You know I've been thinking of Phantom Planet recently and I think one of the reasons I dislike it so much is because how almost every decision in it feels like a decision made just cuz it's a series finale and not based off of any prior context in the show. Like so many things feel like things in a self contained one off movie or stereotypical finale tropes than actually stuff informed by the show.
Like ok we have Danny giving up his powers cuz he feels like he's not needed anymore...but like why? Outside of what the pilot Danny has never really wanted to get rid of his powers hell he's embraced them by this point hell thru all of season 1 he wasn't liked by the town and he didn't want to give up his powers then, even in the episode where vlad legit made it hella difficult for danny to fight ghosts he still didn't want to give up his powers so why now?
Why does turning off the portal with him inside remove his powers??? That shouldn't be how that works not just realistically but also based on everything we know about how the ghost portal works.....and why does the ghost energy give him back his powers??? Does it ignite traces of his "ghost dna" or whatever??????
Why does Vlad reveal himself to the world, like he knows that the asteroid negates ghost powers, he doesn't even consider it s possibility that his plan might not work? He just goes all for it like sure Vlad loves theatrics but He isn't dumb and he's also gone thru great lengths to hide his identity before so it seems kinda dumb that he'd just put all of his cards on the table.
Why does tucker become the mayor?? Like that doesn't even make sense?? Like nothing from the finale or the series itself logically leads to that outcome??.
Why does danny reveal himself to the world?? Just cuz his parents figured it out doesn't mean the rest of the world have?? He deadass could've just told his parents cuz them knowing was the only thing that mattered.
If the disasteroid(dumb name) nullifys ghost powers wouldn't it just nullify the ecto energy that the 10000s of ghost turning the world intangible were putting out? Cuz like it's still ghost powers making the world intangible??
Idk so many of the decisions in the movie don’t even make much sense within the context of the movie itself let alone the entire series.
