

The idea that Truth, the main villain of the story, vanishes and becomes a friend.It’s a horrible shame none of these characters were really looked into because they all had such great potential. I know this is asking a bit too much, but even I expected closure for some of these characters – like Elena and Fleur for instance.


Heartbreaking, tragic, and completely emotional, the tension and love these two had for each other was pretty well displayed. Absolutely great – I have loved this child since Episode 1, and my love for him didn’t stop as he took it upon himself to make his parents happy – a final signal of growing up into something more than just a kid. I was angry that Granpops knew about it all along and didn’t say anything, but I did like how it thematically served a purpose and gave Renton and Eureka an intent on why they were doing all these things that appeared to make no sense. The fact that plot-wise, and in terms of explanation, everything about the time loops, Scubs, Scub Bursts, universes….it all made sense.As Ao said himself, “Just because you’re forced to choose a side doesn’t make it right!” and not only answered all the themes AO built up for the past 22 episodes, but also made that decision have a sort of ‘coming of age’ appeal. That was AO‘s answer and it was beautiful. Everyone and everything he had gone through had led up to this moment, but it was Ao’s final thought process in the end that made it happen, not anyone else’s opinion. The Ao who was so shaken by the fact that he was wrong realized that in the end, neither the Secrets nor the Scub were the villains. Not only did Ao confront his father on his views about how the Scubs needed to be destroyed, but he chose to believe in his own version of the truth, despite fully knowing that it was stunted and limited in perspective. AO chose to clump all of these into one huge ending, and surprisingly, it worked. We’ve established that AO‘s themes were related to identity, the dilemma of creating ‘sides’ to choose from, the difference in opinions/views when it came to the generation gap – the parents vs the children – and the issue regarding how the truth may and will always be skewed by one party or the other for ultimate purposes. But because there is so much to cover, I’ll just simplify it into three phases: The Good, The Bad, and The Not Ugly/Final Verdict. “You reap what you sow,” is a common saying in today’s world, and I feel like these words would exactly apply to the finale of AO. Some things were beautiful, some were horrible, but in the end, it came boiling down to how AO got the finale it had been striving to work for in the end. Illegenes: It’s hard to say how I really feel about the two final episodes of AO a month ago I would have claimed that this show would end in a spectacular, massive failure, but as I write these words today, a different sort of expression comes to mind. No really, we promise, no more terrible fanfiction, this is the real thing.
