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One of the reasons I refuse to watch Rainbow World is because its introduction completely derailed a plot that could have led to character development.
"The Big Day Off" showed everyone getting a day off of classes and assignments, and showed them dealing with problems during them.
Jade and Skyler want to spend their time relaxing, but both have a hard time doing nothing so they keep finding new tasks to do.
Bella and Ruby are planning to revamp the Rainbow Union, but have gotten artist's block and can't come up with anything.
Poppy's planning to bake and Amaya's freaking out over an online personality test.
Violet and Sunny were planning to have a fun day together.
This where the problem arises.
When we make it to Violet and Sunny's part of the story, Violet realizes she lost her phone and freaks out about it.
Now, we could have had a plot of Violet struggling with her social media addiction while spending time with Sunny, but, instead, Sunny and Violet find a magic egg and spend the day taking care of it so any conflict that they might have had is overshadowed.
I would have liked it better if we had Sunny and Violet doing fun things together, and Violet keeps instinctively reaching for her phone. Sunny notices, and eventually she's just sad.
Violet: "Sunny, what's wrong? Aren't you having fun?"
Sunny: "I am. I just...I miss you."
Violet: "I've been right across the hall for months. I think it's the closest we've ever been. Aside from all those sleepovers."
Sunny: "I don't mean physical distance."
Violet: "What do you mean?"
Sunny: "I mean...I totally support your dream of being an influencer, but I miss being able to do things with you without you trying to get the best shot. I miss just having fun with you, without you worrying about showing the rest of the world. I miss you. I think I've seen your phone's camera more than you, lately."
Violet: "Oh. I didn't know you felt that way."
Sunny: "I'm trying to be supportive. You're my best friend and I want to support you."
Violet: "I don't want you to support me if it upsets you. I guess I do have a problem."
Sunny: "I mean, I wouldn't say it's a problem..."
Violet: "But it is, because it upsets you so much. I don't want to upset my friends, especially you. I'm going to try to do better, Sunny. I promise."
Sunny: "Thanks. And I guess I'll start telling you when you do something that upsets me."
Violet: "I'd like that."
Then, Sunny and Violet would hug and discuss their plans for the rest of the day.
See how interesting this would have been? We could have had acknowledgement of not just Violet's greatest flaw (social media addiction) but also Sunny's (overly forgiving and passive) with them both recognizing their flaws and promising to work on them.
Instead, we have Sunny and Violet taking care of an egg all day.
They deserved better.
So, it's not as though a fashion show isn't cool or anything, it's just that...
I feel like assigning each group to do a fashion show for their end of semester project is...limiting.
For example:
Ruby is a Mixed Media and Graphic Design focus. I literally cannot tell what her contribution to their final runway was.
(Someone tell me if they know what it is.)
Sunny's animations were good, but they weren't all that she could do. She could do more if she wasn't limited to doing a fashion show. A short film or animated music video would be cool.
And that's not even getting into some of the other people who's shows we didn't see.
What would Daria Roselyn, a Music Focus, and Georgia Bloom, a Performing Arts focus, do for a fashion show? Model?
What about Emi Vanda? Did she paint a set? Make props?
We don't even know who was in Colin's group, or what he did for his runway.
The point is, making everyone do a runway for their end of semester project can be limiting.
It also requires every group to have at least one Fashion focus, which seems a bit...unlikely.
A better system would be...well, it's complicated, but I'll do my best to explain it.
Everyone gets assigned a group. (I don't like this, but I'll leave it for now.)
The group has to agree on a project and submit their idea to a group supervisor for approval. (Our main girls would probably still do a fashion show.)
Their project proposal must say what each group member is going to contribute.
If it's approved, they get to start on it. If it's not approved, they have to make the changes their supervisor asks of them.
There's a deadline to get their proposals approved. If they're not approved by then, they'll be assigned a project. (I'm sure Miss Wright would have a few ideas.)
Regular check-ins would proceed as normal, with everyone showing the progress they made on their part of the project.
By the end of the semester, they have to have their project finished.
This could lead to some interesting ideas for projects, such as:
A museum exhibition
A clothing display
A mini concert
A short play
More ideas
This could be interesting. It could be fun to hear about groups doing something other than a fashion show.
And, like I said, giving the students a chance to pick their projects for themselves would give them better opportunities to show what they can do.