#tgamm season 2 spoilers

[thebuttsmcgee]

THEY ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT UP LMAO

[tgammsideblog]

¨Maybe Next Time¨-Scratch human's life and ¨death¨ song

[toonsforkicks22]

Carry On

(TGAMM SPOILERS!)

*finds a corner to cry*

[cartoonwishes]

I'M NOT OKAY

[lucdoodle]

drew a comic of my favorite scene!

[chytag]

New Uniform

[bennydwight]

(Legend says she still smells of fryer oil)

[yaboirezzy]

I haven't really expressed how I feel about the ending of TGAMM

And that's because I was too busy crying on the floor

[ftvs-cm45]

COME BACK, SCRATCH!!

The ending of this show is just like how Owl House came up shorter than we expected.

[toomanyhyperfixations]

LOOK AT THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS THEY ARE SIBLINGS THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH YOUR HONOR I FEEL SICK I THINK IM HAVING A HEART ATTACK I WANT TO THROW UP I WANT TO DIE

[thelowerdecker]

I do have this sneaking feeling that THIS could well be the “FINAL” shot.

As a potential Final Shot, it’s really nice. :)

[thebuttsmcgee]

Hey hey hey, new eps came out! More thoughts on each below 👍

Unhaunting was okay, kinda cool to see Ollie be part of the friend group without too much romantic stuff goin on, I like that he actually did have some turmoil about how he's unlearning his past lifestyle, and hearing a ghost actually say they died felt like. Woah. We all know each ghost died but idk. Felt more powerful in this scene than some of the rest. How the hell is GeoJeff not part of the GhostFriend squad tho c'mon now ✌️😔 also ghostfriends is an. Okay name. Spectral Squad or Enhappifyers or EnSpookifiers woulda been just sliiiiiightly better yk. Oh yea and Ollie's VA KILLED this episode, amazing performance!

100% MM tho was fantastic, the show is at its best most of the time when tackling real world stuff and this is no exception, hell maybe even one of the best examples we've gotten so far! Not a whole lotta shows, or at least in animation, tackle the inner turmoil of generations within families, how different each one is and the issues each has dealt with. Man, seriously what a great ep. Everyone dunking on pete for a bit was also funny, you go white boy.

anyway, GeoJeff sweep

[tgammsideblog]

Me seeing that the Scratch wraith theory turned out to be true after being skeptical of it almost an entire year

[toonsforkicks22]

One week since the finale. While the ending has left us sad…it also left us hopeful.

Bc knowing Scratch he WOULD pull this on Molly and apologize later.

HC that Aida is SUPER understanding.

[the5n00k]

An observation about TGAMM The End

Big big spoilers ahead, click away if you aren't caught up

This is also my first NEGATIVE TGAMM analysis post! Wowie! So if you don't want to see me bitch, also click off now

The End and how Molly McGee's character was disrespected

The End is. An episode. I have many MANY thoughts about it but it would be far too long to put in one post so I'm going to explore one of my more reoccurring opinions. This episode recontextualized a lot of things but I'm going to talk about how it recontextualized Molly as a character. Most importantly as a MAIN character. A TITLE character. A character with her own past and personality and feelings. All of which this episode completely stomped all over, handed her the check, and said "figure it out"

I want to apologize to my friend who called this so SO much earlier into the series and that he had to listen to me watch this show on lethal amounts of copium. You were right but I knew neither of us wanted you to be.

Now let's get into the meat of it, shall we?

All throughout season 1, Molly's history and relationship with the concept of friends is always treated with complete sincerity and the emotional pause it needs to sink in with the audience that she's been through it. Moving away and leaving friends is why she put so much importance on the "forever home" in the first place because she's had to leave so many people she loved. She had a rocky beginning with Scratch during the early season but quickly became on equal footing with him as they began to understand each other and their boundaries. Because she genuinely cares about him. Similarly, season 2 explores the boundaries of their friendship and shows Scratch more willing to participate in whatever Molly is doing, even begging sometimes to be included. And Molly is very patient and kind with him all throughout trying to help him regain memories of his past. And Scratch actually reciprocated a few times like helping her learn Thai and working with Libby to set her up with Ollie. They're the closest they've ever been and something I can confidently call true best friends, possibly the closest and healthiest friendship I've seen portrayed in media. Season 2 showcases how far either of them are willing to go to help each other.

Then The End happened.

Molly is the same understanding and supportive friend as she had been all season, almost to a fault. She encourages scratch to go back to his life, knowing the risks that come with it. Why did there need to be the risk of forgetting her when his spirit didn't immediately forget his living life? Don't know. Something to do with an unreleased episode although I doubt the rest of season 3 would have sweetened my opinion of this episode. Only she knew he was about to do this, she didn't talk to any of his other friends or family before he went out to Todd's house. They only found out after the fact and the next morning is when he left. None of them had any time to process that they just lost a family member, especially not Molly.

The scene where he's talking to her on the bench breaks my heart. Knowing your friend is no longer there and is replaced with this stranger. So much of this episode would have been fixed to just let him keep his memories. Considering how hard it was to pull his living memories out of his spirit, it's very likely that even the small fragments of her he remembers will slowly fade away. She had to do the one thing she never wanted to do again and repeat the same pain that's plagued her for the entire series. And it sucks! Why doesn't she get a happy ending? Hell, I'm not even convinced this was a "happy ending" for scratch since he can't remember any of the people he just spent the last two years with.

The biggest slap to the face is when Libby, Geoff, and the McGees come up behind Molly and just act like all of this is fine? They're treating scratch like this wild animal that deserved to be released into the wild because he could never fit in with society when he was PERFECTLY HAPPY with the McGees. He proudly displayed to the entire ghost world that he was an "honorary McGee" and told a ghost hunter to his face that him and Molly would do anything for each other despite their differences. Was all of that completely pointless? Because it sure feels that way. He had this entire new "life" he just completely abandoned because oh I guess I'm not really dead. Guess I better go reconnect with my childhood friend I haven't seen in person or had any meaningful conversations with in decades!!! See ya, chumps, hope you weren't attached to me or anything!

It's so disrespectful to the audience's investment in Molly and Scratch's friendship, the themes of friendship overcoming all odds and lasting forever, and Molly as a character. And to a lesser degree, it's even disrespectful to Scratch since most of the season he spent brooding over the fact that he didn't remember his past! Now he's forgotten a large portion of his "life" all over again. Now he's going to have to live with this nagging itch at the back of his mind that he's forgetting something until he manages to completely repress it too. And to rub salt in the wound, the credits don't have near sight nor mention of Molly McGee outside of a painted portrait of her and (spirit) scratch. All this does is tell me a LONG time has passed and neither of them have managed to successfully contact each other. The dream team is gone, this is a story about a girl and a ghost and none of it meant anything.

"he'll remember when he dies again!" Where does it say that

"he didn't forget, he said Moll! That means something!" The longer he spends away from the McGees and Brighton, the more likely he is to completely forget them altogether. The vague memories will eventually fade away and every "forever memory" will be worthless.

"it doesn't matter, this is Scratch's story" then why isn't it called 'scratch and the human girl'? Or 'the scratch show'? Why is Molly a title character if she's nothing but a plot device for his character development.

"Molly had to learn how to say goodbye." No she didn't. She's been doing that her entire life. She's pretty well aware of how to say goodbye. Making her relive 13 years of trauma from the other side of the vehicle doors is not a useful life skill. Pain is not necessary to grow up.

I don't care what the excuse is. This was a terrible ending for both characters and no amount of "he's happy now!" coping from both the fans and the writers is going to get me to see this any other way. If you enjoy the episode, great! I'm happy for you, there's a lot to love in the music and voice acting and breathtaking animation. But none of that could save me from this abysmal attempt at a series finale. I was so viscerally disgusting by this as a finale that I spent a good two days completely nauseous thinking about it. What a disaster. The sad part is I like the story potential! Him reuniting with Adia is what I've wanted for him all season so he could get closure. Molly and Scratch having to say goodbye is heartbreaking but understandable, a lot of shows nowadays end that way and I half expected it. But him completely forgetting the girl he owes his new lease on life to? My gosh it's just a deal breaker. It is such a cruel end for these characters and I cannot wrap my head around why they thought it was a good idea outside of cheap angst.

I wanted to like this episode and I still do. But they just did so much wrong when one thing could change and it would have completely flipped my opinion on the episode and series in general. But what do I know, I'm just a negative nancy.

Anyway idk how to end this off, justice for Molly McGee, Scratch deserved to be called Scratch McGee, kill Todd Mortenson, peace out

[chytag]

Really looking forward to ‘All in the Mind’