The Dragon Prince Season 7

Alright I need to air a few things about the most recent TDP season, so spoilers below for suuuure. 

Now overall I thought it was really strong. I definitely liked it more than seasons 4 and 5 which entered one ear and left through the other. But they super didn't stick the landing on this one y'all.

Not to gloss over the things I liked in favor of complaining, but I'm about to do that. I loved seeing Callum and Rayla interact with Runaan and Ethari. I loved seeing Ezran come apart at the seams and not be a perfect king a little bit. Terry finally left Claudia and I cheered. I really really liked seeing Callum struggle with his inner demons and his impulse to use dark magic.

Anyways, to skip to the end, the writers then proceeded to undercut it all. The archdragons sacrifice themselves to destroy Aaravos, even though he will regenerate in seven years, and there's a big happy ending.

Issue number 1 I have is that there are zero emotional stakes for the viewer. We haven't seen the archdragons all season, they hop in at the end for an episode or two and to take out the big bad. Callum tries to do dark magic but gets interrupted, Ezran finds the Novablade but doesn't get to use it. So it makes no sense to go with the dragon sacrifice option because the Novablade is literally right there! Instead of him regenerating we could just be done with it but that plot point goes nowhere. It just sets it up for the next arc without wrapping things up because that's how Netflix works now I guess.

Other issue is the happy-go-lucky ending with them founding a town where people will be nice to each other or something. Now this could be fine, but also the thing that was interesting about season 4 was seeing the conflicts between elves and humans as they try to coexist. If there's just a time jump and we see people living happy lives without any conflict or lingering trauma, that is so uninteresting to me. I want to see the hard conversations that have to arise and the fact that rebuilding trust and community takes work!

And I didn't expect this to break me, but then Zym spoke and Dante Bosco (of Zuko voice fame) came out and I LOST IT. Started screaming on the spot. Not because I hated it, but it just so doesn't fit Zym's small, chirping body. I hope that he gets a little bigger and grows into that deep voice but OH MY GOD it doesn't really fit at the moment.

And then the thing that baffles me is that the show might not continue, so what I was seeing leading up to the show was that the writers would give us an ending. And uh, no not really. There's the fact that Aaravos is returning, and they finally confirmed that Harrow is a bird now. And where has he been for the past seven seasons? Don't leave me on this note please...

All that to say is that I sure hope that the third arc gets greenlit and we get the rest of it because I sure CANNOT leave on this note. We need a more satisfying ending (and also I need Soren and Corvus to kiss) alright that's all.