#change & forgiveness were so crucial to the story. well done amphibia

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There's so much to say about the Amphibia finale, but one thing I want to touch on is it means so much to me that Andrias didn't die.

Not even necessarily for him as a character himself, but for the message of you can always be better. You can always grow and change and maybe people won't ever forgive you and maybe you can't ever fix what you did, but you can always start to do good things and become a better person than you were before.

So often characters like Andrias (sympathetic antagonists) get killed off for their "redemption" and it usually feels so damn cheap because it's not a real redemption it's just death, but it also just sends a bad message that you can't ever become a better person. Sure maybe no one will ever forgive you or even like you no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean any work you do to improve or do good in the world is forever negated. You don't have to die, you can always become better.

I was fully expecting him to die in some kind of sacrifice move so to see him in the end, wearing the pins & using the hammer of his old friends, smiling and slowly working to fix the unmeasurable amount of damage he caused his world, was really heartwarming. It's also a nice twist given how in the semi-finale he broke down crying about how he couldn't ever undo the harm he caused, but no, he was given the chance to, even if by only a little bit.

He got to live and he got work to be better, and I hope we can see that kind of ending more often.

#amphibia spoilers #amphibia #king andrias #amphibia king andrias #redemption arcs #i cant think of very many times a villain - both sympathetic or absolutely unforgivable - has been given the chance to live in the end #almost every game ive played or show ive seen or book ive read etc. the villains die whether they deserved it or not #its rare to see this kind of ending -- at least in the media ive consumed myself -- so its really lovely to see it here in a show where #change & forgiveness were so crucial to the story. well done amphibia #long post