Ever After High (Dragon Games): Shatter the Mirror

Written by Daniel – It’s episode one of Series 4 ‘Dragon Games’ of Ever After High. We open with Raven helping all her fellow students out with her new found powers (from the end of series 3) going to visit her mum (Evil Queen) who’s imprisoned in the mirror realm. Meanwhile Apple also gets an update from her mum through Ever After High’s own video call service. Both Apple and Raven have had enough of their parents expectations.

We’ve got dragons. We’ve got new costumes. We’ve got some new characters. And naturally we have a whole lot more toys. The episode opens with Raven on her way to visit her Mother, in a sequence which feels oddly reminiscent of Clarice meeting Hannibal for the first time in Silence of the Lambs. Raven is told not to touch the glass of the mirror and not to spend too long with her, in fear of how Evil Queen might manipulate Raven; and of course this is Priestley what Evil Queen attempts to to do. She questions Ravens powers, she desires Raven to become the evil woman she is, and most of all longs to be released form prison. Evil Queen’s taunts very nearly work as Raven looses her temper and her magic smashes brick work, but before things get out of hand Raven’s trusty dragon Nevermore stops Raven from getting out of control. There Raven declares how she won’t allow herself to become like her mother, and leaves her.

Ever After High (Way Too Wonderland): Card Tricks

Written by Daniel – It’s the first episode ‘Card Tricks’ of Series 3 to Ever After High. This series has been dubbed ‘Way Too Wonderland’, as the characters begin their investigations into the Wonderland Curse: asking why did Raven’s mother (Evil Queen) closed the bridge between Wonderland and Ever After High? What are the headmasters are really hiding form the students when it comes to the Story Book of Legends? And just where is the Storybook of Legends hiding?

The episode opens at breakfast time in Ever After High, and Apple has an announcement to make, concerning a new project to document Wonderland, it’s magic and its people, for the school paper. Apple calls upon the help of her fellow students, though the turn out is much smaller than she’d hoped: The students which come to her aid include; Raven, Madeline, Liz of Hearts, Bunny, Alistair, Briar, Kitty and new characters; Faybelle (a dark fairy – who quickly leaves frustrated by the goodhearted group) and Darling Charming (sister to Damien and Daring?). At their first meeting, Brooke, the impatient young narrator, interrupts the events to warn Madeline that The Queen of Hearts (Liz’s mother) is in danger, someone intends to steal her crown – today!! Leaving it up to the rag-tag bunch of kids to find a way into Wonderland and save Liz’s mother, before it’s too late.

Ever After High – Welcome to Ever After (part 1)

Written By Dan – Ever After High ep. 2 ‘Welcome to Ever After’ on Netflix is presented as a series of shorts, which act as a prequel to the events of ep. 1 ‘Legacy Day’. Which then concludes with the final moments of legacy day and the following two days and the raised tension between the royals and the rebels.

In this review, to get the most out of what’s actually going on, I thought I’d review each segment/story line individually. So without further ado, let’s begin at the beginning: