Review of Fena: Pirate Princess

TL;DR: The ending of this show is a really, really weird bit of writing. Kind of spoiled the whole thing for me. It starts well and I loved the dynamic between the crew members. The little bit of mystery to start with worked well and felt like it was building to a larger story. It's bizarre in retrospect how all the motivations that felt complex at the start end up feeling so simple and uninspired by the end. The story really starts to weaken with the more supernatural stuff that gets hinted at and then shown more and more. The main character loses all personality with their"chosen one" trope kicking in. By extension, the cast around them become more boring as well as they just sort of follow her around.

I feel the ending has two major issues.

The first is that the characters really just had no say in what was going on at all. They get forced into some contrived nonsense and just have to go along with it. The end. It felt really weird. They were made totally irrelevant and almost none of them were even present for what was supposed to be the big payoff.

The second is that the insane decision they get forced into is just so out of place with the rest of the story and just doesn't really even seem to make sense. The main character is given two options, goes for the obvious one and then gets screwed over as a result. Any emotional investment went out the window as I wondered where the hell this jarring development had suddenly sprung from.