one thing i personally think is great rep is an explicitly autistic character being written to have a love interest! autistic people are often infantilized and seen as children who can’t handle romance so seeing twyla so open to the concept was such a breath of fresh air :)

Hilariously for the witchcraft allegory it seems queerness is universally accepted in the Monster world, (no one, not even the antagonists, misgender Frankie or say anything homophobic) so it could literally be like: Draculaura: Dad, I’m gay. Dracula: Cool! I love you no matter what. Draculaura: I’m also practicing witchcraft Dracula: yOU’re wHat

I have a theory that Finnegan can’t use manual wheelchairs because his arm fins could get caught in the wheels as they spin.

Cleo's bag of jarred organs reminds me somewhat of bags I've seen for diabetes equipment & medication which says "this is my pancreas" on it

they really should have an episode on Frankie discovering they're autistic they could all adress so much with it, "uh but Twyla is autistic and you're nothing like her?" would be the best of it if they want to do me a favour and make them both have both autism and adhd would be awesome (yes like me)

5:00 : Latino here. Granted, i am not from Honduras per se, but in the context of Latino culture as more or less a whole? Anger issues are a super prevalent thing, specially in both the context of ''Latino father only is allowed to feel Anger as it is the only MAnLY emotion and represses everything else'', or the ''Latina mother has anger issues - was only taught to shut up about her complaints, grow up and take care of the household - won't tell what you did wrong and brushes her anger off in a passive aggressive manner until she explodes and starts yelling about nothing and everything at the same time'' which eventually poisons the whole family bit by bit as the children get dragged down into the generational anger spiral (that and the bonkers stupid gender expectations placed onto the kids tends to fester a very hostile family environment, with the expectation to just suck it up until it becomes too much to bear, which generates the anger issues - which are taught by our caretakers, we are not born with them - as we are literally not taught to process any negative emotion in any healthy manner). Of course, these are not the only types of Latino anger issues or toxic family dynamics, but just what i have witnessed myself or by my friends. It would be a bad thing if the show only showed Laguna as a ''HahA LOOk!! LAtINA iS CRAzY and ANGrY!!!'' which they don't. Laguna is learning to deal with it, and it is addressed with actual respect instead of being the butt of the joke (albeit, yes, some humor is drawn from it, it is in a more light hearted way as this is a kid's show, and i do not mind that). In fact, i do think that we do need more shows addressing anger issues and how your family situation - in the context of anger or poorly addressing of emotions - doesn't define you, that you are *allowed* to be angry and process those emotions in a healthy way. I needed that as a kid, and hell, i need it now as well. I really like it.

As a person who has stutter since I learned how to speak, I would really love some representation of characters with speech issues or smth. Wasted potential with Gholia, honestly

Twyla and Frankie felt like two sides that I could relate to, liking my quiet time and having some trouble being social, while at the same time having trouble with volume control and enjoying social interactions. And getting actual in show confirmation of Twyla being Autistic was so surprising, which is unfortunate really that something like that is surprising, and I was bouncing in place when she said it.

Something else cool about Twyla: most of the time when characters are autistic, even when it's explicit, they're not the ones to say that. It's always a caregiver or a relative or something outing them - see "When Carl Met George" (Arthur), Julia's introductory episode in Sesame Street, etc. The conversation is always "handled" by someone else, especially in children's media, aligning with the assumptions that we can't understand/articulate our own needs, navigate a conversation about boundaries, or control who does and doesn't know personal information about us. Her taking a deep breath and starting the conversation herself, because she needs to do so to make her needs clear but knows that this could get awkward/difficult/ableist quickly, reminds me of a dozen similar conversations I've had over the years.

I find it hilarious that a Mattel property now has a character voiced by someone who uses Mattel as a last name.

It would be so cool if Frankie was actually diagnosed as autistic later in the series! And they could bond with Twyla more

As an autistic kid who had a lot of anger issues as a child, I can honestly say Laguna would have been a huge help to me. I wish there had been more respresentation when I was a child.

As a latina (mexican) , i got so annoyed at people calling Lagoona a spicy latina, because she isnt s3xualized in any way and her issues are treated with respect and seriousness, and on behalf of the fandom it felt kinda xenophobic ngl, let latin women, femmes and girls have big emotions ffs! Don't police our feelings and don't treat us like tropes when we have them, i saw that coming from a lot of gringos and non latines. Most of the LatAm community really loves her, even her launch song that got panned by English speakers was super appreciated by latin fans, its a catchy bop! I went from not caring about Lagoona in G1 to her being in the top 3 of my favorite characters in G3! I really resonate with her and I truly feel represented by her.

While I am technically Latino I don’t live in the average Latino household. Despite that, issues with anger and outbursts are incredibly common in my family. That’s why meeting up with family is always annoying because at least 1 argument always happens. The only person who doesn’t have issues with anger is my mom, and she actually had those issues when she was younger. She just took the steps to improve.

Would it be cool if they presented the zombie "brainsss" things as an analogue for tourettes?

Deuce gives me major aro vibes this gen with that "I can't wait to spend the most romantic night of the year with someone I'm completely platonic with" line

6:30 i love that she uses noise cancelling headphones! i ware mine at school sometimes and people always ask me stupid questions about them or tap on them or make fun of me, they don’t know what they are. showing autistic characters in shows with noice cancelling headphones is a great way to normalise them✨ :D

The thing I think you’re missing with ghoulia is the CLEAR ADHD coding. This is made clear by her being smart but thinking about things quickly and not exactly thinking she is fast. A LOT of my adhd was my time dilation where i would spend too much time on one detail and take LONGER to do things then others. It doesn’t mean I’m slow but it means that to me the world is moving SUPER FAST! an hour is a minute to her sorta deal… the point I’m making is that in quite a few scenes it takes her a moment to understand where everyone is at and especially when she tries to move fast on her skateboard to pick up the pace because she FEELS so slow that happens too! We often over correct and start start to think we are talking faster then everyone else but in reality we are talking normally and moving at a normal pace. ADHD is also hereditary and might explain why zombies believe they move slower. And that is simply because they don’t understand time dilation. You can hear this a few times when ghoulia even mentions the time as a question like “did I sleep that long?” Or “it’s really been that long?” Classic time dilation. This could also simply be dissociative disorder where sometimes she zones out. Hence why they are hesitant to label some of the characters because the symptoms expressed are connected to a plethora of disorders that nonverbal language barrier doesn’t exactly cover. They went more subtle… rather the overt with certain things to hit a different audience because as someone who has nonverbal days i can say it’s next to IMPOSSIBLE to communicate and if they want to do it right they want someone who has to use an outside tool not just a second language… and we have characters coming up that don’t talk at all! We even have mythologys that talk about some creatures who’s voices are like duces eyes. Just simply dangerous.

21:02 I love how Lyra is more bird-like. A lot of modern depictions of Sirens are mermaid-like when Sirens were actually half bird half human in Greek Mythology.

Something I really appreciate about Twyla is even though her autism is a large part of her character they dont bring it up every time she appears onscreen. I have friends that once I told them I was autistic they felt the need to bring it up 24/7. Very nice to see twyla is a person outside of her neurodivergence.

It's characters like Twyla that make me envy today's younger generation. If I had seen more representation like her, I probably would have had a much better representation of neurodivergency than I had when I was younger (looking at you, Rain Man) and probably clocked earlier that I myself was neurodivergent.

Posted one minute ago. Will update this after done watching :) love your vids Update time: I was kinda shocked to see how plainly they said terminology like "queer" and "nonbinary" and "Autistic." It seems most shows (especially if they involve fantasy of any kind) like to imply rather than state it outright. I really appreciate that about this show, that it doesn't treat those words as taboo. Also, as a fellow Autistic, I relate strongly to how you described Twyla. Good Autistic rep is so few and far between. I haven't watched Monster High, but I'm quite interest now...

i think the reason Finnegan would rather use a motorized wheelchair is because of his hands. or more specifically keeping his hands safe. he is a guitar player. if he used a manual wheelchair it would increase the chances of him hurting his hands or getting them dirty and making harder to play guitar.

I saw this cartoon in my father's house, while my brother was watching it. My GOD, Frankie is great. Seeing them after I was started seeing myself as an agender, love it.

Perhaps Nephera had the organs placed back inside? on one hand, she'd no longer have to worry about distance. on the other hand, perhaps they become more vunerable?

my headcanon for neyphra and her organs is she has a longer range she can be away from them for (thoe this dont explain the pyramid scene) if you want to keep the analogy of of medical equpiment compare it to a inhlaer cleo needs hers on hand at all times while her sister just needs it close by like in her locker or something

Ngl I... feel so many emotions at seeing modern children's shows getting to showcase children of all kinds. Multiple body types, disabilities, genders, neurodivergences, orientation... It's so heart-warming that they get to have that. Yeah, it's not perfect but it feels made with an honest attempt to give love to the variety of people.

6:28 Me listening to this with my noise canceling headphones while working on an android app that plays noises that drown out background noise to make my noise cancelers even more powerful: Amen to that my siblings. (Yes I can just pull up "10 hours of white noise" on youtube, but that don't work offline)

I find it really interesting that Lagoona gets anger issues after being rebooted as latina. I’m not offended or anything as a latino either. I think it’s good to have a childs character with anger issues, who is self aware and working on improving herself. Also, as someone who is nonbinary and femme-passing, I looove Frankie as representation. And for them to be dating Cleo, it feels out of left field, but it’s nice to have two main characters in a queer (platonic?) relationship. (idk if it’s canon yet, but it’s pretty queer) Edit: they also could’ve Ghoulia a speech impediment. Yes, she can speak english, whatever (zombie being it’s own language was cooler tho), but giving her a speech impediment would bounce at least a little off her original counterpart. Also also, I love the relationship between Cleo and Nefera now. There’s sibling envy but still genuinely loving each other is significantly better than a 19 year old woman harassing her 15 year old sister and her friends

Yes, I must agree - G3 is good at showing representation. My only gripe is wasted potential with Ghoulia

Maybe they could fix Ghoulia if they made being a zombie sort of like a physical disability which gets worse over time. They start out human and gradually become more zombie-like. So, right now she and the other Zombies don’t seem very zombie-ish but they could gradually have more and more physical challenges, including some impacting their speech, which would be really interesting and challenging to see her go through. Obviously she’d still be the same mentally but without the physical abilities she maybe took for granted before? Or maybe she didn’t take them for granted at all and just made the most of them, knowing she wouldn’t have them forever. Idk maybe that’s stupid. But it bothers me that they changed her so much.

Honestly a cool concept for vampires would have been to have to either drink blood (maybe there could be a vampire blood bank where they can get donations) or take some type of supliment so that they stay healthy. Maybe to keep them from fainting or getting dizzy. Sort of like anemia but for vampires specifically. I think it would have been a cool idea.

I have many vivid memories of me in elementary school sitting in the library whenever I could because it was quiet and empty and the librarian was nice to me. I used to get so burnt out back then because I masked nonstop. I wasn’t diagnosed, and I’m still not, so I always just thought something was wrong with me. I picked at my clothes and earrings. Twyla makes me so happy. She’s everything comforting. She would be my favourite if I could watch this show when I was younger. I just know 7 year old me would love her colours and powers. Still love her powers. I love how Twyla was direct and explicit when she explained it. No “oh I’m just so shy and sensitive, not autistic”. No beating around the bush. No “I’m autistic, let me tell you the definition”. That’s stupid. Just “I’m autistic and loud noises bother me, please don’t do that”. She really hit home for me.

I gotta admit, I don't I know jack shit about momster high, but I do appericate that the show is staffed with people who clearly care about showcasing diversity to kids and showing diverse kids that their traits are normal, valid, and best of all, human. People who complain a whole lot about "woke" cartoons really don't understand why these kind of shows are important. They show diverse kids, espically kids in places where they get bullied for their diverse traits, that their not only valid for having these traits, their just as human as more standard kids. And they also show standard kids how diverse kids are just as human as they are. So yeah, good shit.

I am in love with the new Monster High series! Not only do I love the vast amounts of representation; I loved the animation, the stories, the voice cast and all the unique creatures on-screen

You should do a disabled review of Blue Eye Samurai. It has several disabled characters including a blind man, a Handless man, and a man with a stutter. I think it's very respectful towards all its disabled characters, but I'd love to hear your opinion.

I love that one of the gasket spirits wears a trans pride armband, wears lipstick with a very male coded voice. LET QUEERS PLAY SPORT SAYS MONSTER HIGH

I got diagnosed with autism not long ago and to be honest I never identified with it? I mean I knew it was a spectrum and that everyone expirianced it diferently but I just never saw myself within it. My expiriance just didn't match anything I saw in media or what I heard from other autistic people or my friends. The part of your video about Frankie and headcannoning her as autistic really made me feel seen for the first time and helped me identify with my diagnosis more because they're just like me.

I'm autistic too so Twyla was a favorite of mine when I discovered the series here on youtube.

i love how the theme of parents and issues they have with thier children all lead to the parents wanting to be better and accepting their flaws except catrina the thing the cements her as an abusive monster is the fact she refuses to change and inf act embraces her worst aspects showing no concern or love for her daughter what makes a monster is not the actions they commit but the refusal to atone for the actions they have performed

Monster High was my favorite series growing up. Watched all the episodes and all of the movies. I didn’t know WHY I clicked with this and not Barbie or Bratz (which I did like but didn’t have that feeling of connection). IG it was because I was bullied for being different? Not conventionally pretty or very smart (not in the way that mattered in school). Preferred books to people because books didn’t run away from you when you tried to join them. Absolutely dreaded school. Family life was…I wouldn’t say abusive. But there was a lot going on and television was the one escape since there wasn’t much to do in my town. Monster High was the first show that ever made me feel…seen. That being different wasn’t bad. That eventually I would find my people (which I did when I got internet access). Was it a perfect show? No. But it made an 11 year old girl feel better about herself.

Cleo's organ jar bag is also a great way to tie more into her mythological origins as an Egyptian mummy. Mummies were buried with jars of each organ, since they would rot if kept in the body when it was embalmed and mummified. If a mummy was buried without an organ, or the organ was stolen or damaged, it was believed that wouldn't be able to use it in the afterlife, similarly to how Cleo can't use an organ if it isn't close to her. I love how much more expilicitly Egyptian Cleo is in G3, and it isn't just "an aesthetic" anymore.

I love humanoid sea monsters (gillmen?,) so I was always disappointed by the fact that Laguna's most monstrous features were the hair accessory looking fins around her head or the constant fish-faced pout. I adore the design with a thousand tiny sharp teeth.

G1 toralei DID have her actions explined One episode in the webisodes explined that toralei is an orphan & was homeless-she never got adopted and had to Steal in order to survive, which ended in her being thrown in jail(the pond) where she found the weretwins She then got adopted by bloodgoon & essaintly lives in the school The dairies did mention her having a parent but sanders confirmed that was an error-she is an orphan

My favorite thing about Twyla's autism is that she doesn't "get over" any of her symptoms. She doesn't start to like loud noises, or like eye contact with "the right people". Which is so important to me. I still get angry sometimes about how many autistic and autsitic-coded character "get over" their touch aversion by hugging a friend, or start to try new foods because they "get adventurous". I loved G1 Twyla, and I'm so glad they gave her what she deserved in Gen 3.

For the Zombies, even if they didn't want to care about going the whole way with them again, they could at least show that they fatigue easily. As someone who had fatigued easily(was a medical issue, been fixed) it could be interesting to have them use things like the Skateboards because while they can keep up with the other monsters... it's only in bursts. Like, before the surgery I genuinely could keep up with people... but then crash upon arrival at a place I could sit. It'd be cool to see them show that not all disabilities are visible and some can be very easily hidden/invisible until you know the signs.

As someone who has bad stuttering fits, Sometimes has ticks due to high amount of stress, I feel if they had made it where she gets stressed she gets ticks, (Not even the brains) Stumbling over her words more(Maybe like the effect of two different languages) It could be because Ghoulia its trying to adapt to her friends, But is semi failing to try and look normal to her friends. that would be very great for people with Social Anxiety and the risk of perfection. Almost like a form of Autism(Stemming from A HC Of Autistic Non-Verbal Ghoulia) And could be the fact shes trying so hard to be verbal but her body and feelings just dont. Her wanting to going back to being comfortable as Non verbal/Going back to a language shes comfortable with. Again this is only my opinion.

It makes me sad that they made Ghoulia able to talk :\ I know its not at all the same but as someone with speech apraxia, I always loved Ghoulia due to her showing that just because you don't understand what someone is saying, It doesn't mean that they are not smart or a person like everybody else

It's been interesting to watch the discussion of Ghoulia's changes in this gen and made me evaluate her again myself. While G1 is cited often as making the zombies non verbal I did see people point out that instead it might more accurately state them as ESL because zombie itself *is* a language, they all could communicate and by that token they weren't non verbal. As well as people taking this idea further and pondering if labeling them as non verbal because we personally couldn't understand them was potentially ablest or culturally insensitive. All of that I am not sure on but it's had me rethinking her for sure.

I think Frankie being explicitly autistic/neurodivergent would be great as my friend group has similar clashes when it comes to overstimulation and noise control as most of us have autism and/or adhd so that clash is very real even though we all love each other very much. Also the queer rep in monster high is amazing,, personally I really want like a trans man rep (coz that's what I am) but Frankie being nb is awesome. So many of me and my friends (a bunch of other peeps I assume) who grew up liking monster high are queer and neurodiverse, and generally had issues fitting in with others which is what monster high has always been about- the fringes of society, and how it's okay to be different because it's natural.

I thought about it, and an idea for a reason I came up with for the whole "monsters are actually dangerous to humans" thing is that because of the isolation and prejudice, that monsters are encouraged see humans as the enemy and therefore ok to pose a danger to, and/or don't learn to not eat them bc there's so much focus on staying away and not what to do when one shows up safely. Not great, but it's at least an explanation 🤷‍♀️

The relationship between Deuce and his mom really hits home as a black person. His mom having such high expectations for him because those were the same expectations she had? And how she ends up pushing him so far thinking she's protecting him from the discrimination she faced? Like it's something I can relate to alot

I think Finnegan uses a motorized wheelchair because that's easier to animate. With a manual wheelchair they would have to animate his arms moving the wheels in the right speed to match with the speed he's moving, also turning would be hard to animate and have look realistic, because the speeds and sometimes even directions are different in both wheels. Also he wouldn't have a free arm all the time, so that would limit the amount of actions the character could do. That's a kid show about a very famous franchise, so they probably are pushed to produce very fast without diminishing the quality, so it makes sense they would choose the more pratical option for that.

I was already planning to watch this when I found somewhere I could (I was waiting til I could afford to support the show monetarily) but this makes me even more excited to watch it!!! Gen 1 was my childhood and I adored monster high!!! It was my Barbie! And it makes sense that I gravitated towards the show that was so much more focused on those pushed to the edges of society as a disabled queer person myself. I know Gen 3 gets a lot of flack from older fans but from the few episodes I was able to catch, I really love it! And I’m so psyched to get to see the rest!

I completely agree with this video, and I do wish that Ghoulia was kept as non verbal. As you previously said, they could have solved it by making her being voiced by a nonverbal or partially nonverbal actress. I admitedly feel more lenient with the 'monsters vs humans' angle purely because it does seem an attempt of ahaha funny dark humour, but it is tastless regardless, hopefully it will be less present in the future. Also am I the only one or I get huge 'Patakis' from Hey Arnold! vibes from Cleo's family now? (A more digestible example as imo her parents do love both their daugthers but one's clearly the favourite)

Lagoona is such an important character to me. I've always struggled with anger issues myself, even as a child, and I also got the 'i have to be a people pleaser' overcorrection phase. It feels very good to see this type of issues talked about since I feel like mental health tends to be only brought up when it comes to certain things and other things like this get pushed a little to the side

10:40 I agree honestly, i love Toralei so much in this generation, Her character development is like the most interesting out of all of them,even though she is still a little catty she change for the better, her redemption arc is great and she's my favorite.

Ghoulia could have only been around ghouls until getting into Monster High and that's why she haven't had brain freeze before

I miss Ghoulia's posture. The rambling way she moved, the way she lolled her head around, her untraditional smile, they way she blinked one eye at a time. The way her mouth hung open, the way her glasses slid down her face and she wouldn't fix them. Becuase I do all of that. I have always done all of that. And my young little autistic gayboy self loved to see someone who did all of those "ugly" things and still always wore bright red lipstick, that cherry print, and the cuntiest glittery eyeshadow you've ever seen. She's just as glamorous, smart, girly, and complex as every other character, and I'm so sad that kids aren't going to get that with the G3 version.

I was worried that Twyla would be ruined by autism speaks like what they did with Sesame Street 😢

G1 Finnegan didn't have a "contextual disability" though, it was a medical condition - Like, he has a cannon disability - it was written in his diary, and other mermaids in the movie "Great scarrier reef" were able to walk outside the water with their tail.

I agree with everythin in this video !! also just wanna add, Deuce was confirmed to be dyslexic :]

I never got into Monster High when I was little, but I remember thinking that I liked how Frankie looked. How apt, considering how I turned out.

Going to the non traditional mobility aid point, I have an original character named Willow… fairy lynx hybrid (picture a bipedal lynx with fairy wings and humanoid hands instead of paws - though her feet are paws) and because she has a torn wing she ether rides around on her griffin husband Winston’s back, or uses a skydiving wing suit to adapt to the fact that she can’t fly 🧚

Latino here! I was also worried that Lagoona was the stereotypical "spicy Latina", I don't really like that one because she puts Latinos in a box of exoticism. Mental and emotional problems are not always taken seriously in many Latin American countries and it is worse when people turn poor management of emotions into a "quirk". But with Lagoona I'm really happy with how they handled her issues and didn't portray her as normal or even quirk.

My favorite character is Twyla, I'm autistic too. I've struggled with proving my autism doesn't control me or define me. I use to hate loud noises and getting wet (wearing wet clothes wasn't my favorite), but now I can wear wet clothes without feeling majority uncomfortable, and now I love cranking up the volume on my favorite music.

Ghoulia could've also been a good autism rep. I had some autistic friends in school who took calculus an ap history an other college level classes in highschool, but had a very hard time socially, not really understanding boundaries or emotions. Ghoulia gen 1 kinda reminds me of that

I am latina and can confirm we can have spicy tendencias but lagoonas precentacion feels to me to be very relaxed compared to stereotypes and she's just a lil sea creature doing her best

Each of the videos on this show have me so interested, I have never seen something with so much representation in every single aspect possible. I really hope I’ll find time to give this a watch, there aren’t many places to find this kind of representation. Edit: I wasn’t even done with the video but my coming out went exactly the same as Draculora’s there’s just so much to relate to here

I actually really like the frankie being autistic headcanon especially bc of their contrast with twyla, last year i was in a class with 2 autistic kids, one of them now benig one of my best friends, frankie and Twyla remind me a lot of them making me realize that frankie also being autistic would be such a good form of representation, one of my friends is a really extroverted (and sometimes naive) guy who would always be talking and interacting with everybody, loved to meet new people and experience new things, he always happy to be in the center of attention and had problems with volume control much like Frankie, and the other one is a quiet introverted trans girl with a lot of problems with socializing and talking to people, a lot of anxiety, and very uncomfortable with changes, she's also very sensitive to noise reminding me of Twyla, and even though they're very different they still understand each other and are good friends (both of them have adhd too) Out of context but i love Twila's character so much, as a kid with heavy social anxiety, who gets really uncomfortable in crowded places, can't communicate properly with people, tends to be really quiet when im not with someone really close to me, has a favorite bracelet that i'm always constantly messing with and wears noise cancelling earbuds whenever i'm out bc of sensory issues she's the kind of representation i wish i had when i was younger, but i'm glad younger kids are getting now

This might be wishful thinking, but I'd love to see a character with a TBI/Traumatic Brain Injury. Someone really close to me recently had a TBI and it has changed her, but even though she's different, she's still the same and still amazing, if that makes sense. I think Monster High would handle it with a lot of grace and represent TBIs to a wider audience in a way that isn't fear mongering or demeaning.

Hi! Long time watching, first time commenting (also not a native speaker, sorry for any mistakes) A few times you mentioned the "disability as superpower" trope, but is there such thing as "superpower as disability"? Like, when somebody's superpower makes their life a lot harder and more restricted. I'm pretty sure there are better and more explicit examples, but the thing I've been thinking about lately is "The disastrous life of Saiki Kusuo". Like, the protagonist can read people's minds even when he doesn't want to and it's too loud and annoying and overwhelming, but then he gets a ring that cancels his telepathy completely, which helps, but since he got so used to hearing people’s thoughts he flinches every time someone comes near him. It reminds me a lot of my noise cancelling headphones: they help a lot, but at the same time it's harder to participate in conversations: the sound gets kinda muffled. And he's got those silly things on his head that reduce his power, like, a lot, to the point where if they get removed he has no choice but to relax every muscle in his body, or else he'll destroy the world by accident or smthn. He had to use a wheelchair once, cause walking is a BIG risk. The scene when it happened for the first time also seems kinda familiar, like, when he falls and people around get confused: "What is happening??? Is it the thing?? It happened when he lost his thing so maybe we should put the thing back???" He also has to train a lot to perform simple tasks such as throwing a ball without accidentally hurting anyone. Anyway, love your videos, have a wanderful day!

I also gotta be honest-i dont like finn being able to swim just fine In g1 finn was disabled even in the water, he struggled both on land & water which i really like since then it doesnt feel like a cop-out where “oh no he is able bodied he just cant walk on land cause his a fish!!” I also dont like cleo having her heart out, mummies did not have their heart taken out it stayed in - it feels the same as hades being heath’s dad and just a disneys hades rip off , its completly inaccraute and is pretty weird since (at least the webisodes for g3) mention alot of facts about ancient egypt , her dolls even have a gold mark on her lips to represent how acient Egyptians did their makeup yet then they do that n its so weird-they dont even bother explining why she has her heart out its treated like thats just how mummies are like when no its not

s2 - purrsephone and meowlody confirmed having adhd with different processing! purssephone having visual memory and meowlody having audio memory!

as someone who doesn't know if they're autistic or not (I'm trying to figure out with my therapist and i cant really go to a psychiatrist bc i dont have the money for it) it's a little odd seeing autistic people being portrayed so openly - not in a bad way tho. i think its so great to see this generation getting informed about things we didnt really get in ours. but as i said i dont really know if i am in fact autistic, and although i feel so represented by twyla i feel kinda sad at the same time bc she is so free and true to herself, and even that i feel the same stuff as her i never got the chance to act on it... so i end up in this situation where i keep thinking to myself things like "if i was in fact autistic maybe i would always act on those feelings" in the end i dont know if im just having imposter syndrome or if i am autistic but cant figure it out idk i cant really express what i mean but hopefully someone understands me :')

Yeah, if Ghoulia didn’t have any brain related patterns on her, I would have no idea she was supposed to be a zombie (I also really wish she looked more undead with sunken in cheekbones or exposed bones rather than just using that atrocious radioactive mint green they gave for her skin tone)

By the way can I just see how fitting it is that they got Trixie Mattel to voice as Kelly Vanderbilt when her last name is Mattel and the company that makes Monster High is named Mattel I know it sounds kind of stupid but like there is no way whoever the heck decided to have Trixie Mattel voice when the character is in the show did not think of that

Agreed. Ghoulia was my favorite I dressed up for her as halloween in middle school. I def think they should have kept her speaking Zombie only

I believe I remember Cleo in the episode with the inner ear saying something along the lines of “Most mummies have some of the organs jarred for safe-keeping, I jarred *ALL* of mine” and personally I think this can be read as different approaches in treatment of medical issues. For example, my Dad has crippling pain for reasons I’m not gonna go into (I know this is anonymous, but that still feels rude), and he has been offered the idea of surgeries that could potentially alleviate it his pain, but it is likely to hinder his mobility in the future. My dad had chosen pain over mobility issues, and that’s valid. We could read Cleo as the opposite reading- choosing the surgery at the cost of everyday function, as this practice of jarring organs apparently provides some sort of undisclosed safety for mummies, which means it ties to long-term health. Cleo chose the more extreme procedure, Nefera has had a smaller procedure. Either way you look at it includes risk, but either way it’s a valid path to choose.

I’m honestly surprised that Oakwyrm hasn’t done a video on disability and queerness in The Umbrella Academy, I feel like that would be a fun and interesting video!

I love gen 1 ghoulia because the way she stands reminds me of scoliosis, and I personally like to headcannon that she had it, and I have it, which is just nice to think that a character has the same disability as you.

As a doll collector with High-Functioning Autism (I collect mainly Shadow High, Rainbow High, and Monster High Gens 1 and 3 dolls), Twyla is definitely my favorite MH Gen 3 character. I was absolutely amazed at how her Autism is portrayed so beautifully, and her doll is absolutely goregeous. I love the details of her having sensitive hearing, being petite and looking and sounding young for her age, having a bracelet that she fidgets with, her special interest in books and reading, and especially her getting a boyfriend in the show!🖤💜

I need to catch up on the G3 series, i watched the first few episodes and was really charmed!! I grew up with G1 and feel similarly encouraged about most of the changes (and frustrated with what they did with Ghoulia -- she was my favorite)

something that i've been hoping that they wind up doing for ghoulia moving forward is that they make zombie-ism a quietly progressive disability, like in the background we see her getting progressively slower, maybe winding up using a cane, and slowly loosing her speaking ability and maybe using her tech to speak for her eventually

Another thing they're doing well is the racial rep too. We have 3 East Asian- Draculara,Gill and Jinafire. 2 Afro Latine- Clawdeen and Clawd. 2 black- Venus and Catty A south asian- Abby 2 middle Eastern/ Egyptian- Cleo and Nevera 2 latina- Lagoona and Skelita Ginger-Torali And I head Canon frankie to be mixed. Hope we get a South East Asian and indigenous characters soon. Maybe Issi Dawndancers can return.

i just watched your last monster high video the other day ! what a coincidence that you post this now haha

Your reviews give me great to watch recommendations that I actually follow through on because it covers things I'm interested in seeing.

Personally I headcannon Frankie as ADHD

aaahhaaahhahhaa thank you for making a monster high video monster high g3 is literally my special interest and i love watching your videos i was so excited the whole way through cant stop flapping my hands around :DD !!!!!!

Im not fully on board with the designs and art style yet, but I really like the story so far

i love the g3 series! i was hoping you’d do another video on it :))

about the clash with frankie and twyla, is interesting to me as an autistic person who has autistic friends. Sometimes autisms clash but its about the balance

Regarding Toralei’s redemption arc in Season 2 there is actually an episode that shows more insight as to how she is struggling without her mother and is learning to come to terms with it.

(Last comment) i really do think they completly fumbled the bag on petroying monsters vs humans and even the school itself- in g1 the monsters were treated the same way as poc are , their treated as second class citizens even tho they are completly harmless , even when jackson transferred to monster high and got bullied by manny and his group for being a normie tons of students like deuce & frankie come to his aid and called them out Yet like you said in g3 they ARE a danger , the humans DO have a valid reason to fear them , the movies even have the entire school shun clawdeen for being half human , i mean hell they litrealy talk about how they view humans as lesser then monsters yet the monsters are still treated as a marginalized group which just doesnt work here like it did in g1

I love that Lagoona is from Honduras in this generation!! As a central american we have barely any representation let alone good representation. I still remember that MH doll ambassador who was ranting online about Lagoona being "Mexican" and how her dog chewed her up because of that. Her screaming "MEXICAN" into the camera llays in my head every so often because thats literally what its like being central american. Everyone assumes that because youre brown and speak spanish you have to be Mexican because they dont realize Latin America has so many different cultures. So many people have asked me if El Salvador is part of Mexico or if I speak El Salvadoran and its so frustrating. Idc what the gen 3 Lagoona haters say i love seeing a Central American character on screen plus shes pink 💕

I miss Ghoulia's old posture. It said "zombie" at first sight. Now she just a girl in green. If I wanted to see zombies blending in with regular folk I'd be watching Zombieland Saga. Which I will, soon. It's worth another round.

7:41 I really hope you make that mythology video because as a Greek mythology nerd I also have quite a few things to say about making Heath the son of a god that has never once been associated with fire

I’m so excited for more of monster high. Turned out so much better then I thought it would be

I really like your videos, thank you for this!

On the whole, I've been super pleased with the new gen, though... I was kind of into the previous movies mostly because Clawdeen and the other werewolves took wolf form more often. And the thing with Dracula and Clawdeen's mom. It's all little things. Like, I miss Nightmare. Good to see Headmistress Bloodgood again, but I miss Nightmare and her boyfriend Archer. It's such a small thing but it can mean a lot.