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Non-Existent's avatar

Hey, writing this as a massive Amphibia fan that sorta just happened across this review.

I definitely understand most of your conclusions about it based on what you watched, since you only watched half of the finale. Amphibias series finale was split into two episodes, “All In” which is the heart of the finale and “The Hardest Thing” which serves as more of a victory lap and tying up loose ends.

Since I’ve never read your blog before, I don’t know what your stance on this is, but I do know that most of the intended depth of the finale was put into part one while all the goofy bits they wanted to throw in for fun were reserved for part two.

I definitely encourage giving it another shot, at least with the full finale instead of just the second half. Amphibia is easily one of my favorite tv series of all time, but the second half of its series finale certainly doesn’t paint it in a good light on its own.

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Giorgio Mezzanzanica's avatar

it's always nice to read your blog, but unfortunately this is yust a finale that makes no real sense or carries any waight if you didn't watch the series, kinda like I feel about the Star Wars rebels finale, but ^2. Setting aside animation (that I liked in the show) and the music (that I really liked in the show) your conclusions are perfectly understandable, coming from your point of view, but a lot of what happens really relies on everything that came before to gain meaning and cap off an amazing series with an amazing finale. I will not go into boring and usless detail about it, but the finale getting 9/10 on accessibility shows how little it gave away about the characters. "The good guys are good. The evil guys are evil. Some minor characters might have formerly been on one side or the other", for exemple, the main character's (human) friends have spent most of the series being the villains, and yes, stopping the core was indeed the only time they saved Amphibia, which never needed saving before that conflict emerged, all of this, togeder with a surprising layer of themes, is, of course, completely unfathomable from the final episode alone, that consists of nothing but payoffs and a denouement. The series is mostely a commedy, and a good one at that, so I think that you should give it a try with your kids anyway, but that's just my opinion.

It's always nice to read you, and I wish you a good day.

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