>>108452698King Pascal was a worse retread of an already meh episode. And as dumb as really caring about Pascal as a character probably is, I don't care. So I'll flatout say the episode was a character regression if anything, especially after Pascal was willing to fucking die for Raps. The whole episode was just him being an out of character dick until the end.
The mermaid episode was boring as fuck, probably the only episode I ever thought about actually skipping. And considering how ridiculously frontloaded S2 was with filler episodes, that's saying a LOT.
Happiness is... was legitimately good, but certainly not worth the previous 2 episodes justifying its existence.
The only advantage the island arc has over the Vardaros arc is that it's mercifully short. As painfully long as the stay in Vardaros was, at least all its episodes were enjoyable in their own right. Few worth rewatching, but still worth a watch at least once.