They're at an elementary school now, not middle or high school. The girls asked to be made slightly older not turned into tweens/teenagers.
As for why the school is still shutdown, apparently the hamster still lives there.
edited 4th Jun '16 9:16:24 AM by LSBK
And no one moved it? Is he comfortable there? Yeah, it makes no sense to me, it was just lazy excuse to make girls tweens without actually making them tweens.
But there not tweens. I don't particularly understand how going "Huh, let's move the girls up a grade" is supposed to be lazy? Is there a particular reasons the girls need to be in kindergarten forever?
edited 4th Jun '16 9:25:01 AM by LSBK
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Because it gives a very forced and lazy excuse just to get the Girls out of Pokey Oaks and into an entirely new grade that, even in the context of this show and the original, makes no real sense.
They've rebuilt buildings and business numerous in the series, both old and new; what makes moving a hamster or rebuilding any more difficult besides just shutting it down without even trying? It seems like a lazy explanation overall.
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I mean, if they wanted to move the Girls up a grade, why not do the easy thing like.....have them graduate kindergarden like most kids do? The whole hamster-breaking-the-roof thing feels really convoluted and pointless when they could have the Girls pass the school, have some nostalgic feels for the old days, the flashback would be about their graduation and then done.
Why bother having an explanation that ultimately makes even less sense and doesn't work in this setting?
No lazier than any other cartoon that wants to make a change but might be a little weird to facilitate.
That very episode already established they were starting a new school year, I'm not sure why them not being in kindergarten is a big thing. I mean, you can dislike the plot they went with, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.
Legit problems with this show aside this honestly sounds like nitpicking for nitpicking's sake.
edited 4th Jun '16 9:56:02 AM by LSBK
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No one can move the giant radioactive hamster, is too dangerous.
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They are? I haven't really noticed.
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They seem pretty worfed. Even ignoring the old show, you'd think that the girls would be stronger then they are. They seem to get more easily overwhelmed at times and seem to get hurt more easily as well(To the point where in one episode, they had to give Bubbles a bionic arm as she broke one of hers.). Even ending up getting captured at points by the baddie of the episode.
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They've gotten captured a lot...easily escapeable captured.
Physical Strength seems to be the same through.
edited 4th Jun '16 10:06:00 AM by randomness4
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Didn't Buttercup break her arm? I could let that slide as a reason for that. But, thinking about it, I see your point.
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No, I meant wasn't Buttercup the one to break Bubbles' arm.
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No, it broke when the building mostly collapsed on top of her...
Buttercup just tapped her...or slightly jabbed at her arm.
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Huh. My mistake then.
edited 4th Jun '16 10:18:11 AM by LSBK
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It's not just the Girls getting out of kindergarden, it's the fact that Pokey Oaks has...no reason to be shut down at all. Doesn't make sense, honestly.
Frankly, the set up of that school always seemed weird to me, anyway.
I mean, you might as well ask why there are any abandoned buildings at all.
edited 4th Jun '16 2:28:01 PM by LSBK
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Bubbles arm got broken by a tail swipe. In the original series she got sent through buildings before without getting an arm broken.
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It wasn't broken by Tail Whip...it could've been, but they didn't indicate it as such.
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Still just awesome like that
I mean, it lowered her Defense by one stage, so maybe that weakened her enough to break her arm with Rock Slide.
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They're all part flying anyway, so it would've been even more effective than super effective.
Pack Rat unintentionally did really good strategy...good job.
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Eh, even the old series had power hiccups like the Girls being beaten up by completely normal human prisoners during a jail break.
I'm surprised no one noticed how meaningless the Girls going to middle/highschool/wherever really is since it makes no sense otherwise.
Why is Pokey Oaks still shut down? Sure, Bubbles mistakenly caused one of the hamsters to grow through the roof but.....so what? This is Townsville, a city that struggles with monster attacks and supervillain invasions, gets most of its buildings destroyed and somehow rebuild itself by the next episode.
Yet Pokey Oaks gets its roof smashed open and it's like, "Nope, can't do anything. It's over, shut it down". Hell, even in the movie, Pokey Oaks still ran classes despite the Girls completely wrecking the place (Granted, yeah, it wouldn't be realistic for the school to still run in such conditions but the point still stands).
So...this basically the whole point of them going to a new school at all is pointless when Townsville could just rebuild the school. The Girls don't even come off as any older anyway.
edited 4th Jun '16 9:00:07 AM by CreepCrawl