>>112657702>The rest was emotionally manipulative fluff. We learned nothing really knew about the characters or their relationship to one another.Don't you think it was all necessary to contextualize, expand and better express the feelings and thought processes of the characters? How could you have had the finale be this much of a punch in the gut if you hadn't given some detail to just how deep the Captain's grief, regret, fear and denial went? That's what the first solid two thirds of the episode do.
The later action scenes weren't strictly necessary, sure, and it's perfectly fine to find them boring. But you have to remember this is still a cartoon, not a Murakami novel, so having characters resolve their conflict also with the aid of a strong external force with strict timing is a perfectly sensible course of action.
It'd be neat if they'd had a more strictly psychological resolution to the episode, I'll give ya that. Raps and Eugene slowly help the Captain realize he's not really solving anything, on the contrary he's ignoring and running away from the real problem.
(this happens in the aired episode too but it's very quick)
It'd have been trickier but I'm sure the 20 minute format would still have allowed it... but it's not really how a Disney cartoon works.
Of course I'm only assuming your alternative would have been something like so. How would you have preferred things to be handled, anon?
