Big Hero 6

I'm wondering where they'll go with (at the least) a bulk of the characters having graduated in Season 3.

There are still some loose ends from this season such as Hardlight, whose episode ending seems to blatantly set him up as a major villain, though I'm not sure what else they could do with him. I'm half-expecting an episode where Karmi and Megan properly meet, though, since there's bound to be interesting interaction there.

I feel like with the graduation, the series might maybe try and explore the idea of what Hiro wants to do with his future, since his friends graduated and are likely to want to go onto bigger things with their lives. Or that could be the overarching theme for the whole team.

They'll likely go with something else, but I feel like it'd be neat if they did something like that.

Season 3 was confirmed a while back when season 2 was just about to start.

I'm very surprised Hardlight didn't turn up here, considering he was already working on Krei's Buddy program. I'm guessing the ending of his episode was the obligatory tease for the next arc.

I hope they give the others some much needed fleshing out as they plan out their futures out of college. I can already see Wasabi getting into teaching, if he ever overcomes his stage fright.

Also, there are a couple of things I read in an old interview way back that didn't pan out this season that might have been for the next one: more villain redemptions (and I can already think of three or four perfect for that and Fred and Go Go both having musical numbers.

I think this was a slightly better finale than City of Monsters, mostly because the B-plots are less padding that that story's "the villains are attacking the city / fighting viruses in the body" B plots, and the tidy ending works better for the set up - Cruz is a patsy, which was obvious, evil army, yadda yadda. Specifically the Liv Amara parts of City of Monsters were better, imo, but those parts could have really been given more room to breathe.

They could've done a bit more for Cruz learning the hero's identities, but at that point it's clear they. He doesn't even do anything from that point on. Also, I was afraid they would reprogram Trina and am glad they chose not to. That would be a step too creepy.

It's still really noticeable that Trina put her world domination hopes on an army Mooks that weren't anywhere near as unbeatable as she. After unveiling her plot, she basically got wrecked over and over until she lost. The reveal of Maxi-Max kills a lot of tension going forward, too. Between that thing, Globby in general, and Honey Lemon (who, let's face it, was the MVP in that fight against the Buddies), they're going to need to pull out something really big to make it feel like the team is ever really challenged, and I'm not sure I like that kind of escalation.

All in all, looking back on the season, I think "Prey Date" is still imo the best episode of the year.

I love that Gogo, Wasabi, Honey & Fred have graduated and Hiro hasn't. That's the kind of "things are different, but can still be something like the same" thing I've been hoping this show would try for ages. Plots will be different now, and they can do new things with the characters. Oddly, it's the thing

I feel like they're going to do a "Karmi returns to the city and gets pissed at Megan's presence" episode - it'd be the obvious thing for them to do - but I hope they don't.

I didn't even think about Globby going into hiding from the police as being Put on a Bus until now.

Also, my favorite episode was "Hiro the Villain", but that chunk between "Hardlight" and "Portal Enemy" was honestly pretty strong. I wish the show could've kept that momentum.

You can tell that this was written as a faux series finale. Most of the gang graduating, Obake seemingly getting wrapped up, a sort of montage of characters at the end. They probably made it at a time where they didn't know if they were getting another season.

It will be interesting to see where they go at the start of Season 3. Right now, they're in summer; do they dive right into there or do a timeskip into the next school year?

I don't really expect any of the characters to really go anywhere, although they may explore that a little bit next season. Can't have much of a superhero team without a team.

...Unless Hiro goes all Justice League Unlimited and starts recruiting other people into the fold. Very unlikely, but still.

>Gogo, Wasabi, Honey & Fred have graduated

Fred's not an SFIT student.

Any loose ends besides Hardlight, Cirque, Momakase and Bessie's cubs?

Edited by MetalMichelangelo on Feb 9th 2020 at 5:45:20 AM

The original Baymax, maybe? The focus they placed on it in the Sirque episode was weird. I couldn't tell if it was foreboding foreshadowing for something or just a first movie reference.

One teeny, tiny minor one. Hiro finding Baymax's original body in the Minus Realm.

EDIT: Goddammit, 'd.

Edited by Arctimon on Feb 9th 2020 at 8:14:02 AM

Globby, Karmi, Megan, and Mochi will all be getting their recruitment forms.

Maybe Mochi will finally become Rocket Cat after that being cut from the movie.

The finale-like feel of "Legacies" before a sudden renewal reminds me of how So The Drama was meant to be the series finale before being renewed for season 4.

Edited by jessicadicicco610 on Feb 10th 2020 at 6:47:34 AM

Ooh, I just remembered Chief Cruz never got to explain why he and Megan were suddenly back in San Fransokyo. I felt that detail was going to be important this season, but I guess not.

I honestly don't understand how people felt that way. There's still some loose ends and unresolved questions. Plus, it was greenlit just as season two started and probably earlier. They likely knew they had three seasons in the can.

I would not be surprised if Megan becomes a semi-member of the team with the ninja kit. Karmi's very obviously coming back eventually, and the "Lab Lady" thing is a thing, but there's also probably going to be plot there so who knows how it will go.

Globby's... basically a member of the team already, isn't he? It's not 100% clear whether he's an independent hero who works with them or one of the gang at this point.

I dunno, I took that as simply a sentimental moment.

Not at SFIT, but iirc he is a college student the same age as the others, so he should probably be graduating from whatever he's doing as well. I remember there being some tie-in ages ago about his school situation (he's an English major, apparently, which makes so much sense).

Edited by KnownUnknown on Feb 10th 2020 at 12:29:43 PM

Against a giant robot, tho?

Also, it feels like there's a reason they've kept Globby on a bus this season. He's rapidly approaching unstoppable levels.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Feb 10th 2020 at 12:47:32 PM

Yeah, that's why I thought Globby wasn't going to come back at all this season. He could easily take of everything by himself if he didn't have a one-track mind.

I imagine that Megan is going to be the informant and not necessarily an acting member of the team. Who knows what will happen with Karmi at this point? Like I said, I'm just glad she got cameo at all. She'll be back eventually, but probably in an unknown capacity.

Plus Mega-Max isn't exactly useful against little targets that can simply hide into buildings. It's not like the team's ready to tear off roofs to get at the little things inside. Plus I don't think that all terrible threats will take the form of an army of sizable robots, and those are what Mega-Max was designed to take down.

They're not going to do the same plot twice.

And I didn't even think about the army of microbots that Hiro's only just finally started using again - the ones Callaghan used to rip apart machinery in seconds. BH 6 is really on the top of the world right now.

I get the distinct impression they're setting up a Love Triangle, and I would hate that. Love Triangles are the lowest form of comedy.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Feb 11th 2020 at 6:47:06 AM

Bob Schooley shares something now that the finale has aired.

I feel like the whole thing with Megan has sort of run its course. Diego, on the other hand...there’s a lot still up in the air with him they could explore in the future.

I also agree that a Love Triangle wouldn’t be a good idea, but I suppose we’ll have at minimum a few months to speculate on that.

Huh? I don’t remember them having more than one plot in which Noodle Burger boy steals a giant robots the main characters were using. That only happened once.

He stole it the first time Fred took it out (season 1), and he also stole it in the second season episode when he made a bunch of copies of himself with various personality quirks, culminating in the reveal that he used them as a distraction while he stole the monster bot and made some more copies who were creepily silent.

Also known as the "creative writing assignment" episode.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DisneySchedules/status/1234672557581725696

On Disney Now, the show moved back to the Disney XD category. I think this means that season 3 will air on Disney XD first. Consider this:

1. The September episodes of season 2 aired on Disney XD at 7:00am before airing on Disney Channel later in the day at 3:00pm. The season 2 episodes that came out this year aired on Disney XD Saturdays at 10:00am before airing on Disney Channel 8 days later on Sundays at 7:30am.

2. Almost all of the timeslots on Disney Channel are eaten up by other shows, while Disney XD gets all the reruns.

3. Season 2 of Star Wars Resistance premiered its episodes Sundays at 6:00pm on Disney XD before airing on Disney Channel at 10:00pm later that evening, and it was considered a Disney XD series.

I wonder how long Hiro will be Kreg's intern. I don't think Hiro actually served his internship at all in the January or February episodes although the internship was mentioned.

I wonder if Roddy will ever finish construction on the Big Hero Six headquarters or if this will be like Green Acres where construction on Lisa & Oliver's house started Season 1 and never finished even though Green Acres lasted 5 seasons.