#Amphibia season 1 ep 3 series

It wasn’t noticeably serialized right out of the gate.

A lot of people looked at the more episodic problem of the week formula that the first season followed and didn’t think twice about it until the finale came along and shattered the status quo. I believe this was a good choice for the show but also a big reason why Amphibia was so underrated for so long.

#Amphibia season 1 ep 3 series

Suddenly making the show about all of Amphibia during this season wouldn’t have worked and expanding the view beyond Anne’s growth would have made it so that moments later in the series wouldn’t have felt as earned. That the scope we saw in the first season will be widened exponentially. And that final shot in season one before the “End Part I” showed up on the screen where we see Anne and the Plantars overlooking the valley while hugging perfectly encapsulates how the world has now opened up to them. This is bigger than we initially thought. And it slowly opens the world to us by introducing one of the toad towers in Prison break, halfway through the season, then Reunion opens up how much the events of the season have effected the rest of the valley.Īll these actions that felt like they were occurring in a vacuum have wide reaching consequences. The first season keeps the focus on Anne’s growth and how she learns self-love through her relationship with the Plantars. It allows for a gradual build up to the huge scale of the third season.

Amphibia is about friendship, change, growth, and becoming your best self and that’s what the first season is just on a smaller scale than the second and third.

This show knows what themes are at its heart. This season falls into a few of the usual trappings that almost all first seasons do but its biggest strength is that it knows what the series is about at its core and it focuses on that. The choice to be an episodic comedy series works wonders for this season and I believe makes Reunion and season two hit all the harder. Amphibia season one was really fun and had an amazing finale.