Washups of Waverly Place

This season of Wizards of Waverly Place has been alright… but a little weak. Sure, it’s only been 2 or 3 episodes, but with a huge fake cliffhanger, Alex and Justin losing their powers, Alex quitting the competition, Mason’s return, and Max probably winning the competition, I might actually be happy that the show is possibly ending. The only thing I like this season is the new theme song, and how they didn’t choose ugly random poses for the clips. In a new episode I’m watching, the Wizard Council is breaking up Alex and Mason because ‘werewolves always eat the human!’. I’m not a Mason fan, but ugh. They couldn’t get a better reason or plot to break them up? Or at least open the purse strings to buy wardrobe for those WC? Seriously, snuggies that are just bedazzled with things from the local craft store shouldn’t count as wizards, for Disney. Their sister channel, ABC Family, has 24/7 Harry Potter marathons. The only reason why this Mason break up (Which won’t last, probably) is good, is because that could open a possibly Mason-Alex-Dean love triangle. Alex and Dean had growth in their relationship, where as Alex and Mason just had a love montage (Or a parody, anyway). If Juliet and Justin hook up again, that would be nice.

I mean, I already was starting to have several problems with the show in season 3, like

• Why was Stevie’s wizard revolution plan so bad? I understand if magic was finite, how that would pose a problem, but really? Killing her because she wanted all wizards to have power? On a Disney show?
• Why was Alex trying to shoo away Juliet and tell us that she has no hope to come back to a normal life when Alex later tried really hard to get Mason back? I’d be pretty pissed if I was Justin.
• Why is everyone all ‘Mason I miss you! <3333’ in the new episodes when he told Juliet he loved her? TVTropes and TV without Pity say that Mason also physically hurt Justin, but I don’t remember that part of the episode… so yeah. But really, how many of us would miss someone who basically cheated on a family member? And physically harmed another one, too?

But I still watched the show, as it was the best thing on Disney Channel, IMO. It’s not too babyish (SLOD, Shake it Up! and Sonny with a Chance, I’m talking to you) or too fake-drama-y (Hannah Montana, JONAS LA) and it has continuity (Sorry, Good Luck Charlie). And everyone on the show is kind of a legit actor/actress (Maria Canals Barrera has done a lot of guest appearances and voice over roles, David Henrie is on How I Met Your Mother, David DeLuise is from the DeLuise family, has done a lot of guest appearances, and 3rd Rock from the Sun, Selena Gomez has a CD or two, and been in Ramona & Beezus  as well as that new Monte Carlo movie [And has done a lot of stuff for UNICEF but that doesn’t count for her acting :P] and Jake T. Austin, who turned 16 yesterday [Happy birthday, Jake!] has done Go, Diego, Go!). But yeah, it’s confusing plot holes weren’t that bad, but now, it might actually risk my interest. Then again, I’ve dedicated 3 years to this show, I don’t have Disney on Demand anymore, and I know Disney will drop it after they air the finale, so I want to see how things end.

Side note: Now there’s an episode where the Russos are hanging out with a rich family. It reminds me of any Roseanne season 9 episode. I really hope Russo Child #4 makes things better.

Not Again, Disney!

So, Hannah Montana on Disney Channel recently had Miley/Hannah break up with her ‘true love’ Jake for cheating on her. Keep in mind that he’s an actor and the picture of him cheating could’ve been a picture of him from a movie, although he didn’t deny cheating. But anyway, now Miley is single again, and, she likes some guy from last season. She ends up ignoring her Dad and rescheduling a Father/Daughter day with him to go out with Jesse, the guy. Then, on the date, Jesse takes a call from his Dad, when Miley flips out on him, saying that she had to leave her Dad for a day with him, and he can’t ignore one phone call. But… Jesse’s Dad is in Afghanistan! Then the commercial ends with ‘A special performance by Hannah Montana dedicated to military families’! Okay, no offense intended to military families or anyone, but it bothers me how Disney just summed up the episode in 20 seconds. Yes, I’m still going to watch it if I’m home, but it bothers me that now others won’t because they summed it up. And for this special, important episode, they spoiled the plot, but for other random episodes, they don’t tell us anything.

They’ve done the same with Good Luck Charlie, like the episode with the anniversary. ‘The kids plan a special anniversary dinner for Mom and Dad! But will plans fall apart? *Cue showing Charlie ruining the Moroccan theme*’. And then that episode where Teddy sucks up to her teacher ‘Teddy’s teacher doesn’t like her! So will she use Charlie to help her?’, and then they said something about Charlie being gassy. Basically, they always spoil the episode within the commercial.

The only show they haven’t done this for is Suite Life On Deck (I know who’s getting eliminated kicked off, but from outside blogs, not Disney), and it’s basically on it’s sixth season. Wizards of Waverly Place doesn’t get spoiling commercials, but… misleading commercials, which are just as bad. And Sonny With a Chance? My brother figured out who did it in the one hour special, Sonny with a Secret, before that episode even aired.

That iCarly episode where she gets a brand new room had not 1, or 2, but 3 places to stop the commercial! ‘It’s Carly’s birthday!’, ‘But there’s a disaster!’ and ‘Her new room/Spencer saves the day’, but not actually showing the room! I was gonna watch it, until I realized, A) It would be on reruns(I haven’t seen it yet D:), B) It would be on Demand(It’s not there, either), and C)They already showed pictures of her room online, so I’m not really missing anything. This commercial spoiling thing is a multi-network phenomenon!

But overall, I’m happy Disney did a special episode, but they should’ve just end the commercial with ‘But will a phone call ruin their date?’, then show the performance clip .

And the picture above is from Google. No copyright issues intended. ^^;

Another Reason to Hate Disney

I’ll start this post off with restating that yes, I’m a 15 year old boy who (still) watches Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. And it’s not as mind numbing as everyone says it is, or at least some of the shows are watchable. So anyway, I haven’t seen any new episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place in a while and I read that the last few episodes of this season will be big (According to TVTropes, anyway), so I was concerned that either A) Disney realized it has more than tweens watching it so they’re screwing it to end it or B) Disney aired only a few promos for the new episodes, and it got blocked out by Phineas and Ferb or Suite Life on Deck stuff.

But guess what I found out on Wikipedia? The fourth season and second movie will be the last parts of the series, and then they’re just gonna cancel production on it.  Yes, I understand that 4 seasons and 2 movies is a lot for a kids show, but still. It’s going to end around 2011 or 2012, whereas other shows on Disney got like 6 years of production or marketing, and tons of merchandise and music, concerts, and dolls(Hannah Montana) or they were on Disney for 3 seasons, then they got a ‘spinoff’(I use that term very loosely), and are still surviving another 3 seasons(The Suite Life series. But seriously, it’s basically 6 seasons of the same show.) So why can’t Wizards survive? If the trio(Well, David Henrie and Selena Gomez, anyway) are getting too old, can’t they just add some adult humor, retool it a little, and send it to ABC Family? I mean, seriously! They already had an episode where Alex(Selena Gomez) kills someone (Well, freezes, then unintentionally breaks into pieces and shrug off). Can’t they just make it like Sabrina the Teenage Witch more?

So, in another Disney news… that Den Brother movie aired. Just from watching those commercials, I knew what the entire movie would be. Main kid(Hutch Dano or something?) is annoying, gets in trouble for ego, takes care of annoying sister and friends(G… something. Couldn’t they shorten her last name, too?), ‘hilarious’ montage takes place where Hutch dresses up as their (female) adult chaperone, antics which only embarrass and kill any chance of Hutch’s career outside of Disney occur, then Hutch goes out on a date with random Girl. RG then goes like ‘What? You’re a jerk! I hate you! You suck!’ or something among those lines, and then this is when Hutch decides to change his act with the help of some annoying background music, which totally isn’t symbolic of anything. Then there’s something involving hockey, like a game against the rival team, and while Hutch takes annoying sister and friends there as a ‘field trip’, one of the team members on the hockey team get injured (Bonus points if it’s the former best friend) and Hutch has to sub for him or something (It’s Disney, and I don’t get involved in sports, so I’m not sure if that’s allowed), but there’s some regulation about… I don’t know, but they don’t let him play. So then, brilliantly, annoying sister plays! And there’s some random moment like potential love interest for Random Girl on the rival team crosses the line and almost knocks the sister out, and then there’s a slow motion/suspense moment where, guess what? The little sister wins the game. And then the Random Girl falls in love with Hutch and the movie ends with a song, which is probably performed by Hutch or the sister. Bonus points if it’s a duet.

Yeah, I need to watch less Disney.

Disney’s Double Trouble with Double Standards

Remember how when I started this blog, I said it would be less random? Well… I kind of lied. :X

So with me having like no homework on Memorial Day Weekend, I was bored, and decided to go on the Free On Demand section that I get with Verizon. And since I still watch Disney Channel as well as Nickelodeon(To be fair, I started re-watching their shows after reading TVTropes, they provide kind of different and original views on shows), I checked the Disney section out.

I was watching Suite Life On Deck, because I had nothing else to do. And there was that ‘Bermuda triangle alternate reality’ episode, but instead, Zack and Cody just became separated at birth. The twins switched personalities with each other, and normally, everyone on the show hates Cody for being sensitive, disliking sports, applying himself in school, and so on. But in this episode, they hated Alternate-Reality Cody because HE was a womanizer, could care less about school, lazy and so on. Okay Disney, let me get this straight, so it’s okay to hate friendly people in one world, and then the exact opposite in the other? In the AR world, everyone was all ‘shame on you Cody DX’ to Cody, but in their ‘real’ world, everyone hates Cody for being friendly and sensitive. Seriously, that whole episode was just Cody abuse. They didn’t even have a moral of ‘Extremes are bad, moderations are good’ or anything, just ‘Be careful what you wish for’.

And then, I heard that JONAS is getting a second season, but the whole show is being remodeled, revamped, and rewritten, because the Jonases are ‘moving’(Truth: JONAS failed to attract viewers, merchandise, or anything, so they’re doing everything they can to save it.). Oh, so when a show that doesn't have eye candy as it's main stars doesn’t do that good, you have to kill it immediately, but when it’s a cash cow like JONAS(Who already have Camp Rock,  Living the Dream, their own music ‘career’, and other junk),  you have to try EVERYTHING to save it? Good gosh. With Hannah Montana ending(They have another special episode coming, this time on Military families), Suite Life having no end in site, Wizards wrapping up on it’s third season, and Sonny with a Chance having no chance, Disney needs to learn what to do with their shows. Oh, and Good Luck Charlie seems nice for now, but I wonder how the Jason Dolley curse will affect it.

 

Happy Memorial Day!