The Dragon Prince: Season 7 (Full Season)

December 27, 2024 5:00 AM - Season 7 (Full Season)

Aaravos is at large, and also... just plain large. The final stage of his machinations begins.

Since the beginning of time, Aaravos has yearned to destroy the sun. Will he succeed?

posted by kyrademon (6 comments total)

Karim died the way he lived -- being incredibly stupid.
posted by kyrademon at 5:03 AM on December 27, 2024 [2 favorites]

I'm curious what people think of the season. I watched the first couple episodes, and they were... fine... but I'm not sure I have the momentum to finish it. I like the Dragon Prince well enough overall, but after 6 seasons with these characters, I'm not sure I care enough to bother finishing it up. If someone tells me though it's worth seeing through I'll pick it up again.
posted by Alex404 at 6:17 AM on December 27, 2024

I'll sum it up in one word for you: mediocre. The Big Bad does no magic at all despite being master of all arcanums, (ok, fine, he kills a bird) and is dealt with deus ex machina of the archdragons. The lead characters contribute zilch. They could have delivered the same ending without any of the rest of the characters doing anything at all. The titular character, "The Dragon Prince", is treated as a pet and can do friendship-is-magic style rainbows to fly fast, I guess?

Unresolved plot lines, stupid jokes, wasted episodes, pointless fetch quests just to stretch out the show. Character motivations make no sense.

I could go on, but this is a waste of time, and is completely disrespectful to the audience – the showrunners want three more seasons despite promises that they had a full story arcs wrapping up in 7 seasons. And to achieve this, the showrunners throw in the stupidest plot twist, Harrow was swapped with the bird before he was "killed"... that audience guess way back when. Thus ruining the entire premise of the show. Viren is remorseful and seeks redemption and yet never says a word of this? Harrow never seeks out his son who can talk to animals? WTAF??

This show is a waste of time and bandwidth. Better to just rewatch ATLA.
posted by techSupp0rt at 4:11 PM on December 27, 2024

I pretty much agree with most of the criticisms above. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it until the final episode, when everything pretty much... fell apart.

Still liked it better than the season with the pirates.
posted by kyrademon at 10:10 AM on December 28, 2024

This ties in to the current post on the Blue about Netflix. They weirdly show absolutely no interest in franchise building. There’s no marketing, a minimal amount of merchandising, and nothing to cultivate an online fanbase. Scholastic probably spends more marketing Captain Underpants alone than Netflix does marketing all their kids shows. Ultimately, it makes no sense, they’re leaving potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 1:47 PM on December 29, 2024

yea this series started out strong, but the last couple seasons just felt like a bunch of weird plot meanderings to stretch it out, diluting what was nice about it in the first place. I was happy to see the big bad get taken care of, and am going to pretend that he's not coming back in 7 years, so the show is over and I don't need to watch more. shame really.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 12:27 AM on January 2 [1 favorite]