At first I was like : « how can no one see that she's lying and using them? » but it was actually necessary for the beautiful and so well animated ending
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Edvis-199723 July 2019
Planet Sorbo
biochill17 June 2020
So disappointing
Impman227 November 2019
Disappointing at best, badly written at worst
Jamarlie10 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Now let me start off by saying I completely understand and sympathize with the creators of the show only having 21 minutes to deliver a well rounded narrative. That being said, it's incredibly difficult to try and make an audience member care about any of the characters.
Now with all of that out of the way: This episode was shallow, terribly written and overall just bad. I am simply amazed it has the rating that it does, but Final Space is one of those "put it on and fall asleep to it while binging" kind of shows.
What really disappointed me here is that they have this incredibly great story about Gary being abandoned by his own mother of all people and somewhere around the middle of the episode they just COMPLETELY forget that that was even a thing. He breaks her out of prison and instead of having a heartfelt conversation about why she did what she did the show just seems to completely forget that Gary and his mother never even talked about this topic to begin with. We are all just supposed to assume these two characters have chemistry. And everybody else also likes her for some reason because yeah man just look how cool she is, isn't she so cool? Total chemistry achieved - okay, tick that box of our list of things we have to do.
Like I'm sorry but are any of you *actually* feeling any connection between Gary or ANY of the other characters and Gary's mom? Because I'm not. If the show didn't tell us explicitly she is his mother I don't think anybody would feel as though these characters work in any way together.
At the end they try to salvage the lack of chemistry they've (not) built up the entire episode by having this huge emotional reveal with sad music and... sorry but is that catching anybody? Because the whole time I just kept thinking: "Yup, still not feeling a thing". These characters are so detached from one another it hurts and physically makes me cringe. Next thing you know she dashes off, episode ends. She never feels like a character let alone someone I should care about, she feels like a cheap prop to drive the plot of the show.
I mean, that's yet another thing to add to the "poorly developed character chemistry" pile. It's just like how Gary and Clarence have absolutely NO chemistry together. The only chemistry they have is "Haha they hate each other because Clarence is obnoxious" - as perfectly referenced in this episode again. This is just terribly piss poor writing. I hope that this gets better, otherwise I'll probably abandon the show all together. Shame, honestly.
Now with all of that out of the way: This episode was shallow, terribly written and overall just bad. I am simply amazed it has the rating that it does, but Final Space is one of those "put it on and fall asleep to it while binging" kind of shows.
What really disappointed me here is that they have this incredibly great story about Gary being abandoned by his own mother of all people and somewhere around the middle of the episode they just COMPLETELY forget that that was even a thing. He breaks her out of prison and instead of having a heartfelt conversation about why she did what she did the show just seems to completely forget that Gary and his mother never even talked about this topic to begin with. We are all just supposed to assume these two characters have chemistry. And everybody else also likes her for some reason because yeah man just look how cool she is, isn't she so cool? Total chemistry achieved - okay, tick that box of our list of things we have to do.
Like I'm sorry but are any of you *actually* feeling any connection between Gary or ANY of the other characters and Gary's mom? Because I'm not. If the show didn't tell us explicitly she is his mother I don't think anybody would feel as though these characters work in any way together.
At the end they try to salvage the lack of chemistry they've (not) built up the entire episode by having this huge emotional reveal with sad music and... sorry but is that catching anybody? Because the whole time I just kept thinking: "Yup, still not feeling a thing". These characters are so detached from one another it hurts and physically makes me cringe. Next thing you know she dashes off, episode ends. She never feels like a character let alone someone I should care about, she feels like a cheap prop to drive the plot of the show.
I mean, that's yet another thing to add to the "poorly developed character chemistry" pile. It's just like how Gary and Clarence have absolutely NO chemistry together. The only chemistry they have is "Haha they hate each other because Clarence is obnoxious" - as perfectly referenced in this episode again. This is just terribly piss poor writing. I hope that this gets better, otherwise I'll probably abandon the show all together. Shame, honestly.
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