>>109297424Straight up? It felt complete.
Each episode told the story it wanted to tell without rushing through it or dragging on and the series ends with what feels like an emotionally earned conclusion.
It doesn't really leave you wanting more, and I mean that as a good thing.
Compared to IT which felt like it -wanted- to tell a larger story but had to cut things for its shorter run-time.
And then had to pull some last minute villain shit that tried to make you care about them when we haven't seen anything about them up until that point.
There's no buildup, there's no TIME for buildup.
It's like we had an entire season's worth of story crammed into 10 short episodes.
Not to mention OtGW doesn't beat you over the head with its messages and themes like IT does.
IT isn't just on the nose, it caves your skull in. Like, damn. I get it. Calm down.
Another thing, the characters are much more endearing and you -want- to follow them and see what they're up to.
I liked seeing Wirt's stick-in-the-mud cautiousness and insecurity play against and Greg's cheerful optimism and I-can-do-anything attitude, and also the banter between Wirt and Beatrice whenever they didn't quite see eye-to-eye.
I liked seeing all the different locations and the characters they had, I was always wondering kind of people were going to be in the next area.
In IT Tulip's kind of just a moody teenage bitch.
I know she's going through her parent's divorce and all, I get that.
It's just not that pleasant to watch, for me at least.
And Atticus and One-One were just kinda one-note and "quirky".
And the Beast is a much better villain than the Conductor, especially when we find out who the Conductor really is.
The Beast is so much more myserious, more sinister, more compelling.
It helps that the Beast is present throughout the story instead of showing up in the last few episodes like the Conductor.
So yeah. OtGW just pretty much got everything right.
Also Tavern Keeper a cute. 
