Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28151175-20170117000903/@comment-29926185-20170118163554

Great ending - I was expecting the show to end with the universe reset that occurred in the 2nd part of the final battle, and thought they were seriously going to just repeat "The Power" as a final episode :P But the way they twisted that episode around was a great way to end it, even though it really exposed how much more refined the animation has become over the years when they were mixing in parts of the first episode with new content. I didn't much care for the sappy ending that came after Pops sacrificed himself but up until that point the ending had been good enough that I didn't really care. Also, I was too busy laughing about Rigby saying in the next universe he wanted to be "a pterodactyl! with a really big..."

Needless to say, I enjoyed how they brought in more adult jokes for the last few episodes, just like they used to in the beginning - the show seemed to have gone all soft and "soccer-mom-friendly" lately and at the beginning of season 8 it felt like the writers were trying entirely too hard to play it 'safe'.. I guess they threw that out of the window once they realised how close to the end they were, realising that complaining about it would be futile since the show was ending anyway :P

Also, yay for ending with a Bowie song :)