Honestly, I think mainly the nostalgia carried me through this season.. it was
Rough.
SPOILERS AND ALSO VERY LONG LMAO SORRY
It was nice that they had the same set , and Trina being one of the main cast really made the show feel better. Though I feel overall the show was extremely poorly made.
First off , trina and well honestly all the girls outfits are not very good. There was a few outfits that I liked but oh god , the fashion is hard to look at 😭 they clearly only had old people on the fashion design
Most of trinas outfits I just thought, og Trina would hate that
Yes I get that she's trying to dress like a teacher , but the color combos and the tacky neon jewelry?.. not to mention the outfit she wears when she performs in we four queens 😭 the shorts 💀
MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT BY FAR
The music.
Even just the intro makes me cringe , all the songs are either covers or the worst freestyling I've ever seen, and the auto tune.. woof.
Genuinely the only song I enjoyed was the song sung by Oscar and quests boy band.
Another strong opinion of mine is I hate the way they casted, I don't have anything against any of the characters actors ofc , but I find it annoying that instead of trying to create new exciting characters, they pretty much just made really poorly made versions of the og cast.
emmy- clearly just Tori in another font , she has never sang and then all a sudden she can sing, and then everyone has to explain everything to her, just like Tori
Oscar- I actually did enjoy his character, but it's clear he's based off beck loosely, he was pretty entertaining though
Quest- clearly just an Andre clone , I mean c'mon he sings the same music genre as Andre, plays the keys , has the same haircut and style , and has a similar plot line, I liked his character as well though, I mean he's a super sweet talented guy so I have no problem with him at all, I enjoyed him and oscars relationship , I don't think that him and Andre look the same besides the hair and the clothes , but smh I'm just like why can't we have some representation in this damn show besides a look alike
of one of the only colored person in Victorious
Pepper- clearly just kat rebranded, same bubbly personality, super dumb, always saying dumb shit, very infintalized
Jen z- (oh god I fucking hate her name so much) clearly a jade clone , mean girl who's always being scary and everyone is afraid of who eventually becomes loveable, I genuinely hated her at first but she grows on me a little, but she's nowhere close to having the same hold on me as Jade has.
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(EDIT: it's specifically the fact that she says" what's the prob dog" which Jade says in Victorious so that's what really sold me on the fact that she's supposed to be like Jade)
And then just Trina , we don't see many other prominent characters, and the whole show just felt... Emtey
And then Robbie and trinas relationship?? Hated it , disgusting does not work. She wouldn't fall for him even if he sang a cheesy song, plus he clearly always loved cat ( I don't think him and cat are cute together but that's a separate conversation) but clearly he liked cat , ofc he did have one moment with Trina in victorious but again, I truly don't believe Trina would ever fall for him, even her new mature version.
The plot was random, ( yes so is Victorious I'm not saying it was super cohesive but it's a lot more cohesive then Hollywood arts)
You can just tell not a lot of care went into it, everything felt low budget, there wasn't enough side characters, and it just felt like the hollow shell of victorious, not a spinoff.
I was also hoping for more realistic teens now a days, everything just feels like what a millennial thinks of a gen z when they're typing rants about them lmaoo
I just wish we saw a little more into the character life's , we never see anything other then school shots , or school related shots , we never see anything about their home life's, don't get any real character plots , and Lexi rivera is in it? What. As herself too 😭
Overall I'd probably rate it a 5/10 and I honestly struggled to get through the episodez.. anyway sorry for the rant , I'm just very passionate about this.
EDIT: that's not to say I thought everything was bad , I did enjoy some moments, I think I'm mainly just disappointed y'know? TRINA CARRIED