Things That Don't Make Sense About the H20 Just Add Water Franchise
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- I will be discussing various things across the H20 Just Add Water franchise such as the main show, Mako Mermaids, and H20: Mermaid Adventures.
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 Mako Island & Moon Pools
01:58 Mermaid Pods
03:25 Mermen
05:00 Metamorphosis
06:04 Mermaid Magic
07:16 Cast Swapping
08:38 The Animated Series
09:50 Ending - Розваги
Update! Raika Longfeather in my comments brought up something I messed up on! The tailless spell is only used by Northern mermaids which means that Erik became human by using a legs spell. Which honestly I still think is kind dumb because how would they have prevented a lot of humans from finding out about mermaids?
I loved this series I’ve seen the H2O cartoon and Mako Mermaids, their both really cool
You should do things about my little pony equestria girls that don't make sense that would make a fun video
Kinda wish they did a better job with Mako Mermaids. They sort of focused too much on magic and folklore that they sort of seemed more like a witches instead of Mermaids.
@@Error_-ct2vp I actually kinda liked that they focused more on the magic, versus h2o which had more of a science focus.
@@nativenewyorker3144 science? It’s pretty clear that the entire science vs magic thing was debunked in Season 1. So that last statement doesn’t make much sense. But in my opinion they seemed more like witches rather than mermaids and we could’ve had more underwater or moon pool or even ocean scenes and see mermaids actually BE mermaids.
Apparently, regarding touching water and turning - the original idea was ocean sea water but the crew didn’t think it’ll create much shenanigans so they changed it to being inconsistent generic water just for the fun of it. They knew it didn’t make sense and they thought that was fun 😂
Love this 😂
One idea I've seen in the past is that you only transform based off the type of mermaid you are (freshwater mermaids only transform in freshwater and are weakened by saltwater and vice versa)
What bugged me about Season 3 was it kind of contradicts a statement from Season 1: Lewis there says, after investigating the Moon Pool, that there's nothing special about it. Specifically, he claims the rock walls are just normal rock. But then, in Season 3, the writers threw this out of the window and made the walls filled with magical blue Kryptonite. Really strange and inconsistent.
Just because Lewis, literally a student, said there's nothing special about the rocks in the pool doesn't mean anything. He didn't dig inside to look for samples, they need professional equipment to do that in Season 3. Also, the blue crystals in the pool and the magnetic attraction only started occurring and being active when the meteor was heading towards the Earth. I don't think it's really a plothole or an inconsistency.
Plus, in season 2 ep19 lewis tests the magnetic field of mako island and says that the magnetic power in the moon pool is the strongest, his magnetic meter thing goes crazy so yeah your point doesn't hold
what ever made sense to me was the one episode where they had to pretend thy were sick because it was raining. Why didn't Cleo just use her powers to move the water so they don't get wet. or move the clouds since they are technically water or something. But whatever.
Wouldn’t that be suspicious tho?
I get that but even if they did that what if somebody walked passed and splashed them. And how long would it take before she got tired of holding the water.
During the episode they was just getting use to Their powers
there was another episode where Cleo was in a beauty pageant and she had a jellyfish costume and Kim turned on sprinkles or smth so water would get all the contestants wet but Cleo used her powers to move the water - they could do the exact same thing but with an umbrella and just have Cleo move the water sideways from the umbrella or smth-
CGI cost limitation probably
I've read somewhere that h2o: mermaid adventures was originally planned to be a lot more "mature" and dark compared to what we got
Which is odd because it was more immature in my opinion!
Bruh moment
Seriously? I would've loved to see that.
Never watched Mako Mermaids, except for the first episode, which bore me... I love this because many things didn't make sense to me in this show either. Things such as the girls revealing themselves as mermaids to everyone EXCEPT their parents who might help them, them drying so quickly without Rikki's power (the episode in Season 3 where they save her from a boat is incredibly guilty of this), and many more!
i gave it a try due to the fact I was a huge fan of H20. The first 2 seasons were okay but than it just went down hill from there, to the point i stopped watching it.
First episode wasn’t the best, I started liking mako mermaids after watching some episodes
@@mrkvovejsalat8158 my main issue was that it went from being about merman to being about the mermaids. The whole Mako mermaids show focused on merman, later seasons lost that.
@@emilish624 I Neva gave it a try bcuz I loved h2o😂
Everyone bashes on Rikki for her reaction in Mako Mermaids when the girls are searching for that dragon tool. They claim 'Rikki was too rash'. But what they're forgetting is this beautiful thing called Context: If you consider what she went through with Charolette, her reaction was understandable (It's also stated in Mako that Rikki hadn't had contact with other mermaids for years)! Not only that, but she literally helped save the entire world. So if the Mako girls would have explained precisely why they needed it, then Rikki definitely would have lent it to them! And lastly: Rikki's both famous & rich. In her position (finding lost treasures of inane value), I wonder if people would have just went ahead and said: "Oh? You need to borrow this ancient, historical artifact? Even though I literally don't know you? Go ahead!"
I've always had that same thought about the Mako pod. I always thought it was weird that they said they were there for years but yet in H2O not a single mermaid from the Mako pod was discovered.
My guess was thet the invivibility and camouflage was used as an explanation for that but still kinda awkward.
You know what really bugs me? I still don't get understand if the water tentacles in season 3 of H2O were never their enemy, then why did it try to turn Bella into water? Also, if the tentacle is made from the moon pool water plus the waterfall water, how can the water in those water tanks turn into a tentacle? And here's what bugs me the most: the last season of Mako Mermaids is 10 episodes shorter than the first two seasons! Johnathan M. Shiff implied a movie following the end of the series where we'll see Weilan and Ondina restarting the Eastern Pod, but the movie never came to fruition. Instead, he went to work on another kid's show, The Bureau of Magical Things. If the last season of Mako Mermaids had the standard 26 episodes instead of 16, we could have had 10 more episodes focusing on the return of the evil rogue mermaid Aurora, who was mentioned and never seen in the series. I would have loved seeing her returning to mess with Weilan and Ondina's plan to restart the Eastern pod. Perhaps they'll flee back to the southern pod and have to unite forces with the northern pod to defeat Aurora. They could have introduced some western pod mermaids and more mermen, too. Basically, we could have had 10 more episodes to really further develop the plot and also wrap it all up for a big finale.
Yah I did kind of feel like the Season 3 finale was a bit underwhelming but at the point of the show I had binge-watched both shows for so many days I was so tired lol
He made TBOMT too??? No wonder it’s so good, we seriously get such gold from him
The burea of magical things is a good show tho
the water tentacle thing keeps me up at night. i need answers
@@astoroidea6502 yeah, i watch the first season and even we can see a picture of mermaids and mako island wich is called different but is the same, aparently in season 2 actually are mermaids omg
I always believed the reason why Charlotte got all the powers was because she embraced the moon pool and it’s effects. Compared to the other two that always fought the moon. In Mako Mermaids, they always get taught to embrace to moon and to let it take you. Whereas the OG mermaids were too busy fighting it.
That’s also why I think the OG mermaid’s powers developed more; because they were under the influence of the full moon and embraced the moon instead of fighting it so they were able to control to elements more.
Also, the idea of them being able to learn spells makes sense because in the episode with Rikki, she asks the mako mermaids to teach her how to do more spells
Not all mermen are cast with a spell for permanent legs, that's just something Zac's mother did. Erik is mentioned to be left with a foster family that probably knows his secret
I don't know if it's canon but I've read somewhere or watched a video about that part why h2o mermaids have never seen pods from Mako Mermaids. It happened like that:
1. Mako mermaids lived near Mako
2. Mako Mermaids decided to live somewhere else and they left Mako
3. Emma, Rikki and Cleo got their powers and 3 seasons of H2O happened
4. H2O girls graduated and left to live their lives elsewhere
5. Mako Mermaids returned to Mako
My headcannon is they went to some multy year mermaid summit or something of the sort
Also because the Mako Pod never went near land
@@katied1964 but from h2o they were all around mako they probably went everywhere around mako too theres no way they wouldn't see hundreds of mermaids roaming around and also in mako mermaids the mermaids sleep at the moon pool but in h2o they go to the moon pool at night so how would they not meet eachother?
Well originally mako mermaids was made to be a spin-off, not continuation so it was actually occurring in an alternate universe until they brought rikki back. I get why they did it (fan service) but it messed up the lore/continuity
I’m commenting before watching so idk if you talked about this.
One thing that ALWAYS bugged me was how in Mako Mermaids, the moon pool water was set up to be this mystical, powerful thing that humans shouldn’t ever be around. In the episode where Cam got some spilled on him it literally gave him full control over water. But in H2O, the moon pool water is just treated like nothing special until a full moon. Many characters have been in the moon pool, swam in it, etc and nothing happened to them.
My guess is that it only worked in Mako Mermaids because they stated that the water stores moonlight, which makes me assume that the moon pool water that Cam touched came from when the moon passes over Mako, aka the moon pool water with the magic (moonlight.) It explains why Cam got the powers and why nobody else got powers (in H2O.)
im assuming maybe they re-built the moon pool (the pod in mako mermaids) since in the last episode of h20 cleo ricky and bella destroyed it so maybe in the process of rebuilding it all the mermaids in the pod used there powers together which maybe created sum magical type water i honestly dont know but i agree cus that rlly made no sense at all
My younger sister used to love those shows. I remember watching H2O Just Add Water and Mako Mermaids and finding them decently enjoyable shows despite the lore not making the most sense. I never watched the animated show, and I don't think I want to watch it if it isn't as good as H2O or Mako Mermaids.
I read somewhere that Apparently MAKO mermaids was supposed to be a prequel but they changed the idea after a few episodes
One thing that always bothered me is how Luis, Zane, or any other non mermaid that appeared in the moon pool/cave. The problem here is that in the first episode of H2O it was clear that the tunnel was too steep to climb back up, otherwise they wouldn't have gone into the moon pool to swim out. So how does Luis, Zane, or anyone else get out? You could say they swim out of the bottom, but again it's stated in the show that it's too long of a dive. This is confirmed by Max when he discovers Cleo is a mermaid, he says "you swam all that way without any oxygen" basically confirming that it would take too long for normal people. The only reason it worked for Rikki, Cleo, and Emma is because they transformed into mermaids and were able to hold their breaths basically as long as they want (show never clarified how long, but I believe Louis said in like Episode 3 that they got to 15 minutes.) The only character that gets a free pass is Will as he's a free diver and can hold his breath long enough, but still the show constantly shows the characters leaving through the top rather than swimming out.
Also your point about the mermaids getting certain powers isn't really valid. It's stated in Mako Mermaids that any Mermaid can learn any magic spell. The original 3 just didn't learn the other magic spells/powers because they believed that they could only learn one. Again it's proven with Charlotte how she can use all 3. (stating that the other 3 can also use other powers, they just haven't learned how to do it) If Charlotte isn't enough proof, then there's Bella as she can use Emma's power. Also Bella's power is the same as Emma's, she just has more control over it than Emma does because she has practiced it more. She can control the state of the water instead of just turning it into ice, again more proof that each Mermaid can learn any power, they just believe that they only get 1 power. It's even proven yet again in Mako Mermaids as Evie can learn spells, we see Ondina and Mimi teach Evie.
wasnt there also a staircase that led into the moon pool too? or maybe im just imagining things
@@yuumirou I don't think so, there is stairs in Rita's grotto in Mako Mermaids so maybe that's where you get the confusion?
I think the boys probably used a rope to climb back up.
Also, swimming out of the bottom is possible for normal humans, in the first episode Emma swims through the tunnel before the full moon is even up and Rikki and Cleo also swim through the tunnel before they have their tails.
I like your explanation, I had always assumed that the powers were split up between the 3 girls because they were in the moon pool at the same time and Charlotte was in there alone. But taking Mako Mermaids into account, your explanation makes more sense
@@pseudonym7628 Emma has been swimming her whole life so it makes sense that she would be able to swim down to see that there is room. They get their magic while they are in the moon pool, so when you said they swam through before they got their tails, they still have the ability to hold their breath. Also yeah I guess they could use a rope, but we see the top of the entrance many times with other characters and never see any rope or system to get back up.
So interesting theories regarding the moon pool and why they have different powers, but Bella and Emma do not have the same power, ok, I only took 1 semester of chemestry but, frozen water doesn't really act like Bella's power, water can't turn into jello, Bella's power allows her to change water or add something to it that makes it more viscous and she can control said viscosity, to make it jello or some sort of resin, is not ice, it does not melt at human touch, like the mermaid sculpture they gave Rikki for her birthday, Sophie would have melted it with her hands, or even the girls, magical powers go a long way, but there is still some basic science at work, Emma and Rikki control the temperature of the water, Cleo controls the shape, Bella controls the viscosity.
I loved both H20 and Mako as a kid and I still do. I personally like H20 more because it's where it all began and whatnot. The animated series however, was so boring that I couldn't even finish it. idk what their purpose was and the episodes are just a bit formulaic even though I can see they were trying to change things up.
I've always wondered if the families ever found out, especially Emma's. Since the cover story for her leaving was traveling around the world.
I freaking loved Just add water and mako mermaids. Though my biggest criticism is how 90% of the time they just replace characters without warning. (Especially in Mako) Like in season 2 u get “(I forgot their names) have gone to scout for a new home” (which doesn’t make sense. They seemed pretty determined on staying at Mako) and then season 3 “she’s gone on a holiday with her sister!” The fuck? I’m currently in the middle of a rewatch because it’s been a long time and I barely remember much except the fundamental plot points…
First couple seasons of Just Add Water made such a big deal about those first three girls and their connection with each other. Something about destiny sprinkled in there, as I recall. Something about the three of them specifically being "chosen". The incident with Charlotte gaining powers and antagonizing them emphasized this idea that what Cleo, Rikki, and Emma had with each other could only ever work if it was just the three of them with those powers. A new mermaid added an unstable / chaotic element to the equation. Leading up to Charlotte's introduction the show had also been drawing parallels between that trio and a previous trio that went through the same thing several decades earlier. The show made a big point about how that earlier trio broke up and how important it is that the new trio doesn't repeat their mistakes.
And then...
First minute of the third season gives a quick one-liner about Emma and her family going away to travel the world or whatever, and they just move on and quickly introduce the Bella character to replace Emma's position in their shared destiny. They pretty much never mention Emma again through the entire rest of the show.
There's real world stuff behind the decision, of course. Emma's actress was busy working on some other project and the H2O crew just did what they could to keep the production rolling along. (I'd guess that similar excuses apply for the Mako Mermaids cast changes as well.) But in-universe, it looks bizarre and contradictory. If they hadn't written Emma out and if Bella had still been introduced anyway, odds are that they would have written it so that Bella would have had a similar role in the show as Charlotte. Another enemy to antagonize the trio.
I'm pretty sure Charlotte got extra powers because her grandmother was a mermaid, not because she was alone in the moon pool. But yeah lots of good points!
No the extra powers things did come from the moon pool. The moon pool split the girls’ powers whereas charlotte’s powers didn’t need to be split.
That's what I hated about her connection to mermaids it made this part confusing.
No. Charlotte grandmother is a Land girl and became a mermaid the same way Cleo and her friends did. She wasn't born into that world like mako mermaids.
@@nativenewyorker3144 then why didnt Bella get3
@@cenceray because Bella didn’t get her powers in the mako moon pool. She was in Ireland and different moon pools give different powers.
I'm a fan of mermaid stories although I never watched any of the mermaid series like Mako, H2O, Mermaid's Tale, etc. One of my favorite mermaid stories is the Webtoon "Swimming Lessons for a Mermaid" which has better story writing as to how mermaids interact with water and how they deal on the land. There are obvious plot holes (Spoiler Alerts) like the relationship between sea witches and mermaids and how there aren't any mermen. It's shown in the series that mermaids can breed with human males but it's only shown in the case of the main character's family, so it was a question for readers as to how the mermaid population could grow. There was also a story about how mermaids aren't supposed to reveal themselves to humans, and since the story was a romance and mostly fluff, they didn't go to the extremes with this storyline and the mermaids were always kept safe and never revealed even when the main character mermaid almost let the secret slide. I recommend the series if anyone would want to read it, it's fun and cute.
The mermen section at 3:41 isn’t quite correct. It was only Zac who had a tailless spell cast on him. They explained in the 4th season that Zac’s mother was the only mermaid powerful enough to cast such a spell. So Eric would’ve known about himself the whole time. It still doesn’t make sense about how the mermen get into foster families though. Because that means that a bunch of random parents know about mermaids.
Thank u for pointing that out. I knew I was off on something! You’re right though it is kind of dumb though. Was there a reason why they didn’t write it so that they could use the tailless spell on everyone?
I don’t remember them ever giving a reason in the show. And I don’t know if the writers had a reason. Of course it could be because they didn’t come up with that until after the first season was written.
Like how in Just Add Water, Ronny the dolphin was a rescued wild dolphin in the first season but becomes one raised in captivity in the 2nd (unless they just named both dolphins Ronny). It’s really one of the things in these type of stories where you just have to take it and not think about it too hard. Like how if no one has seen a merman in centuries, then how on earth do mermaids have children?
Well, I would believe that most would actually kill them off instead. It's probably out of fear for them ever existing. But I believe a few mermaids couldn't bring themselves to do it, so they put them on land as a hiding spot. Because it is probably forbidden to not kill the males since they never want them to overcome the mermaid
@Raika Longfeather the child thing has been confusing me too, but then again, it's not like they have holes...
I refuse to see Mako Mermaids as canon.
I never heard of the show so I don't know what's canon or not,is the show good?
@@eeveefennecfox I think H2o is miles better but the show is still quite “fun”. It just made the H2o universe have too much plotholes or inconsistencies.
I watched these shows with my daughters and they weren't as bad l thought they would be . The thing with fantasy shows is that most of the time ,they make it up as they go along . Budgets often play a part in what they can or can't do.
As for everyone getting together to fight the water dragon ,while the fans want to see it , all the original actors may not need or want to return . Has your mom ever shown your friends old photos or videos of you when you were 5 years old ? You don't wanna see that .Kind of embarrassing. Same kind of thing for them. They have mostly moved on to other things . Even the cast of the second show has moved on to other things.
Yes ,there have been plans for another season that had potential to wrap up and answer some of the inconsistencies ,but due to various things,they haven't panned out . The Australian govt used to give Australian shows like this various tax incentives, but due to covid ,this was cut back rather severely.
Characters being replaced/removed on shows is nothing new. On kids shows, it's common . The actors tend to be younger adults and don't want to play a teenager for very long when they are in their early thirties . They want to broaden their experience ,prehaps start families .
Eventually ,there maybe other seasons or shows about this area .I've never heard of any of the crew/cast bad mouthing each other or the show and l have heard that despite the weight of those tails ,everyone had great fun doing them. And if a crew or cast got along ,a reunion is much easier to arrange .Not today or tomorrow, but.....eventually.
Also ,there are various fan fictions on the web. Some are....well, not that great ,but some aren't that bad at all. During our lockdown l gave our daughters an assignment to do some writing .And since my job hours were also reduced ,l did it as well . Yeah, l chose Mako. Changed a few things ,but kept the core . Added a character here ,removed a character there. Made it a bit more mature ,added a tragedy or two , added some intrigue and made it a bit grittier . The kids liked it anyway and it was fun .
i want to know what happened to rikki after h2o, but i feel like its not worth watching 3 seasons of mako mermaids. ive seen many clips of it and i already hate it :/
I would say give it a chance it’s actually a very good show
SPOILERS (i guess): i havent seen the entirety of Mako Mermaids (watched the first ep and thought it was very dumb and I hated it) but i did research the part with Rikky and she appears in like 1-2 episodes so it's not a lot of material you missed. Basically after graduation the other H2O girls moved to go to college and over the years the girls slowly lost touch as it happens with many school friends, I think they also moved to different parts of the world? (not sure about that tho). Sometime in the future Rikki wrote a book about the sea, pretending she was a very skilled diver. Then she returns to Australia for a book tour and that's how she meets the Mako Mermaid girlies
The animated series is personally a guilty pleasure of mine simply because I like the idea of the story being animated and like Cleo’s design a lot.
Same I like it for what it is if I was hung up on what it could be I'd be upset because it had a whole lot of potential!
I liked it too! But the voice acting was terrible ngl
@@gucci1097 Voice acting was passable. I’ve heard way, way worse
Mako mermaids was not meant to be canon with h2o, it was at first gonne be a show about a boy who turns into a shark, but they had the property so they were like well let’s do another mermaid show with different lore. So when they connected it with h2o it retroactively made no sense. But here are a few answers i guess:
- the moon pool was not destroyed in s3, that was the whole point, them saving the world by sending the meteor away. What i find funny is when ricki says it hasn’t change when it clearly has lmao.
- I liked the fact that there was a mako pond and i liked all the lore they came up with even if like i said it didn’t work with h2o, it wasn’t supposed to, but oh well.
- I also wish they explained more about mermen, because yeah how do they reproduce? and eric says they grow up in foster care. But he acts as if he knows a lot about merman history. So I always just assumed they lived with other mermen that weren’t their father? I think what happened was in season one they had zack turn into a merman for funsies and didn’t about it that much, but then in season 2 they were like what if we added more but never bothered to think too deep about it because children’s show
- I know someone said it already but yeah the water touching, it’s for plot convenience, just like the moon spell haha, shenanigans, it’s cute
- Something i found interesting while watching mako mermaids is that since they have much more powers and spells and potions, there are much less episodes related to power shenanigans, and a lot more on moon rings messes and potion mishaps, because they already did everything they could with the og powers lmao. Also maybe we can just assume that none of them have the bella power cuz they’re not in ireland lmao idk.
- I remember a few years back the actor playing nixie coming out as trans i think, but that was years after leaving mako mermaids so I don’t think that’s related at all. I tried going back to their Instagram to see but they deleted everything changed the username there, so i think they just don’t wanna be in the public eye so questions unanswered i guess. Also i also wanted a og girls reunion but that couldn’t work cuz 2 of them were filming tvd and the originals in America. I still think carribba should’ve guest starred in those shows even for one episode lmao, unofficial reunion.
I really think connecting the two shows is what messed with lore, as well as them just making up things in s2 and on. Don’t get me wrong they’re my favourite seasons, but it’s like, i was never clear on mimmi, she’s a northern mermaid but her and ondina act like they grew up together sometimes and that the mom purposely made it so zac and mimmi grew up near each other, but mimmi has an American accent. I am still confused and I watched the show a lot lmao. But i still love it
That's a Canadian accent she has .
@@deweylipschitz1516 well you know what i mean, northern
@@neivilde.1242 lol...okay then.
the idea was that a boy had a pet shark, he didn't become a shark.
@@eitmrnbiwbo yeah sorry i confuse it all the time, cuz I'm like is this just sharkboy?
This is just my opinion but why didn't they make zane and will a merman on h20 they would have been perfect merman
Ocean Girl, H2O: Just Add Water & Mako Mermaids, Jonathan M. Shiff's most popular and well known series while the others sadly didn't get nearly enough attention or love. As someone born & live Sydney, grew up with Jonathan M. Shiff's work since Cybergirl in 2001 (semi brief with Ocean Girl) as kid and The Bureau of Magical Things hit the scene, Jonathan said to retire after a couple more projects including TBOMT, it would be a shame and Australian children's lately according to TVTonight hit hard down and not in a good way mainly for Seven, Nine & Ten, not so much with ABC
And one of 3 main characters of Ocean Girl is also a director of H20. If you noticed, Rikki's manager in mako s3 was played by Alex Pinder, one of main chars in Ocean Girl
Mako Mermaids is a loose spinoff series so not much of it is tied to the original. Also regarding season 3 H2O Cast changes, H2O was only supposed to run for two seasons. The cast members only signed for two so Claire Holt had already booked her role in Messengers as did Angus McLaren only being available for half of season 3 due to booking All Saints/Packed to the Rafters. Due to its popularity they finally did season 3, however it was released two years after season 2. Thats why A LOT of their 'families' and other cast members are missing.
In H2O when they transform what happens to their phones 📱 & shoes 👞??
I think they dissolve into their bodies or something
I’m surprised nobody in the h20 universe turned into a merman, when I First watched season 3, I seriously thought will would fall into the moon pool but he conveniently got out of the pool right when the moon started to shine down.
I have a feeling about Will turning into a merman. I think the series was about to turn him one but in late 00's things were really weird about gender roles and a mermen at the time would not be well received on audience.
@@Veronica-rh4js true! I felt like they changed the script, he always went swimming with them and could hold his breath really long like the girls
@@gucci1097 yes! And I think he would be a good mermen, it's sad that the producers didn't have the courage
@@Veronica-rh4js same, I think it would’ve been really cool but I still like zac from mako mermaids
Maybe mermaids don’t grow tails when they produce their own water like sweat, saliva tears and more.
The real question is How Rikki, Emma, Cleo and Bella, didn’t know that mermaids was around mako
The animated series... was a mistake. Honestly, I remember anything except the fact that the girls can talk with a bunch of sea friends (and sea bullies/enemies). Nothing more.
I believe the sweat don’t transform they into mermaids because its not water itself, otherwise they wouldnt be able to pee or cry, and we see cleo crying when lewis is about to leave.
U do know that our favorite younger tv shows never made sence, right?😂😂😂😂
I grew up watching h2o but have never seen mako mermaids or the anamation. Now im kind of glad😂.
I remember watching the first episode of H2O but later I started to watch Mako Mermaids instead and loved that show so much. I did watch a bit of the animated one but didn’t really grab my attention. I did watch H2O later on tho and liked it but season 3 was a let down.
That condensation bit gets me everytime!! They would have turned way more! And In the animated show they wall through mist 😑 I'm like they should have ate the ground instead of being able to run through it 🤭
weird to find out someone you knew as a child is in h2o mako mermaids thru an unusual youtube theory by a creator you just found.
Wait really?
I personally remember loving the animated show 🤚🏻
I will explain some things ok
So the not merman until falling into moonpool thing is only for Zac bc Narissa was the most powerful and only one who knew who to do the spell.
Mermaids can change what pod they are in but not what pod they r from and what moon pool destroy them because it drains from every pool.
Mako is specifically important because that’s where the trident, merman chamber and war finishers/“king n Queen” of mermen and mermaids r from.
The cast swaps I believe to open more dimension, perspectives and also just because those actresses are no longer available in h20 there always has to be 3 mermaids like how in mako mermaids it’s standard to have atleast 4 and a merman that’s all I’ll say bc y’all ain’t gon listen to this rant so if u read to the end say something
THANK YOU!!! Some of these h2o fans love to hate on mako mermaids because it creates plot holes in h2o and stuff but haven’t even watched the show through to understand the lore and storyline. Also, mako mermaids was literally meant to be in a different universe until they brought rikki back so…
I love H2O, too bad they didn't make new seasons, but I just can't with Mako
The only things I enjoyed were the aesthetic of Rita’s grotto, and all the beautiful hairstyles. ❤️
@@pyroshayniac1090 yeah that's the only thing 😆
2:33 this is exactly what’s been on my mind to, I don’t understand it at all
Mimi and Cleo could have been sisters. They look so much alike in a way
Also the one thing that irks me is why is it Bella only has 1 power while Charlotte had 3? They were both alone when they turned into mermaids yet only 1 of them has more than one power while the other only had 1
One thing that I'm confused about is the powers that they have for example the original trio Cleo she had the ability to move water she could also control the wind Emma could freeze water but I'm not completely sure what her secondary ability was and Ricky she could boil water and heat it up but I'm not sure if her secondary ability was lightning or fire so it would be nice if you could explain it and also explain just all of the individual powers that all of the mermaids have across the series' in general
Emma’s second power was the ability to freeze things without needing water which also allowed her to make it snow.
i thought their second abilities only showed up during full moon when they were high
@@spntageous5249 the second ability of Rikki was to create lightning, but when things are touched by lightning they get on fire, that's how some fire on jungle starts
Ya. Where were the natural born merpeople when H20 was happening
I don't really consider Mako canon because of all the things it contradicts, changes, or ignores from the original series. Even Rikki's reappearance doesn't help. And I wanted to like Mermaid Adventures but with the cheap animation, dialogue that always sounds like it's being rushed, childish storylines that half the time seem to just be retellings of the original episodes, it's nothing more than a guilty pleasure. I do like that the mermaids could talk underwater though; it just makes sense for a cartoon to do things that you couldn't do with live action.
If you liked this series you probably would also like bureau of magical things. I’m pretty sure it’s made by the same creator and has references to this series as well. It’s on Netflix and has recently got the second season released. I quit enjoyed watching it the only thing I didn’t really like was the end of season 2 but I kinda just pretended it didn’t happen.
It feels like it would make more sense if they changed into mermaids through being engulfed in water entirely (or covered in it head to toe). That would make more sense than just touching water.
Please do house of Anubis or Find me in Paris
Hey! I’ve payed attention to h2o and mako mermaids and Evie from Mako mermaids was in h2o as one of the waitresses for the red haired girl in one if the h2o episodes thats confused me a lot too, was Evie one of the waitresses there before moving to the mako mermaids version of the cafe or were they running out of extras?
The dude who paid with fake money (not the actual guy who bought the food, but the boss... the guy in charge) in S3 of H2O is also Cam's swimming Coach in Mako Mermaids! (The Episode where Cam falls into the Moon Pool and can swim really fast!)
Lucy Fry (Lyla) is also in H2O, but as herself! If you listen carefully, on the last Episode of H2O when they graduate you can hear the announcer say "Lucy Fry" which is the actress who plays Lyla! This one is really well hidden as you can only make the connection if you know the actress the plays Lyla! (You can ever see Lucy Fry get her diploma!)
I'm also like 90% sure that Carly makes an appearance, but I don't remember what Episode. Pretty sure she was a waitress at Juice Net Cafe or Rikki's. I remember seeing her in the background of an Episode.
@@MindofInstincts Very smart!
@@MindofInstincts cam is also in h20 where Cleo becomes a siren, he standing at the door
@@gucci1097 Hmmm if I remember correctly it happened a few times and there was a crowd, might be hard for me to find it, but I'll look!
Do you think that Mako Mermaids is worth a rewatch? I just finished rewatching the original H2O series up to season 2, and I've decided to not watch season 3 because I just don't think it would have the same charm without Emma and Lewis. I used to love Mako Mermaids as a child, but I don't remember anything about it except for the fact that I loved one of the male main characters. I just worry about rewatching it now since the original series has enchanted me so much. I don't want anything to spoil the magic of the first two seasons with Emma, Cleo, and Rikki.
I have an explanation on why Ivy and Amy left Mako Mermaids. Ivy went on to work on ABC3's Studio 3, which lasted until 2015, and Amy had a movie called Border Protection Squad.
Claire Holt left the show to move to America to film vampire dairies surprised you didn't mention that and Pheobe soon joined as a co-star after h2o also you should totally do things that don't make sense for vampire dairies making it into series since there are like 8 seasons and also 2 other spin-offs
Those shows would be so long to get through!!
That's not why she left though. Her role only came in 2011, way after H2O finished
Get your facts straight. That's not why she left the show. Vampire diaries and the originals happened way after. Claire is still a kid in H20. She left to film The messenger
I noticed one thing, sometimes it took longer than 10 secs. I think in episode 2 of S2 Rikki hasn't told Zane shes still a mermaid. Nate spashed them It that was way longer than 10 secs=Rikki had no tail
Also in the Mako spin off at times they grew a tail right away and at times and it took longer than 10 secs. when Mimi wanted to go to land school, she and Rita got spalshed. Way passed 10 secs before they grew a tail. Its been awhile since I watched mako just in case they explained it and I just forgot
The explanation is simple: it’s just a show and they don’t expect you to precisely count 10 seconds. Sometimes it’s way more or way less than that for the sake of dramatic moment in the show
But if you want it to be more logical, you can think of this as of “the time it takes to transform can vary depending on the temperature and chemical composition of the water they touch”
on the first one I always figured Rikki and co fixed the moon pool and maybe magic helped fix it.
HOLD ON I CAN BECOME A MERMAID WITH THE MOON POOL IN IRELAND😃😃😂😂 lol that's something new about my country😂
There is also the inconsistent history of merpeople.
For example they said that Zac's and Mimmi's ancestor was the merman who built the chamber to destroy the Moon Pool and all mermaids, but he changed his mind after he fell in love with a mermaid princess or queen (not sure which one it was) and decided not to use, I don't think it was a ever said if Zac's ancestor was the same merman who sided with the mermaids and stole the Trident to protect them or if both times it was the same merman, but anyway it was stated that after the war the merman and the princess married and united all mermaids and merman in peace.
This poses some problems about why are there no merman in the pods during H20, especially since it was stated in the first season that the war caused the end of the merman, which seems to contradict this version of peace. So what happened? If after the war they joined together why are there no merman in the pods? Did tensions escalate again during peace time? Were the merman banished or exterminaded?
Also I never understood the point of Zac and friends convincing Ondina not to destroy the Trident Chamber. The argument for that was that Zac's ancestor must have decided to preserve it for a good reason, since I had accidently got a spoiler about the existence of a sea dragon on the latest season (that's what happens when you wait too long to watch a show) I assumed that the chamber was preserved to kill it, which has we all know wasn't the case, but even so towards the season ending Zac decides, even before the chamber is activated by Eric, that the chamber is a too dangerous and has to be destroyed, despite him having been the one to argue for it's preservation a few episodes ago, making the whole preserving the chamber decision null.
Which brings also the problem with why did Zac's ancestor preserve the chamber after deciding not to use it if it had no other goal other than it's original one to destroy mermaids? Unless it had another purpose preserving the chamber makes no sense.
Yes I know I'm overthinking a kid's show however I like to find logic in storytelling.
Finally, someone else talked about all the stuff I was thinking about too, the moon pool one still bothers me.
I’ve always told my self they used wipes to wash there hands for my mental health😂 also there was a episode when Kim worked at Riki’s cafe where she called her out on it
3:38 5 Oceans? There's only 4 oceans....
I love your video's and I also understand your pain T^T
When h2o was written mako mermaid pod didn't exist yet in their mind. It mean the story was built after to add to the original
the whole thing about h2o just add water with the specific powers vs mako mermaids getting a bunch of unique powers you have to practice/"level up" in a way- kinda was really bothering me. I loved both but i wish they could have been consistent or at least explain why it was like that. or even have another season of the original having the girls realize there was more powers they could have used
I’m with you on the cast swapping for Mako Mermaids. I didn’t get it
The mako moon pool is the main one but the one in Ireland is just an extension of the pool it’s not a moon pool as the water doesn’t have any magical water the moon does the work, the pool at mako, the water is magical.
So how did bella turned into a mermaid?
I miss H20 SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤩
In Season 2 episode 4 Erik did say to Ondina "How could I sell out the cutest mermaid I've ever seen". This implies that he has seen mermaids before Ondina so...
Let me see if I can explain some things. Not everything cause some stuff is just plot holes or not sticking to consistent lore.
Moon Pool: I don't necessarily think every mermaid is intrinsically linked with a moon pool and it's water. When the mako pod initially fled their home a good chunk went and lived with the southern Pacific Pod. This pod appears to exist and live in the open ocean with no nearby landmass, suggesting they don't have a moon pool. Also the moon pool at the end of season three wasn't fully destroyed. It was heavily damaged with rocks obscuring the entrance, and in Mako Mermaids we do see rocks scattered around the outside of the pool. It would be reasonable to assume that whenever the Mako Pod showed up they cleared out the water entrance and given the no land rule they have they didn't clean up anything else. The original trio had made an opening big enough for them to get in and stop the comet, then leave again.
Pods: This might just be my current timeline but I think thousands of years ago there was a natural mermaid pod there. Who lived with merman pod members. Then a solely merman pod used the trident to take over the island from the native pod. Some mermaids must have died cause in season 1 they find a lost moon ring that Zac tries to give to Evie. A merman built the merman chamber to kill the local pod, but fell in love with one of the mermaids. Since opening it was tied to his bloodline alone, none of the other mermen could get in to use it. Eventually, mermaids from each of the five oceans banded together and defeated the merman pod by drawing on the powers of the oceans and locked the Trident away in the Trident Cave with one of the kinder mermen's help. I'm assuming there was a period of time when they weren't there, and they returned at some point between H2O and Mako Mermaids. Also since only one bloodline of mermen could open it, mermen were banished to the land, the trident needed was locked away, the merman who made the chamber was on their side and likely didn't pass down information of it to his descendants, it wasn't super likely it would be opened until Zac showed up. Which was thousands and thousands of years after the war. Also real fast, the mako pod is only one of the pods that makes up the collective Southern Pods. We know in season 3-4 that one Eastern Pod mermaid heard about a mermaid from a different Eastern Pod falling in love with a human guy and cursed her to turn into the water dragon. So it seems there multiple smaller mermaid groups that are categorized based on which section of the world they come from. Northern pod, Souther pod, Western Pod, Eastern Pod.
Mermen: I always assumed, given their high use of magic and spellwork that they have some kind of spell or potion that can cause pregnancy without the need for a merman. It would explain why they don't need mermen for it, but also how there can be sisters like Sirena and Aquata. Their mother simply chose to cast that spell or brew that potion twice. Or maybe a certain underwater plant with a magical property. Or an animal. We know they used jellyfish in certain mixtures. Dried algae from certain places, old shells, salt, etc.
Powers: I think certain moon pools have an affinity for certain types of powers. But the mako mermaids and any land people that fell into the water eventually got trained to use more powers. Serena, Lyla, and Nixie couldn't create storms or even clouds until Rita taught them. They also practiced stuff like telekinesis. When Ondina is given the job of training the hatchlings, we know they learn some basics like water manipulation, and likely ice and heat manipulation, and going invisible. Especially since their invisibility is their greatest tool is not being discovered by land people. And until they do learn it Mako apparently has tons of underwater caves they can hide out in. Meanwhile Cleo, Rikki, and Emma only had each other. I don't remember any of them trying to use the others powers. They just kinda on instinct used one and stuck with it. They didn't have anyone with further mermaid power skill, or mermaid magic, to teach them. Where as Evie who gets transformed from the moon pool, does get training and can do a lot more. We saw her learning Telekinesis and how to use the moon rings magic.
i like to think the magic doesnt work with bodily fluids. cuz, like, arent we touching water all the time? we have it in our mouths. they would never be able to cough, or cry.
I still love H2o just add water and mako mermaids even still as an adult 🤩🧜🏾♀️
I guess I'm a little bit obsessed with mermaids 🧜🏾♀️ 😅
before the episode of mako mermaids involving Rikki came out, I always thought it was just some parallel world version of the original show
i always wondered what happened to the lockets in season 3. did they give them back to miss chatham? they swap them for crystals and aren't mentioned again.
i do not think they wash their hands 😂😂😂
Bella Ricky and Cleo didn't dstroy the Moonpool, they saved it. Maybe after the graduation they took care of it
I really like the show I remember watching H20 just add water when I was a kid and then I heard about mako mermaid 🧜♀️ which is a sequel of h20 until I realize mako mermaids is on Netflix not on regular tv when I started watching the show mako mermaids I decided to rewatch h20 on Netflix and yet I finish watching both mermaids 🧜♀️ show even the cartoon animation h20 mermaid adventure too btw the animated show of h20 mermaid adventure only have two seasons but in my head I’m thinking if only they could bring back for another season I really hope or a reboot
Oh not to long ago I saw this movie called night teeth and in the beginning credits is saw the name lucy fry and was like why is that farmilar then I saw who she was playing and I freaked out I was like o my god it’s lucy fry it is lyla from mako mermaids like gurl when from being a sweet little merimaid to being a freking badass vampire
please make more more h2o just add water videos!!
Yes do a part 2 because I enjoy this video
Thank you but I do know if I have any more questions.
I believe that season 3 of mako mermaids was made before *Just Add Water season 3.* I don’t know the date on season 3 of Mako Mermaids, but season 3 of *Just Add Water season 3.* It was made on 2020. I can’t really accuse of the date being different as I watched Just add water before Mako Mermaids.
H20 season 3 was ended in 2010, 2 yrs before Mako s1 was aired
Also pointing out that in mako the mermaids live and sleep in the moon pool, in h2o they went to mako at night so how would they not bump into eachother?? ALSO in mako its stated that every full moon its the mermaids job to look after the moon pool so no humans fall into it but like our h2o girls were at the moon pool on many full moons and yet never seen them??
Lol I always wondered how they didn’t run into eachother
Ah, there is also now another series called burrow of magical things that takes place in the same universe and mentions mermaids.
I’m not sure if this is true, but I heard when they were making mako mermaids it was originally suppose to be a prequel to h20. That might explain some of the questions.
I'm surprised I never heard of this show
Being a H2O fan, I checked out the animated series a few years ago and couldn't help but cringe when watching some episodes. The dialogue and writing seemed to be taken out of PAW Patrol (e.g. "Let's help this crab before he becomes even more roasted by the sun!" or something) and the stories that focused on the main trio were as cliché as Miraculous Ladybug. I didn't like how they turned Miriam into Chloe Bourgeois 2.0.
i never realised why cleo, who was able to move around liquid, wasnt able to move it away from herself when it splashes her??
That's too meta!
I always had the same question during Mako mermaids. Like can't you just instinctively create a shield around yourself to block the water? That should be a reflex reaction for them at some point. Especially when they are already a bit wary of someone with water near them.
I watched the show as a kid and I loved it. Never noticed any of that stuff because I was way too young to think about all that xD Never watched Mako Mermaids tho and I guess my first question would be how the fck did they never see any other mermaids during the whole H2O show?
I understand having to suspend belief but I have literally never understood how when they turn into mermaids and they have their phone/ bag etc. on their person it just disappears and reappears when they’re dry- like?? That’s the real magic.
Every pod doesn’t have a moon pool only the southern has one and a merman can coexist with mermaids a mermaid doesn’t have to put a spell on there kid zacks mom decided that it would be best because auroura would kill zack if she found out.
I loveee h20 and ive watched mako mermaids a few times but what always kinda annoyed me was the merman chamber like where did that even come from cus it was never there in h2o or mentioned at all the whole merman wasnt even a thing in h2o
charlotte probably had mermaid blood as well since her grandmother was a mermaid. could have played a part in her having more powers.
Most confusion comes from Mako Mermaids but I refuse to acknowledge its existence... It's just H2O for me
I Love h2o and mako the animated series was kinda weird but it was ok but I hate how they changed so many characters
i like to think mako mermaids was just a dream.
I assume there is also vapor in the air, especially. Plus they need to drink water and wash their hands… they probably eat food and drinks that contain water as well…
NO ORDINARYYYY GIRL WHEN RIKKI DATED OL BOOIIII I WAS SHOOK
apparently, after season 1 of mako mermaids, nixie and lyla left to search for a new home as the actresses who played them left the show
i haven't seen much of mako mermaids
I feel like Emma was never actually suppose to become a mermaid because 1st of all cleo and rikki were the ones on the boat heading to mako and cleo was the one who invited Emma and again when she swam out the full moon started after she left but then she came back in and got mermaid powers and in season 3 she wasn't even there she was replaced with bella who has similar powers to emma and was already 1 of the chosen mermaids those 3 are they ones who stopped the comet and saved the world so i feel fate was against emma becoming a mermaid