ITT: Episodes that would have been better finales for the show than the actual finale.
ITT: Episodes that would have been better finales for the show than the actual finale
Landon Nelson
Ayden Wood
Personally there would have been more emotional impact if Eclipsa was left crying over the "death" of her child it would have shown a huge growth moment in Eclipsa's character that her shit parenting literally almost equated to genocide.
Grayson Brooks
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Nolan Hughes
Eclipsa's parenting had nothing to do with how Heinous/Meteora turned out. That was because Heinous was forced to live a lie for all those centuries while the MHC crystalized her parents.
Jayden Flores
Battle for Mewni was the series finale, in my mind. Disregard Cotugno fanfic.
Henry Cruz
On paper there was grounds for a really interesting dynamic. Her adoptive human father who was denied his right as the rightful King of Mewni because Eclipsa wasn't ready to "settle down yet sends Meteora to St Olga whom at the time was tradition of all Royal Mewnian citizens to send their daughters to be indocternate at an early age.
She becomes resentful of being there and decides to take over the operation still strictly enforcing Mewnian traditionalism but using it as a base of operations to get her revenge on Moon and her family
Everything they did with Meteora's character feels so poorly written and garbage fiery that it makes me sick I haven't felt this disappointed and even angry towards a character being subverted since Unalaq
Kayden Reed
The overall story had not much going for it after they solved the first mystery the show made.
Noah Robinson
Toffee "dying" even tho the show forgot how it's own plot formula works frequently reminding us that the only magic capable of nullifying Toffee's regeneration abilities is Eclipsa's burning magic because it destroys everything it touches down to a cellular level made Toffee's death seem so shit it's like it was actively trying to one up Bill Cipher's death in Gravity Falls all Style no Substance
Leo Price
I'm still pissed that Hirsch could have easily done more with the Blind Eye Society what an absolute fucking retard not knowing how to long book villains
Nope gotta push that fat Shota and the Meme Dorito
Blake Taylor
Star Vs's plotline is a mess
So much wasted potential in Heinous the Mad Witch. Nope gotta push that literal "who gives a shit" character Mina same way Korra pushed Kuriva as the final boss instead of Asami when it made more sense
Dominic Cox
The Author's identity was pretty much the only proper mystery in Gravity Falls. Everything else was either fluff (all of those pointless encrypted messages, for example) or unplanned crap.
And that one mystery was pretty great (minus the McGuckett retcon) but besides that the show had nothing.
Chase Cruz
Hirsch is just bad at writing long term plot lines a recurring theme in this modern era of animation where no one wants to admit that the reason why people watched action shows wasn't just because of the cool fight sequences it was how they meshed well with the story
Dominic Perez
I really think Wakfu should've ended with the resolution to the Ancient Eliatropes story. All the stuff with the Forgotten Brotherhood and Oropo and time-travelling Eli0tropes was... quite a mess.
Best case scenario would've been a fully serialized Season 2 that would dedicate all 26 episodes to exploring Qilby, Mount Zinith, Ogrest, the original 6 Eliatropes and 6 Dragons, etc. Instead that plot was relegated to 6 episodes. Will have to blame the network which wanted an episodic cartoon for the kiddies instead of a serialized epic like the 2nd half of Season 1.
Levi Phillips
Quite. I remember every cartoon that piqued my interest when I was a kid always had some sort of "story hook." A promise of resolving a mystery or a plot point later. And I've always anticipated that moment.
Some cartoons managed to deliver - Aelita leaving Lyoko in Code Lyoko
Some... did not - the mystery of the parents in Fantomette, the mission to free Horus in Papyrus, etc.
Jonathan Evans
Robert Bennett
Korra was just 4 whole seasons of unexplained plotlines and wasted potential I'm still fucking salty how with better writing Unalaq would have been two the antagonist Amon and Zaheer we're
They should have went there. I know damn well what Bryke was trying to do originally with Unalaq. They wanted to make him the water bending equivalent of a Catholic Templar. A literal fucking Holy Knight to the Spirit Realm a man who would have gave up his bending just to fucking purge all the filth and degeneracy that came from the people who lost their father in the Spirits
Instead we got that retarded garbage with Vaatu who could have been used for a different purpose. They should have went full Naruto and had Vaatu possess Marco and dedicate to a season and a half of Marco needing to cope with an evil spirit who works like a double edge sword. His fire bending greatly increases but he loses a piece if his soul the more he relies on Vaatu
Jonathan Hughes
Steven Universe should have ended with the Season 5 Finale. It was perfect for this show, i'm pretty sure they will fuck everything by forcing the plot over its potential.
Brody Lewis
This. And also giving her even more emotion to free her husband.
Y'know... Given the context if the actual ending, it also makes more sense that Star's magic ultimately did destroy him.
At the time of his "resurrection", toffee was more or less an accumulation of anti-magic. If I had to guess, he did something to his body so that he became a living embodiment of the whispering spell. It would also give some reasoning as to why he would know of it's existence. By permanently regenerating, the growth starting from him would come to corrupt/nullify the entire realm of magic.
But ultimately Star reformed and rebirthed the magic. And through her blast on toffee, showed that her magic could overcome the nullifing aspects of the whispering spell. You can QQ all you want about it, but that's what was presented. And since that nullifying magic was overcome, it's seems as likely that when Star and Marco met, they also formed that same kind of piercing magic through the nullifing effect.
Jaxson White
If it stopped on Face the Music for no reason whatsoever it would generate a ton of original content and protests.
Lucas Davis
Hudson Ross
The cool-kid thing to do right now is to consider anything after Battle for Mewni to be non-canon. This idea is fine by me.
Adam Long
It was also more or less the last time they put effort into the episode posters, or even really consistently made episode posters at all
Not that that in itself reflects the quality of the show but I dunno, willingness to go out of your way to make more art for it kinda implies more enthusiasm or something