People who are worried that TOH is gonna have the same ending as Amphibia: chill out.
Amphibia ending is sad but, in my opinion, incredibly good, because it makes sense, given the most important lesson and major theme of the show from minute one is that things change. And that’s normal, and that you can’t always have what you want. And even if you and the people you love are separated, the bond and memories are still intact, and no one can take that away from you even if you’re worlds apart. And being hopeful that one day you’ll find your way back to each other. It’s bittersweet but it’s hopeful at the same time.
Is The Owl House gonna have the same ending? I highly doubt it. Because The Owl House is a pretty different show with different themes, different plot and which treats the isekai thing very differently.
Let’s see, the protagonists. Anne was trapped in another world unwillingly, and from minute one, her objective was to go home. Even when she grew to love Amphibia, she always wanted to go home and maybe occasionally return to see the Plantars. But she wanted to be on Earth with her parents and friends. At the end, she has to choose, and yes, it’s sad, but it makes sense. Amphibia was always going to end with her and the girls going home. From minute one.
Luz, on the other hand… she’s a misfit girl who went into the Demon Realm willingly. She stayed there willingly. And you can tell that unlike Anne, she doesn’t really want to go back to the Human Realm, and the only reason she’d go back is for her mother. She doesn’t want to go back because she’s finally found a place where she fits in. And that’s what The Owl House is about: misfits. All the important characters are misfits in one way or another. And they find a way to fit in, with other misfits. It’s like Eda said, “Us weirdos have to stick together.” That’s the main theme of the show.
So, the Amphibia ending is sad but good because it makes sense for the show. But a similar ending in The Owl House wouldn’t really make sense, at least for me, due to how different the themes are. So I wouldn’t really worry about it.
Honestly, trying to imagine the trio trying to fit in with the rest of teens and young adults is hilarious.
Imagine if 17yo Marcy and a new friend were talking about weird stuff they did when they were younger and Marcy is like “well once me and my friends stole a music box and we ended up stuck in a world with talking amphibians for months. It was really cool until I got impaled and possessed that was awful but hey I got to fight the moon with my friends” and the new friend is like “what the fuck”.
Or Sasha becomes captain of the cheerleaders in high school and they are like “damn you got great leadership skills” and Sasha just says “oh thank you! I was the commander of an army of talking frogs when I was 13. After that, this is easy” and the other cheerleaders are like. An army of what.
Or maybe Anne is idk on a date in college and they bring up “hey what’s the most fucked up thing that’s ever happened to you” as a conversation topic, and she says “Well I died when I was 13. Technically right now you’re talking to a clone, because my original body was disintegrated and I’m a copy of my consciousness. Yeah that was super weird”. Maybe the date doesn’t go very well.
When I was 6 or 7, I met one of my best childhood friends, let’s call her V. V and I continued to be attached to the other’s hip until I was like 12. Then, we entered ESO, and things changed. We developed different interests. We got other friend groups, and hung out a lot less.
I had another best friend who we’re gonna call N. We met when we were like 5, right after she’d moved here from her country, Colombia. We were pretty close and attached to the hip, too. But when we were 12, she had to move back to Colombia. At first, after she left, we chatted every day, but as months passed, we talked less and less.
Okay, V and I became pretty different people as teens. We didn’t talk the same way we used to. But we still talked, and liked each other, and loved each other. We still talk. Even now that she lives in a different city due to college, we still chat and ask each other how the other is doing. She tells me how stressed she is about med school, I tell her a bit about my other friends and how I’m struggling with finishing high school (I’m two years behind) and she encourages me. We gossip about our old classmates. During the holidays, when she’s here, we hang out. Damn, I turned 20 not long along and like a week after my birthday, when she was here during spring break, we met up and we celebrated it at this pizzeria we loved going when we were younger. And we caught up, and had a fucking blast.
N moved back to Spain two years ago, although to the other side of the country, again, due to college. We don’t talk as much, but we’re still in contact and care about each other. She was the first person I told I was questioning my sexuality when I was 14, and she supported me. When her brother passed away when we were 16, I was there for her. She still asks me for boy advice like when we were 12 (because she says that even if I’m a lesbian I’m still better with this stuff than her). We gossip about our old classmates as well. She still has some family living here in my town, so she comes here every sixth months or so, and the first thing she does when she knows the exact date is tell me, and we agree to meet up and catch up.
Whenever I meet with her or V, I see how much things has changed between us but still feels the same when we’re together. Which is why I found the Amphibia epilogue so relatable.
I understand why some people would be upset that Sasha, Anne and Marcy were different and drifted apart during all those years. But honestly? That’s life. They grew up and like Anne said, things change, and that’s okay. They’re still close enough to know what the others are doing, and to decide to come and surprise Anne for her 23rd birthday. And look at the way Marcy and Sasha interacted, with the same closeness, as if they’d never been apart. Or how Anne literally teared up when she saw them. And that picture at the end of the credits–
Being friends with someone doesn’t mean you have to talk to the other every day, and see them all the time. It means you’re there for the other when it matters, and realizing that while things may change between you, the bond you have is still the same. And to me, that is much more meaningful that if they’d still been the same for those ten years.
So the epilogue apparently takes place during Anne’s birthday.
But the guy from the news was also saying it was the anniversary of the frog invasion.
So– does that mean Anne fought Andrias, the moon, fucking died and came back and then left Amphibia forever on her 14th birthday??? Exactly a year after she got there for the first time? Or is it her “birthday” because, I repeat, she died and came back so technically she was born again?
Goodbye Amphibia. It’s been a fun, wild, scary, and very heartwarming ride. One that I’ll always cherish.
I just wanna applaud Matt Braly for creating such an amazing and enthralling series, and wish him and the crew luck with whatever projects they have next!
