Disturbing Implications: Fionna & Cake Episodes 9-10 Breakdown

Thoughts on the Finale?

Honestly I'm glad Simon finally reached some sort of closure, after all the guys been through, he seriously needed it. And meanwhile: lich becomes a tetris block. 💀

I don't think GBetty was trying to criticize Simon. They were both human and did what they thought was best in order to find their happiness. If Simon knew better, he would have done better. I think Betty was actually trying to say "I sacrificed a ton for you and don't regret it because I think you ARE worth it, and your life has value. If not for yourself, try to do it for me." Of course, the message was sliiightly dilluted by Betty becoming an omnipotent omniscient being and therefore reducing her time with Simon to "an experience" but the love was still there.

No matter anyone says, I'm just glad baby Finn is safe

I love the fact that even though there's magic in her world now, Fionna is appreciating the normal parts of life. It's great.

I think the line that makes Shermy and Beth make the most sense is when Beth only explains the problem because she assumes that Simon is a child

Personally, I took the fact that Jay and Little Destiny moved to Fionna's world as confirmation that Farmworld Finn survived his ecounter with the Scarab. I dont believe that Jay would abandon his siblings so nonchalantly if his father was dead and I dont think that Prismo would help Scarab out if he did ended up killing someone who was not an anomaly. Still, I think it would be more fitting if Prismo send OG Finn, along with Farmworld and Baby Finn (maybe the tank as well) to help Fionna just so we could have all the versions fighting together in one shot.

It was so interesting to see how The Lich was just another lonely yet obsessed character who didn't understand their object of obsession outside of their own selfish desires.

I ADORE the fact that Fionna finally has a world with fantasy and adventure, but throughout this entire montage, we see her doing slice-of-life things and just hanging out with her friends. Perfect encapsulation of her arc.

It's heavily contextually implied that Farmworld Finn is fine. Everywhere else blood was used to depict dangerous wounds. There was no blood plus Scarab wasn't really on a killing spree until the end. It just doesn't make any sense to assume he is dead or even injured.

It’s really weird that Fiona’s normalizing touch never came up in the finale. That really felt like it was building up to something.

The shermy thing has deeper meaning than you realize. Betty trapped Simon in a time loop to protect him. The book/game was written by simon thousands of years before shermy. Simon learned his lesson then writes the book and the cycle never ends

I'd like to use the excuse "it's not about the destination, it's about the journey" when talking about this finale. My feelings are basically that I'm willing to let the ending slide since literally the rest of the episodes were absolutely a masterpiece, each and one of them.

I think, with the ending, Fionna accepting her world was more than just the Scarab destroying it all. I think it was more so due to the fact that most of the worlds she's seen have gone to shit. She also had the dream of her world being a dark, twisted nightmare rather than the fantasy she wanted. She also watched as others suffered/would suffer so that she can get her world. All the people that died on her journey because of her actions. There's also the fact that many of the people were happy with their world as it was. She just didn't want to sacrifice others anymore and would rather accept her world instead. I personally see it as a logical conclusion for her.

It may have took a long ass time but our boy Simon has finally gets a conclusion to his story after what? A decade

You know, when Fionna made that wish and blew on the dandelion-world thing and it spread out and got absorbed by everyone, it might have been better if some of the human characters became their fantasy counterparts. Like they sort get to be what they really want, to be who they really are like Cake, either as a normal human or their Ooo magical counterpart. Also, totally agree with you on the Farmworld characters and Baby Finn. It would have been better if they did not leave their worlds/came to Fionna's world. It's very jarring that they're here.

I don't get why everybody expected the ending to be emotionally destroying. I am actually a little tired of animated endings that try way too hard to emotionally destroy their audience.

Shermy and Beth in my opinion being used in Fionna and Cake was a smart move because, for me, I don't think a show for them alone would be that great, just ok.

My biggest issue with the finale is that Fionna didn't actually learn to appreciate her world, she just learned to fear others. She arrives at the conclusion that her world is good not because she learns to see the beautiful parts over the course of the series or realizes she's homesick for it while out in the multiverse, but by repeatedly being shown horrific alternate realities until she becomes too traumatized to want adventure anymore. Kind of a weird way to go about an arc that's supposed to be about seeing the beauty in life.

I think what Golbetty wanted was to stop Simon from making the same mistakes she made. It wasn't about calling him out for being a bad boyfriend (it was more complicated than that), but to show him where those self-sacrificing tendencies can lead you. The moment Simon realized "I have value beyond what my sacrifice can bring others", the cycle was broken.