Centaurworld

We never even got a scene of the centaurs in boot camp.

How much worse is the second half?

I always wondered how something like Centaurworld ever got made, then I saw reports on how Netflix creates content based on their algorithm, and everything made sense.

Their algorithm saw that musicals, cartoons, wacky hijinks, and mature topics were all popular so created a cartoon that hat all that, despite how bad those topics tonally clashed with each other.

You can also tell the first season they were trying to make everything the algortithem wanted fit together, as surprisingly the disparate tones somehow fit, but by the 2nd season they were just throwing things in.

>no soundtrack album for sale
Maybe Netflix's finances wouldn't be in the toilet if they sold people the shit we want.

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Same. It was fun while it lasted, at least.

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The fact that there's no merch AT ALL is baffling. What was the point in making a show if they're not even going to attempt to cash in on it with tie-in stuff?

Or shows that can be renewed for several seasons, everything they do is either be super shitty or super short

FUCK BECKY APPLES

>I gotta say, Horse's backstory powers were bullshit.
How so? She already had them in S1.

>Centaurworld was written by the manateetaurs
based?

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It's a classic hero's journey. Of course it feels more "right" and easier to understand. They tried to do the unwinding of it all in the second season but that stuff is uncommon in a serial show. It got really muddled and sort of confusing. Still overall a great show and I'm glad it was made.

She said in that faggot's interview that she's getting back into comics to take a small break from show stuff. Then she mentioned looking into possibly writing a stage play. Could be fun. Definitely going to be horny.

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You thought season 1 was chaotic and they were bullshitting everything? Nigga boy are you dumb. Season 1 was the most concerted and well choreographed effort I've seen a cartoon pull off for its story. They definitely knew what they were doing.

You can buy the soundtrack albums for both seasons on spotify, itunes and jewmazon, I mean amazon.

Favorite background character(s)?

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It made sense for the tree shamans to have the power to show Horse Wammawink's past so she can sympathize with her. Horse should be a horse through and through, no latent magic or magic in the future whatsoever.

>Horse should be a horse through and through
>no latent magic or magic in the future whatsoever.
Honestly, I don't get your posts.
First you're praising S1 over S2, then you're saying that the main theme of S1 (Horse being gradually transformed into a wacky magical creature through centaurworld's magic) was wrong???
>latent magic
You're making it sound like Horse was some magical unicorn princess all along, while the opposite was true. Horse's backstory magic was a spell earned through her S1 character development, it represents her newfound empathy for the creatures different from herself that she used to look down on, her ability to adapt and change for the sake of the ones she loves, her journey of becoming a unifier and a bridge between the worlds, as opposed to the villain of the story.

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Oh no, it's great Horse became wibbly-wobbly to show that she fits in in Centaurworld. I don't like her having magic though. I don't count changing appearance as getting magic. I want Horse to be a character who will go to great lengths for her friends despite being an "ordinary horse".

God I want to squish those beachballs.

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>I don't like her having magic though. I don't count changing appearance as getting magic.
But her transformation into two beachballs WAS magical, that's the whole point of it, she was becoming centaurified. It wasn't just about her appearance either, her tail came alive at some point and started telling dad jokes which was explicitly referred to as a spell, there's a whole song about it. I don't get why she's not allowed to have some useful magic like all the other centaurs.
>I want Horse to be a character who will go to great lengths for her friends despite being an "ordinary horse".
Except she stopped being an ordinary Horse 5 minutes into the show, when she gained human-like sapience while arriving in the centaurworld and things only went downhill from there (well, not for me.)

I always thought of the talking tail as part of Horse's transformation and spells to refer to all manifestation of magic, not just powers or magic performed intentionally.

Horse isn't a centaur though. She's a horse. She shouldn't have magic and frankly doesn't need magic to be a hero.

>Horse isn't a centaur though.
And neither is the Woman, but she still got useful magical powers from her time in the Centaurworld. She wasn't even beachballified, she only got purple hair.
>She's a horse. She shouldn't have magic
Horse is not a centaur, true. But she's also not a regular horse, she became a MAGICAL horse, so it's only logical for her to have magic.

The implication of the talking tail song was that Horse spent S1 going through a traumatic magical puberty, so basically, what you're saying is that she only deserved the worst parts of puberty, like period cramps, teenage angst, and acne, but none of its perks.

>and frankly doesn't need magic to be a hero.
She was heroic from the very beginning, but she did need centaurworld's magic to reunite with Rider, and she needed her backstory spell to stall Nowhere King.

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Not a lot, and even then any shortcomings is made up for in the finale.

I want to inflate Wammawink to an enormous size.

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The Elktaur didn't have a nose but the General and the Nowhere King did, how?

We really don't know much about the Woman. It seemed to me that she always had magic in her since she's a royal and her hair turned purple from starting to embrace Centaurworld.

Horse shouldn't have become magical. She should be a talking pair of beach balls with rainbow tears, but can't perform any magic.

I know "Baby's First Spell" was about puberty, I just didn't think Horse's changes were anything close to puberty. Horse was changing because the world was changing her, not because it was automatic or biological.

Horse needed the magic of friendship(TM) to reunite with Rider, but since I say Horse shouldn't have magic, that means the Nowhere King backstory would have to be rewritten.

I remember what I wanted to bring up in the Centaurworld thread: Do you think the twist of the General and the Nowhere King being the same person was decently foreshadowed? The only hint that we could attribute to his true identity is the General having his arm in a sling, and I gotta say that's ambiguous at best. If we were drip-fed episodes, I doubt anybody would have ever made the connection that the General was injured because the Nowhere King was defeated in the Rift.

>It seemed to me that she always had magic in her since she's a royal and her hair turned purple from starting to embrace Centaurworld.
I think it's less that the Woman herself is magical, and more so that Centaurworld itself is magical, and anybody that wanders into it can channel that energy.

Does MegaDong's husbando count?

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I don't think we're going to agree here. In this case, it's not a bad thing. I see the show differently than most of the users here. I wished the show was about finding balance between your serious side and your goofy side, not about entirely giving into your goofy side.

Not that user, I disagree but I get what you mean. I liked how she was just a regular dumb horse who could still do great things and be a hero. But she's not as good as Becky Apples. That gorgeous fancy fuck.

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The Owl House would've been better if Luz couldn't use magic and couldn't go to school with witches. Then the show would be about her strengths as a human rather than an expat.

I don't know about better but that would've been more interesting. Luz isn't up to it though. She's weak and frankly too retarded.

Yes, it was cancelled.

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It ended. Not cancelled, though they were open to doing more episodes.

Centaurworld is going to be remembered as an anomaly and somehow one of the best shows put out by Netflix. The show just narrowly avoided the whole fall of Netflix animation. It's amazing something as weird as Centaurworld even got greenlit.
She's not an interesting or good protagonist.

They're not centaurs.

>I just didn't think Horse's changes were anything close to puberty.
I think "puberty" was their way of saying psychological maturity. Horse went from being emotionally retarded to being emotionally strong and that helped her realize her powers.

Horse and Woman aren't goofy. Horse thought the scrunchy game and hootenany party was stupid and that was close to the finale.

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>The Elktaur didn't have a nose
Because most centaurs are noseless, unlike humans. General was a human, so he had a nose. Duh.
>Nowhere King did
No.

>It seemed to me that she always had magic in her since she's a royal
I don't know why you would assume that, especially since you just agreed that she got her purple hair from centaurworld magic. The topic of hair wasn't even touched in the show, but it was basically plainly stated in the party flashback that the Woman learned her magic in centaurworld. Humans were never hinted to have any magic, it's implied that its very existence became forgotten in the human world after the sealing of the rift.

>Horse shouldn't have become magical. She should be a talking pair of beach balls with rainbow tears, but can't perform any magic.
Literally why. Do you hate her or something?

>I know "Baby's First Spell" was about puberty, I just didn't think Horse's changes were anything close to puberty.
>Horse was changing because the world was changing her, not because it was automatic or biological.
I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make with this, but it still feels like you're contradicting yourself. Anyway, the puberty is just a metaphor, the process of learning individual spells is clearly more diverse/complicated than that, for actual centaurs too. For example, Wammawink went to shaman school to learn magic.

Again, Horse became a magical being, so it makes perfect sense for her to use magic and get better at it with time. You made it sound here like the talking tail spell wasn't a "real" spell, but this doesn't seem to be supported by the actual show. I mean, the other centaurs explicitly called the tail Horse's first spell, and it doesn't seem to differ much from, say, Glendale's portal tummy or Durp's talking farts. It made sense for Horse to get a spell that she eventually learns to control and that actually does something useful.

I think with the woman she had the capacity to do magic but only once she was exposed to Centaurworld's magic did her hair change.

I love Horse. Most of the time, Horse's strengths come from her loyalty, resilience, and sympathy. I feel like she doesn't need magic to be great and having magic is more of a crutch so she can fit into Centaurworld or an excuse for the writers to tell the backstories of characters.

The herd called prehensile eyes and wobble legs spells too. I think spell is just a generic term to refer to how magic manifests itself.

wanted more horse and becky interaction

How does this show have so much praise? It was not revolutionary and didn't get a chance to explore most of the ideas.

I mean, what other shows out there mix musical theater with heavy themes, goofy bullshit, and an actually fantastic villain? And do it WELL?

Would you say the suicide episode was revolutionary? Other shows have addressed suicide, but never with the amount of grace Centaurworld did.

Centaurworld may not be revolutionary, but what it did it did well. I'd rather have something cliche of quality than something revolutionary that is weak.

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You act like there is a wealth of cartoons that are better. Hell, name three. You can't faggot. This cartoon is based and actually good.

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thank god this show got out the door before netflix started being stupid about animation

>I think with the woman she had the capacity to do magic but only once she was exposed to Centaurworld's magic did her hair change.
Facts don't care about what you think.
Technically what you said here is correct, but I still don't get where you got the "because she's a royal" part from. It wasn't stated in the show, and according to the interviews, the Woman got her magic and purple hair because she loved centaurworld and wanted to be more like its denizens, that's why centaurworld's magic was able to transform her a little. It's all about the state of mind and being open to change.
>I feel like she doesn't need magic to be great and having magic is more of a crutch so she can fit into Centaurworld or an excuse for the writers to tell the backstories of characters.
Horse needed to see those backstories to bond with her herd and get over herself, which in turn allowed her to end the cycle of hatred started by Nowhere King.
To do that, she had to sacrifice her old physical form, a powerful spell was only a fitting reward.
>I think spell is just a generic term to refer to how magic manifests itself.
Yes. And?

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The royal part is an assumption- do you really think her family, the royal family, just happens to have magic? Or did they become royal because they have magic? I think the latter is the better answer.

Horse was already bonding with the herd pretty well. She got to see the stuffiness of horsetaurs and understood why Ched hated them. The backstories of Glendale and Durpleton could have been told via generic flashback. I'm also someone who thinks the Nowhere King story needed a lot more development.

I love the shot of the herd surrounding Horse as they dress her in the footie pajamas.

>The royal part is an assumption- do you really think her family, the royal family, just happens to have magic? Or did they become royal because they have magic? I think the latter is the better answer.
They don't have any magic. There's nothing in the show supporting this, and if there is, you failed to mention it. You pulled the whole thing out of your ass.

>Horse was already bonding with the herd pretty well.
But she was also frustrated because she wasn't able to recruit any centaurs and her Rider got a new non-beachballified horse. The backstory spell managed to get her out of her head, helped to boost her confidence, strengthened her bonds with the herd, and reminded her what she's fighting for, in one fell swoop.

>I love the shot of the herd surrounding Horse as they dress her in the footie pajamas.
Yeah, it's pretty nice.

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That's the cutest beach ball I've ever seen.

Me too, probably one of the best executed cartoons I've seen in a long time. Season 1 was pretty flawless, it's a shame season 2 wasn't nearly as good. The finale being what it is makes up for the general lackluster season 2 though IMO

Was the Nowhere King/General twist foreshadowed clearly enough?

>I love the shot of the herd surrounding Horse as they dress her in the footie pajamas.

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