Beakley, who's risked everything, gave up her whole life, devoted all her time and heart to that little girl:

I'm on mobile so I can't do read more but I will tag accordingly.

Long story short, Webby (and by defacto, May and June) is Scrooge's daughter. Bradford made her for the sole purpose of defeating him, because Scrooge had no heirs. It's really fucked up—and also just invalidates all the found family she built with the boys (family tree wise, she'd be, like, their cousin) and her relationship with Beakley as her grandma. The cherry on the cake is she calls him Dad at the end and it's a complete wrench in the gears.

Aside from that? The finale was good. It was getting there.

And then, it went to hell.

Look at Bradford in the background.

I’m going to add this part on to the post because this is actually a really great point - Scrooge losing Della and Bradford supposedly losing Isabella would be a great parallel, and in addition, we know that Bradford himself was behind at least a part of Della’s disappearance.

while, yes, boyd was not given a choice in the matter, he is a child. this wasn’t mr and mrs drake forcing boyd to live with them, or even using him as an escape from doofus - yes, they do feel more empowered with boyd around, but they’re clearly willing to stick up for boyd against doofus, too. it’s not solely boyd putting in all the effort for them, it’s a two-way street - boyd gives them a chance to be normal parents with a normal life, and they protect boyd from doofus and give him a loving, welcoming home. the drakes are learning to parent the child they actually have, too - we see them ground doofus during happy birthday doofus drake and tell him that the way he acts is no way to act towards his brother. they’re certainly not perfect people, but they’re a step up from gyro.

and it’s not like the drakes are neglecting boyd, either. they clearly want to keep him safe and support him - boyd points out that mrs drake would be upset with and scold doofus for acting out of line in his memories, and they stick by boyd during both moonvasion and the challenge of the senior junoir woodchucks. they’re clearly willing to put in the effort it takes to be better parents for boyd, and boyd is happy with them, too. 

also, i cannot stress this enough, but trauma should NEVER be an excuse to yell at, use the wrong pronouns for (which gave me, personally, extremely misgendery vibes), and threaten to shut down / kill a child. point blank. it doesn’t matter what the reason is, if an adult tells a child to their face that they have no qualms about killing them for something they can’t control (and gyro KNOWS boyd can’t control it), that’s ultimately the worse act then being parents who are still learning but are showing active growth. gyro knew that lil bulb and his other robots were just misunderstood, and after 20 years of saying that, he should have known better than to not use the same mindset for boyd.

gyro doesnt deserve to have immediate redemptional love thrown his way, Especially when when everyone was oh so mad at della when she grounded her child after he nearly got their entire family killed. did either of them go about the situation completely well? absolutely not! della is a new parent to a chorus of 11 year olds, of Course she didnt know how to ground him properly! and gyro was working from a flawed standpoint. but theres no excuse as to why gyro gets love love from everyone while people still vehemently hate della for something shes already apologized for and realized was wrong

not only did they know, but boyd went “dangerous” on them and they still accepted him as their son without a second’s thought. and they love him, too!

they gave him the hugs he wanted,