YMMV / The Owl House S1E1 "A Lying Witch and a Warden"

• Anvilicious: The pilot episode seems to put an excessive level of emphasis that one shouldn't be punished simply for being different.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Luz's near attempt to throw away the first book of The Good Witch Azura in the garbage, and Eda nearly burning it into ashes becomes this after the episode "Thanks To Them", when it is revealed that the book was a parting gift from her father before dying from a what it is implied to be a terminal illness.
  • Speaking of "Thanks To Them", it turns out that Camila never wanted to send Luz into a Reality Check Camp in the first place, but she was pressured into do so, when the principal took advantage of Camila's bullying past, making her fearful that it would happen again with her daughter.
  • The barrier in the Conformatorium that only allows humans in makes a lot more sense when you realize Belos was originally a human.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • While trying to convince Luz that going to camp will actually be good for her social life, she asks if she has any friends who aren't "imagined or drawn or reptilian". While she never makes any reptilian friends, Camila taking in Vee means she gets a reptilian sister.
  • Tiny Nose notes that they are just nothing more than playthings for a higher being. Come "King's Tide" and she comes off as prophetic, given the Collector ready to use them for a game of "Owl House".
  • The fan fiction witch mentions how she specifically likes writing romantic stories about food. Luz's eventual Love Interest Amity constantly gets compared with different food items both by the fandom and within the show itself.
  • Eda says that humans can't become witches when Luz asks to become her apprentice. Not only does Emperor Belos turn out to be (formerly) human, Eda herself is implied to be Caleb's descendant and thus partially human. And if the latter is true, it means that she never actually needed Luz's help to recover King's crown in the first place. Also, For a limited time in "Watching and Dreaming" Luz is finally capable of using magic without glyphs or a staff... but this is because she was given the Titan's power and turned into a human Titan hybrid, meaning she still wasn't a witch when doing so.

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