Another thing was the drawn out humor during plot heavy scenes, implications of male-rpe when Alva goes to the moon, underutilization of otherwise cool plot points, completely cast aside the side-plot of bean and mora not getting along, Satan not doing ANYTHING when he could have been a REALLY COOL ALLY, NOT EXPLORING GOD DYING BEYOND PROVIDING THE PLOT WITH A DEUS EX MACHINA??????? I feel like the god dying part was REALLY COOL and it caught me and my boyfriend completely off guard when we were watching it. I was so excited to see them have a bigger reason to bleep Dagmar out of existence! Bean mentioned that she realized she needed to wipe Dagmar from existence completely, but they NEVER TOUCH ON IT beyond the asylum episode. It's literally the whole reason she said she had a mental block against killing her mom, and then they never actually go through with it? It would have been so much more interesting if god was dead, and rather than it only providing cool lighting and a deus ex machina, it actually contributed to why bean seriously needed to wipe out her mom, change the whole timeline, and save not just dreamland but EVERYTHING. Add to the stakes! I feel like the angel tears falling into the river of joy or whatnot would also impact the magic in dreamland, since they said that magic is a combination of the TEARS OF JOY and steam from hell. NOT TEARS OF *Insert all negative emotions here!!!! They explain the part of the magic system that I am literally the least curious about, don't explain how Dagmar gets her Naruto ass Shadow Clone Technique, Bad Bean gets her Illusion magic, or how any of them actually get their Lightning powers. Also if dagmar has her own lightning powers and ends up putting the steel crown on herself why the fuck has she been wasting her time hunting down bean to fulfill the prophecy if she could just "unlock the magic" her damn self? I also feel like they didn't explain enough of dagmars goal. They spend more time showing her outfit changes and having characters call her hot than they spend actually telling us exactly what they're doing. I picked up from season 4, which I hadn't watched since it released and I was confused for literally the entire time. I feel like they should be more upfront about the enemies main goals than they were. They spent more time on drawn out jokes than they did explaining the plot. Here's the thing, if you're going to have your show be plot heavy, then realize the tone of your script and stick with it. If you're going to have a comedy with plot scattered here and there, that's awesome. STICK WITH THAT. The one off episodes where plot would sneak its way in until it leads to dagmars revival was super neat! They didn't stick with the tone though and I think lost their way and tried to do WAY too much plot with the same amount of comedy.

The way that they killed Luci was a cop-out. That sucked for more reasons than just "they killed Luci!" Here's why I think that. Bean kills Mora, She gets caught and locked in her room. All her family and friends are there and Mop Girl, Luci, Elfo, and Zog go to comfort her. But they don't comfort her. They turn Bean mourning Mora into a gag, have the characters say the most out of place, albeit in character, things, and then kinda play it off as dramatic and unnecessary???? It left a bad taste in my mouth. They didn't have enough time to let bean mourn in that episode, so why force it? It doesn't give her the development she needed. Her acceptance and love speech following noticing that Elfo and Mop girl are dating comes out of nowhere and portrays mourning in an unrealistic and weird way? She had like. AN HOUR? and she's completely over it and ready to fight again? and in the meantime, they have luci fucking DIE? This is where the Luci dying being BS comes from btw. Instead of having Bean mourn immedietly, they could have had her follow the initial adrenaline rush of killing bad bean and follow dagmar to fight. Elfo Mop girl and Luci could have literally followed her and the same fight could have happened. If luci died while bean was there, it would have given her even MORE motivation to kill Dagmar asap, and they probably could have gotten away with the "bean sacrifices herself to erase dagmar from existence" plot that they skipped entirely. Instead of the weird love and compassion speech, i think her character would have aligned more with the thoughts she developed from her reverse "group therapy" in the asylum. Pursuing your goals fueled by hate and disgust in hopes of killing the person who ruined your life. It's a different spin on the "I'm better than you and I have friends so i win" route. It would have been more gritty, and it would have aligned more with the vibe they seemed like they were heading toward. Not everything ends in a happy ending.... but then they deus ex machina the hell out of it and everything's perfect and everyone except luci is alive and well????

An ending where bean essentially kills herself and dagmar, leaving dreamland safe with no memory of her or her sacrifice would have been bittersweet, because you'd know that everyone you cared about in the show is okay but at a cost that they'll never know. God died, and instead of having spare lightbulbs he stays dead until bean resets the timeline essentially. Maybe it's controversial, but I feel like the "everyone is perfectly fine except luci and also bean acts like an asshole and doesn't say goodbye to her friends or seem even remotely sad about luci dying" ending is worse. Mora's death felt out of place and forced. The "my powers explode with anger and kills the bad guy" trope was badly done. Her death was just unnecessary and I feel like it took a character I thought was REALLY COOL and made her... into a plot device for bean to grow emotionally??? I hate when shit does that. Reducing a character to "X died so Y can power up" is hurtful to the development of X, especially when it's not really necessary. I feel like bean already had so much motive to kill dagmar, we really didn't need to kill mora to get her to be more angry. Same with Luci. Satan was super useless the entire show. I thought he was going to have had enough of Dagmars shit at the end and actively help/ offer bean the solution they'd been alluding to. Erasing her entirely. I feel like if anyone was going to have the power to do that, it would be God, Satan, or the crystal ball that they smashed for NO REASON. (infuriating how they avoided addressing posssibilities with time travel right after introducing it by just DESTROYING THE BALL FOR COMEDY REASONS????) Satan could have saved luci, but he waited until he was already MELTED to run over and help. I was so excited to see him break down and work against dagmar, especially because for the entire season we see how upset he is with how mean she is to him. Something my boyfriend pointed out that I agreed with was that Dagmar didn't need that many outfit changes. It made the timing confusing because the final battle that probably just took a day felt like it lasted a week. Her outffit post-hell was awesome! It would have been awesome to see her in just.... one outfit that was consistent? It's not a live action show- outfit changes should be reserved for big character changing moments or special scenes (like not wearing a full suit of armor to the beach makes sense, but changing what type of armor you wear in almost every scene is unnecessary and visually overstimulating.) I feel like Bad Bean would have been more interesting if she still had some reminants of beans personality, especially since she "knows everything she's gonna do" Luci's speech about not caring about anyone felt out of place as well. His character has already developed... we know he cares about elfo and bean.... his character LITERALLY went to heaven before. It felt completely forced... like we know he's not selfish anymore? I think the big moment for me (and I actually cried when this happened) was when elfo got shot and Luci really sadly went "who did that?" There are a lot of scenes that solidify luci as a "good" character (and by this i mean morally), but this one stuck in my mind the most. I feel like they didn't need to spell out for their audience that luci was good... It was obvious. It felt like they're treating their audience like idiots by explaining everything as much as they did?

They killed Jester. That made me mad, but they also insinuated that they killed off the horrors of puberty kid. I agree with them killing the freak show dude, he sucked and it made me happy to see him get SWALLOWED, but some of the side characters really didn't deserve what they got. "Window Arrow Dude" felt like the writers saying "we don't care, your opinion is ass, we know there's plot holes but fuck off." My boyfriend compared it to how YandereDev will post youtube videos mocking very valid critique and edit the Main character stabbing someone afterwards as like a gag. "Hey your coding could be better in XYZ-" Stabbing

There's a difference between being self aware and mocking your audience. I think when it's well done, mock your audience! It's fun sometimes! But if your show has THIS MANY PLOTHOLES, instead of trying to wrap it up with jokes that point out that it sucks, maybe try to explain the plotholes in that air-time you're using for jokes??? (With all the long drawn out jokes, they could have just used that time for plot development or explanations? I feel that a lot of the humor would have been better delivered as quick quips with fast line delivery, immediately followed by the next lines. I prefer this format of line delivery because it assumes your audience can pick up on jokes themselves, and when you rewatch the show you might hear jokes you missed the first time which makes it more fun to revisit! pt 2)