#dug their claws in to make it entirely a wikling production choice

[gentil-minou]

hey! I saw your TTEOTM post so thought maybe you'd like to know: the whole '18 episodes were cut' is actually a misconception. I am not sure how that info spread. if you go onto the TilltheEndoftheMoon subreddit there is a post ("There were never 58 episodes!!!! Numbers inside!") that crunches the numbers and lays out what was cut from each arc. It wasn't as much cut as people think. I found it really interesting to see it laid out like that so figured I'd pass it along!

Okay this thread was actually pretty helpful incase folks are interested

But I still think we needed more time to flesh out this arc because understanding what the hell ttj's motivations for doing things like this was such a stretch. It all felt so rushed and if it was supposed to be 16 eps on this arc alone at least we'd have had more time to figure out why things were happening this way?

As it stands we went from "hurray for a grand wedding" to "murder murder fake trial wartime sacrifice yay world happy!"

If this was the story production wanted to be told then I'm side eying them so hard this ending was just torture porn