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#77: All In
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Show: Amphibia
Original airdate: May 7, 2022

"So what? I'm supposed to give up? Stop feeling things? Like you? Honestly, I pity you! You shut yourself off from the rest of the world, didn't you? A thousand years of suffering. Of burying your feelings. Of hating yourself. That must have been hard."

The climactic episode of Amphbia, All In brought together all the major storylines and characters for an epic final battle, and though Season 3 had its rocky parts, All In just about managed to make all of that worth it with its heavy emotional gravitas and unparalleled action. It saw Anne, Sasha, and their friends and allies return to Earth to stop King Andrias from taking over Earth, and also to save Marcy from being possessed by the Core. The stakes couldn't have been higher, and Anne and Sasha both had their seperate battles to fight, while the Plantars and even Anne's parents had their own roles to play. If I'm being honest, I'd have had this episode take place earlier in the season, because while the ramped up tension from Marcy not being rescued earlier on did add a lot to the overall emotional impact, and while her reunion with Sasha and Anne was probably my favorite scene in the entire series, I think they deserved to spend a lot more time teamed up to fight together, and the overall finale The Hardest Thing ended up being anticlimactic because of it, making the third season somewhat of a missed opportunity. Still, for all of Amphibia's flaws, I still loved All In, I cheered so many times, I even cried a little, and instead of being a reminder of what could have been, I see this outstanding penultimate episode as one of the few times Amphibia reached its full potential.