Ola saying "I love you, dude. I love you like a friend." to Adam was so weird. Two episodes ago she had to point out that she's his coworker from the picture. She's the new kid but suddenly she has deep connections with the people around her? I have 13 Reasons Why flashbacks...
I do think it's problematic that Adam used to be Eric's bully and Adam does need a lot of development and learning how to talk about things, but I think I like him more with Eric than Rahim. Rahim seems so... emotionless? Kind of similar to Ola. Ola is nearly always happy and careless and smiley, and Rahim is always emotionless and matter-of-fact. Eric is so loud, bubbly and extrovert that I'm surprised both of his love interests are so the opposite of him. But I feel like Adam could be louder and more open if he actually came out of his shell. We already saw him laughing a few times with Eric and I would like to explore that tbh.
At first I was a bit annoyed that we're at the same endpoint as season 1, but then I realized that Adam's now out of the closet, so hopefully season 3 will move forward with that. (And I desperately need more happy scenes with Adam because my heart hurts watching him.)
The ending with Maeve/Otis/Isaac just annoyed me. I don't really need Maeve and Otis together, but that was such a cheap twist. It felt so forced to keep them apart even longer now, ugh. If they at least decided to stay friends or something, but this was literally "person A confesses feelings but person B never got the message" trope bullshit. Writers need to remember that you can have the main characters be together and still continue the damn story.
I enjoyed this season, but there was too much love triangle and "will they, won't they" stuff. Jean/Jakob/Remi, Ola/Otis/Maeve, Eric/Adam/Rahim, Ola/Lily drama for a few episodes. And Viv has feelings for Jackson now which I hope won't be too problematic. I would like to see more platonic friendship scenes, therapy scenes or whatever. Not everything needs to be love drama. I feel like it wasn't that much and forced in season 1.
That was pretty bad.
I kinda feel that the writing team probably thought, "Hey, that meta Disney+ joke is gonna be hilarious" but it was just plain awkward.
Also, positioning Corbin Bleu, who is playing a fictionalized version of himself, as a jerk in the first episode was way too out there, since the majority of the audience who knows who Corbin is irl, know that he's the furthest from a jerk as one could get. Idk, it's just not very believable. Though, I was very happy to see Jason Earles again. He's a very underrated comedic actor, in my opinion.
The original song was great. On the other hand, what 16 - 17 year old is ever gonna be that excited to be in "Frozen: The Musical", even if they are theatre kids. That was so dumb.
Ricky finding the harness so out of nowhere was just way too easy. Also, those new characters feel so out of place. Why are so many OG characters missing all of a sudden anyway?
I know, I know, the show's not supposed to be Emmy material, but the writing in S1 & 2 was really well done, and this episode was just plain sloppy.
