Duchess Swan believes she's destined to fail her Muse-ic Class project--until Humphrey Dumpty lends a hand.
Humphrey Dumpty is very excited to break some eggs - kill his relatives, I guess - and make an omelette, until he drops them down the stairs.
Kings Horses and Kings Men: New phone who dis.
Apple sees that he needs help, and sings a summoning melody. Unnamed princes come to her aid and beat Humphrey and his eggs with hammers. They repair him, but let's be honest, they absolutely beat him with hammers.
Humphrey thanks her, and she encourages him to help someone else. Which is good, because at least he would actually be helping someone physically. I don't think Apple physically really helps someone to detriment of herself until the climax of Dragon Games in...a long few chapters.
He goes walking through the Enchanted Forest, where he hears someone crying - Duchess is dancing on her lake and crying at the same time, getting that destiny started very early.
Professor Pied Piper is making them perform their destinies in Muse-ic class. He points out that Duchess is very musical, but she says that her voice sucks.
It does.
Wouldn't 'Not wanting to perform a destiny where I turn into a swan forever' be a bigger issue?
I guess she'll give herself the ""good"" version. She says that she'll possibly fail the class and ruin her grade point average.
Well, she says 'fairy point average' which is a stupid term.
Also, he said to perform the destiny, certainly not everyone, even fairytale princesses, can sing well. Surely the effort would be more important than the talent. And failing your entire class because you can't sing? The professors in this school kind of suck, don't they?
Humphrey takes out his Mirrorphone, "Maybe I can help you out..."
In class, when she's called upon to perform, she tells the professor to pass over her because she cannot sing. That's when Humphrey pulls out his phone and shows the recording of her dancing instead, which amazes everybody.
Pied Piper: That was exquisite! A plus. [He gives her a thumb's up.]
Duchess Swan: Oh, but, I-I didn't sing!
Pied Piper: Who said you had to sing your story? I just said you had to tell it through Muse-ic!
So Duchess is just a dumbass? Ok. She gets a bouquet of flowers and gives them to goats, 'paying it forward'.
It would have been a good episode if it was something like Cedar Wood Would Love to Lie - an obvious impediment that truly means one student cannot do the assignment. Here, Duchess just misinterpreted the instructions. It's not anyone else's fault she didn't understand.
I think Chapter 2 is a fair improvement. Characters with only brief spots in the first season like Lizzie, Dexter, Cerise and Maddie get fuller webisodes. They try to improve Apple (to mixed results) and Raven (To boring, trite results).
This season has the most episodes in any of the four listed, with twenty three. The next one will have twenty two, and the final one will have nine, because that's when everyone stopped giving a fuck.
One character that really improved Daring. In the beginning, he was seen as the stupider, male version of Apple, but while still narcissistic, the little peppering of bits (that are not kidnapping princesses or bothering them all day) of other personality is quite entertaining.
Blondie is also another person who improved a bit in my eyes - she's still too much of an Apple clone, but her enthusiasm for news is great. There's so many fashion and singing "I'll go my OWN way!" characters in girls' media, Blondie is truly the first one I've seen personally to be a news hound and critic.
When it comes to our four (supposed) leads; Briar is still the best girl, even if her sleeping shtick was written in because clearly, no one had any idea what to do with her on a large scale.
I don't like Apple personally, but her conflict and character is slightly more interesting than Raven, who is just a stock-standard goth girl.
Maddie herself doesn't irritate me so much - as this was when we were getting really oversaturated with Wonderland stuff, and I just do not like AiW. It's way overused. I know Mattel had to make people like this franchise (because casual observers had no idea this was a spinoff of Monster High, instead taking it as a complete rip off), but it still didn't work.
More Wonderland characters got dolls than any other story. The max everyone else gets is maybe two dolls a tale. Three, in the case of Snow White - it's been stated that Hunter is indeed the huntsman who is hired to go after Apple as well as the one who goes after Cerise.
I wish there was a more firm storyline in the way of Hanazuki - for something aimed at 7 year olds, that continuity is tight.
Anyway...
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