Season 2

This season was a lot better than the previous one! 1st season I didn't really know for whom it was. Too childish for teens and too dark for children I guess. This was a YA story for sure. I'm almost 30 so it was still naive for me, but I still like YA and it didn't disappoint this time. Some characters finally became "whole" with their dark/light sides, like humans are. Even the ones I didn't like I could see some things I respected them for.
Nonetheless, I still had some issues with choices made in this season. Two main ones being Terra's coming out and Flora's main focus.
I feel like Terra is the stereotypical/bad assumptions on lesbians. I've heard so many times that women "become" lesbians bc no men could find them attractive. It really felt like Terra "made her choice" bc of that. I'm only saying that's the portrayal of the show that I've seen. From the beginning, Terra is the stereotypical "fat" girl, not self-assured, shy, doesn't believe she could be interesting. And ofc all her friends are confident so the show makes an assumption that beautiful and slim = confidence. She had two bad romantic interactions with men and the show didn't let any other to even befriend her. So I feel like the show targeted men as well as women here. It shows that no men is capable to love a fat/boring Terra but women can, but also making women/lesbians portrayed as "if guys don't like you, convert to women". I'm not saying that Terra could really always felt sth towards women BUT the show made it look different on the surface. She said she felt like that from the beginning but the show never showed us that. (If you would think about the one scene in 1st season when she couldn't look at naked Aisha it was clearly showed that it was bc of Terra's body that she wanted to hide and change and really not every heterosexual women are comfortable changing with others or seeing other women change).
And about Flora, she's so beautiful and confident, her magic looked beautiful as well, really liked her at the end BUT there are two scenes when she could really shine with her character if the show didn't make her main focus being the romance and romantic relationships of other girls. There is a scene when shes sneaking with Aisha and Rosalind or anyone can find them and there is possibility of expulsion but shes adamant to change Aisha's mind about Gray to the point of stoping and waiting for Aisha to stop, not listening her reason, and making her focus on the romance topic. Almost at the end, when she's on the cemetery with Terra they're already out of time to save Bloom (which is another stupid thing but whatever) yet she also stops and try to force the topic of romance on Terra even tho they are doing sth against the rules and there is a balance of her friend's life/confinement. It was annoying, stupid, and really made her superficial and egocentric. It could really be used as a flaw that during other episodes she could overcome but without it it's really pointless thing. Not to mention that pretty much from the first scene she's in the show forces her into the dynamic of friends which had one year to grow their friendship so mostly I was on team Terra to be pissed and suspicious, double checking, so I also hated the resolution that it was all bc of jealousy. And I remind you that I don't even like Terra.

All in consideration, I really like this season, it made me feel something not like the 1st one which I really had to watch again bc I forgot almost everything.