thinking about how the lives of the early 00s mermaids repeat the patterns of their 1950s counterparts and mend their missteps: karl learned julia was a mermaid and betrayed her for personal gain, whereas zane learned the secret and protected rikki and her friends; max grew overbearing and treated his relationship with gracie like a science experiment, leading to her giving up her tail, while lewis learned to give cleo space and support her without suffocating her. thinking about a future where charlotte and lewis’s story repeats, where a headstrong artist and a sensitive scientist get to be best friends, resolving the mistakes made fifty years before.
