This is a fun, entertaining tv show. I started watching season 1 and 2 via Netflix, because I don't live in Australia. Hence, I saw it a little bit over a year ago because they didn't have it before. As many other fans that live away from Australia, we were quite unaware of what to expect in season 3, but since they left season 2 with a nice cliffhanger, I was kind of expecting to see some follow-up in the new season.
Next thing happen: Netflix got season three, promoted as 'new episodes', so I sit in front of the screen, and... and watched an episode of an entirely different show.
The four main kids that you see in that picture here in this website, gone.
Their parents, gone.
Oscar, the kid that had that awful accident which triggered the whole heart-breaking search for helping him, gone.
But they left the same city, the same school, and the same teacher, and one female character from the previous seasons. Oh. And the same title for the show.
And they just assemble a bunch of super politically correct cast forcibly representing as many possible trending minorities in such an obvious, annoying way that it didn't feel natural, normal or accepting. For instance, you've got the angry overachieving feminist, (please don't think all feminists are like this), the diabetic kid that is ashamed of being diabetic (really? in the 21st century?) or the dyslexic kid that can't read but somehow was able to go all the way up to year ten without any teacher noticing anything (and of course, he is also ashamed), and you also have the smart savantic kid that is ridiculed most of the time.
And I also feel like the main storyline of the first season was really powerful. There was a reason for searching for magic, a very good one. But in this third season, well, it's all about fighting random demons, jumping between universes without much explanation, not much elaboration on how or why things happen, and special effects.
It is a pity, because the first two season felt Australian. Innovative, creative, surprising. And the third season just felt... like another standard fx forgettable American film built on a tasteless recipe.
I'm disappointed because it looks like they just sacrificed a good story for the sake of marketing.
And I saw the entire season three, so I know what I saw.
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