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Home Is Where Your Heart Is – Episodes 1 & 2
Episode 1 (15-minute Pilot Episode)
Home Is Where Your Heart Is introduces the main Land of I characters and confronts the issue of Jotasha and Cyclic having to remain in the Land of I forest until they can repair their crashed spacecraft. The Duranium Crystals (which power their craft) are lost somewhere in the forest and can't be found. In the meantime, the space trio and their newfound friends try to find alternative power sources while becoming familiar with one another's unique personalities and characteristics. Freddy the Elephant learns he likes fixing things, and Cyclic the Robot welcomes his enthusiastic energy, which helps to build Freddy's self-esteem. Cyclic tries overly hard to please Jotasha, and then realizes intense robotic sadness when he fails in his promise to find the energy source to power the space pod. His failures to please his mistress cause him to feel he hasn't lived up to her expectations of him.
Episode 2 (15-minute Pilot Episode)
Home Is Where Your Heart Is finds Chad the Caterpillar learning the hard way that saying you can fly . . . and actually flying, are two different things altogether. Gabriel the Angel tries to help Chad fly by helping him build feathered wings. He crashes to the ground on his first try. Abigail, Gabriel's angel twin, along with her neat-freak personality, organizes Chad's flying promise and the timeline for him to take flight. Her "can do and over-protective personality" grates on the Land of I characters' frazzled nerves. Grandpa is his normal over-protective, grouchy and loveable self, looking to the downside of everything (as is his usual self) but is very happy to take the credit when everything turns out OK.
Episodes 1 & 2 ends with all the characters in the magical forest working towards the goal of living together in harmony, patience, and understanding.
Moral and Value of Episodes 1 & 2 - Home Is Where Your Heart Is -
The overall moral, educational theme in this episode suggests that maybe we aren't fully satisfied with everything in our lives, but that we can make new friends, be happy and make the most of what we have and where we are. Instead of Jotasha and Cyclic feeling sorry for themselves, they join the Land of I forest community of characters. This episode includes problem solving, effort, teamwork, caring, cooperation, initiative, common sense, and sacrifice.
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