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It's amazing... Flynn is so buff now.

They did state they planned something for next season so Season 4 is pretty much confirmed

I hope they'll get another season. There was some stuff I was a little unsure of, but in general, I think it's a great set up for (a) future season(s).

I feel like someone on the writing staff has daddy issues. There’s been, like 5 jokes about troubled childhoods and it’s only Episode 3

Holy ****, Academy! Add “disowning your child because they’re gay” joke to the pile of wtf jokes in this show

Eon is kind of hot shirtless...Kind of
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This season is kind of long it’s the same thing every episode kind of disappointed

It’s just random plots related to failed plans of darkspyro.....sounded better with the idea of darkspyro to begin with.

Dark Spyro and the finale episode were the only good things this season Team B and Team C barley had any screen time which is lame + They hinted at a couple of things that we never got + They made it seem like crash is going to be more involved which he haven’t and he got more annoying
I just wish that this season didn’t drag this much.
Oh yeah and they acted like Kaboom isn’t a Skylanders although he was frozen in the first episode and went on missions a couple of times like WTH

I quite liked it, and hopefully we'll get Season 4!

This season focused a lot on Dark Spyro and Slow Plot Devolpment...I wanted to see The B-Team Finally graduate , Dark Spyro Visiting Strykor in the castle , More Fight scenes , More of Cynder , Crash and Coco , Exploring back stories .... All that this season did was make me like Dark Spyro more than regular Spyro and for him to die actually made me upset ...Dark Spyro was so intresting I hate that he’s gone.
The animation this time looked so much better, the fight scenes were nicely done although short , I liked the fact that they reveled that some Skylanders decided to join the side of evil when Strykor got corrupted....When they had that picture of Wash Buckler fighting with Strykor I got pretty excited and I hopped to see him his personality could easily fit that of a bad guy...They also missed a chance to introduce Pendergast during the race.
I know that they didn’t want to keep on adding Characters randomly but I was a bit disappointed TBH

Well, this weekend, BINGE WATCHING!

(Going to be otherwise pretty dull.)



I just want to see Strykor get his butt kicked.

They really blew their budget on that rocket castle scene huh.

Still. Until episode 9, it was pretty bad. I don't mind the Dark Spyro self sabotage shenanigans because they were all very funny, but the Kaos sideplot had no reason to exist and indeed leads nowhere until he straight up takes a new plot from Spyro, and the lack of existence of the cadets was infuriating - Kaossandra talks about promoting them all to teachers when they've been giving classes to these guys all along, for god's sake.

And... Is it me, or is the finale adding to the hints from the Reignited spoilers that Skylanders may be backstory to the entire Spyro franchise? I won't specify because well it's spoilers for a different thing entirely, but it certainly sounds like it.

Also, Flynn is the best new feature of this season, and this is suprising considering you all know how unbearable be became to me the last two games. They actually made him... a character. With real flaws and conflict.

I hate the fact that no one says anything about Eon being Kaos’s Dad although Eric confirmed that last year on Twitter...even when The Skylanders ask Eon about being Kaos’s Uncle he goes along with what they’re saying and lies to them m right after stating that there won’t be any secrets between them * Face Palms *

NGL, I'm not a fan of Eon being Kaos' father. Uncle is fine, but Father it just too much.

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I hate the fact that no one says anything about Eon being Kaos’s Dad although Eric confirmed that last year on Twitter...even when The Skylanders ask Eon about being Kaos’s Uncle he goes along with what they’re saying and lies to them m right after stating that there won’t be any secrets between them * Face Palms *

Actually, the implication is that Kaossandra cheated on Strykore, and the filler episodes flip flop if she told Eon at the time of the season or before, I think the ending of Eon knowing it all along was the inconsistent part. It's kind of kid-unfriendly to say that until Strykore was defeated and unable to interact with the others.

okay.

Where was Cynder in the whole final fight?
She dissapeared suddenly even Kaos said "You are only 6!" but Cynder wasn't there.

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And... Is it me, or is the finale adding to the hints from the Reignited spoilers that Skylanders may be backstory to the entire Spyro franchise? I won't specify because well it's spoilers for a different thing entirely, but it certainly sounds like it..

Um okay? I've never heard something like that!
Now I'm really curious about it ...

Also, as said in another thread, the official twitter lied super hard about several parts of the plot and appearances that never happened. I get a little more why people are angry, I had forgotten about those responses altogether..

These showrunners gave an attempt but it's so painfully obvious they forgot a whole chunk of the cast. Stealth Elf mopes about having no mentor and an important keepsake? Then it's not Ninjini and the magic bottle??? Ugh.

King Pen and Crash acted totally out of character -.-

Golden Queen's, Cynder's and Malefor's brief moment were ... dissapointing
And no one cared about Cynder until they needed her for something .. wow.

I only enjoyed Flynn, the dynamic between the main team and Dark Spyro, Kaossandra, Dark Spyro, Dark Spyro vs Spyro (best fighting animation in the whole series) and the ending.

The whole Strykore plot was also dissapointing. I thought he would be more dangerous. The only thing he was doing the whole season was to be a flying head and talking to Dark Spyro.

Crash was *more* in character, since they made him crazier like in his original series. King Pen has no excuse.

Yeah he was more like his gaming counterpart because they made him more crazier and less cooler but not to his SA counterpart in S1, because of that I think he was out of character. :/
King Pen is a shame.

remind me to take some screenshots when i have the time, there's one part from the beginning of S3E4 that's just begging to be memed

“Hey Spyro, I’m sorta not dead and I suddenly know where your family is!”

How did this season feel rushed and drawn out?

Fight scenes were cool though.

“Oh no Cynder is trapped in the underworld! Let’s leave her for 12 episodes so we can solve a petty dispute between Eon and Kaossandra.”

Also the Golden Queen showed up for less than half an episode and wasn’t even the main focus.

I had a lot of gripes, but it was still enjoyable.

The original intention was actually to kill Eon and make him a ghost like the games ever since the pilot, Eric was shut down because killing the mentor character was too sudden for kids. But yeah, it did feel rushed, but it's because it's a package that comes with them trying to put the kaos father plot to an end at the finale rather than the first episode and moving on to setting this up.

Like, Eon says he's the father right away, episodes are spent on the squabble being visibly two parents trying to raise a kid without actually being near them, final episodes are about Eon passing the duties to Kaossandra because he thinks he's not going to make it. You'd barely have to change most of the season to make it fit better.

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And... Is it me, or is the finale adding to the hints from the Reignited spoilers that Skylanders may be backstory to the entire Spyro franchise? I won't specify because well it's spoilers for a different thing entirely, but it certainly sounds like it.

Bifrost, can you tell me where to read about this? You've made me curious.

Anyway, I just finished Season 3 and I have a lot to say about it!

I liked it better than Season 1 and less than Season 2.

+ ! Yes, he literally stole the show, but it was so interesting to explore Spyro's alter ego. His new voice was cool too. However, his constant failings teetered between exciting and tiresome, as I feel like we could have got to episode 13 much more quickly without them.
+ Surprisingly, Flynn. I actually really liked him, his jokes, and everything really.
+ Stealth Elf's outfit in Episode 7. I know everyone has about ten thousand figures of her by now, but I would totally buy another if she had that red bandana and sunglasses!
+ The ending was satisfying to me, in that it could easily set up Season 4 or be the show's complete finale. I hope it's not the latter.

- The ending was also so frustrating! Season 2, for goodness sake, set up the search for Spyro's family, yet Season 3 stalled this story thread for another year, or even forever.
- Uhhh, so everyone was fine with Cynder chilling out in the underworld the entire time? In Episode 12, Spyro is more scared of Malefor than he is upset that he left her there while he was evil. And where were the other cadets? I just feel like a lot of characters were criminally underused. A step backwards from Season 2 in my opinion.
- Season 3 was also round 3 of spot-the-cleverly-reused-assets-and-locations. I know it can't be helped (thanks, budget) but it's so limiting.
- The humour continues to be completely hit or miss for me. The 2014 and Buckingham Palace mentions, for example, were awful, but I did like the Gladiator(?) reference. FREEDOM!!

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Not my best work, but it’s true.

looks like someone took parenting lessons from lusamine and ghetsis

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Eon did say "all of the business", zap

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Bifrost, can you tell me where to read about this? You've made me curious.

I'll say it in vague words so someone avoiding Reignited spoilers can have an easier time. There's the spoilers thread there with the achievements. One of these achievements, is an interesting endgame picture. This picture shows something that's a very strange reference to place. If it's in the final game, it could mean the series are more connected than we think. Here's the actual info for everyone else, possible Reignited spoilers ahead:

Thanks, Bifrost!

Okay time for some quick thoughts:

Question: What happened to Strykor?

Kind of vague...

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Question: What happened to Strykor?

Kind of vague...

Sent back to the Endless Void. And no, they didn't do anything to stop him from coming back like last time, but it did take a hundred years the first time so track record is good.

This season was good , but there aren’t any lighthearted episode there aren’t any episodes that I can watch on their own like belly of the beast and prison break...all of the episodes are tied together this could of have been a good movie , but not a full season there isn’t any diversity

^That is one thing I really like about this season. It's more story driven.

Yeah, I'm really only here for the full story and Spyro and his friends. Those completely irrelevant episodes always rubbed me the wrong way, especially when they were filled with humour I just didn't get!

Still, I think the main problem is that the non-plot parts are ENTIRELY filler. Weekend At Eon's and Three Sides to Every Story could've used WAY shorter ways to show Dark Spyro's struggles but instead it's wasted on protagonist hijinks and more kaos pirate.

Two chunks that could've been used for a Kaossandra episode(and not a Stealth Elf episode in disguise like Road Rage) and a cadet episode, like Split Decision did amazingly by being half cadet development half actual plot.

The Kaos pirate plot was so pointless.
They should had focus on more important plotlines

Stealth Elf and Spyro/Dark Spyro chemistry was the best like always. I love them both since Imaginators.
I still don't get over how they only give Coco, Cynder, Malefor and the Golden Queen 5 minutes of screen time.
What was even the point to introduce Coco?
I thought Cynder and Malefor would play a more bigger role in this season.

Oh, I loathed the Kaos pirate stuff so much. I've never really cared for the Doom Raiders anyway (The only Skylanders game I skipped was Trap Team, so go figure) but adding his constant incompetence to the mix was even worse!

It reached the point where, in Episodes 12 and 13, I groaned whenever they turned up, just because they were stealing screen time from the characters I'd been waiting for all Season to re/appear (Cynder and Coco, namely).

Like I said before, it baffles me as to why those characters were completely sidelined. It's jarring going from Season 2 to 3 now because people like Cynder, Sprocket and Malefor go from pseudo-mains to cameo roles.

On a positive note, I remember absolutely loving Split decision last year. It's a shame I never got round to Season 2 on my rewatch before the 28th came around!

The Doom Raiders just got shafted too fast. They get scared by Kaos and suddenly they're back at their pre-season 1 level, including arrest? Dreamcatcher uses her powers a grand total of once except for jokes - and NONE OF THE OTHERS do anything when it comes to battling in the ship.

Broccoli Guy also pretty much proved why he's indispensable to the team. None of their scenes were funny compared to the sheer amount of times they played off of him in the first two seasons. Eric had a good reason to replace Krankcase, and this is why.

It sort of annoys me how Stealth Elf was working pretty hard to figure out what was up with Spyro but then it’s pretty much given away to her.

Also the Doom Raiders are only there for fanservice and you all know it.

Drobot, Stump Smash, and Shroomboom got namedropped in S3E5. and apparently they're held in high regard.

Shroomboom's probably out there as a space pirate, riding in a stolen warship or something, good on him

They're also all three shown in the S1 intro. Yet, Food Foght somehow lost his rank between the first two seasons by the power of plot.

Wash Buckler is shown to be an evil skylander

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Wash Buckler is shown to be an evil skylander

Given that fact he's the only Skylander on that side, and also having another pirate, I'm thinking that very well might just be a mistake.


In fact if anything, this was Wash Buckler BEFORE he became a Skylander. Since the battle with Strykore was with the very First Skylanders, being the Giants.


My guess Wash Buckler was orginally a villain, but changed over to good. Makes much more sense and goes with his backstory.

One thing that bugs me, I'm on episode 4, and so far not even a MENTION of Cynder!

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One thing that bugs me, I'm on episode 4, and so far not even a MENTION of Cynder!

well, uh

No ones cares about her until the plot demands it.