r/JustAddWater

The reason people shit on mako mermaids bc Lyla and nixie left for other projects giving us two boring ass characters. Ondina has no spunk and Absolutely Zero charisma unlike Lyla and Mimi had Zero Swag or toughness like nixie. Weilan was a ICONIC ASS QUEEN but came in too late for 16 episodes. Also their acting was sooo bad it just ruined the show for me. The most iconic trio on mako mermaids will forever be Lyla , nixie , and Sirena , and to be honesty I feel like Ondina and Mimi were too one noted/one dimensional they had absolutely nothing to show besides being a straight up bitch ( Ondina ) or being too naive and sweet ( Mimi)

Rikki is my most fav character I absolutely love her wardrobe out of all 3. These cute tops with baggy jeans and converse with a ponytail or bun and a smart watch. Simple yet beautiful.

Love Rikki sm her character is my fav and her wardrobe too.

I finally completed the set, really happy with them and child me is so pleased rn 🐬🐚🧜‍♀️

I designed this on Canva and got it printed as a t-shirt and I'm obsessed!! I didn't know where else to share it 🤣 What do you guys think? 😇🧜🏻‍♀️🎣🐠

UPDATE: This got a lot of attention so I decided to sell it on Redbubble. The link is in the comments!

Its just a notice of detail that has annoyed me everytime i watch this episode (which is my fave) and i can never miss this. You can see the girls laying normally on Emmas bed but then the laws of physics and time change and we have this monstrosity. YOU CAN EVEN SEE LEWIS EXITING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED. Am I making sense or no?

Mako Mermaids gets a lot of hate but you guys cannot lie and say the tails in this scene don’t look beautiful

They literally focused everything on Will's figure (but honestly no one cared) when we all wanted to know more about Bella's life before coming in S3. She would've brought more secrets, stories, support to the girls and maybe someone trying to out her in the past... we got nothing about it

At least Rikki finally tried, loved this parallel

I'm looking for shops that sell a h20 just add water locket that is more circular and accurate to the show. Every online shop I find seems to make them awkwardly long and oval shaped so it feels too much like something an old woman would wear. The actual circular lockets are so cute and I don't understand why no one is making them in this shape and then listing them as 'exactly like the show'

There must be a seller somewhere that sells the correct circular shape with the dome shaped front. Please recommend some good shops or sellers below. Looking for a sterling silver one if possible

When they revised the story after season 1 due to absence of Nixie and Lyla, a lot of plot points ended up going nowhere. One of these is Rita's mysterious past. What actually happened with Harry? How did he die? Character description in now-defunct website states that when they found out that Rita is seeing a landboy, she became a pariah. She then ran away to the land. In season 1, the pod council was definitely planned to be a much more strict and remorseless entity, compared to more approachable and reasonable portrayal of Veridia. What if pod council killed Harry? What if Veridia herself killed Harry to keep the secret? Season 1 workdbuilding definitely had higher stakes, so I can see dark things being planned for the initial plot. There also was an implied parallel between Rita and Sirena, they both fell in love with a land boy. David's character description sounds like he would question things and maybe even find out. Maybe Sirena would have to make a choice to protect David from Harry's destiny. I see also a parallel between Nixie-Sirena and Veridia-Rita. Rita left her best friend to live on land with her loved one. I can see Nixie also being upset tp find out that Sirena wants to stay on land.

In season 2, they carried that conflict to Mimmi-Ondina-Eric instead. However, it doesn't really go anywhere. Rita just counsels Ondina once. Then Ondina doesn't have to make a choice anymore because Eric turns out to be an insufferable idiot who almost genocides his loved one's race just because of his curiosity. In the same epsiode where Rita counsels Oninda (S2 Ep22, Last Dance) they never talk about Sirena's future with or without David. Sirena would also have to make a choice between her pod and David, but the whole episode she acts like an emotional support for others, without her own problems instead. Maybe they wanted to make sure that the audience doesn't recall/expect abandoned plot points from season 1.

What are your theories?

She’s so Beautiful

It is obvious that after actresses of Nixie and Lyla left the show, they rewrote the story in many ways and rellaced a lot of planned plots. I was thinking what could be the original plans for season 2. Then it occured to me, a lot of people here seem to think that Evie was originally going to be a lot more Charlotte-esque than she ended up being. Had Lyla and Zac eventually ended up falling for each other Evie could get a lot uglier and do threatening things, just remember how invasive she was interviewing Rita in that S1 episode. What if she would later end up turning herself into a mermaid to compete with them? And just like how Charlotte turned out to have mermaid ancestry, Evie could turn out to be a sea-born mermaid to mirror that! Think about it, Zac and Mimmi do not look anything alike. That plot seems to be a retcon for season 2. Zac does actually look like his land-person parents, so s1 casting was done without that plot in mind. Nixie and Evie however, do look alike somewhat. (In fact Mimmi and Evie also look alike somewhat, maybe they planned to go with that before deciding on keeping the focus on Zac. Without a romance with Lyla, he would be fall out of spotlight if Evie was the "special one"). Evie could turn out to be the sibling of Nixie who got adopted to a land-family instead. Think about Nixie-Evie interactions. The scene where they fight over a shoe and get evie banned from the shop. Wouldn't it make more narrative sense to have Evie fight with Lyla, as they would later fight with Zac? Then in the episode where Sirena makes seashell accesories, Nixie negotiates price to sell them with Evie. Narrative just seems to want to have Evie and Nixie interact, dare I say, in a sibling-rivalry manner. Nixie was also said to be interested in/studying land people for a long time. It would have satisfied the plot point if she turned out to have a land person as her sibling. Was she unconsciously looking for her sister all that time? What do you think? Am I reading too much into it?

What some people don't understand is Charlotte's role in her first part of the season and they exchange fake cordiality with real politeness from Charlotte.

It's very obvious how she had to be "good" towards Lewis bc she had a proper goal since her first episode and she saw how much Cleo was vulnerable, working subtly on her weaknesses (trying to get close to Lewis and complimenting him in front of Cleo on purpose in 02x03, forcing Lewis to have a picnic together and challenging Cleo at the end of 02x06, giving Lewis's hoodie to Cleo in order to make her jealous and drive a deeper wedge in 02x08, inviting herself at Lewis's cerimony in 02x09, tutoring Cleo to get her away from Lewis and manipulating him in the whole 02x10, etc.).

She also displayed such entitlement and arrogance towards JuiceNet workers (Emma and Wilfred) in 02x05, wanting that juice at all costs, while interfering between Lewis and Cleo snitching on them.

That is definitely not good person behavior. Cleo, even if she didn't have to read her diary, wasn't so wrong being suspicious about Charlotte.

Yes I did finally watch all 13 EPs of Reef Doctors in it's entirely on Internet Archive found and yeah I didn't expect all of these actors mainly the one offs that appeared in Jonathan M. Shiff's only tv show that has a M Rating most of which are from H2O & Mako Mermaids and also filmed in Queensland, Port Douglas the same place that Ocean Girl was filmed at back in the 90s.

The one off actors appeared in EP 2, 3, 5, 9 & 12 respectively.

Richard Brancatisano, Tasneem Roc who both play main characters while the rest only appeared in one EP.

https://archive.org/details/1\_20260427\_20260427\_0352