#kataow season 3

[soofoo-s]

BOYFRIENDS

they are s o cute

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[rablerab]

That fucking mandrill sacrificed himself:

That fucking mandrill: call me Hugo..

My dumbass who was waiting for a happy fucking ending for that fucking mandrill:

#kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kipo netflix #dreamworks kipo #kipo #kipo season 3 #kataow season 3 #kataow season 3 spoilers #I'm dead inside. #wtf scarlemagne #kataow scarlemagne #kipo scarlemagne #scarlemagne #WHY DO U HAVE TO HURT ME THIS FUCKING WAY #HOLY SHIT #I DIDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT BECAUSE OF THIS #he doesn't deserve this #... #now i am fucking depressed shit. #now. we need some happy art of that fucking badass mandrill. #i don't wanna see him like this. #shit. #i am crying again. shit.

[mazoomlec]

they really had no business making her this sexy

#dr emilia #kipo spoilers #kipo season 3 #kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #age of the wonderbeasts #kipo finale #kataow #kataow season 3

[crowghostie]

Me at the middle of s3: I really like Scarlemagne’s big bro vibe, I sure hope nothing bad happens to him hahaha

Me at the end: FUCK

#im sad #kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #kipo s3 spoilers #kipo season 3 #kipo season 3 spoilers #kataow season 3 #kataow s3 spoilers #spoilers #hugo oak #scarlemagne

[hallowinspirit]

I’ve been rewatching KATAOW with my sister!

#kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #kipo #kipo oak #kataow fanart #kipo fanart #my art #winnie draws #kataow spoilers #kataow season 3 #kipo spoilers #kipo season 3 #kataow netflix #kipo netflix

[okamisense]

💚Jamack’s first appearance S1E1💚

💚Jamack’s last appearance S3E10💚

#kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #jamack #jamack kataow #kipo #kataow season 3 #kipo spoilers #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts season 3 #jamack appreciation #lovely frog

[morganpdf]

(points) MULLET GAY! MULLET GAY!

#kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #kataow kipo #kataow spoilers #kataow season 3 #kipo spoilers #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts spoilers #my art #daughter. all grown up. #points again: she. she/they bisexual. look at her #how many times will i draw people floating in space? who knows!

[shepherdfeathers]

Regular frog Jamack!! Look at him!! I want to squish his face he’s so damn cute

Never mind the terrifying implications of the loss of sapience, just observe the cute frog and forget all that angst

KataoW finale highkey broke me, I was not expecting that much permanent damage to be done. Thank god my favorite frog man is safe and happy

#kataow #Kipo #Jamack #kataow fanart #art #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow season 3 #kataow s3 #kataow spoilers #spoilers

[mossiestpiglet]

An incomplete list of things wrong with Kipo S3

What the fuck do you mean it’s been months???? The first season took place over ten days, the second about that same amount or less, yet we’re supposed to believe that people who can accomplish that much in that little time got nothing done for months????? That scarlemagne was in a glass cage with no bed or toilet, not visited by anyone but kipo, FOR MONTHS????? That Emilia and co somehow was able to keep a cruise ship operating and feed at least a hundred humans on it without being noticed FOR MONTHS?????

Benson is apparently the cooking guy now instead of being the music guy, the thing we’ve had two seasons of development for, which much of his character and relationships are centered on, you know the thing which mulholland saw was his greatest fantasy. Nope! He’s the food guy now.

Now that jamacks arc is “done” (because the creators say it is) he’ll never have a serious moment again unless it’s to show that Kipo Is Savior

Both kipos parents are around, the kids are in a village full of adults, and yet a 13 year old is still considered and encouraged to be the leader in a fight that is openly known to be against eugenicists who want her dead

Completely unnecessary back story about Emilia. We already know that she’s a eugenicist, a philosophy inherently tied up in white supremacy, and that she’s 100% down to murder children. We don’t need a backstory about her having an also eugenicist dad and gay sensitive brother who she murders to support her agenda. It’s wholly unnecessary.

All the post season talk about Emilia feeling guilt over murdering her brother is 1) bullshit artistically and 2) completely something the character would not feel because she’s set up to represent everything horrid about eugenicists. She wouldn’t feel guilt over killing her brother because she would see him as having either been a threat himself or having already been corrupted by mutes, in which case she would just blame mutes for his death.

Song was not asked if she wanted to become human again immediately, and that’s an important question since it means that she can never be her mute self again. This is another example of the show falling off the train of saying humans and mutes are equal because whenever it does have to choose between a human and mute- they chose the human.

Songs recovery to having a human body again goes way too quickly, basically all just brushed over so that she can become just “kipos mom” instead of her own character

Songs relationship with scarlemagne is also given far less weight than kipos in s3 or than Leo’s was in s2, despite the fact that song spent just as much time raising him as Leo did and knew him much better than she knew kipo. For a variety of reasons song would likely feel closer to scarl than she does to kipo, at least at the beginning of the season, and that should have been featured.

Scarlemagne s characterization just went way off, possibly because he was locked in a glass box for months, you know, like when he was imprisoned as an adolescent

Narwhal horns are their teeth, I know these are mutes but come on. Don’t be cowards, put the horns where they belong.

Among the things which are clearly done for plot convenience but fall apart the second you remember anything from a previous season: the “cure” really shouldn’t have worked on song in the first place. She became a mute due to the same mutagen which affected scarl and kipo, and it’s the mutagens signature within kipos dna which allowed Emilia to make the “cure”. Kipos dna itself isn’t a cure or the code or anything, and if they said it is in the show I will shove my entire biology degree down the throat of whoever’s idea that line was. The cure has to be based on the mutagen, a mutagen which created the mutes of kipo, scarl, and song, and therefore all three of them should be immune to it.

There will be more but I gotta stop now before I ruin my whole bath with terrible-plot induced rage

#kataow #kipo season 3 #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow season 3 #kipo s3 #kataow s3 #kipo oak #Leo oak #song oak #dr. emilia #scarlemagne #benson kataow #benson kipo #kipo meta #kataow meta

[the-irreverend]

Dumb scam owns me none!!!!!!!!!!

Heh heh, get it?...

...I’m such a tool.

#kipo #kipo season 3 #kipo season three #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts season 3 #kataow season 3 #kataow #kipo s3 #song oak #lio oak #kipo oak #jamack #kipo jamack #kipo greta #newton wolves #good billions #bad billions #yumyan hammerpaw #dr emilia #kipo zane #kipo dave #kipo troy #kipo asher #kipo dahlia #umlat snake #kipo benson #kipo wolf #kipo mandu #scarlemagne #mandu

[dualswordskings]

just finished Kipo. i'm crying.

dont get me wrong i'm happy but like. that hurts

#kipo season 3 #dreamworks kipo #kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #kataow season 3

[soofoo-s]

How did I only now realise Kipo's hair in the 5 years later epilogue matches her hair as a mega jaguar?!

What a cute detail, I love this show !

#dreamworks kipo #kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kipo netflix #kataow season 3 #kataow spoilers #kataow #kataow s3 spoilers #kipo spoilers #kipo season 3 #kipo s3 spoilers #mine own post #mullet #hair #mega jaguar #jaguar #kipo season 2 spoilers #kipo s2 spoilers

[hennawar]

MULLHOLLAND IN KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONDERBEASTS EPISODE 3.04

zoop! almost forgot my hat.

#kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kataow #mullholland #kipo season 3 #kipo #gifs #kataow season 3 #kataow s3 #kipo s3 #zaracreates #kipo mute

[mazoomlec]

Kipo S3 E1: Everything is Crabs

#kataow #kataow season 3 #kipo #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kipo season 3 #everything is crabs #hmufa #mine #my edit

[queer-cartoons]

So. That was... beautiful.

I'm so grateful the team was able to give this series the ending it deserved. I have a lot of thoughts about the ending itself, but I'll save them for future posts.

In the meantime, thank you, Kipo crew. I know I've only been watching this show for a single weekend, but I think it's one of the best modern animated series to exist right now. I'm really, really glad I got here in time to send it off.

💜

#kipo #kataow #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #kipo s3 #kataow season 3 #i was going to tag this as spoilers but its not so #kipo netflix #that was one of the best shows ive seen in a long time i mean it

[fruitytrollroll]

kipo s3 was cowardly and here’s why

i just saw someone say "it's good they didn't cure the demutagen'd mutes in the finale because it shows they're brave enough not to undo emotional moments" and i was going to reblog it but i didn't want to be negative on op's post. op if you're reading this i respect you, but you deserve better than rad sechrist. rad sechrist does not understand us.

kipo s3 criticism ahead!

tl;dr: kipo s1 and s2 espouse themes of compassion and equality for all sentient creatures, but season 3 fails to treat the ego death of mutes with the same gravity as the ego death of humans -- nor is a comparable effort made to restore mutes to their former states. this demonstrates that on a narrative level, the writers do not consider the good of mutekind to be as important as the good of humankind, which is fundamentally a betrayal of the themes established in s1 and s2.

so, in response to "it's good they didn't restore sentience to the demutagen'd mutes because it shows they’re brave enough not to undo the emotional moments": i completely disagree

they did "undo" the emotional moment. yumyan's predicament was ultimately unearned. why did he come with them? to be cannon fodder? it would have made more sense to bring scarlemagne -- he has a personal grudge against emilia, and the stakes would have been higher, and maybe kipo could have taken a demutagen dart for him and it would have been a good sibling bonding moment

but back to what actually happened.

yumyan's transformation is quickly treated like a joke so the village can hunt him down and radicles sechrist can shoehorn in an ad-libbed bug joke by dave's VA (which is an unfortunately apt example of the overall narrative planning devoted to season 3) and while Bill got that dramatic line about dying stars, the emotional sincerity is immediately undercut for laughs so Leon can vainly try to bully his dead brother into a sweater. like he doesn't understand what just happened, for some reason. as if wolf mutes who pride themselves on being EVOLVED don't understand what it would mean, philosophically, for one of them to be UNEVOLVED

this take chills me to the bone because season 3 is actually terrified of emotional sincerity. every "emotional" moment is a cheap, unearned "gotcha" moment -- song and lio crying by scarlemagne's side as he dies in an exhaustingly overdone "death = redemption" moment we all thought was subverted in the season 2 finale? when scarlemagne has been imprisoned in a convenient glass cage for months (and don't even get me STARTED on how badly that must be retraumatizing him, but dont worry about that), and outright tells kipo that she is the only one who visits him? (read: SONG AND LIO DON'T VISIT HIM)

"oh our family is back together" WHAT family!! what are you talking about, song!! scarlemagne acted as your monkey interpreter and then you ghosted him as soon as you didn't need him any more! how is this "emotional moment" satisfying, or sincere? it's a cheap attempt to invoke our pathos that they didn't even bother setting up. yea i did cry but it wasnt because radicles sechrist SUCCEEDED here, it was because he failed his characters so utterly and i was so angry that i wanted to kill him!!!

brave??? season 3 was so rife with predictably bad writing and tropey nonsense that the task of calling a more cowardly narrative to mind escapes me!

as for NOT curing the mutes, we have evidence that lio and song ARE capable of creating mutes from old world animals (exhibit A: scarlemagne). for SOME reason rad sechrist said on instagram that "a cure for the demutagen was never possible" which makes me absolutely crazy, scarlemagne is RIGHT THERE. they could only make the demutagen in the first place because they reverse engineered it after their work on scarlemagne.

i would be slightly less annoyed by this if rad gave a sensible reason that it couldn't be done, but it seems like he literally just forgot? the fact that they didn't even consider HOW it might be done demonstrates they didnt even consider DOING IT, which is ridiculous, because mutes and humans are supposed to be equally worthwhile and valuable forms of life, right? WHY CANT WE ALL RULE, asks kipo of kipo s1.

yet in s3 it is IMPERATIVE to cure emilia from her self-inflicted mega mute mistake, even though a new consciousness has formed? an innocent, scared, giant walrus thing? doesn't that thing deserve to live?? no, and one might make the case that emilia was there first so she is the one who deserves to be restored. but that's not the reason kipo gives -- it's that "no one deserves to lose themselves like that"

but the SHOW doesn't even believe this! because curing the mutes was patently possible, but they didn't even CONSIDER it! oh my god!!

like, the issue is a complex one -- ego death usually is! for example: would the re-mutagen'd mutes remember their former lives, after having their lived experiences squished down to fit in an animal brain? i think their memories might be hazy, kind of like memories of early childhood, but still a little bit there. they'd still be different people, but isn't that worth something?

take it this way: if a mad scientist turned me into a Capuchin monkey, and my friend's parents were reformed mad scientists who knew how to turn Capuchin monkeys into people -- i HOPE that they would go to the effort of turning me back into a human person, even if it's an amnesiac one! instead of... you know... keeping me around as a pet??? that's ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING.

in conclusion, kipo s1 and s2 espouse themes of compassion and equality for all sentient creatures, but season 3 betrays that completely by failing to treat the ego death of mutes with the same gravity as the potential ego death of humans. this demonstrates that on a narrative level, the writers do not consider the good of mutekind to be as important as the good of humankind.

also there are no character arcs???

also mutes have been eating each other and doing gang wars for 200 years, in WHAT world is anyone demanding an apology from scarlemagne for doing the same as the rest of them? absolutely demented. take it back.

#kataow #kipo s3 #kipo s3 bashing #kataow season 3 #im not mad at you op im mad at rad #we all deserved better #radicles sechrist does not deserve our respect for dragging s3 back to his edgy game of thrones pipedream he initially envisioned it as #god #im never going to recover from this