Have these writers ever met a human? Like, any human? At all? Impressions: I doubted there was any good way to end this, and boy, did they not succeed on literally any front. Vivy sings her song, averting the ultra apocalypse, leaving only the more anodyne regular apocalypse, and everybody lives happily ever after. That's […]
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