#h2o bad moon rising

[sunny-rants]

this scene altered 12 year old me’s brain chemistry

#lewis in the background casually trying to save zane’s life #h2o did not have to go this hard #rikki chadwick #zane bennett #emma gilbert #cleo sertori #zikki #h2o s1 e18 #h2o bad moon rising #h2o #h2o just add water #h2o: just add water #h2o jaw #rikki h2o #h20 just add water

[cleo-serotonin]

something i love so much about rikki’s character which is often overlooked is the way she knows exactly what to say to get someone to do something. she is a self proclaimed loner and it seems she doesn’t care much for people, but she is clearly always carefully observing others. and it’s not in a manipulative way either; when the others are at a loss for words to hide their secret rikki always steps in. i could make a whole list of all the times she’s done this

#she always knows what to say to others but doesn’t always know how to help herself #and this perspective makes bad moon rising even better #zane gets knocked out. sure he listened to her but he wasn’t actually able to help #Emma on the other hand…. #her and rikki sort of switched roles #anyways i think about this A LOT #rikki chadwick #h2o just add water #zikki #rikma

[dizzystqrs]

rikma be like 'oh no! my girl bff is in a vulnerable state! i will give her my jacket in a very earnest and totally platonic way. she will not know that i did this but i will know.' and they are so real for that

#i cant believe this happened twice #like it makes me feel so insane guys im literally like a preacher on the side of the road w a huge sign that says THE END IS NIGH #except it says RIKMA IS CANON and i am visibly frothing at the mouth #h2o just add water #emma gilbert #rikki chadwick #rikma #nothing will ever change how insane i am abt them i can tell u that #rikki x emma #btw if u arent caught up w The Jacket Parallels™ em tries to give rikki a jacket in bad moon rising & em has rikkis jacket on in moon spell #yup. insane girl things

[romantoy]

H2O: JUST ADD WATER 1.18 "Bad Moon Rising"

#h2o just add water #h2o jaw #h2oedit #zikki #tvedit #tvgifs #filmtvdaily #cinematv #2000s #*gifs #no comment. im on a personal journey

[clewis]

H2O: JUST ADD WATER | IMDB's top 10 rated episodes | Season 1 ↳ #2 — Episode 18 "Bad Moon Rising" — 8.2 ★

#h2oedit #h2o: just add water #h2o just add water #tvedit #h2o jaw #top10 #sooo happy i finally managed to use pink in a gifset lmaooo #h2o #mine #s1 #s1top10

[opalsiren]

whatever she wants

h2o: just add water (2006-2010), 1x18 'bad moon rising' / phoebe bridgers, 'graceland too'

#is this about rikki doing whatever emma wants? or emma doing whatever rikki wants? yes! #h2o just add water #h2o #rikma #web weaving

[best-tv-theme-song]

Polls will start to be posted within the next week or so.

Bracket list under the cut!

UPDATE: LIST CANCELLED

*Starred shows have multiple theme songs or I have combined shows in a franchise in an effort to include as much as possible. These will have preliminaries built-into their polls on the first round. This is how it works: 1. all of the songs will go into a poll together against one other show; 2. the COMBINED votes for those songs will determine which show wins that poll; 3. only the top voted song for that show/franchise will move on, if the show has won the poll. (If you are confused it will make more sense when we start, I promise!)

The 100

30 Rock

9-1-1*

The Addams Family

Adventure Time*

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

All That

The Amazing World of Gumball

American Dragon: Jake Long

Animaniacs

Arcane: League of Legends

Arrested Development

Arthur

Assassination Classroom*

Austin & Ally

The Backyardigans

Barney & Friends

Barry

Batman*

Bear in the Big Blue House

Ben 10*

Better Call Saul

Beverly Hills, 90210

The Big Bang Theory

Big Time Rush

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Black Sails

Bluey

Bob the Builder

Bob's Burgers

BoJack Horseman

Bones

Boy Meets World

The Brady Bunch

Breaking Bad

Bridgerton

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer*

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Charmed

Cheers

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Choo Choo Soul

Code Lyoko

Codename: Kids Next Door

Cold Case

Community

Cory in the House

Cowboy Bebop

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend*

Criminal Minds

CSI*

Cyberchase

Danny Phantom

Daredevil

Dawson's Creek

Death Note*

Desperate Housewives

Detective Conan

Dexter

Dexter's Laboratory

Diff'rent Strokes

Digimon*

Doctor Who*

Dora the Explorer

Downton Abbey

Dragon Ball*

Dragon Tales

Drake & Josh

Ducktales*

ER

Ever After High

The Fairly OddParents

Firefly

The Flintstones

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Fraggle Rock

Frasier

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Friends

Fringe

Full House

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*

Futurama

Game of Thrones

George Lopez

George of the Jungle

Gilmore Girls

Glee

The Golden Girls

Good Omens

Gravity Falls

Grey's Anatomy

H2O: Just Add Water

Hannah Montana

Hannibal

Happy Days

Hawaii Five-0*

His Dark Materials

Horrible Histories

House, M.D.

How I Met Your Mother

How It's Made

Hunter × Hunter

Huntik: Secrets & Seekers

I Dream of Jeannie

I Love Lucy

iCarly

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Jeffersons

Jeopardy!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*

Jonas

Justice League

Kim Possible

The Last of Us

Laverne & Shirley

Law & Order*

LazyTown

The Legend of Vox Machina

Leverage

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Little Einsteins

Lizzie McGuire

Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies

The Love Boat

M*A*S*H

Mad Men

Madoka Magica*

The Magic School Bus

Malcolm in the Middle

The Mandalorian

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Merlin

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mob Psycho 100

The Monkees

Monster High

The Muppet Show

Murder, She Wrote

Murdoch Mysteries

My Babysitter's a Vampire

My Hero Academia*

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

The Nanny

Naruto*

NCIS

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

New Girl

NFL (various network themes)*

Ninjago

The O.C.

The Office

One Day at a Time*

One Piece

Only Murders in the Building

Orange Is the New Black

Ouran High School Host Club

The Owl House

Parks and Recreation

The Partridge Family

Phil of the Future

Phineas and Ferb

Pinky and the Brain

Pippi Longstocking

Pokémon*

Power Rangers

The Powerpuff Girls

Pretty Little Liars

The Price Is Right

The Proud Family

Psych

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

Reading Rainbow

Reba

Red Dwarf

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Riverdale

Rugrats

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

Sailor Moon

Sanford and Son

Saturday Night Live

Schitt's Creek

Scooby-Doo*

Scrubs

Seinfeld

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Sesame Street

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Sherlock

The Simpsons

Smallville

Sofia the First

Sonny with a Chance

The Sopranos

Spider-Man

SpongeBob SquarePants

Star Trek (instrumental themes)*

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Stargate*

Steven Universe

Stranger Things

Succession

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody*

Suits

Taskmaster

Ted Lasso

Teen Titans

Teen Wolf

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teletubbies

That '70s Show

That's So Raven

Theory of Love

Thomas & Friends

Tokyo Ghoul

Total Drama

Totally Spies!

Transformers*

True Blood

The Twilight Zone

Twin Peaks

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

VeggieTales

Veronica Mars

Victorious

Voltron: Legendary Defender

W.I.T.C.H.

The Walking Dead

WandaVision*

Welcome Back, Kotter

The West Wing

Westworld

What We Do in the Shadows

The White Lotus

Wild Kratts

Winx Club

The Wire*

The Witcher

Wizards of Waverly Place

Wonder Pets!

Wonder Woman

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

The X-Files

Xena: Warrior Princess

Yellowjackets

Yu-Gi-Oh!*

Yuri on Ice

Zoboomafoo

Zoey 101

#mod post

[asexual-spongebob]

Kwazii in chapter 16 of my fic (W/ paani)

It’s based off the h2o episode bad moon rising btw

#this was actually really fun to draw #I used the forest brushes to my advantage #octonauts #kwazii #paani #octonauts paani #kwazii x paani #octonauts au #the waves that lap the shore au #kwazii cat #octonauts fanart #kwazini #kitty giggles

[veronicalolsies]

IM ACTUALLY CRYING I MADE @jazperrb WATCH AN EPISODE OF H2O WITH ME (bad moon rising)

#h2o just add water #rikki h2o #emma gilbert #emma h2o

[momsopposed2theoccult]

Who wants to talk about it.

[First picture is the Spike and Buffy back porch scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode 5.07 “Fool for Love” and the second picture is the Zane and Rikki Mako Island scene from H2O: Just Add Water episode 1.18 “Bad Moon Rising.”]

#because i sure do! #btvs #h2o just add water #spuffy #zikki #buffy summers #spike #zane bennett #rikki chadwick #silly little bi4bi creature4creaturefucker boyloser4girlboss ships

[juicenet]

h2o: just add water episodes for halloween 🎃

regrettably, h2o never had an actual halloween episode, but hey… the show revolves around the supernatural, so there must be some episodes that are good for the spooky season, right? here are three that i consider halloween-esque:

1. fish fever (2x12)

this is probably the closest thing h2o has to a halloween episode. to jog your memory, this is when emma turns into a sea monster, and it’s one of the few horror-adjacent plot lines in the show.

2. bad moon rising (1x18)

i feel like the fact that this is a full moon episode gives it some spooky points by default. but also, it reminds me of firestarter (1984), and something about the episode gives me mild halloween horror movie vibes in general.

3. hocus pocus (2x05)

first of all, this episode shares a name with one of my favorite halloween movies. secondly, the whole wish-granting debacle and uncontrollable green potion reminds me of wizards of waverly place or something.

#h2o just add water #h2o #h2o jaw #halloween #h2o halloween #halloween special #emma gilbert #bella hartley #charlotte watsford #rikki chadwick #cleo sertori #2x12 fish fever #2x05 hocus pocus #1x18 bad moon rising

[cleo-serotonin]

the way lewis took care of zane after rikki burned him in bad moon rising 😩

#this would make a great fic #and zane wakes up while lewis is having a gay panic #god my mind is unmatched #zewis #h2o just add water #bad moon rising #such a good ep #lewis mccartney #zane bennett

[makosisland]

Rikki Chadwick and Zane Bennett H2O: Just Add Water | 1.18 — Bad Moon Rising

#h2oedit #h2o just add water #H2O: Just Add Water #rikki x zane #rikki chadwick #zikkiedit #tvedit #userbbelcher #useroptional #H2OGifs #* #gifs #s1 #1x18 #requested

[h2ojustaddmako]

Headcanon: Moon Fever - Why and How

Oh wow, two serious posts without 7 months of silence between them? Who am I? a blogging superstar or something? Aight, so last time we covered the origin of mermaids and the magic itself, as well as how their powers work (spoiler alert: electromagnetism is the key). This time let’s talk about a very common feature in the H2O universe (or the Makoverse, as I call it): The Full Moon Fever.

The moon fever, as Rikki dubbed, it refers to the effect the full moon and its reflection have on mermaids. I believe sometimes they also refer to it as moon spell, so I might go back and forth between these two names.

First, let’s go over what we know: once a month, on a full moon, every mermaid that looks at the full moon or its reflection goes somewhat crazy; the side effects are changing, but all within the range of new power gain and/or enhancement of powers, memory loss, and impulsive irregular behavior.  Let’s go over every instance of a moon fever in the first two seasons of the original show (as in season 3 they’ve mastered their control over it):

- Moon Spell, Emma on her dad’s birthday - The Siren Effect, Cleo sings like a siren - Bad Moon Rising, Rikki sets Mako ablaze - Stormy Weather, the girls get new weather powers - Moonwalker, the girls go camping on Mako - Moonstruck, Ash surprises Emma with a romantic dinner - Unfathomable, Charlotte’s first (and last) full moon

With 7 different cases to look upon, there’s plenty of material to create a theory. In every one of these episodes, at least one mermaid gets affected by the full moon. But why is the full moon dangerous to mermaids?

In Mako Mermaids we learn that not only the full moon is the source of all mermaids, it is also the source of their magic and energy. Basking in its light or swimming on full moon nights gives mermaids a great feeling and is a great mood boost. Mature mermaids like Sirena, Lyla and Nixie very much wait to the full moon with great anticipation. However, when tutoring Zac and Evie, they imply the full moon can be dangerous if you can’t control yourself, and moon spell control is something young mermaids are being taught early on. Why is this important? Because it reveals the true face of the full moon spell: it is good for the mermaids.

On every instance of the full moon, two things repeat: One, the moonstruck mermaids have an urge to go into the water, and two, they want to swim to Mako as well. Let’s examine what might be the best episode for it, Moonstruck, where first Cleo, then Rikki and Emma, fall under the spell and start acting goofy (and honestly adorable). Unlike some previous episodes, they did not gain any new powers, or set off on a mission to do something, they just act weird and keep talking about wanting to go for a swim to Mako. I believe that episode is the best example of the pure effect of the full moon - they are drawn to it. Just like the native mermaids, the electromagnetic energy of the moon draws the girls into the water because it feels good, it charges them up, and it is necessary for their “magic fatigue” (yeah, let’s call it that). The moon’s energy clears their minds off anything other than wanting to swim in moonlight, preferably in the moon pool, where they know the effect of the moon is the strongest due to the structure of the place (wuddup previous headcanon reference).

So, the moon draws the mermaids to Mako every time, sure. But why new powers? Why going out of control? Well, there’s an explanation for that as well. You see, in the book series that was tied with the first 12 episodes, we learn that alot of the way the mermaids control their powers has to do with their emotional state. We see it on the show as well; when Cleo gets too angry in Control (s2e2), she allowed her powers to take over her, thus losing her control over her abilities. But that’s for another post in the future. What we learn from it is that their mermaid abilities are directly tied to their state of mind, and while examining the episodes I mentioned, it is as clear as Emma’s ice.

In The Siren Effect, Cleo was embarrassed she couldn’t sing, and her greatest wish came true via siren singing. In Bad Moon Rising, Rikki’s self-saboteur gets to her, convincing her she’s the blame, and as her feelings start to burn inside her, she burns the world. In Unfathomable, Charlotte uses hydrokinesis and electrokinesis far beyond her experience as a one-month-old mermaid to mess with Emma’s appliances and create some good ol’ water snakes. In Moon Spell, Moonwalker and Moonstruck the girls have not gained any new temporary powers, but their recent feelings towards Byron, Charlotte and telling Ash the truth affected their behaviors. They lived through their daily struggles through a mermaid state of mind everytime, using whatever powers needed. (I left out ‘Stormy Weather’ to be brought up later on)

Now, why is that? In that future post I referred to earlier I will go over how mermaid powers are limitless, in the way that the idea that Cleo, Emma and Rikki only has certain powers is a lie, and that they could perform each other’s powers as well like Charlotte. I believe that the clear state of mind the full moon gives a mermaid, allows her to step out beyond her own understanding of powers, and with the energy of the full moon, she can perform power tricks she wouldn’t know how to do on a casual Tuesday night.

Okay, final part, Stormy Weather (pictured above). I left it out for a reason. To begin with, it feels like a normal full moon episode. All three girls fall under the moon spell, and get drawn to Mako. But that episode, out of all of them, stresses how important it is to let a mermaid follow her heart to the moon pool. That specific night was the seventh full moon since their transformation, including the night they transformed, as well as one full moon that happened between the seasons). In Mako Mermaids they refer to that moon as the Seventh Moon Cycle, a very powerful full moon that every mermaid goes through, on the six-month mark since her transformation. While not fully explained, I believe this enhances a mermaid’s power range, allowing her to perform tricks and moves way beyond her previous abilities, such as weather powers. Let’s consider it a mermaid puberty. The seventh moon cycle calls stronger than any before, and safe to assume that if the girls stayed at home safe, they’d never have gotten their enhanced powers. That being said, the new powers are permanent and should not be considered an effect of the moon fever.

So there you have it. The full moon fever mapped out to the bone. or at least I hope it is. If you have any more ideas feel free to comment below, I love reading y’all’s suggestions.

#h2o just add water #mako mermaids #Headcanon #mako: island of secrets

[rjalker]

H2O: Just Add Water season 1 episodes in the correct order:

Metamorphosis

Pool Party

Catch of the Day

Party Girls

Something Fishy

Young Love

Moon Spell

The Denman Affair

Dangerous Waters

The Camera Never Lies

Sink or Swim

The Siren Effect

Shipwrecked

Surprise!

The Big Chill

Lovesick

Under the Wheather

Bad Moon Rising

Hurricane Angela

Hook, Line and Sinker

Red Herring

Fish out of Water

In Too Deep

Love Potion #9

Dr. Danger

A Twist in the Tail

#h2o: just add water #h20 just add water #h20 #Rjalker watches H2O: Just Add Water

[opalsiren]

what do you think moonstruck bella would be like? I think she would be sort of ruthless or very very paranoid about everyone. Sort of a more emotional version of when all 3 girls got moonstruck when camping at mako with charlotte. Also we never got a scene with bella like the girls did when their powers were magnified instead she made jello :/

anon i am going to be the most annoying person on planet earth and quote myself from this post originally by h2o fandom icon @juicenet:

given that the h2o writers lowkey forgot to give bella flaws bella isn’t nearly as developed as the others, it’s hard to conceive of how the moon spell might affect her. perhaps she would go full 1x18 ‘bad moon rising’ like rikki and have a mental breakdown, proclaiming that she is meant to be alone? or maybe she would in fact act more like the girlies did in 2x17 ‘moonstruck’ and attempt to reveal the mermaid secret since she is usually quite reticent and guarded? i can’t see her becoming a siren quite like cleo did in 1x12 ‘the siren effect’ but i think this could be an interesting concept to play with since she is a singer. i wonder if she wouldn’t fall under a less fun version of emma’s 1x07 ‘moon spell’ lunar madness and act a little mean and abrasive, since being sweet and bubbly is… most of her character tbh

anyway every other comment on this post is god-tier but of course i am going to be That Person and quote myself sdfdsdfk

as for bella's lack of power-up, i do wholeheartedly believe that earthbender!bella should have been canon. to me, it just makes sense for her character. no she was not in the moon pool during the planetary alignment, at least not that we know of, but charlotte uses both aerokinesis and pyrokinesis post-transformation, so i think it's fair to say bella could have an elemental power despite this

#bella hartley #h2o just add water #ask #answered #thanks for the ask!