>>150072587 (OP)
It started off as just unpolished but comfy, very much the kind of show I'd have enjoyed as a kid and been nostalgic for now. The comfiness fell off past the first episode or two and the flaws very quickly filled the entire runtime.
The dialogue ranges from "needed another pass-over" to "just burn the script and start from scratch". The worldbuilding is so nonexistent that anything not directly shown in screen can be assumed to just not exist. New/old magic is just the vague concept of "new things are convenient but also soulless" without really showing us why it applies here or what 'it' really even is. "Witch country" is the main antagonist but the page for it in their show bible probably just says "To do: fill this part in". We get two vague throwaway lines worth of exposition about it and no further explanation.
Amaryllis is the highlight, I guess, but seeing her in the show isn't really as entertaining as just watching that one compilation video of her. Snapdragon feels less flat than the main cast as well but it's kneecapped by his arc being "You're not traditionally manly? The path to accepting yourself is saying that not fitting the image of a man means you /aren't/ a man!". He also has no chemistry with Sage at all, they just kind of looked at each other and blushed once and we're supposed to clap.
The fall festival/catgirl part 2 episode stands out as the only one with actually competent direction—not consistently the whole time, but several moments stand out as not-shit enough to be worth mentioning. Rosemary hesitating after actually wounding Olive and just staring at her sword (the animation didn't even try to give the scene the weight it could've had, though), the scene where Olive's gone from the smug pursuer to literallt a cornered wounded animal limping away, & the scene at the end with the music. Speaking of music, the OP is an actual 0/10. The ED sounding like friends doing impromptu karaoke is almost cute, until the autotune...
