#jc has been a salty sailor who got bruised this year

[jcmorrigan]

Kingdom Hearts 3 or ASOUE season 3? *smug Brendon Urie face*

You know what

YOU KNOW WHAT

I don’t think I’ve actually given the rant here on the Tumblrs on why EITHER really felt like it let me sooooooo down. Both of them let me sooooooo down. I will give details if anyone asks further.

But as for which of these complete and utter disappointments comes out on top…

Which GA is going to call shenanigans on because he’s seen me get LEGIT DEPRESSED over this sequence of events, but the thing is that among the really, really disappointing stuff, there was some INCREDIBLY SATISFYING CONTENT in there that I would’ve regretted not playing (e.g. the Forest section of Corona, ALL OF MONSTROPOLIS, the end section of the Carribbean), and there were some plot developments that really did work for the better for the series (THAT POSTCREDITS SCENE).

Whereas ASOUE…this is going to sound so ridiculous, but after Ainsley and the other 3/5 of the troupe that weren’t Fernald walked off, then there just…wasn’t much that excited me at all. Fiona was great, but I didn’t end up loving her as fully much as I expected, and I keep having to remind myself “Oh, yeah, Fiona Widdershins finally did show up after all.” And while the Opera Flashback reveals didn’t bother me at all and I actually LOVED having that resolution…ending on the note of learning what was in the sugar bowl AND about the origins of V.F.D. really almost felt like it canceled the series out. Those things were key themes of the books that were supposed to stay secret (albeit there’s ONE answer I would’ve accepted for “What’s in the sugar bowl?” and that was NOT IT). ASOUE is almost fading from my memory now because of how that finale tied up.

Whereas KH flarping hurts, but I remember it, and there are still parts of it that I adore.

Kingdom Hearts III had way lower lows than ASOUE S3, but it had WAY HIGHER HIGHS, and that goes a long way.