Chapter 1: Stark Raven Mad / True Reflections

Technically, The Tale of Legacy Day is the second to last episode in Chapter 1. So, we can simply move on to Chapter 1 itself and work our way down there. We're going to keep doing two episodes at a time. Luckily, they're only about two minutes long.

1. Stark Raven Mad
2. True Reflections
3. Maddie-in-Chief
4. Briar's Study Party
5. Here Comes Cupid
6. The Shoe Must Go On
7. The Cat Who Cried Wolf
8. Cedar Wood Would Love to Lie
9. Catching Raven
10. The Tale of Legacy Day
11. The Day Ever After
12. Replacing Raven

Here's Stark Raven Mad

Students and teachers try to get Raven back onto the path of villainy. 

We have Apple, Maddie, and Briar, along with some new faces; 

Kitty Cheshire, daughter of the Cheshire Cat (Who we shall see....later);

Professor Pied Piper (Whose daughter we will see...in time);

Madam Baba Yaga, who takes it upon herself to counsel Raven to walk along her born path;

Apple talks about how Raven ruined her new dress and had the gall to apologize about it. "You're not supposed to apologize, you're evil!"

Briar talks about a bungee platform she set up. She's not even really Raven's friend, or part of her story, since this was before they stopped pushing her as the Token Minority in the Advertising Quartet, she's just here to maybe sell a doll. Baba Yaga tells her to hocus focus, which is one of my favorite puns in the franchise.

Maddie likes Raven just fine.

And a criminally underused character, Lizzie Hearts, daughter of the Queen of Hearts. 

She's probably my third favorite character, but her design and model is hands down the best. The doll translation was always going to be lacking, especially in the hair department, but it could have been far, far worse. It's not so bad! 

There's a lot of cool music motifs for the new characters introduced. Lizzie gets some rock guitars.

Everyone starts babbling, but Raven has had enough for today, sending out a shock of evil magic that...only affects the Headmaster.

Oh, but he's pleased as punch she's finally doing evil magic...until she leaves, and he's still a chicken with a human head. And that's where it ends.

The episode gets the point across with how everyone feels about Raven on a deeper level (Sans Lizzie, really, I think that's the most interaction they have in the series, but we shall see.)

Onto True Reflections;

Apple is using her mirror with the rhyme as old as time - "Who is the fairest of them all?"

It kisses her ass and tells her that she is because the mirror also lives in a short sighted world and doesn't consider other people's feelings. 

When Apple goes off to borrow some jewelry from Briar, Raven tries to curl her hair ... with an evil spell. I kind of wonder if Raven could manipulate her words to work her magic non-harmfully. It's canon (until Way Too Wonderland) that her magic can be used for nothing but harm. Maybe something like "Good is the new bad,  good is the new bad, we can feel the mad love, I think that we should curl my hair." 

It bounces off her own mirror (Why and how?) and strikes Apple's.

You aren't friends unless you have stock images on your wall. 

When Apple returns and asks the mirror it's opinion, it goes "What do I think?!" and blows a raspberry, which prompts the girl to call this 'a royal fairy fail'. Have I said how much I like the slang in this world? The only bit I truly hated was when, in one of the books, Dexter greeted Raven with "What's Upon-ing", which was a tragedy.

They go off to look for another mirror; Briar simply has a small compact mirror that Raven snaps shut while Briar is doing her eye makeup for...no reason.

Blondie has a wall full of mirrors, but can't decide which one to pass off.

Finally, they ask to borrow Daring's mirror, and I feel that they should have foregone him entirely because of his narcissism. You're just asking to not have a solution there.

Back in the dorm, Raven admits to her mistake....which Apple knew about. She may be emotionally immature but she's not an idiot. She already had a new mirror on order. How plentiful are magic, talking mirrors in this universe? Why doesn't Raven have one?

Raven picks up Apple's broken mirror (did the talking spirit die within or something? So many questions.) and pretends to be it while Apple tries on all manner of crowns and jewels.

The episode ends with Apple going "Stay in character, be a good evil roommate!" over the closing theme, after Raven complains a bit, which is actually pretty funny.

It's interesting how Apple doesn't 100% push Raven to be evil in instances like this. You'd think she would insist on Raven not helping her, because what Evil Queen helps others, and doing the legwork herself. Which she kind of did, but Raven still went along to help.