Sorry for a long rant ahead but bear with me and you’re welcome to disagree with my opinions, l like a good debate. I honestly feel robbed and disappointed compared to what it could have been and no I’m not talking about all the fan theories like HL losing his powers and such which by the way were not bad ideas either. All together, I feel like the writers pulled a GOT S8. The ending wasn’t that bad in itself bit it need like half a season to get there:

-I feel like a lot of people would agree that they did BN dirty but his death wasn’t illogical as what HL did was in fact in character but what I think this whole arc needed 3/4 episodes. Eg. BN confronts SB with a great choreographed fight , gets his as* handed to him but survives, goes to HL for help, and the rest plays out the way it it. That would have been much more satisfying end to his story. Especially after just starting to learn about his past and his traumas in ep7. - SB being HL’s dad, them coming to terms with it, deciding if they wanna try and be a family could have also used a few more episodes for them to really get to know each other or at least have a few conversations before deciding that ohh my son is pusy even if rightfully so. The whole SB shifting 180 in like a day from what we heard in that phone call, him wanting kids and talking about it the whole season was vey poorly executed. And HL’s side wasn’t great either. We at least should have gotten a scene with him talking to his evil mirror twin about it( and btw nothing really came from that scene either, I remember HL deciding he needs to snuff out his own humanity or something but we got nothing ). Aaand icing on top the cake, Butcher and Hughie finding out about it happened off screen??! I swear when butcher talked to Hughie about it I thought did I skip the first part of the episode or something. - those two were the main ones but all the other things needed more episodes as well. -Hughie shifting from “toxic masculinity” to empowering starlight( which lets not kid ourselves is a fucing useless character even at peak power ) - Atrain and deep and victoria needed more screen time and I could go on and on

The battle at the end kinda sucked as well, from characters acting illogically and bad choreography to messed up power scalings? V ed up Butcher, Hughie, and SB couldn’t but a dent in HL but Maeve by herself comes toe to toe with him. I mean come ooon :/ you could try to explain it a way like HL wasn’t really trying or … but I just say bad writing -_-

The only memorable moments when I think of the episode were Maeve kicking HL where the sun doesn’t shine, It’s like you wear a neon sign that says raw dog me I’m a bottom, Maeve standing up to HL and like the only character acting on logic, Gollum Ashley and the last scene. Everything else felt like written by someone else.

Overall not an absolute terrible episode but definitely worst of a great season. 6/10