00:04Harvey tells Sabrina she's doing great at tennis, which is nice, and he gives her advice that she can't follow.
00:10She accidentally hurts someone with a birdie, and somehow asks if she gets points for that.
00:15Why didn't we see that?
00:17He's not in character compared to the source material if we almost never see him cause slapsticks himself or others.
00:24Why did Mr. Poole expect a student to answer his question if it was too obvious?
00:27Then there's no pride in that.
00:32Sabrina waits until after class to give him the answer, and I guess it's so she won't look like a nerd.
00:38Harvey says wisely that trophies are just a symbol, not caring that much about them.
00:45Sabrina gets given the idea to sign up for karate, and she stupidly hurts him by accident.
00:51Hilda damages a vase by accident using magic to make cheering for herself because it makes an explosion too.
00:57Somehow Zelda says they're on their last vase even though witches can fix anything.
01:03Mr. Poole is the karate teacher, and the weirdness gets acknowledged and promptly explained that he took karate to stop getting beaten up as a kid.
01:12And he starts by wasting their time instead of teaching them karate.
01:16I guess it's to calm them down, but they're already calm.
01:21Sabrina volunteers and quickly gets pushed down and gets so mad about being tricked and embarrassed that she uses magic to become a great karate student right away to cathartically embarrass him.
01:32The fight was fun to watch, mainly because we saw the impacts of his hits.
01:37At first I thought Zelda saying,
01:43Sabrina you didn't, means that she's smart enough to know Sabrina cheated to win the fight with Mr. Poole.
01:49Mr. Poole needs a CAT scan and is seeing spots.
01:53And somehow, this doesn't make Sabrina feel guilty.
01:56When Mr. Poole tells Sabrina she's going to be in a tournament,
02:02the ants take until Sabrina trips and then goes upstairs before Zelda smells rent.
02:07How is she so slow?
02:10Sabrina uses magic to change her outfit, as I wonder why she thought she could get away with this.
02:16Well, to be fair, the ants have been very supportive of her magic abuse so far.
02:21The ants scold her for having an unfair advantage over mortals,
02:25and Hilda's got a good point that there's nothing to be proud of in cheating to win.
02:29One makes a literal moral compass for Sabrina, and somehow it takes a second to point to wrong.
02:36Sabrina uncharacteristically ignores the morality of this and only considers the pros and cons.
02:42Harvey encourages Sabrina that it doesn't matter if she loses, she's still a winner to him.
02:48And yet Sabrina cheats anyways.
02:51Why does she need to use magic again?
02:55So the first time it was a temporary spill.
02:58Why does she have to use a temporary spill?
03:01I guess there's a Witch's Council curse that makes it impossible to have a permanent spill.
03:06But clearly that's too lenient.
03:10This is an entertaining story to watch.
03:13But it's still a character assassination of Sabrina.
03:16Sabrina says she doesn't need to keep cheating because she won one trophy.
03:21Which is a reasonable conclusion.
03:23Which makes the following story less easy to justify.
03:28Somehow the trophy gets to life and calls her a cheater and mocks her.
03:32It should be explained who exactly used this spell on him.
03:36And somehow Sabrina doesn't instantly use magic to make him stop moving and talking.
03:41The only way this can make sense is if she did try it and it didn't work.
03:47Because it was enchanted.
03:49So she instead tries to drown the statue and smacks it.
03:53Hilda's confused and Zelda doesn't take responsibility for it either.
03:58It says that the trophy's speaking her guilty conscience.
04:01Yeah, but Sabrina didn't point to make this happen.
04:05So logically, Zelda's lying and she did this to the trophy.
04:10And Sabrina gets hero worship at class and the whole scene is pointless.
04:14Since what plays out is if she feels guilty, she doesn't.
04:18Since she says the trophy doesn't say to her that she earned it.
04:21So it's made clear that the only reason she didn't bring her trophy to the classroom is that she doesn't want to hear the trophy talk to her.
04:30The story wastes my time with Hilda's violin rival taunting her for a while.
04:36And Hilda keeps considering using magic to hurt him.
04:39Only to change her mind.
04:41She almost hits his hand with a door.
04:44And then almost crushes him with an anvil.
04:47If this was chilling adventures, she'd actually do it.
04:50If this was faithful, she would have done the first thing.
04:55Hilda goes home making thunder and lightning and is mad because she got second chair to him.
05:04She tells Sabrina that second chair is better than first chair if you think about it over and over until words lose all meaning.
05:12And I giggled at that.
05:13I love the fake happy tone she had.
05:16I tried to replicate it the best I could.
05:18Sabrina tries to give her trophy to the person she beat in the match.
05:23She should expect him to refuse.
05:26He says he'll only accept it if he wins it honorably in a rematch.
05:30She says he could play foosball.
05:32And predictably he's the fun police and lies that there's no honor in that.
05:37Sabrina goes to Mr. Poole for training and says that she forgot how to fight.
05:41Luckily he doesn't question her and trains her anyways.
05:47Even though it's a science teacher, he should know how ridiculous this is.
05:52This time she had the common sense to do the training where no one could see them.
05:56She really should have known herself well enough to know that this was the only way she could actually learn karate properly.
06:03Because she always gets mad and abuses magic when she feels humiliated.
06:08So she wouldn't have even gone to the karate class if she was being in character.
06:12It is in character for Harvey to be a constant slapstick victim because of his own clumsiness.
06:18Where he walked right up to her.
06:20But it'd be much more in character if he was causing that slapstick to Hilda.
06:24Sabrina humiliates herself in front of the audience.
06:27So the whole training montage was for nothing.
06:31Which means it's not even justified that it happened when it didn't even make any sense.
06:37At least it sounded nice.
06:38I guess the audience made sense of Sabrina sucking at this because they assumed she was too scared this time and choked.
06:46Because she had so much anxiety to do perfectly.
06:50So the rightful owner gets his trophy as she somehow didn't do good even the slightest.
06:56And Hilda's proud of Sabrina.
06:59While Hilda warps her rival away to sit in his chair.
07:03Also, no one questions this somehow.
07:05Even though it was in the peripheral vision of the conductor.
07:07I guess the conductor thought he hallucinated the second chair guy the whole time.
07:13If it was a group for witches, he would have known what happened and objected.
07:18I guess part of her spell is brainwashing them into forgetting this chair guy was supposed to be there.
07:24Well, at least Hilda's happy.
07:26But it does make her a hypocrite for lecturing Sabrina earlier.
07:29It's better to tell someone to have a moral because you want them to get better than not even try to do that just because you don't share it.
07:40Well, at least Hilda was humble enough to not want Sabrina to turn out exactly like her.
07:45The aunts hugged Sabrina and find out she somehow didn't learn a lesson because she's got another medal she didn't earn.
07:53Then what was the point of the episode?
07:55This story by Neil Buschel and Sam O'Neill was another episode with a worthlessly obvious message.
08:03This time about Sabrina cheating at karate matches until her trophy comes to life and taunts her.
08:09And since she wasn't shown pointy at it,
08:12It's insulting to my intelligence that I'm supposed to believe it was her fault and not Zelda.
08:18Making the rest of the episode seem annoyingly forced.
08:21It already felt unnecessary because she already said that she wasn't going to cheat anymore.
08:27So she already knew it was sort of wrong.
08:29The aunts could have stopped her from entering the tournament.
08:32So I have to assume they prioritized her learning a lesson over her competitors getting humiliated.
08:38Which is not forced at least.
08:40It just makes them look bad.
08:43She would have participated anyways, to be fair.
08:46But it was still great to watch the karate matches.
08:50They didn't censor the impact of the hit.
08:53If only it could have been Libby in the tournament.
08:56And she wasn't forced by the writer to be completely incompetent with her magic.
09:01So it didn't feel like the writer hated her.
09:04Just misunderstood her personality.
09:06As soon as she cheated at an actual tournament, it was a character assassination of Sabrina.
09:13And it set a bad precedent by letting the other writers know that they can get away with it.
09:18The show understood perfectly fine before this that she's an unusually sweet girl.
09:22She doesn't abuse her magic against completely innocent people like the rivals at her tournament.
09:28It should have been written that the reward for the tournament wasn't just a trophy, but also money.
09:33So she could have been competing specifically so she could donate it.
09:37Then she would have had an in-character reason to feel justified by assuming that all of her rivals would have just spent the money selfishly.
09:45On less worthy causes.
09:48And the writer could have named a specific charity that way, which would be free advertising for it.
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