That was a good finale.

I think I will still have various quibbles with Future overall, and I think in the end it just didn't execute its stuff as well as the main series did

and I'm musing on the behind the scenes stuff too from what's being said, and that's becoming a bigger part of my impressions than I would ideally like myself, but I think there's a lot of things that just didn't work out in the ideal way from anyone's perspective. Oh well, that's life.

At the same time, the heart was still there, though, and I did get stuff I liked out of it. Future was always a bonus extra. And like it's not like it wasn't still GOOD.

And the story they chose to tell with that extra time is such an important one for such a lot of people. Perhaps that in itself is the truest thing to SU, even if it meant rough spots.

Like everything else aside, I do just think it's fantastic as a fact that exists that they're giving children this really honest discussion of how your childhood can mess with you! (and even the well-intentioned loving parts, it's so damn important to understand that parents aren't just either Perfect or Abusive and you still get affected by that?!)

Honestly why is my first impulse to start with the quibbling? Maybe that's just what I'm used to. It was fine.

I guess I have a lot of conflicted brains cause there's just a whole lot of different levels where the ideas and the execution were working at for me... maybe that's just a lot to untangle.

Man, like, look, not all of Steven's arc spoke to me personally, but boy there were some moments in I Am My Monster that get to me

because the concept of unconditional love makes me recoil like a vampire from holy water basically

and now I am displeased about being made to self-reflect

Anyway, Lapis cried a bunch and I feel that's a worthy sendoff for her.

<3 I'm glad we got a goodbye from B team

I feel like I should say some kind of heartfelt eulogy but Iunno. It's been real. SU was a good show overall, but it's fine that it has ended. I would much rather have it go out on its own terms than get dragged out indefinitely, and it seems like it's said what it wanted to say.

It left with a whole lot of fanfic fodder and I want the fanfic, that's really the best parting gift it can give us.

yeah that's about where I'm at

sorta feels like this is finale #3

after change your mind and the movie

also I wouldn't out it past anyone for there to be a spin-off some day

Listen, even I do kind of think Jasper probably deserved more, and I don't have particularly strong feelings on Jasper and don't generally believe in ideas like "characters deserving more"

It's not HUGE so it's aight. She's moved some amount in a better direction, and we can reasonably believe that's enough of a seed to progress somewhere good for her

It's just a shame that that couldn't have been more.

However, I'm more disappointed than I would have expected that poor Centi never showed up.

centi!!! I forgot about centi

where she at

She was in the intro to no avail!

booooooo

CENTI ;O;