“Running with Scissors” was a very funny episode, but the ending scene is what really made me think.

Marco literally spend 16 years fighting his way looking for Hekapoo so he could prove himself worthy of owning a pair of Dimensional Scissors, possibly not realizing he would ever find the real Hekapoo. He obviously grew accustom to the world, Hell I might even think he lost all hope of ever going home and embraced his new life, which he obviously did and really seemed to have enjoyed it.



I was wondering though, when he did manage to find to get Hekapoo, had Star never shown up, would Marco ever wanted to go back? Even when Star did show up, Marco was already thinking of staying with the life he spent outside of earth, he really did enjoy the adventure he always wanted, how excited he was telling Star everything he did. He was more than ready to stay had Star not been there and convinced him otherwise.



But after everything that has happened to Marco in the 16 years, to everyone’s shock, he comes back as a teenager again and finds out that he was only gone for at least 8 minutes. How shocking would that be, to find out that after experiencing years of survival and most likely hardships, to come back as if nothing happened. Marco has forgotten his own laptop’s password, he basically forgotten how he was before leaving in the first place. Marco was always known as the “safety kid” at the beginning of the series, but as the series went on, he most likely started to grow out of it, but now, how will he readjust to his life back home, has literally lived at least 30 years and half those years were spent surviving, now he has to relive those years with the experienced left in him, those types of memories can’t be forgotten by themselves, at least not in real life. It’s like a soldier coming home, you can’t expect them to return to their old lives with some problem, it happens a lot and it must be very difficult for them to suffer through them.

Marco wanted to prove he could earn those Dimensional Scissors, and he did. Now he reaps the reward and all that comes with it. In the end,

Was it really worth it?

if the show does play up to the possibilities, it could be interesting, or not, either way this episode really was something and it’s already one of my favorite episodes.