8:43 AM · Dec 29, 2020 "hero rule 42069: die."
The Emperor's New School Hercules is a sequel midquel-slash-high school AU of the film The Emperor's New Groove Hercules. It focuses on Kuzco Hercules and all his friends and enemies from the movie, along with some new friends in the form of classmates such as Malina Cassandra and Guaca Icarus and teachers such as Mr. Moleguaco Daedalus.
Jokes aside, I was kind of expecting the Hercules cartoon to be better. It had some crew members on it I had come to respect, such as Tad Stones, but alas, it started pretty boring and went downhill quickly. Now, a show going downhill isn't uncommon with the Disney watch, but it usually goes from A/B tier to C/D tier... Not C to F tier.
Even characters like Hades, who was my favorite part of the movie, or Zeus, who was my favorite part of the show due to what seemed to be a degree of awareness that he was in a shitty cartoon, couldn't save it. Maybe part of it is that they gave Hades a thing for Aphrodite.
10:49 PM · Dec 27, 2020 "why is .... hades straight????"
8:54 AM · Dec 29, 2020 "zeus gets a song and it isnt good... none of the songs are good in this show"
9:23 AM · Dec 29, 2020 "zeus said he was sexy i hate this show."
The show is surprisingly straight and surprisingly horny. Like sure it's a show about hormonal teenagers, but you get a lot of Icarus being an absolute creep to Cassandra and it's a matter of "why does she hang out with him? why do any of this trio hang out for that matter?"
4:18 PM · Dec 27, 2020 "french stewart is here..."
10:51 PM · Dec 27, 2020 "i really hate icarus and cassandra"
It's very weird because the relationship between Malina and Kuzco is pretty opposite. Like Icarus and Cassandra, they're very much the couple pushed by the series. But unlike Cassandra, who has a personality (plagued by visions and bummed about it because no one believes her), Malina is very much the "girl" character. Malina's very type A and very much the one who rounds out the boys and has to get them back in line. But on the other hand, the relationship between Kuzco and Malina is a lot better than that of Icarus and Cassandra, because although Kuzco is quite insistent that Malina is a, and I am quoting here: "Hottie Hot Hottie," they do have a dynamic other than that. Malina exists to be a foil to Kuzco, and they balance each other out in ways not always meant to be romantic, one sided pining, or creepy.
I think for the most part, Emperor's New School does a lot more with its characters. I like Yzma in her series more than I like Hades in his, and considering they're both goofy technicolor villains who made the movie they're in, I think that says more than enough. Most characters in Hercules do keep their characterization. The problem is most characters in Hercules aren't all that fun, and they ones they did add for comic relief aren't that great. Emperor's New School has the opposite problem. The characters in the movie are great. They're what you came to see, but the side characters they add are pretty middling. No one is watching Emperor's New School for the kid who screams "Kuzco rules!" in every episode, but they don't have to this is a funny show with Kuzco and Kronk and Yzma and Pacha.
Also, I don't know if it's a lack of composition or what, but Phil looks super pale in the Hercules show
10:39 PM · Dec 27, 2020 "why are you white"
I think Emperor's New School also lets itself be a comedy better than Hercules. Hercules is pretty much driven by jokes about Greek myth and jokes about things teenagers have to deal with, like romance, and I haven't been a teenager in nearly a decade, but it doesn't hit well with me.
I guess it's good to consider however, that this was the era of shows like Doug and Pepper Ann, later down the line we'd have Kim Possible and The Proud Family. It does fit that fantastical teen show, but I do wonder if teenagers really enjoyed it that much.
Emperor's New School very much focused on parody. This show wasn't about teenage girl problems. It was about turning into a different animal every week and making self aware jokes and recurring gags. Maybe it's the nostalgia but it was a very familiar thing, and probably what kept me coming back when I watched it during my high school days at 5 in the morning getting ready for school.
Overall Rating for Hercules: F Tier
Overall Rating for The Emperor's New School: B Tier
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