CCOD Finale Thoughts (Polite discourse encouraged but if anyone tries to genuinely fight me over a D&D Comedy show I’ll lose my marbles and block you)
To start: I was laughing so incredibly hard throughout this, I have a great time watching it
BUT
That was because I had completely given up on any actual resolution for this season after the last episode. Ally Beardsley is an incredible performer and player and I enjoy them immensely but from a plotting perspective? The moment they dove deep into the AI bit starting with an apology text I knew that the political aspect of this season wasn’t going any farther
How could it? It was the second to last episode and the relationship with the other political organizer imploded in front of us
Another reason I was having fun is because Brennan gave up on trying to keep the story on the rails. Immediate insanity. Everyone was having fun and the plot barely meant anything. Ally doing like. Four iterations of their turn STARTING with clown necrophilia? Sure whatever I’m laughing because we also have “as many dice as you can fit in your two hands” and “Vesper’s dad is an actual bat”
I had a lot of fun this season but it was disappointing to have a season that was so focused on community organizing have to leave that story extremely unresolved in favor of bits, and as much as ACOC is a bit too much for me, I do miss having the more serious storytelling rather than leaning so far into comedy and as much as it pains me to say this? HJ as a character was a huge part of that for me this season
Idk I love Ally in most seasons but this season it felt like the only thing I was enjoying from HJ was the yaoi and even then that relationship didn’t go full yaoi, though of course the epilogue of them is v queer coded and I’m glad we got that conclusion (especially after “I want a girlfriend”). I feel like outside of Lavonte, HJ had practically no serious moments or development that wasn’t played for bits
Anyways I had a lot of fun but story wise the finale felt kinda empty. I think it would have benefited from one more episode to handle the Maya interaction and wrap up the town politics

























