On impulse, I rewatched The First Temple before watching The Beginning of the End, which proved to be an excellent idea. I was always confused why the first temple had this added emphasis: no title sequence, twice the length as the other temples.
With the new episode out, and Darcy’s threat to kill Anne, the answer is clear. The First Temple foreshadowed every death in the series.
Our first indicator is an off-handed line Marcy gives. “No frog, toad, or newt has ever survived the temple.” But the weight of the foreshadowing falls in the games they play.
First, Marcy gets so caught up in making sure that the Rubik’s cube is in the perfect configuration, that she doesn’t care how she’s hurting her friends. Similarly, Sasha got so caught up in controlling Anne, that she didn’t realize how she was hurting her. And then she did, and decided to fall off a cliff and almost die.
The second one is, of course, Amphibia’s witty and somewhat infuriating way of teasing Marcy’s death. In the temple with the green squares, there are two ways to die. One is by being crushed. The other is by being burned alive by a blade-like flame. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Their third trial was the one that confused me, though. It taught humility, which I took as an indicator that the temples are malicious in nature–Marcy has an ego problem, meaning she bounces between extreme confidence and extreme humility, defaulting to the second as her more basic response, and a benevolent wit temple would teach her about the balance between those things.
Well, now it all makes sense. We’ve got a chess board, similar to the one Andrias set up. We have most of our characters on the good side, except one, dressed in black, helmet on her head, unwillingly forced to try to kill the people who she so deeply cares about.
Then, what Anne says to Hop Pop? “Just because I’m mad at you, doesn’t mean I want to kill you!” That’s the key to Marcy’s forgiveness of Anne and mostly Sasha for being shitty friends.
Meanwhile, the end of the game was the chilling part. Marcy flipped the wart. Got rid of her lead, the one player she needed in order to win.
Anne is the one player we need in order to win.
Hence, Anne will die, to save the game. They have to forfeit, because Andrias cheats at the game (brings dead people back to life), so they will have to cheat at the game as well.
Moving in sync, or agreeing on their ideas, instead of pushing each other around. Tried and failed at Reunion.
Untangling themselves while still holding hands. Sifting through a web of lies and betrayal without losing each other. Tried and failed at True Colors.
Trust fall. Putting all your faith in the others to catch you, even if it hurts you. The threat to kill Anne. I wonder what will happen there.
She’s gonna die to save Marcy, the culmination of her responsibility, and proof of her devotion to Marcy.
Marcy is going to hold her dead friend in her arms, just like how she died in front of Anne, so many seasons ago.
Of course she’s going to die, because they have mossmen with healing properties, and the other two have calamity powers that have yet to be activated. Plus, Sasha and Marcy already had their life-threatening experiences.
Marcy always said to Anne, “trust me.” Anne didn’t have a reason to trust her. But this time she will. She’ll trust that Marcy knows how to read the letter from Leif, since she wrote letters to Andrias, and he read them with the same glasses. She’ll trust that Marcy knows how to heal her, since Marcy heard Andrias talk about the healing powers of the mossmen.
Amphibia The Three Armies & The Beginning of the End Details!
EVERYONE! IS! HERE! THIS IS LITERALLY THE ENDGAME NOW AHHHHHHHHHH! IM SKIPPING THE INTRO OF THIS, DETAILS BELOW!
The Three Armies
Anne continue to be the one who deliver “bad news” (since Sprivy)
SASHA MEME
Sasha got Athletic award and Marcy got #1 student award
“Welcome to Wartwood” sign was broken, so now it said “Welcome to War”
Sprig and Ivy being guards together~
Beatrix, toad leader come up plan all strength, Trintirio, newt leader come up plan based on wit, while HP, frog leader is being respectful/emphatic/combine both Beatrix and Trintorio plans like heart
When they’re doing untying knot excersice, Anne’s theme played
Some of the toads have pink eyes, so some are probably grime’s former soldiers
Monroe returns
Blue, red, green
Seems like Anne get less tired when she used her power compare to before now
When Beatrix said “To take our world back from that crazy king,” Anne’s theme played
So the Olms where the spies for the rebellion
The Beginning of the End
Lord of the Ring Reference?
When Sasha said she doesn’t care when watching movie, Marcy went silence for a second, probably thinking “wow she don’t care about the movie”
Sasha’s shirt said “Girlboss”
There’s a small sadness when Marcy said “you feel asleep, again”
After Marcy put blanket on Sasha and Anne, Anne’s theme played
OLMS, SHROOM'ED FROGS, MOTHCAT, NEWTS, TOADS, FROGS ARE TOGETHER
Jojo potato, small frogs are back!
When they’re marching out of valley, Sasha’s theme played for a bit
Marcy’s theme played when Sasha and Anne talk about Marcy
In the same scene, when Anne talk about the movie, Anne’s theme is played
When it show rebellion flag, Anne’s theme(shorten intro ver) was played
GRUBHOG RETURNS
Anne looking at HP when she’s talking about forgiveness is a callback to After the Rain+The First Temple
BELLA RETURNS
The giant-frog-bot-that-make-smaller-frog-bot from Turning Point..or at least variation of it, make a return
EVEN MOSSMAN RETURNS EVERYONE IS HERE!
Nice to see Andrias still have fun energy
Super Dance Fusion FROM REUNION CALLBACK
Bunch of ppl we seen throughout ss3a can be seen on the street
Marcy’s theme at the end ;-;
ANNND THAT’S EVERY DETAIL I FOUND SO FAR! Oh boy, we’re really in the endgame now eh? These sets of episodes are AMAZING and can you believe The Beginning of the End was only like 13 minutes!? Imagine what we’ll get next week! AHHHH CAN’T WAIT!
SO LIKE, IMAGINE IF AMPHIBIA ENDS WITH THE GIRLS ALL HAVING THEIR FIRST SLEEPOVER TOGETHER AGAIN AFTER THE FINAL BATTLE AND ALL THAT. AND ANNE AND SASHA LET MARCY PUT ON THE MOVIE. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY ACTUALLY SIT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING AND THEY ACTUALLY REALLY ENJOY IT. AND MARCY JUST STARTS SOBBING BECAUSE SHE NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE IT AND SIT THROUGH IT BECAUSE THEY NEVER ACTUALLY PUT EFFORT INTO LEARNING ABOUT HER INTERESTS. AND THEY JUST COMFORT HER AND APOLOGIZE AND ITS ALL JUST A VERY SOFT MOMENT. AND THEN THE SHOW ENDS WITH THEM ALL FALLING ASLEEP AFTER THE MOVIE IS OVER AND THE FUCKING CREDITS ROLL. I JUST- THIS FUCKING SHOW MAN I AM ASCENDING TO ANOTHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE
«Time to take the masks off • Talking with you these past few weeks was such a pleasure! I am so glad I got to talk and get along with someone like you and even tho it’s not the 25th for you anymore I offer you this as a “gift” and I hope you like it!! Thank you»
First off this picture definitely did come and haunt me back THIS IS PERFECT you get my dark (who you kidding) soul very well!! Legit though, this is one of ultimate Jae pics, when this came out I deteriorated to dust. You win just at that pic, but then you follow up with a solid aesthetic!!!!!
Yes hon, I very much loved conversing with you but the best part of this WE DON’T HAVE TO STRUGGLE THROUGH THE FAULTY COMMUNICATION ANYMORE. Hope you had a really great Christmas hon
