The Princess Blog

It's barely been over a year since I reviewed "Sisters in Arms," the series premiere of Mysticons , and we've already arrived at the show's short-lived finale. They've been dropping like flies lately, haven't they? Sofia the First just ended last week, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is on its final run next month along with several other popular shows . Many of my favorite television series in the past have only lasted for two seasons, but they usually take some time in between for the writers to figure out where the story will go next. That, unfortunately, was not the case for Mysticons. It jumped through two seasons containing a total of forty episodes with virtually no downtime in between, leading up to this weekend's series finale "The Age of Dragons." Before I start, I feel obliged to apologize that this review is coming out a bit later than I had hoped as Nickelodeon has always been very inconsistent when it comes to updating shows on  their...

The latest Mysticons episode, "Game of Phones,"  began with Princess Arkayna calling up her newly-discovered twin sister Zarya and asking for her tiara size. "I don't do  tiaras," Zarya scoffed in response. Of course, in perfect comedic timing, the next shot was of a very unhappy Zarya sitting on a griffon with a small yet hilariously out of place golden tiara fastened to her short purple hair. This scene was very funny because it portrayed a symbol of femininity on a character who openly dislikes all things girly. It also goes to show how far the princess trope itself has gone  in modern times from being a symbol of feminity to being a symbol of strength. More and more princesses are now warrior archetypes , while damsels in distress have become all but obsolete. Of course, Zarya, in particular, is a special case. Like Proxima, the red herring in the "twin sister" story arc , Zarya was raised without a family or an identity. However, she and...