I actually thought it was a pelican from the front . <| sep |> I ' m sorry but if those are geese how did their mother get them into that birdhouse ? ?<| sep |> I think he let Adam through because it doesn ' t matter who is in the final two against Melissa , she has been the obvious winner for the entire competition imo <| sep |> Stay away . All you get is useless information and tons of ads in your face every few seconds . <| sep |> I ' m not sure if you absolutely fail to understand me possibly because of my messy phrasing or you simply fail to differentiate between meta and inuniverse questions . As I have stated before , the decision to retcon the timeline was quite obviously the best way to achieve a happy ending . Had I been in John ' s shoes , I believe I ' d have made the exact same choice and that doesn ' t even require you to actively try to place yourself in the characters ' shoes since it ' s just that obvious . The world went to hell and John has the power to undo that and lead everyone to a beautiful future . Why would he possibly choose not to do so ? I do not condemn John and Terezi ' s choice to retcon and never did , nor did I ever say I find this decision to be irrational . It ' s quite the opposite , actually . But all that ' s from an inuniverse perspective . The world went to hell and they had one way to fix it retconning and so they did . But from a meta standpoint from the reader ' s shoes much character development most certainly did go to waste . Every example you gave me there was an inuniverse explanation of why retconning was a good choice , but as I said , that was never something I doubted here . What I did refer to , however , is character development , being an entirely meta term . Think , for example , of everything during the trip from the Beta session to the Alpha session think of Rose ' s alcoholism think of Terezi and Gamzee ' s twisted kismiesissitude think of all those crazy things that happened there . Imagine everyone who had faced such an obstacle could actually manage to somehow undergo the hard path and overcome it they could become far stronger , deeper and more formidable as characters , and we , as readers , could get more attached to them in the process . Just as in most stories we hear , the development of a hero ' s personality takes place through their undergoing a hard journey and overcoming the obstacles it presents . But what happened with the retcon is that every obstacle was simply erased as though it had never been . For example Rose never overcame her alcoholism . We never found out if she could . She just got retconned out of it and never became an alcoholic in the first place she doesn ' t even know that this is something she went through in some alternate reality . That isn ' t overcoming an obstacle and it doesn ' t make her stronger and it doesn ' t make us appreciate her for getting through it , because she just . didn ' t . I don ' t know about you but I was looking forward to seeing how she would get over it but she never did she never did get through it . Take Rose ' s alcoholism as an example and fit it with any other obstacle that took place there that made it seem like everything was going to hell . This is part of the buildup I was talking about . The characters were faced with vast hardships but , had they succeeded in overcoming them , they would develop as characters in immense levels , and we would get more attached to them as they did . But even if they didn ' t , because it was all retconned . I ' d have been happier if they could at least remember that they did , once , in some other reality , have to face these things . I mean , we , the readers , remember , and we won ' t forget . But all of it is plainly irrelevant since it never happened , not even in their memories besides John ' s and Roxy ' s . Now , again , to clarify inuniverse , the decision to retcon was obviously the best . But metawise , after seeing all those characters go through all the bullshit they did ever since Terezi killed Vriska and up until the moment of retcon , rather than seeing them overcome everything they were faced with , we see everything they were faced with vanish as if it never happened and not thanks to their efforts . Thinking of it from the reader ' s shoes this is indeed a waste . Having succeeded in gaining a happy ending after overcoming all of this would be far more satisfying than having all of it replaced with years of . nothing . I wouldn ' t want my life to pass without hardships and I wouldn ' t want to undo every sad moment I had to endure I would like myself to be able to be faced with those hardships and emerge victorious and better for it . I don ' t think nor did I ever think that an irrational choice was made there and as I said , I was happy to see that despite everything that happened , they could still achieve a happy ending , which really wasn ' t possible without undoing things , because . well , people were dying like flies . But thinking about it from a meta standpoint , lots of character development characters gaining depth by overcoming obstacles went to waste , since it simply literally never happened in canon . And as much as I like the ending , this does leave me with a certain bit of regret .