User blog:Ian b 19062021/My Problems with True Colors

This is a copy of a comment I made on YouTube but I wanted to hear more people’s opinions.

Let’s start with Marcy, My problem with her “betrayal” is that it doesn’t make sense, You’re telling me that the smartest and most logical girl of the trio is willing to forgo logic and believe in magic just because she will be moving away from her friends? She dismissed the box without a second thought when she first encountered it, but now she is willing to go as far as to steal it even though she has no reason at all to believe that it legitimately works other than a wild claim made in some book.

She said in her breakdown that she didn’t even know it would work or not, but the problem is that she had to have known on some level that it would work but she had no reason at all to believe so, again this is Marcy one of if not the smartest character of the cast it makes no sense for her to believe this.

It also muddy's her betrayal because you cannot really call it a betrayal if she did not know if it would work or not. I think this whole plot with her was made just to give her baggage like Sasha but It doesn’t make sense for her.

If I were the creator, I would have made it so she didn’t’ want to go home because she had abusive parents and changed it so Anne would be the one to be duped into getting the box (maybe by mister P) Anne wouldn't have to know it would transport them to another world she could have just been lead to believe it contained something she was naturally interested in too. This is just a very basic idea so don’t reed to much into this.

As for Marcy’s Fate

Tonally wise I don't see how you can have a show like Amphibia which is meant to be about fun adventures with frogs also be about a 13 year old girl being stabbed through the chest and nearly dying and presumably being turned into the equivalent of The Winter Soldier and fighting all her friends.

But judging from the season 3 intro they seem to be doing just that which leads me to believe that one of two things is going to happen in season 3, either Anne will learn that Marcy still alive or she does believe that she's dead but has decided to move on with her life which I think would be hugely disrespectful to her oldest friend I just don't see how a normal person could behave like Anne in the intro with either scenario weighing on her mind.

When Marcy comes back to her senses the kind of psychological damage that she would have received is going to weigh down the show tonally unless they sweep it under the rug which I think would be a disservice to her. I also do not think it works very well with her character the mistake Marcy made was trying to stay with her friends and not leave them, I don't see how this path she is on right now would work with her character development.

But my biggest problem with the episode is the decision to return to earth when they made that decision I had flashbacks to Star vs season three and four, one of the big problems with those seasons was to move the action to Mewni which moved us away from the established cast of the first 2 seasons and introduced us to a less interesting and less developed cast, I’m holding out hope but I don’t see how the new characters in the S3 intro can match up to the ones we already know. It also means that the show is no longer about Amphibia, 95% of the intro is in Los Angeles the only bit of Amphibia we see is with Marcy and Sasha, but I wonder how periodically they are going to appear.

And again, there is a problem with tone the show needs to get darker in light of what happened to Marcy but the intro is probably (Marcy aside) the most light hearted one yet which leaves me concerned that this show may have introduced an element in Marcie’s death that is too dark for the shows tone to support, Which inflames my previously mentioned worries about how Marcy is going to be handled.

I really want to know your thoughts on this so please discuss.