my stephanie/solla problem;
For all those zero of you wondering, Solla/Stephanie happens to be my favorite kid in the show since the very first time I watched it as a little tomboy girl experiencing one of my first crushes. Of course, my religious and traditional background made it impossible for me to realize that at the time. I also liked Sportacus a lot. I also had a crush on him. But not nearly as hard as 9yo me had on the pink girl. Surprise, surprise, I grew up to realize I’m a shameless gender-nonconforming bisexual woman. Despite it all, the show’s image got stuck in my head and the good time I had watching it created this nostalgic memory I’m deeply attached to.
I grew up and forgot about Lazy Town for years and years -- even though my favorite songs were always on repeat in the back of my head and I loved to sing, mindlessly, for silliness reasons. For no reason, I decided to revisit it one day and holy damn (I’m still not sure how badly I can curse since this is a children show, but are there children in here? Can I please curse? I need to curse) I was obsessed! This sent me on a spiral of hunting every kind of content I could, I finished the first two seasons in record time but then... the shock came.
First of all, I was not ready for the almost two years gap between season one and season two. Julianna growing up hit me hard in the feels and I’m still crying about it. I barely recovered from this shock when I noticed there was a new actress? eXCUSE ME. I had many questions.
Just a little googling helped me understand, and of course, Julianna was already too old (and very pretty, congratulations girl) for the role. I got it. But still so... I could not finish the first episode without her......
Other stuff changed too. From the beginning of season two I felt a decrease of script quality. So I was nervous about the third run, it would probably go downhill from there. I noticed something about the puppets changed, the dynamic changed a bit too, some voices even... It was all too alien. I didn’t feel at home anymore, it didn’t feel right. So I dropped the last two seasons.
Every day I want to try again. I have nothing against Chloe Lang personally, she looks lovely. I’m curious to know what stories I’m missing but it is not easy to face all those changes when Lazy Town is something emotionally rooted in my past.
I do believe I will someday manage to finish the whole show, but I don’t think I’ll enjoy it the same way. Or even close. My whole obsession is tied to the original run, my gifsets and fics and headcanons will all be based on this period. I don’t know how many of you had the same struggle, but this is where I currently am. When I finally manage to continue watching be sure I’ll be commenting and making more rants to cope with my frustration. Right now I’m pretending nothing is wrong in the world, re-watching the first season when everything was pretty and bright.
