So...Mamoru's going to help her with the final battle instead of her friends? The only reason that was okay in Cardcaptors is that Li was the only other person with power and everyone else was asleep. Doing it here kind of undermines the message a bit if she's relying on a man rather than the power of friendship. If they were still pushing the power of love, then why keep the four knights around long enough to establish their relationship with the four guardians only to kill them off immediately afterward? Halfway through a 26-episode run we have an episode called "Final Battle" except it isn't really the final battle as more stuff happens in the next episode. This battle has gotten more development than any individual character, giving fans of the original no reason to care about these new incarnations as they know less about them than their original counterparts.
Galavant is surprisingly good for Disney-owned ABC. It's actually got cursing in it (bleeped of course), and it's really funny if at times crass. Timothy Omundson was Detective Lassiter on Psych, which also did a musical, so I think of him every time he's on screen. The screening clips on abc.com are great, too. Everyone got teary-eyed at Alan Menken's medley and mouthed some of the words before all joining in singing "Galavant" at the end. The songs really are catchy. Other ABC shows even used the melody in their advertising, which was kind of annoying and cheesy but that goes to prove how talented Menken is (if the early 90s Disney movies weren't proof enough).
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