The single-digit portion of the Top 12 countdown continues and much like with Central Park earlier in the whole event, yet another newcomer has thrown its hat into the ring and it looks like this particular show, if the title gave it away already, it’s gonna be a very long remaining day of the year ahead for yours truly and it looks like this episode might be the beginning of the very long process ahead. Coming in with number eight in the Top 12 Countdown of the 2020 season, it’s The Owl House with “Understanding Willow”.
One of the episodes that have to be featured in the countdown and this episode does the trick when it comes to the countdown. This was an episode to enjoy coming from the double premiere back in August alongside “Really Small Problems”, which uh...it’s okay. It’s okay but “Understanding Willow” out of the two for the night was pretty much the clear winner because it did focus on two certain characters and answered the question right away rather than wait for like another season or two for that to be told. And that is of course, what caused the friendship to end between the two characters in the spotlight, Amity Blight and Willow Park.
Of course, if you follow the show and fully caught up because we only have one season so far, waiting for Season 2 to arrive, in the episode “Hooty’s Moving Hassle”, it was revealed that both Willow and Amity used to be friends growing up but unknown how these two never talked or hung out since then until we got our answer in this very episode. And all it took...a simple fuck up from Amity upon seeing a photo of her and Willow, trying to hide her past, by burning it down, only to burn the rest of the photo except that they’re not really photos, those are memories pulled out from Willow’s head and causing Willow to be loopy and feels like the sudden case of the Mondays.
Thus, having both Luz and Amity to clean up the mess that Amity made by going into Willow’s head to restore Willow’s memories that were accidentally destroyed by Amity. Once entering is where we explore the memories and of course, how both Willow and Amity bonded throughout their childhood days while patching every photo inside her head...except for a certain photo. The same photo that started the fire of Amity hugging Willow. Serving as a plot device for what’s ahead in the episode later on.
But for now, patching the photos up from each memory for both Luz and Amity to clean up whether being the fort that both her (Amity) and Willow made and played around to Willow playing on the swings with her two dads...sadly that Southeast Asia didn’t read the memo over all of that, riding the roller coaster with Amity, and reading a book not intended for children, all of that except for one patched up. Of course, we got our Amity blush scene when Luz gives her credit for helping out by fixing Willow’s memories, giving seeds to the birds known as the Lumity shippers. Wait till Grom, which is somewhere in the countdown later on. They’re pretty much endgame. Lumity is pretty much endgame. Just need the fandom to behave for the rest of the series and not turn into a Starco situation. Trust me, been through enough with the pairing wars...so many casualties.
Of course, the one being that won’t have it for the fixings, a burning abomination invading Willow’s subconscious and burning the memories that were patched up, now back to square freaking one for Luz and Amity. Took a while before Luz took it down and ended up revealed to be...well...Willow. But rather her subconscious, who is not happy towards Amity over what happened earlier in the day and sends both her and Luz to the moment of when that day happened. The day where both Willow and Amity called off their friendship. And you’re probably thinking right now when upon seeing the flashback between these two girls and think that the reason why Amity called off the friendship is that she got her powers first over Willow, deeming her as a late bloomer. That may be part of the course on how those two stopped hanging out in that exact moment when that photo/memory was taken. However...Amity has a different saying in all of this. The true reason for how this all came to be. The reason why Amity stopped hanging out with Willow.
And this is coming from the dickhead parents of the year, Mr. and Mrs. Alador and Odalia Blight. Seen here acting like total grinches to their youngest daughter because of image and reputation and have Amity to be little miss perfect. Having their daughter to end her friendship with Willow and instead be with the likes of Boscha and Skara, who originally, according to her, as “mean”, pretty much “assholes to the nth degree,” but the parents said, “Fuck your feelings. End your friendship with Willow or we’ll probably sabotage her chances to get into Hexside.” Like...motherfucker, these people are assholes. Fucking assholes to the max. Not only to tell, rather, order their youngest daughter to stop hanging out with Willow and not only that but also threatening her future. Her chances to get into Hexside, just because she had to wait for powers to come unlike Amity, who got hers just in time. You thought that Simon Laurent from Infinity Train was the 2020 Ass Hat of the Year, looks like the fucker got some competition in the form of a double team. Feel like we could have some comparisons with Amity and a certain character who also had to suffer through that, and that is Pacifica Northwest from Gravity Falls. Asshole parents who only care about image and reputation. Having a daughter who happened to be little miss perfect only to find out to be a byproduct of their parents’ ego. Tell me they don’t sound similar? But a difference between these two comes to the development department because Pacifica’s development, i.e. her redemption, only took a season whereas Amity, it’s by a few episodes. Yeah, so there’s that when it comes to these two.
Other than that, bada bing, bada boom, Amity apologized to Willow, thus everything goes back to normal with the current Willow subconscious and the young Willow heading out with Amity and Luz heading back to their normal size, out of Willow’s head, and in time for Willow to wake up and regained consciousness. And here’s something I like, as well as everyone, and is that the duration of the friendship between these two girls that were once broken, now patched up. Because rather than take the apology and become friends again right away in the most rushed way possible, when Willow accepts Amity’s apology for what happened and tells her the cause of their broken friendship, they don’t become friends right away. The writers don’t go to that logic. Instead, they take the time route. By that, I mean that it’s going to take some time for those two to become friends again. That’s the most plausible response when it comes to this because you can’t rush the process, this shit takes time for the relationship to be patched up. You can’t rush this shit like you’re baking a cake only for your guest to arrive just as the cake inside is just about to heat up and decide to crank the dial from 350 to 410, just to cut time. Took all the way to “Wing It Like Witches” where you have Amity, when Luz and Willow challenged Boscha to a game of grudgby and needed a third member because Gus was busy taking care of his flags, which...placed on a machine but...okay. Thus, have Amity to enter the scene and I guess settles her place when it comes to the social circle. And also the whole thing with Luz in the next episode with Grom but we’ll get to that. It’s somewhere in the remaining spots of the countdown, y’all have to play the waiting game for the episode to be revealed before this year ends.
But other than that, this was a very good episode though the subplot with Gus trying to get an interview and have both King and Eda duking it out to get interviewed by him only to lose their spot and have Hooty to win the seat...guess it’s there. Just there. Spotlight focuses on the main plot, of course, focusing on Willow and Amity with Luz as support when it comes to patching things up. Things being Willow’s memories that Amity accidentally destroyed. Man, back to back countdown spots where we have accidental burnings. First the kitchen, now the subconscious. What else are we burning knowing that we still have a lot more 2020 left?
What I do like about the episode is that it focuses on answering the question of what caused the friendship between Willow and Amity to be broken and all it took is, of course, an accidental burning from Amity trying to hide her past and have both her and Luz to enter Willow’s head and patch things up...only to forget one more stuff that needed some patching and reveals the true reason of why those two girls, being Willow and Amity, to not hang out. Again, dickhead parents. Because fuck then, that’s why. Also liked the idea of not rushing the whole apology process between Amity and Willow and have the show to take the waiting game route for things to patch up. For Willow and Amity to become friends again. And Amity, some character development and it took a few episodes to have her saying that she knows where she belongs. Thus, putting “Understanding Willow” at the number eight spot in the Top 12 Countdown of 2020.
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