in case its not obvious i was incredibly disappointed in the finale. the writing was bad, the characterization was all over the place, they completely shafted the secondary cast, they wasted tons of time on dream sequences and weed belos visuals. there was no satisfying conclusion to the caleb/philip history, there was no satisfying reason for flapjack's death other than giving hunter magic he didn't use. the foreshadowing was painfully heavy-handed ("wow, the titan's heart is still beating, titans are sooo strong").
the epilogue was straight fanservice that totally dismissed a lot of major previous conflicts, like the existence of a door. they killed off luz for absolutely no emotional payoff because they shunted camila and the hexsquad so hard that they didn't even know luz died? if you cut out every shot of camila and hexsquad in the collector's palace NOTHING changes. total dismissal of the dynamics built in the prior two episodes for a fucking clipshow of how luz eda king became friends? why? who asked for that?
idk. i really disliked this. there are a handful of things i did enjoy but the rest felt like cobbled together voice lines written by a new fanfic author. it completely destroyed any emotional weight it might have held for me, and i am genuinely baffled seeing people say they cried. glad yall enjoyed it but this feels so drastically different from the rest of the show in both themes and quality that it genuinely makes me unhappy with the show on the whole.
i also do not see this as a symptom of disney shortening the show unless they personally sent in their worst writer to redo the script here. the team took on more than they could handle with the collector and they couldn't pull it off. the writing in this episode is the sort of thing toh satirizes. what the hell happened.
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