On this very special school holiday, life is turned upside down when a Royal and Rebel switch sides… and the Storybook of Legends goes missing.
Thronecoming! Possibly my very favorite of the specials. In the doll world, this was another 'super expensive froofy dress' line, and frankly I loved every bit of it. I had Cupid (I still have those cool wings though), and still own Raven and that gigantic book playset with the Briar. Every so often I will take it out, unfold it, and stage pictures, because it really is just amazing.
This one clocks in at almost a full hour, and we're treated to the slightly extended theme song. Fun fact, for the final special, Epic Winter, I'm pretty sure they replace it with that 'Power Ballad' Power Princess Shining Bright.
Here's a better episode for all the girls involved.
Apple White may be the fairest of them all, but there are more than tiaras and tea parties in the typical day of this busy Royal.
AKA: "Please stop hating one of the two people this franchise is built on when we made her really unlikeable because we want your money."
One of the comments at the source wonders when we will see Apple with her glasses. Yes, in the story books and her diary, she mentions needed glasses, but refuses to wear them because it will ruin her ~perfect image and that's all she tries to be.
Never mind the fact that other people wear glasses, like Rosabella, and they're reasonably cute and stylish. "Glasses make you weird and nerdy, girls!" What another nice message that both the visual and written medium fails to resolve.
Introducing the blandest characters that Mattel never stopped trying to force on us, Holly and Poppy O'Hair, the twin daughters of Rapunzel.
Holly is the younger one who wants the Rapunzel destiny [long hair], and Poppy is the older one who doesn't [short hair]. That's supposed to be a secret. It was probably going to culminate into something, but just like Cerise's secret, ha ha, I can't believe you thought EAH had some sort of follow through.
This is when people started to realize how insanely same-faced most of the white girls were. Besides hair, and even then only slightly, there's not a whole lot of distinction between Apple, Blondie, Poppy, and Holly. Especially in their dolls. Note their eyes here - kind of a very very pale green. Their dolls all have teal-ly blue eyes. Hmm.
I'll give credit where it is due; They do try a little harder with Holly than Poppy. She knows she's going to be in a tower for years, so she's a writer. She's got an agent and everything, and has rewritten her classmate's destinies and put them on her blog. Poppy just cuts hair. Maybe they thought her wearing pants and having short hair was personality enough.
A) The next pair introduces characters that we won't be rid of will play a role until the series' death.
B) I'm not even bothering to review one of them very seriously because you can see the conclusion a mile off.
Rebel's Got Talent
(They really like calling back to reality shows)
Raven Queen and Sparrow Hood go head-to-head in a wicked awesome guitar duel at the annual school talent show.
Raven auditions to Grimm, who asks her "What evil act are you going to perform?"
Because she's the token goth, she's musically inclined. Wouldn't it have been interesting if she wanted to be a writer instead of Holly? That truly takes 'I want to write my own destiny' to a new level. Holly could have created love ballads or whatever, but her One Trait is cool too.
What if she killed a student who didn't have a serious destiny? Would Grimm care?
She starts playing a pretty cool guitar. The song is weak though, and Grimm agrees, though he tries to trot out "YOUR DESTINY" shit and she stops him, pointing out that she's still here after rejecting her destiny.
Grimm says well, anyway, too bad, Sparrow has already signed to play the guitar, who slides onto the stage to be obnoxious, until Raven glows with magic and comes close to losing her temper...which Grimm likes, and lets her play her guitar.
When Cedar Wood™ enters the Royal beauty pageant, she inspires Apple White™ to spellabrate the true meaning of beauty.
Ashlynn is sitting with her new Rebel friends, and asks if anyone wants to go shopping after school. When the others agree, Cedar jumps in - she can't, because she joined the Royals Beauty Pageant, but she didn't tell anyone because she thought that they thought it would be silly. "But I love being awesome, empowered girls!"
When Raven Queen™ decides to sign up for Princessology, Apple White™ decides to flip the script and sign up for Home Evilnomics to spite her roomie. Though, she may get more than she bargained for...
One of the few times these girls actually go to class. And where Apple is likeable. Double feature!
Spring is in the air at Ever After High, and following their true heart's desires is the only thing on students' minds. Or it was, until C.A. Cupid came across The History of True Hearts Day book and rallied the students to spellebrate the long-lost True Hearts Day holiday.
Welcome to Spring! The season of romance! And brief character catch-up introductions!
Ashlynn and Hunter are in the forest!
Apple is walking around being admired by every boy within arm's length.
Another girl is behind her and gets ignored by everyone except a goat.
Welcome back to Chapter 2 of our Ever After High retrospective.
I want to point out a few things;
* I will watch the specials that I can find easily. 90% of the time, I do not own Netflix, and truth be told, the later specials don't matter anyway besides looking nice and going to different places. Dragon Games is kind of an exception to that, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
* Some episodes are listed in a bit of an odd order between sites, both on the wikia (which is a good resource) and Mattel's actual upload. With the exception of some episodes with clear chronology, it doesn't really matter.
Holly is the younger one who wants the Rapunzel destiny [long hair], and Poppy is the older one who doesn't [short hair]. That's supposed to be a secret. It was probably going to culminate into something, but just like Cerise's secret, ha ha, I can't believe you thought EAH had some sort of follow through.
* I will watch the specials that I can find easily. 90% of the time, I do not own Netflix, and truth be told, the later specials don't matter anyway besides looking nice and going to different places. Dragon Games is kind of an exception to that, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
