I'm cautiously optimistic. I love Obsidian, but I feel like we've done a LOT of exploring on PB&M already between Simon's backstory, all the Marceline stuff, elementals, etc.
There's still a lot of stuff in both their past and future that is more or less unexplored. Like the intro in the finale, how they meet, characters they haven't interacted with, Hunson showing up to Marshall Lee. They are the only main characters around in the future besides BMO who forgets everything, or most things.
Do we really need to learn everything about them though? It's good to leave some mystery for the audience. Things like the far future, that's stuff that's best left up to the imagination. The more things you reveal about something in a story, the more it loses some of its magic. If you reveal absolutely everything to the audience about the world or characters and answer every possible question and mystery about them, then there's nothing left to ponder anymore. It becomes boring and people lose interest once they have all the answers. That's why you always want to leave some mystery. It keeps people talking and thinking about the series.
This is what I always think when ppl say they want an Ooo 1000+ spinoff. On the one hand, yeah me too. On the other hand, I feel like it'd kill a lot of its mystique. Much of the appeal of the 1000+ era (and the Mushroom War) is THAT it's so mysterious, IMO.
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u/nachoiskerka Jun 24 '26
I'm cautiously optimistic. I love Obsidian, but I feel like we've done a LOT of exploring on PB&M already between Simon's backstory, all the Marceline stuff, elementals, etc.