamic.
Whenever Mr. Enter has an appreciation for a show/movie, you *KNOW* you are in for a good time! 😉
I'm still waiting for them to add cleetus the rapping shark
Shark
The thing I find the most interesting about Peri is that he is basically season 1 Cosmo
It's insane how well this show turned out. I am in the camp that likes this show better than the original. I don't think Butch has a ton of involvement in this one, but man it fixed so many issues.
Cosmo and Wanda are so much more balanced in terms of intelligence, Peri is an ACTUAL character, Hazel is a great protagonist. Hopefully Nick doesn't Nick and finally decide to kill off FOP the second it gets good again.
13:19 - 13:42 That in a nutshell perfectly explains why I can't enjoy shows like Rick & Morty or Bojack Horseman, no matter how many people swear up and down that those shows are "hilarious." I admit that I haven't seen those shows to completion, but there's a reason I haven't done that; from what I've seen of them, Rick & Morty and Bojack Horseman are straight-up misery pr0n, and if there's one thing I don't need in my life, it's misery pr0n... which, on reflection, may be the reason why I hate Beastars so much; because it doesn't even TRY having fun with itself.
I was never interested in Rick and Morty and Bojack Horseman. While it’s because I’m just a huge fan of South Park, I thought that most adult animation shows not only suffer from executive meddling but like this video, how the writers can easily lose focus on the show that the lore is completely gone
Same with me, I thought Smiling Friends would be the same as those shows, but then I gave it a chance, and man, it really breaks the standard format of adult cartoons.
Honestly, the main appeal for Bojack for me was the fact that the show used continuity to give the main character several chances to be a better person, instead of resetting to be a nasty miser because "it's easy" or "it's okay in TV Land", even when it seems impossible to change. Lines like "I was born with a leak" or "everything is meaningless" aren't the lines that stick with Me. Lines like "it gets easier" or "You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around" are what stick with me. It's not just about a miserable scumbag who hates life. It's about a miserable scumbag learning to be less miserable and embrace life in all its messy glory. Otherwise, Bojack's suicide attempt at the end would've worked, as opposed to him being rescued, and forced to accept that he's at rock bottom, and that there's no where else to go but up.
It helps that, unlike Rick and Morty that goes back and forth on telling an ongoing story with its nihilism, Bojack's cynical side is meant to go in a direction.
@@kylemorello4787 I honestly don't get the appeal of Bojack at all. Maybe it's because I have an inherently sunny disposition, but I can't even FORCE myself to like nihilistic shows like Bojack. I can handle dark or even mean spirited shows, but even the darkest, meanest shows I've seen in my life - Beastars notwithstanding - at tried to have some fun with themselves (whether or not they succeeded); something that - in what I saw of it at least - Bojack never does. In fact, I got the impression that Bojack not only takes perverse pride in wallowing in misery, but also had active contempt for anyone trying to enjoy themselves (just like Beastars, now that I think about it).
TL;DR: If I want to indulge in something that's just misery for misery's sake, I'll read/play I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
It's so refreshing to see Cosmo and Wanda being the two halves of a whole idiot again and have a happy marriage instead of following the annoying "I hate my husband/wife" trope that the old show stretched to death. All it took was getting Hartman's grimy hands off the writing team to make this show enjoyable again.
I didn't think Butch Hartman was even involved in this since I remember him making a big thing about leaving Nickelodeon years ago. Maybe now that Danny Phantom revival is on the table after all.
3:08 I think that example from Gumball really says it all as to why FOP (& Butch Hartman) Characters end up usually looking bad or unappealing when translated into 3D! Characters like Timmy, Chester, Cosmo, Wanda and ESPECIALLY Crocker & Timmy's Parents were designed to mainly look good from the SIDE! They're designs (whether it be the hair, the face or the portions) were just NOT meant to be seen or drawn in certain angles, such as Front-Facing! So, when you try to force their 2D designs into a Fully 3D Space, certain style aspects (such as the curved sideways mouth) will inherently end up looking off, creepy or hideous, even if model is pretty faithful to the original 2D design...
Butch heartmen is not making a new wish
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That's probably why it doesn't have the "pleasantness" of a cyst.
I think i got a hunch that this show was going to be something special the moment i heard the intro.
Now tbf, i didn't expect it to be THIS good, but the intro felt like this big sign that the team understood the show and actually wanted to have a new spin. A familiar kind of new, and watching it the whole way was TRULY something special.
Everything is just done better than the original. A godchild that actually learns and grows, 2 loving parents, Cosmo and Wanda being wholesome and silly together, an overarching plot, consistency with the lore, and Hazel wished that her 2 friends and her brother to know she has fairies.
I never really hated Poof, so I’m glad to see him back all grown along with some other characters and what they’re up to now. I hope we see more of that.
Cosmo had smart moments in the original what a cartoon run
Something I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention as a reason for this show's success is... This is the followup I wanted when I was a kid. I wanted to see who Cosmo and Wanda would move onto next! Very often, the original show brushes up against how Timmy would have to get older and say goodbye eventually. I wanted to see that part of the story! Seeing Cosmo and Wanda's next kid, with characters from the original series coming in occasionally in new roles - that is the direction I was interested in as a kid, not... magic babies and magic dogs and live action Drake Bell.
I like that Timmy isn't around but his actions hang over this setting. Insane comparison but it feels like a JRPG sequel where you're seeing the new main character butt up against decisions made by someone they have nothing to do with.
15:21-15:30 Well, in terms of changing Poof/Peri's character you mean by making go from a baby to a young adult. He never really bothered me as a baby as he was just a baby with no defined personality, but also lacked any unlikable traits. Thankfully he grew into probably one of my favorite characters just being the normal guy in the room having to deal with these maniacs.
Its like today's bullies are written with some humanity in them! That's what's was wrong with a lot of 90s and 2000s cartoons; they were filled with very mean 1-dimensional bullies who not only had little to no humanity in them, but also zero redeeming qualities; such as characters like Wolfgang, Francis, and Dash. At least characters like Buford Von Stomm, Pacifica Northwest, and Amity Blight are written like real people with humanity in them and not soulless assholes who have no reason, but to be soulless assholes! Writers have moved past that. It's not healthy at all and comes off as dated and poorly written!
Don't forget Gideon Gleeful from Zootopia. And, as long as we're counting Amity, Ronnie Anne from Loud House.
@@kylemorello4787was wrong with. Bullies being flat jerks not everyone needs depth as look at Eddy's older brother we don't know what he is other than being a child beater and that's all right we dint need any tragically or him having a soft side and him being a domestic abuser is all that's needed to make the Ed's accepted by the kids.
Or Brintty Wrong the only morden Mean girl to never get nicer and again that's all right . Plus theys the opposite problem where they try to give the bully depth but it's too much of an ass pull such as Dimond Tara and Garble as them having an abusive mom and was just an act is a difficult pill to swallow to the point you would rather them stay bullies .
@@nicholassims9837 there's nothing wrong with it. It's a style. It's just nice that we're getting more bully characters that feel real and likable.
@@kylemorello4787 where would you place Kevin has his beef with Eddy is more jerk vs jerk as neither one has the moral high ground plus Kevin isnt a flat character
You do know some people are just evil right
New wish surprised me. The writers learned from the mistakes of Butch and fixed certain characters (Cosmo) and created endearing new characters (Dev). I really hope a S2 is confirmed soon.
Wow, so happy to hear A New Wish is actually really good quality. Hope they either continue it or end it on a high note so it doesn't share the same fate as the original series.
2:09 No! Poof isn't the one with that title. I aould say that title goes to Sparky the magic dog
15:26 They can rewrite his character completly easily, because guess what, that is what puberty does
16:57 They now physicly can't become AJ and Chester, because spoiler alert: they now know about Cosmo and Wanda, thus will get a metric tone of screentime
Im genuinely suprised of how good the reboot was. I hope they get a season 2
Makes you think WHY didn't they do this instead of that odder live action non-sense?! In fact, this should happen after Channel Chaser (but Poof was in it, so that Peri would make sense) Hazel is just a gem and a sweetie and I'm so happy to see Cosmo and Wanda act like their two halves of a whole idiot characterization. Then there's Poof or should I say Peri our little baby is all grown up, despite what you thought about him in the past you can't help but feel like Cosmo and Wanda when you see him again
I think there is a big difference between being dark and being cynical or nihilistic. I don't think Bojack is nihilistic, neither is Moral Orel, Invincible or Daria. Stories generally don't just wear their heart on their sleeve, most find some way of hiding it, and whether that cover is dark or light, depravity or escapism, it's the heart underneath that really matters.
I think the show has the possibility to mitigate the human friend characters getting shafted just from the status quo change in the last episode of the season. By making Hazel’s friends in on the wish, they can more directly interact with a larger variety of plots.
All it takes is effort, put effort into something and it can become something truly great.
It’s nice to see that, even after I’ve been burned so many times in the past decade, the new entertainment that’s out there can still surprise me.
0:40 haha nice pun intentional or not
I love they got rid off of the " I can't, I'm married" (aka " I hate my wife") boomer humor