first of all

adaine summoning elementals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know who she learned that from!!!!!!!!!!!! adaine collecting creatures and little guys!!!!

i love her so much.

i do like that they just skipped right to the end of what was clearly another season's worth of an adventure, and there's like little things that brennan brings up about how "it will never be over, you will only be rewarded with more, you will work and fight and meet new friends and new enemies and they'll die and you'll kill them and none of it will matter"

you know, like regular high school

i'm excited to see where they go.

yeah!! It feels like the point of this season is going to be examining the aftermath of saving the world and it... not staying saved

strong gifted kid burn-out vibe

It makes sense to just start in medias res because the whole run up to fighting the nightyorb is not going to be important to the arc of this season

it's so /chef's kiss

balthazar's death scene was very funny, as was all the vehicular murder that riz was committing but it did also get me thinking about how desensitized they are to death at this point. remember episode 1 of season 1 and how everyone was absolutely broken up after killing one person.

Mosasaurus: yeah and i think part of it is also like... sophomore year's character arcs all left off on a fairly conclusive note. so did freshman year but sophomore year especially, and i feel like now they've spent another year as their newly developed selves and it's just reckoning with the fact that actually they really aren't complete because that's not

how growing up works.

I also understand the mechanical need to make Riz the driver cause his dex is the best, but also this choice is deeply endlessly hilarious and I'm glad they just went for it

absolutely

yeah no, the three foot something party member is driving by just scurrying around in the wheel well and stomping on things. It's fine.

they put the shrimp in the drivers seat and hoped for the best because fabian was too busy trying to fuck a mirror and kristen was.... doing that.

something something, Fabian falling in love with another unobtainable self reflection something something daddy issues narcissus arc

yeah i think the literal mirror of fabian's ego and daddy issues is just a more literal version of whatever he had going with aelwyn

when the mirror said "papa" i felt physical pain

So did Fabian

in his balls

yep 😭

Also Fabian getting stuck under the car? Strong gilear energy. Just gonna say it

you know who never got stuck under the car? bill seacaster

fabian your gilear energy is staggering

Cars get stuck under Bill Seacaster, not the other way around!!

someone drop a paternity test we need to check that fabian's not secretly gilear's trueborn son.

also just so everyone knows i'm delusional............. my brain heard "devil" "yellow" and fig and i was like. pen. penel. penleope...

it's extremely unlikely but i can dream my dreams