#Seeing Betty turn back into Golb in the bus was so scary and heartbreaking simultaneously

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God I loved the series but I only wish they had more time! There was a ridiculous amount of ambition just bursting from every seam non-stop and so many potent threads I feel they didn't even have close to enough space to go into.

Like, in the end it kinda felt they wanted to sorta resolve the apparent Wake of Tragedy F&C&S left behind just because they weren't confident in getting anymore seasons to elaborate on that really but honestly I loved the ambiguity and interpretability of the intense and self-contained arcs of the universes in each episodes. It was very well done, maybe more well-done than they had realized!

Anyways the highlight of it all by far the biggest catharsis and vindication in seeing that they did basically smuggle in atleast some kind of closure for where Simon and Betty's story left off. And man... just seeing GolBetty in the horrible void all statuesque in her movements and always grimacing was so painful and fascinating... the animation! (like holy fuck that part where she does whatever the Hell that was to the Lich and simultaneously explaining what those floating shapes are! More or less.) The implications left behind by it all, the strangeness and the ambiguity all lent well with their commitment to the Lovecraftian horror of her new form. It was really amazing actually getting to see GolBetty as her own character now, and I could just go on about that last interaction on so many levels.

I think, above all, the most intriguing thing to me was that it seemed to me at least that she wasn't trying to stop him from wearing the crown because of how hard she tried to undo it, but just to give him a last chance to really understand her and their relationship beforehand at the very least. I guess she did also stop him by seemingly helping out with canonizing Fionna's universe, but just. Damn. Like she really is kinda gone, but still there. She is still her and she knows who she is, unlike Ice King, but she also seems so much more impossibly distant than Simon ever was as Ice King. Like... she truly is kinda beyond comprehension at this point, unfathomably powerful yet you feel so concerned and sad for her, or maybe just who she was. It does seem like she made peace in some kinda way. It just really hurts nonetheless. Also the little Casper and Nova story allegory was so cute and sad :( and seeing Simon posess Shermy was the most bizarrely adorable thing ever.