#toh rant

Parallels.

That same look. Disbelief, disgust, betrayal. Both human residents of the boiling isles ultimately couldn't forgive Belos, and with good reason. His efforts to 'save' humanity only resulted in his fellow humans hating him.

His responses to both of them are the same. Deflecting blame, twisting it to be on the witches, still ever evading the consequences of his own actions. He acts like both a victim and a hero, contradicting himself and desperately grasping at any excuse to believe that he's the good guy in this story. "I tried to save your soul, it's your fault this all happened" and "We're human, we're better than this". Masterful manipulation that's now easy for these two to spot. His facade is broken. 👏

Belos is a phenomenal villain and seeing the people he's hurt not say anything to him but instead give him this look is so powerful.

They didn't need to say anything. The glare was enough to make him squirm, panic and frantically scramble to defend himself. He doesn't have power over them anymore, nor can he hide from his actions. He's faced with a look that acknowledges his wrongdoings, forcing him to come face to face with them despite doing all he could to avoid them. Despite destroying the fonder memories of his brother, burning out his face to justify killing him. ('Hollowing' out his mind, if you will.) Despite every instance of him running from his past. All that comes back with this look.

CAMILA NOCEDA IS NOT A BAD MUM.

She was worried for her daughter, she tried her best to protect her and when she understood how her daughter felt about leaving the Boiling Isles forever, she decided to help her and her friends and then she apologised to Luz and she made her feeling understood.

Just because you ship one thing, doesn’t mean you can criticize other ships for no specific reasons.

I love a TON of ships, I don’t really stick to one and that’s the fun of it!

Here’s the thing, I know majority of the fandom that ships lumity is against lunter, I personally think both ships are fine, even though I prefer lumity way more.

Saying hunter and Luz are siblings is a HC, which I do believe, I love imagining them being siblings. THEY ARE NOT BLOOD RELATED, NOR IS HUNTER ADOPTED BY CAMILA. Hunter and Luz are both bisexual! Just because Luz is dating a girl, doesn’t automatically make her lesbian.

So yes, I see them as sibling coded. This doesn’t mean I go attack lunter shippers and accuse them of being pro shippers.

THIS GOES BOTH WAYS!

I see many lunter shippers trashing on lumity shippers, most for pure pettiness. A few of these people also trash on huntlow, which is a ship I adore but, everyone has their opinions of course. ( I personally HC Willow and hunter in a qpr )

CONCLUSION

Personally, I loved the finale. But this is partially because i kept in mind how much The Owl House team got screwed over and how little time they had.

It did feel rushed but I feel like most of us already expected that, because obviously, and I think they did really well for people who had to shorten an ENTIRE SEASON. It did hurt though. Because you can so easily feel which scenes were supposed to be full episodes like The Collector's games, the Hexide kids being puppeteered, going through the memories with The Collector, the scene with King's dad. It felt so obvious that it was meant to be full episodes that it really stings at how horribly the higher-ups treated this show

that's why I'm also very impressed with it because even though they were given the shittiest deck of cards, the owl house team still managed to make a finale that a) doesn't confuse people and b) satisfy most of the audience (I'm still very feral over Adult Hexide Squad's haircuts and design and going absolutely BONKERS over canon Dadrius)

And we know that, in TOH, there's the "In Between" place, and logically, one of the places it leads to is Amphibia.

The Collector made the permanent door to the BI, so theoretically, they could make Doors to other Places too.

Which means, if any of the Calamity Trio ever met anyone from the Hexsquad, and the topic of saving other worlds from ancient evils ever came up, they could get a permanent door to Amphibia.

And like, even if they couldn't make the door. Because they couldn't get ahold of The Collector on a whim, or because they're too afraid that the US gov will try to take over Amphibia again, Luz knows how to build a Door to the In Between

Which means Anne could at least talk to Sprig & the Plantars, through a mirror or something. Which is still 1,000x better than the heart breaking "have a good life, never see ya again" way that it actually ended.

Like, that is my least favorite trope in all of fantasy.

The idea of traveling to a different world. Then being imbued with God Powers

Then actually fucking dying and being reborn because the Will of Fate decided you needed to keep living.

Forging life and death bonds that transcend friendship and family.

Then it's just POOF ok back to academia and wage slavery and puttering out a mundane existence on this overheating rock.

Never experiencing the magic that you know is real ever again.

Never hearing from your found family ever again.

Like, I'm sorry, but I would simply perish. That's a nightmare I can't even imagine.

TOH did it right.