I am so immensely frustrated with Final Space. Like I can’t really properly formulate my thoughts atm, I can probably do a more in depth thing later, but sheesh man. Like the show has its incredible strengths and I want it to keep going but what the heck is going on. The entire main draw for the show from the beginning was this air of mystery surrounding tragedy yet the show has had a ridiculous number of fake outs. We lost Avocato twice, under circumstances that looked like they were going to have big implications, only for him to get dragged back like it was nothing. Wtf was the point of his original death? What was the point of Lil Cato mourning his father for several episodes. What was the point of Invictus getting ahold of him? I legit don’t understand what the point of any of these story decisions were.

I love FS for its sense of risk and what those risks do to characters to allow them to grow but some of the most impactful and promising scenes have almost no real weight or leverage to them. Every single possible death or risk has been undone at this point and I’m really worried that they’re going to undo John at some point next. I just can’t buy anymore fake outs from this show because it seems like risks virtually do not exist anymore, which destroys the appeal. I said a while ago that my opinion of FS was going to take time to solidify, but atm I am gravely disappointed by a lot of impactful writing decisions being undone for what I can only assume is fan service.

Here’s to hoping Season 3 drops that bad habit or improves in other ways. I’ll probably go more into this at a later date.