>>119141733Part of it was that it was the final ep and his heroic contribution was very much lost in the noise of everyone contributing. And his contribution was pretty unremarkable, to be honest. You ask people about how "adventure" shows end, I'm pretty sure they'll have at least a decent memory for most of them, because it made some sense. Steven Universe ended (the first time) with him defying all the godlike beings that told him he was just Pink, flatly telling them that Pink was dead and accepting himself. Avatar ended with Aang stripping away the Fire Lord's power, ending the whole war. She-Ra ended with Adora managing to survive through love, then killing Horde Prime. Samurai Jack ended with Jack killing Aku in the past, (then getting fucked by a pretentious twist ending). Gravity Falls ended with the Pines family tricking Bill into going into Stan's mind where he got destroyed, then the kids drove off with happy memories. Adventure Time was a trainwreck, featuring the last minute appearance of that world's barely mentioned Satan, then there was some singing, yadda yadda somehow Betty is Satan now. People remember the kiss more than anything else because at least that made sense.
We'd gotten whole eps devoted to Finn feeling bad about not having a girlfriend, and it ended with a wishy-washy "he and HW might be dating, probably not serious though."
And after fucking SEASONS to think of a way to resolve Simon and Betty, we just flipped the script, with Betty now magically trapped similar to the way Simon was. Simon's ending was him still trying to be with her. No resolution. They had years to come up with that.
And GOLB was a shitty out-of-nowhere final threat, with no style, no personality, and so poorly explained that I guarantee you there were shitloads of people looking him up online that day going "wait, WHO?"
We've had much worse endings, which is incredible because it was a piss-poor clusterfuck of an ending.
