So the much hyped (for good or bad) Season 10 premiere of The Fairly Oddparents is finally here. For the record I used to be an avid viewer of the Fairly Oddparents, enjoying its humor, likable characters and designs, and a coming-of-age storyline. That's until all of that were stripped away and the series has been nothing more but a shell of its former self.
The Channel Chasers movie in 2004 serve as the eventual end-game for the series, showing a now adult Timmy Turner living a normal life, while his children becomes to the new clients for Cosmo and Wanda. Over the last 12 years, several changes were made to the show so much that the events of Channel Chasers no longer exist.
At first I was fine with that, in part because I prefer more of Timmy ending up with Trixie than Tammy, and thought that would be the case after the 2009 movie Wishology. But once again, changes were made to the show that I've since given up for a closure to the series and moved on.
15 Years since the first Fairly Oddparents aired, we now have a brand new season introducing a brand new character to share the spotlight with our eternal 10-yr old.
As explained in the new opening and in the season premiere, Chloe Carmichael arrives not only as Timmy's new neighbor, but also his classmate. As Crocker puts it, Chloe is the exact polar opposite of Timmy Turner - smart, caring, rich. Essentially the perfect girl. Chloe's perfection irritates Timmy, yet comforts himself that he still has his godparents. That is until Jorgen arrives to report there is a fairy shortage and Timmy has to share Cosmo and Wanda with another kid - who turns out to be Chloe.
For the rest of the episode, Timmy uses his wishes in an attempt to keep Chloe from Cosmo and Wanda, but fails miserably and is forced to submit that he has to share. Chloe's first wish is for the world to share everything. As Timmy suspects, things end up bad with the world becoming quite chaotic. Chloe tries to undo the wish but Cosmo and Wanda lost their Fairy Wands to the center of the Earth. As everyone hides from the Mole People, it is revealed that Chloe isn't exactly the perfect girl as what it seems to be her caring good intentions turns out more harm than it should.
Timmy and Chloe then worked together to reclaim the wands and Chloe was able to reverse her wish after two attempts - the first because of Cosmo. Timmy and Chloe both accept one another (hint: Chloe is Timmy's possible new love interest) and agree to continue sharing the fairies.
Ever since Chloe was announced as a new character in the series, I suspect that, based entirely on her character design, that she is quite essentially a gender-bent Timmy Turner. And for the most part she is, only coated with having a perfect persona that's the opposite of Timmy's. She even sounds a bit like Timmy despite her voice being done by Kari Wahlgren and not by Tara Strong.
That made me wonder if secretly, Nickelodeon plans to make Chloe as the new protagonist and getting rid of Timmy Turner. Then again, the premiere focuses mostly on Timmy and not so much on Chloe. Do I like Chloe as a character? Well, I don't like Chloe on the basis that she is a copycat Timmy Turner, but there is room for character development for Chloe. That is, if there's even one on the show. Personally, I think it would have been a lot more interesting if Jimmy Neutron was the one chosen for Timmy to share faeries with, because of Jimmy's devotion to science. So his disbelief that magic exists would make some great stories.
The rest of the premiere still feature the show as the shell of its former self, though it is noticeable that Poof, the child of Cosmo & Wanda, and Sparky, the Fairy Dog, are nowhere to be seen. It's almost as though the show was returning to its roots like Adventure Time is doing, that is until Foop, the anti-Faerie of Poof, pops up. Vicky is also reduced to a cameo appearance. There is nothing funny in the episode as pretty much the whole presentation is your typical Fairly Oddparents episode.
So does this new season of The Fairly Oddparents bring me back? Not really. I'll leave the show to its own devices. The show may knock on my door again when they have an ACTUAL plot going on that leads to its endgame.
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