Glisten & The Merry Mission – Good, But Not What I Thought

This is actually pretty good, especially given the fact it is both designed to sell toys and is a Christmas special – a combination which is usually asking for trouble. 

Objectively, there is nothing wrong at all, and that is saying something coming from me – even if not exactly a compliment! This doesn’t change the fact that it wasn’t what I was anticipating, and that it unfortunately fell in to a big pet peeve criteria for me – a story that supposedly centres on animal characters, but in reality has human (or human-like) protagonists.

I thought the story mostly focused on Santa’s reindeer when, in fact, the main characters are elves – human substitutes from a storytelling point of view – with the reindeer in the title only appearing near the very end, and likely only has a total of five lines. 

Another smaller problem I have with it subjectively is that I feel they are truing far too hard with the Christmas vocabulary. It clearly hasn’t come naturally to the creators. It leads it to feel cringy and forced a lot of the time, let the rest of the production down.


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