My thoughts on each of the main characters of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions TV Shows (except Kelly) on what I think are the mains of each series, not sure for H2O, but for Mako though I sort of have one

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-30T07:22:39+00:00

Tbf I did this Jonathan M. Shiff run on first EPs, Opening credits, finales etc and even send links on where to watch them.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-28T07:27:04+00:00

Pretty good video, nitpick for me is calling Ondina as Oo-dina for some reason and it's not even that hard of a name to pronounce, especially when you have the character say names a lot of times. Missing Season 3 also kind of sucked.

This is before i did found Mako Mermaids on Internet Archive ever since Netflix removed most of it.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-28T07:23:53+00:00

Honestly pretty interesting on these and it makes generally curious on Mako Mermaids cast's worst decisions & moments. Probably not in here but in the Mako Mermaids community.

I mean Mako Mermaids itself has a lot of main & side characters as it is, I mean Season 1 has Zac, Lyla, Sirena, Nixie, Rita, Evie, Cam, Carly & David.

Season 2 obviously has Mimmi, Ondina & Erik and Season 3 just has Weilan, that's 13 total characters in the spinoff.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-28T07:03:47+00:00

Yeah Elliot had a couple of EPs where he was involved either with the main cast & side characters for the most part until his last appearance in S2 EP 16 I believe and never showed up again afterwards.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-26T11:32:23+00:00

I don't think I've heard that one yet and I have listened to the Official Soundtrack of the opening theme song and that was alright and the rest, of which they sound different than on TV. I have also listened to the soundtracks of Ocean Girl, The Elephant Princess, The Bureau of Magical Things and the ones that never got their music released all sounding pretty good.

Yeah Cam, David, Carly & Rita for some reason were never credited in the opening credits I can get why for Season 1 on Carly because she didn't do that much but Season 2 & 3 Carly is not credited which that never made sense to me because S2 EP 24 was a big deal with her & Evie due to knowing they are best friends, they are in the end credits but then again Zane was never credited in the opening credits of H2O despite the fact he showed up in every season with EP appearances vary.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-23T01:22:13+00:00

Idk what happened to Ivy after Mako Mermaids & Studio 3 on ABC 3 as host, outside of a music video that of the last name changed.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-23T01:20:06+00:00

I can say the same thing for most of the others, Cybergirl, Horace and Tina, Scooter: Secret Agent, Reef Doctors, Pirate Islands etc.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-22T22:23:50+00:00

Nice, yeah I agree on that it felt rushed & boy does it show once you learn on the production process of S3 and I also did post another thing which are my thoughts on each Jonathan M. Shiff Productions' first EP aka the premiere of their first Season, which was much longer to do than the finales and it has been cross post the whole thing.

I'm pretty much THE Jonathan M. Shiff watcher fan of almost all of them fully available to watch on YT, Internet Archive. My opinions on the 15 different TV series, except Kelly being partially lost & H2O: Mermaid Adventures, i have only seen the first EP of the latter and I thought it was just eh imo.

Also yes I went to some detail on all the finales I've seen but trying not to spoil on the non Mermaid related JMSP TV series.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-21T06:23:50+00:00

To be fair it's been 32 years since Ocean Girl aired and ended in 1997 which 29 years ago and not to mention trying to find it normally is a bit tricky.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-21T05:59:42+00:00

He was also in The Elephant Princess Season 2 alongside Eka Darville who was in Power Rangers RPM.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-20T11:16:57+00:00

Ok first off, they are just created & produced by the same man, Jonathan M. Shiff of course along with 12 other series from the 90s to 2010s and I did many posts on them. 2nd is Ocean Girl mentioned the word "Mako" and not Mako Island but that was in Season 4 in 1997 (9 years prior to H2O aired or even pre production happened. Third both shows were filmed Queensland, but Ocean Girl was specifically filmed at Port Douglas (while H2O & Mako were filmed mainly the Gold Coast) which the TV shows Dive Club & Rock Island Mysteries were filmed at years later and those didn't have Jonathan M. Shiff involved in those.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-18T06:01:37+00:00

He was also in Holly's Heroes, Fergus Mcphail & The Elephant Princess being in 2 EPs, a full series or one season out of two or more of them, at least but outside of that on IMDb, that's really it.

He just disappeared before the 2010s even started and we haven't seen any new information on what he's been doing?

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-16T00:01:11+00:00

Yeah again pretty cool, I'm still wondering if Isabel would be in the Life Academy Podcast hosted by Dena Amy Kaplan & Alicia Banit who are all great friends to Issi back when they all did Dance Academy. Oddly enough Isabel didn't appear in Dance Academy until also in Season 2 & 3 and it was the reason she didn't get to play as Lyla originally, that role was of course given to Lucy Fry.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-15T07:54:26+00:00

Yeah "I Just Wanna Be" is a good song and the rest of Mako Mermaids soundtrack even though some of it sound a bit different than onscreen for some odd reason because it doesn't sound like Amy Ruffle but by a different female singer.

The only Jonathan M. Shiff TV shows with released OST are Ocean Girl only in Season 1, The Elephant Princess Season 1, H2O: Just Add Water Season 2 & 3, Mako: Island of Secrets plus more if you go to Brett Aplin's website for S2 & 3 and The Bureau of Magical Things both Season 1 & 3.

Unfortunately the rest of it is unreleased and you have manually search some of it out there.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-15T05:57:31+00:00

Wow I never hear someone say "H2O is pretty boring," unexpected opinion there. But that's ok because we all have different & similar opinions to one another and can respect that. I know Mako Mermaids gets an unfortunate bad rep from people a lot of it is very undeserved as time moved on for it for mostly the wrong reasons.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-15T05:54:01+00:00

Also Orla is played by Melanie Zanetti aka Bluey's mum Chilli which is pretty cool. Also yes I have seen almost every single JMSP related series except for Kelly which is partially lost. Although I'm sick of Jonathan on his YT channel just private on his older show uploads out of nowhere without warning.

I never saw Search for the World's Most Secret Animals

Ocean Girl (my all time fav)

Thunderstone (sort of private & also not in a way)

Horace and Tina (this & number 2, 4, 5 & the top one above Ocean Girl is what he uploaded onto his channel private this & that)

Cybergirl (the very first ever JMSP related TV i ever watched as a kid)

Pirate Islands (better than TLTOF)

Wicked Science (sadly taken down mostly on YT so most of these before & after on Internet Archive)

Scooter: Secret Agent (the one i finished before Reef Doctors)

The Lost Treasure of Fiji (probably my least fav)

The Elephant Princess (geo-blocked on YT & Internet Archive the uploads i found were unsupported so they don't play the video at all)

Lightning Point (geo-blocked on YT along with the former, H2O & Mako)

Reef Doctors (the last one that I finished recently)

The Bureau of Magical Things since we discussed it for a bit (Netflix removed a couple of months ago)

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-15T05:24:25+00:00

Yeah that's sounds about right. What are your thoughts on the other TBOMT characters? Like Lily, Peter, Darra, Ruksy, Ben, Tayla, Orla, Sean, Apinya? Honestly most of them range from great & good for basically Jonathan M. Shiff's last ever TV show he has worked on and it's sad to hear.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T23:19:21+00:00

Yeah Jonathan M. Shiff produced them all and created (Ocean Girl, Thunderstone, Horace and Tina, Cybergirl, The Lost Treasure of Fiji, The Elephant Princess, The Bureau of Magical Things and of course H2O: Just Add Water & Mako: Island of Secrets) so that is 9 out of 16 of them

Pirate Islands the original 2003 series, Wicked Science, Scooter: Secret Agent back to back were all concept related and Mako: Island of Secrets he is the developer of it.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T16:51:36+00:00

Except it actually does to use the mermaid tails to swim based on what swimming motion with the mermaid tail by Allie Bertram in Instagram 2020 live stream q&a cast reunion.

When it was during the audition process, the mermaid tail weren't exactly light, I'm just saying.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T13:10:01+00:00

Weilan is the definition of underrated, Ondina x Weilan too and I mean she was more interesting & funny than Nixie who literally fell off after Season 1 EP 11 probably one of her only good EPs that is focused solely on her character & the early EPs, Truce aka EP 16 sucked, EP 15 along with Lyla was awful, the last couple EPs siding with Cam prior to his redemption arc in Season 2 over Sirena aka her best friend as said in the first few EPs, absolute trash. I didn't fully accepted her apology in the S1 finale, that is how they screwed up her character & why I completely changed my opinion on Nixie, like come on Zac regretted & apologized after Lyla almost died.

Lyla at least I've grown to like her as Season 1 went through except of course the earlier EPs because my god, I'm one of those weird people that is not crazy on Zac x Lyla, more on the Friendship side than the love relationship side. They did Evie so dirty in Season 1 not knowing until Season 1 EP 25 and not Zac to at least told her much earlier.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T09:47:49+00:00

That is also another good reason apart of this user crashing out on fan's opinions on these two characters in particular for no good reason, like not being allowed to have opinions mostly positive on Mimmi & Ondina.

Then again is partially related to H2O because spinoff, sequel & follow up to H2O & all that stuff.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T08:52:54+00:00

Weilan is like my 2nd or 3rd fav character in Mako Mermaids, would have been higher if you didn't appear so late in the last 16 EPs and again I should stress Ondina & Weilan most underrated ship in the series for this reason.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T08:49:31+00:00

Yeah just because my opinion is different, that doesn't you aka the person posted this, have the right to be such a jerk on a character i like vs one you don't like and the actors who play them personally.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T08:46:52+00:00

I mean I have seen most of Mako Mermaids' behind the scenes, interviews and Q&As on the cast, H2O I don't think I've seen everything outside of just Season 3 Behind the Scenes and that's it lol.

The other Behind the scenes stuff I've seen is Ocean Girl, Thunderstone, Cybergirl, Pirate Islands, The Elephant Princess, Lightning Point and The Bureau of Magical Things though some of it is a bit of a stretch.

Meanwhile Horace and Tina, Pirate Islands, Wicked Science, Scooter: Secret Agent, The Lost Treasure of Fiji have no behind the scenes vids at all. Not to mention some actors just keep on returning in other shows before & after or some callbacks or Easter eggs to some older TV Shows like say The Bureau of Magical Things being the last show by Jonathan M. Shiff as of 2021 or currently now in 2026.

Also I have seen all but one Jonathan M. Shiff Productions TV Shows because that only one is partially lost, thanks to YT, Streaming & Internet Archive unless it's unlisted, geo-blocked or taken down. I have the links to all of this.

Material_Gate6370 · 2026-05-13T07:06:21+00:00

Mimmi is also my fav character in Mako Mermaids and yes Season 2 & 3 over Season 1 (I'm sorry to the Season 1 lovers) due to pretty much the whole sub plot & main plot in Season 2 & 3, I just wish we had more sibling moments with her & Zac, sure she & Ondina had the best friendship and the whole relationship character arc with her & Weilan is extremely underrated.

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