Lunar Sea Spire

GC13, Soren, and David discuss  Through the Looking Glass Ruins from The Owl House. It’s a Gus-focus episode, but Luz and Amity still find a way to steal the show with their trek through the Forbidden Stacks. Their unnecessary trip; communication is key to any relationship, including your relationship with your boss. But when Gus turns on the illusions, he’s playing for keeps. Willow i...

GC13, Soren, and David discuss  Keeping Up A-Fearances from The Owl House. So, yeah, there’s no nice way to say this: Eda’s mother has been taken in by a con artist. At least they get what’s coming to them in the end. But despite all that ugliness, this episode also does a lot to move the story along: Gwen tells Luz about Phillip Wittebane, and we find out that not only has Camil...

GC13, Soren, and David discuss Young Blood, Old Souls from The Owl House. It took a long time to get here, but we finally made it: the finale of the first season. And while everything is appropriately epic, the second season has just left it in the dust. The revelations of the first season are just outclassed by the revelation of the second season. Still, it’s great to look back and see the...

GC13 and Soren discuss  Echoes of the Past from The Owl House. We have a whole lot more context for this than we did right after the episode aired and so much of it is still a mystery. We think we know what the intention was, but we only think… At least King is doing alright now. Even if neither of us believe that his horn piece should fit so well. And yes, next week we  will be discussing t...

GC13 and David discuss  Cursed! and  Fiddle Me This from Amphibia. Finally, Maddie gets her time to shine. She may be well-versed in the dark arts, but she’s a good witch at heart (Azura crossover when?), and would never curse someone just for breaking up with her by text. And Sprig is good with the fiddle. Like, really good. With a competition the next weekend, a mere nine days of training...

GC13 discusses the latest news after the great HBO Max purge. It wasn’t something any of us wanted to see. Numerous cartoons were removed from HBO Max, including such Lunar Sea Spire favorites as OK KO, Infinity Train, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, and Summer Camp Island. Nothing more has come out officially, but Owen Dennis, creator of Infinity Train, has shared what we was able to learn a...

GC13, Soren, and David discuss  Agony of a Witch from The Owl House. This is it, the lead-in to the season finale. Lilith and Eda throw down with an impressive fight scene, and Eda finally learns why her sister was so insistent that she join the Emperor’s Coven. Of course, it’s not the penultimate episode of the season if it ends with everyone happy, and Lilith has us covered—King even...

GC13 and Soren discuss  Wing It Like Witches from The Owl House. If this is the obligatory sports episode, don’t you regret that we never got the obligatory beach episode? Luz is so good at breaking down tropes. We could have learned a lot from her (though nothing’s going to top the montage explaining what montages are). So, put on your Ricky soundtrack and get to hunting for that rust...

GC13 and David discuss  Family Fishing Trip and  Bizarre Bazaar from Amphibia. A family-building episode, and a plot-advancing episode. Oh so slowly, anyway. Maybe as slowly as Anne is picking up parasailing. At least she has Sprig to show her how it’s done, and to maybe accidentally try to kill Sylvia. Whoops. So Hop Pop is actually a terrific actor. He had the entire bazaar eating out of t...

GC13, Soren, and David return to season one of The Owl House to discuss  Enchanting Grom Fright . Well, here it was: accidental Lumity. Accidental on Luz’s part, anyway—Amity enjoyed what she got. Luz even got to bring out her otter with a dark side for picture time, though the photo never made it into the episode proper. And don’t forget: the origin of the tree. You know the one. From...

GC13 and Soren discuss  Escaping Expulsion , continuing with The Owl House’s second season. Well, we’ve officially met Odalia, and she’s just as wonderful as we thought she was. At least she’s no liar: the Abomaton really  won’t stop going until it’s killed Luz. And since Luz has to finish the presentation to get her friends back into Hexside… Yeah, she pr...

GC13 and Soren discuss  Separate Tides from The Owl House. No, don’t adjust your browsing device, we have skipped ahead four episodes to the start of The Owl House’s second season. We want to discuss the last episodes of season one with David, so we skip for now. And what a skip it is. If you’ve already watched The Owl House then you know how much changes after season one, and ev...

GC13, Soren, and David discuss  Understanding Willow from The Owl House. Remember, when your friend falls ill at school, it’s important that you take them straight home without going to the school nurse at all—the school nurse probably isn’t a criminal willing to perform illegal medical procedures. Also, consider this a reminder that forming parasocial relationships isn’t healthy...

GC13 and David discuss  Really Small Problems from The Owl House. In a world where wild houseflies are intelligent enough to serve as steeds and follow complex instructions involving not eating food, it’s probably a good thing their hairs are so fine, even on a very small scale. It just gets weirder where it’s also a world where someone would rather add an unpaid snack seller to the st...

GC13 and Soren discuss  The First Day from The Owl House. That’s right, we’re back to The Owl House! It’s Luz’s first day in a magical school. With a hat that can sort– we mean choose your coven track? Well, at least it’s not a boarding school… How much foreshadowing do you see in season one? How many callbacks? There are a lot of bread crumbs left in The Owl Ho...

GC13 and David discuss  A Night at the Inn and  Wally and Anne from Amphibia. So it’s another episode with cannibal frogs in one season. What are the odds? Probably a lot better than someone being careless enough to store vinegar right next to baking soda with Anne around—that’s a choice they’re going to regret. Plus, Wally and Anne have finally bonded. Anne’s come a long w...

GC13 and David discuss  Snow Day and  Cracking Mrs. Croaker from Amphibia. Snow Day loads up Chekhov’s Gun with some sleight of hand, but we’re not mad: those pictures Anne and Sprig took were too darling. Plus, the hibernation episode wasn’t anything like Survival of the Idiots, so that has to count for something. Plus, Sprig is a popular boy now (boy now, boy now). It’s j...

GC13 and David discuss  Croak and Punishment and  Trip to the Archives from Amphibia. So Anne has finally found out why it’s dangerous to have her hair taste like foliage; Sprig has probably also broken the land speed record. He makes a good bad cop too, though he’d probably make a good good cop as well. Unfortunately no cicadas made it into the recording, but David did have a frog joi...

GC13 and David discuss  Civil Wart and  Hop-Popular from Amphibia. Did someone say “Hop Pop episode”? Because Hopediah is becoming a popular man. He’s at least more popular than Hunter. Stupid Hunter. Where would he even be without his fantastic abs? Whether Toadstool won his election fair and square or not though, at least Hop Pop has his stand back. Thankfully the market surviv...

GC13 and David discuss  Grubhog Day and  Hop Pop and Lock from Amphibia. If you have trouble reading that first title as anything other than “Grubhub Day” then we feel your pain, and we’ve got just the medicine: a groovy electro swing beat from Hop Pop and Lock , minus the electro! Don’t wonder why the Mayor is back, by the way: it’s more interesting to wonder why he...

GC13 and David discuss  Toad Tax and  Prison Break from Amphibia. Well, it’s official: the plot has come to Wartwood. Three thugs from the tower deputize Anne, but in a startling display of maturity she actually earns the respect of the townsfolk rather than enjoying lording it over them. Meanwhile at Toad Tower, Sasha introduces everyone to the power of compliments. Use them, people! You&#8...

GC13 and David discuss  Lily Pad Thai and  Plantar’s Last Stand from Amphibia. Looks like Anne is at it again, and this time Hop-Pop is getting in on the scamming action. Whether you see the connection to Fred Flintstone or not, you have to admit it: the man’s a good actor. But Anne has also proven her skills in the restaurant industry. Whatever hand your spatula is on, whatever your s...

GC13 and David discuss  Contagi-Anne and  Family Shrub from Amphibia. And so on our four hundredth episode we return to Frog Show, with Emma Plantar and Polliana: the turnt-up warrior. Truly the Plantar family shrub is impressive. As was the no-twist twist in Contagi-Anne . We should all hope we have such amazing family lairs hidden in our own secret basements—and that whoever is responsible for s...

GC13, Soren, and David discuss  Adventures in the Elements from The Owl House. There’s just something about snowy episodes, isn’t there? Maybe it’s just that there’s no snow in Texas—only Dr. Pepper. But to stay out of the baby class (for babies) Luz needs to learn how to make ice, and she needs to do it without a training wand. And maybe after she learns it she’ll ev...

GC13 and Soren discuss  Sense and Insensitivity from The Owl House. Crunch culture is a heck of a thing, isn’t it? If a writer hasn’t come up with a sequel to his bestselling novel in 24 hours, then the levelheaded thing to do is obviously to trap him in a shrinking cube with his co-author and a one-hour death timer. Or not. We’re not in publishing though, so what do we know? We...