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The Owl House Is A Bit of A Mixed Bag When It Comes To Ships

The Owl House is a show that I love a lot, but when it comes to relationships I have some mixed feelings. Now, I don't hate ships in TOH but I do have some issues with them.

The Good

First let's start of with the good; one of the things I like about how TOH handles its ships is how they don't overtake the plot or anything, which is a pretty easy trap that any show with romance can fall into (looking at you Star vs). There's also no bullshit romance drama in the show (the closest thing we get to that is Luz not opening up in S2 EP11 and EP14 but that was about it and its also executed in a way that's not absolutely insufferable).

Lumity is also the show's best relationship; it's gradually built up over the course of season 1 and the first half of season 2 and they are legitimately pretty cute together. Ships like Veesha and Aladraius are also pretty neat. So now let's get into...

The Problems

NOTE: Any issues I have with TOH's ships are most likely due to the shortening, so take my critiques with a grain of salt. Also there will be some criticism levidied towards Huntlow and Reada, if you don't like that don't read the rest of this post.

I think my issues with TOH's ships have to come with the ship's themselves, mainly Raeda and Huntlow. Lumity is good as I already said but the other two have a few issues. First I'ma talk about Huntlow; I don't hate Huntlow as a ship, It's OK, I just think it could have been done a bit better.

The ship mainly suffers from being less developed than Lumity, as Willow and Hunter don't really have that much-developed chemistry with each other. There is one interesting thing about the ship though, that being how they are both young witchlings that were shunned for not being born strong and called a "half-a-witch". That is an interesting parallel, but I don't really think the show develops they're relationship beyond that. The ship is just kinda underdeveloped which is my main problem with it, they're relationship just isn't that fleshed out to me, and as a result, it feels a little bit rushed.

I WILL say though, the moment they had in FTF is cute, it's neat harmless little fan service that doesn't take away from the plot or characters, which is nice.

But overall Huntlow isn't terrible but I have my fair share of issues with it. I honestly feel like this ship has more developed chemistry in fan works than in canon. Like, seriously, Willow and Hunter are incredibly cute together in a lot of Huntlow fan works more than in the actual show.

Anyways, now let's get into...Raeda. I've already talked about this ship before and why I personally don't care for it so I won't go too in depth here, but Raeda to me just suffers from how Raine, as a character, is heavily defined by Eda, and they don't have much depth outside of that. If Raine as a character had more independence from Eda I would have liked this ship a lot more, but they don't.

Again, my issues of Huntlow and Raeda are purely there because of the shortening. If the show wasn't shortened than Huntlow would've definitely been more developed, and Raine would have been a better character with more actual development beyond "Eda's ex".

Conclusion

So ya, that's my thoughts on TOH ships. The shipping in the show isn't bad but I think it could've been better, though again, it's worth mentioning the show got shortened so these problems aren't necessarily its fault, buuuuuut my points still stand. So....bye.

#toh critical #toh criticism #toh #the owl house #toh analysis #not tagging this anti huntlow because I really don't hate the ship #I just think it's ok #anti raeda #also you are perfectly allowed to ship whatever you want #I'm just experssing my opinions on TOH's ships

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homunculusalphonse · 4 months

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i was gonna reply to your owl house hunter post but i feel it is not best to put "i like huntlow" on an anti huntlow post so, i ask it here😅 anyway i do actually like willow/hunter but yes i agree both their characters got certain traits way too exaggerated near the end of the show. their relationship is like lumity (luz:amity similar to willow:hunter) but taken a liiiittle too far. their character journeys took them to the right places imo, hunter healing and getting nicer and willow becoming more confident, but it feels like their original personalities were too lost along the way. i prefer their season 2 dynamic to the season 3.

sorry to dump all my thoughts on you but it's difficult to find someone in the owl house fan who agrees on the middle ground. everyone either loves huntlow or despises it😔 personally i find it sweet but wish it had happened somewhat more tactfully

No need to apologize! Thanks for being understanding.

Yeah, I actually used to ship H/untlow during season 2. Because again, I like it in theory. I think the problem is that they try too hard to make it like L/umity, so it doesn't feel like it's the real Hunter and Willow together. Something I also don't like is that Willow only returns Hunter's feelings in the very end. Before For the Future, we just see her being friendly towards him. It almost felt like it would've been an one-sided crush. If they at least showed some hints of Willow liking Hunter back (like more moments of her blushing around him, or maybe her talking about him with her other friends), it would've felt more natural.

I know I can be... a little intense with my frustrations on H/untlow 😅, but it's not really the ship's fault, if I'm being honest. For one, the execution sucks, and the diehard fans call you a fatphobe if you don't ship H/untlow. These two things can really annoy me. But again, it's not like I completely hate H/untlow on itself. It could've been a cute little ship, and honestly it still isn't, y'know, problematic. It's just badly written. It could've totally worked.

#asks #idk if i should tag the anti ship tag here...#maybe?#i'm disabling reblogs though #anti huntlow #toh critical

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