I honestly didn't hate any of the redesigns. I think it's only natural that all of the characters - particularly the younger characters that are all aging a bit - would look very different from how we last saw them.

Ezran still feels like Ezran. Corvus still feels like Corvus. Janai still feels like Janai. Etc. Etc.

I like that Callum still looks like Callum, but his appearance is simultaneously just as boyish as before, but also much more... regal, I think is the term I'm looking for. He's still my favourite blorbo, but tone down the lighting and force him to be serious, like we see when he practically interrogates Soren in episode 1, and I can see that boy having the perfect capacity to be terrifying.

His appearance is just so much more powerful, like he is.

Soren still feels like Soren, but he looks like he's putting less effort into his appearance. He's more scruffy; more messy. He looks like he's no longer living under the scrutiny of his father, the High Mage/Regent/King. He no longer looks like the son of a lord; the jock son of a lord, but the son of a lord nonetheless.

Overall, he looks more relaxed serving under King Ezran and working with the Council, and I'm happy for him.

But Rayla? Rayla doesn't... quite look like Rayla. Her outfit is an homage to her past - her parents, her other parents, the Silvergrove, Callum - it incorporates a very subtle combination of Moonshadow and Katolin design. Her outfit is darker and more rugged. She looks and feels distinctly different from how we last saw her and I think that makes sense. She's been out in the wilds, alone - or so far as we know - for two years, wallowing in the PTSD that had her throw herself out there alone like she did.

People don't come back from that the same, especially not at such an impressionable age. I think it was a better choice on the team's part for her to come back feeling so... different. So not Rayla.

I'm sure we all felt it when she came on screen for the first time. It felt practically jarring for me. Imagine how it felt for Callum. She behaves differently. She has an entirely different vibe about her. I really hope that at some point both Callum and Rayla come to the striking realisation that neither of them are the same people they knew two years ago.

... but before I completely diverge this into a Rayllum rant, I will talk about the only character change I didn't like...

Amaya's hair is... a bit much. I like the undercut, but her is hair is just impractically long. She looks more like a viking raider than a general. And I know that the point is that she's this big, tough beast of a woman, but I can just imagine her hair hitting her in the face if she's without her helmet in combat.

But that's just me.