I just binged the show over the past week or so (I'd watched it years ago, but I couldn't remember enough details to pick up from where I'd left off, nor was I even sure where that was with the show's weird split-season structure; it turns out I'd seen up to the end of the first season, the second part, or the twentieth episode). It did feel like they might've been banking on another half-season to pay off everything. There was even a joke about Cloyd and Becky never actually paying off why they'd turned themselves into marionettes, and I suspect that there was going to be a more elaborate explanation for who originally killed Elfo, given that it had turned into a runner with people (mostly the complaining man) being shot and someone asking where the arrow came from like Luci did originally.
I do agree that this was less funny ha-ha than you'd expect, it seems to be on a continuum of jokes-to-story with Simpsons on one end, Disenchantment on the other, and Futurama right in the middle. I'm pretty sure I choked up more than I laughed, but that's fine.
One thing I am interested in is the visual symbolism. I caught a few explanations, or, at least, suggestive echoes; the Dreamland curly-cue "?" symbol was made by Bean and Mora when they spun out on the motorcycle at the end of the second episode of this season when they left to rescue Zøg and the others from Steamland, and the opening credits for the finale showed the little "house" gylph that was grafittied around different areas represented Bean, Elfo, and Luci. Well, possibly; the opening for that episode was weird, and didn't show scenes from the upcoming episode/season the way the others did, and may not have been reliable. The other shots were Hansel and Gretel watching a Squalid Squirrel cartoon in Hell, Derek wearing a bugged crown, and Sagatha magicking up a jug of rum, none of which actually happened, and most of which don't make sense.
I do agree that this was less funny ha-ha than you'd expect, it seems to be on a continuum of jokes-to-story with Simpsons on one end, Disenchantment on the other, and Futurama right in the middle. I'm pretty sure I choked up more than I laughed, but that's fine.
One thing I am interested in is the visual symbolism. I caught a few explanations, or, at least, suggestive echoes; the Dreamland curly-cue "?" symbol was made by Bean and Mora when they spun out on the motorcycle at the end of the second episode of this season when they left to rescue Zøg and the others from Steamland, and the opening credits for the finale showed the little "house" gylph that was grafittied around different areas represented Bean, Elfo, and Luci. Well, possibly; the opening for that episode was weird, and didn't show scenes from the upcoming episode/season the way the others did, and may not have been reliable. The other shots were Hansel and Gretel watching a Squalid Squirrel cartoon in Hell, Derek wearing a bugged crown, and Sagatha magicking up a jug of rum, none of which actually happened, and most of which don't make sense.
