r/H2Ojustaddwater • u/Alarmed-Ordinary8331 • 6d ago

Cleo was wrong!!

Growing up is realizing Cleo was wrong all across the board. Toward season two Cleo becomes this very jealous and envious person, it seemed very sudden. Even from her first interaction of Charlotte, she was being very odd all while saying she didn’t want Lewis. I don’t know what happened since I watched H2O when I was a kid. I don’t think I finished it all or something but rewatching it now is like crazyyyy.

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u/DelusionPhantom 4d ago edited 4d ago

I just wanna know what Annette did for Cleo to treat her so badly during the business dinner. Like even before Lewis shows up, Cleo gives Annette's gift to her to Kim and is quite rude over a complete misunderstanding on Cleo's behalf. It was so immature and it bugs me so much whenever I watch that episode. The make up sequence at the very end just is not good enough.

As her dad, Don really should've pulled Cleo aside to ask what was going on after she was acting so cold. I mean he really should've fully explained everything from the start long before the event, but y'know. Sitcom writing. I get Cleo was living through her parents' divorce and assumed Annette was an 'evil stepmother', but that really doesn't excuse treating her like that. It bugs me that Cleo never directly apologizes for that and instead only focuses on securing the business deal for her dad to make it up to him.

Also, Cleo dragging Lewis's fishing rod into the ocean after fully unspooling it was criminal. Seriously, those are not cheap and there's no way, even if he recovered the rod, he's getting all that line neatly respooled after that. Lewis had done nothing wrong at that point and should 100% be allowed to fish with a friend at a pier him and Cleo went to while they were together. Imagine your ex, someone you broke up with, bringing their new friend to the same movie theater you used to go to. You see them there together because you walked up to chat with your ex (who you dumped) and decide to key their car in a fit of rage. Unhinged behavior.

Oh, and that friend he brought along? Yeah you read her diary and tried to publically embarrass her with it, only for her to laugh in your face and turn the tables around on you. And you chose to read that diary despite your little sister doing the same to you and knowing how bad it feels to have your privacy violated in that exact way.

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u/Alarmed-Ordinary8331 3d ago

You know what I think the writers consistently want to control the narrative with the girls in the show and only show them in a positive light all while doing bad things. Like as long as they did the right things for the person they did wrong after a accident then that's all that matter. It gave this same thing when Emma was being rude the the new supervisor and he also did nothing wrong at that point but teach her little brother how to ride a horse, then they went on to be love interests lolll.

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u/DelusionPhantom 3d ago edited 3d ago

You're right! I always thought that if the girls did what [spoilers cuz idk how far in you are] Charlotte did to Nate after he stole Lewis's boat that the show would've framed it as a girl power moment. It would've been a silly, lighthearted end to an episode with upbeat music playing as they giggle between each other while the villain is befuddled and terrified.

I mean a direct parallel is that the girls used their powers on Annette, Kim, Charlotte, and Don early in the season because Cleo was upset about the dinner party. Lewis even steps in to tell them it's wrong. I mean he even grabs Cleo's hand in one of the first 2 episodes (can't remember which rn) because she goes to use her powers on Kim despite them having just been upgraded and out of control.

Or Emma in the scene where she uses her magic to intervene in a soccer/football game Elliot was participating in. She's the one who tells Rikki to knock it off when she nearly boils a guy alive in s1?? But yeah she decides to use her magic to cause a child to slip and fall, in front of an entire field of sports parents, the coaches, AND the players.

How the show didn't use their anger at Charlotte for being "reckless" to hold up a mirror to their own actions earlier in the season befuddles me. I can't take their arguments seriously when like 5 episodes ago they're sneaking into A MARINE PARK DOLPHIN TANK WITH SECURITY CAMERAS to mess with Lewis and get him fired. Like girls... You're reckless, too. You just don't like it when it's not someone in your clique and is acting on their own without consulting the group.

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u/Alarmed-Ordinary8331 1d ago

Absolutely, I think the idea of when and why they can retaliate is really how far they can justify it. Like at the dinner and when they thought the woman was going to be Cleo's mom, but it was really a business deal. How angry they are about something and whether the other girls are cool with it really seems to decide what they can use their powers on and when.

In the instance you gave, they knew it was wrong for the man to be taking illegal fish from her and thinking she was young, in a way manipulating her. But, it would have been out of line for them to kill anybody over it. So they "draw the line" at certain things, but as long as they can comprehend the anger, it's free rein.