Do it for the animation, CGI with lines edited on so that, even though the colours and shading are clearly digitally rendered, it looks like traditional 2D animation – the “illustration brought to life”, “I could draw like that someday” look.
Do it for the varied family structures. The two protagonists are stepbrothers or half-brothers, I’m not sure which but it doesn’t matter they’re brothers and it’s wonderful, and the stepfather wanted so badly for his adopted son to feel comfortable calling him dad, but the one time he said it was – it’s a powerful and painful moment, let’s just say that.
Do it for the nuanced antagonists. The villain’s kids genuinely care about each other and it’s implied they’re eventually going to have to choose between each other and their parent’s orders and I genuinely don’t know how that’s going to work out.
Do it for the racial diversity. They don’t just use other fantasy species like elves as ‘substitutes’ for having other races, they actually have multiple races among the human cast. (And implied to be among the elves as well, but we’ve only seen one elfin race so far.)
Do it for the ability diversity. Canonical use of sign language by a deaf character. I thought they were going to do something ableist about limb loss in the episode with the three-legged wolf and the ‘miracle healer’ but I was wrong and I am so happy with what they did instead.
Do it for the “enemies to allies to friends” plot arc.
Do it for the magic and the dragons and the cool special effects.
Do it so you can get this joke:
“Do it for the frog. The grumpy frog that hates you.”
I encourage watching ‘The Dragon Prince’
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