Review of Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority

When I wrote my review of the original run of "Wonder Egg Priority", I said that my ultimate conclusion on the story would depend on its resolution, which has finally arrived in this special, a few months after the last episode. The problem with that is that... there sort of wasn't one? If I'm being super fair, I actually think this was a pretty good episode of the show. The recap part made sense in the context of the gap between episodes, even if it was nothing special, and the actual episode was absolutely fine. Solid continuation of the story, some interesting ideas, more of whatwe'd expect. If this had been any ordinary episode of the show, I'd have had nothing bad to say about it. But it wasn't. This was the finale. And it felt anything but final.

Because there just isn't any resolution. It didn't finish the story. There were multiple pretty huge plot beats left dangling, with no real resolution to much, if any, of the story's most important storylines or themes. What's going on with Neiru? What happened with Frill? Why did the last shot of Momo look so weird? It felt like they just gave up telling the story halfway through, it very much felt like the end of a first season, ending with a decent jumping off point for a second season plot. If it hadn't specifically said 'the end' at the end, I probably would have even assumed that was what was going on, because there was so little to suggest that the story should end there.

And here's the thing. I have mentioned in a couple of reviews before that I'm generally not the biggest fan of ambiguous endings. I like resolution, it's just my personal opinion. But this really doesn't feel like that. I don't feel like I did when I finished, say, White Album 2, that ending was a little open-ending, but much as I didn't love it, it still felt like an endpoint. This just... doesn't. It feels like they got bored making the show and just decided to stop. It reminds me of "Ghost in the Shell", just giving up at the point where it should be moving into its final act. And this is a worse case, because I was never that on-board with GITS. I was really enjoying the rest of this show, I was really looking forward to see its plot resolved, and it just... didn't.

I don't even really feel like I can give a fair conclusion on the quality of the show, because we haven't been given a whole work to critique. We've been giving something that just feels unfinished. And it's so, so disappointing.