The Adventure Zone: Amnesty - Episode 35

September 12, 2019 1:53 PM

The defenders of Kepler, West Virginia continue their desperate struggle for survival. A world away, a softly spoken truth reverberates down a subterranean chasm. The Pine Guard's destiny waits below. The penultimate episode of the Amnesty campaign.
posted by Tevin (6 comments total)

I'm not entirely clear how the Quell situation was resolved, exactly, but I was really into the last ten minutes. Next week should be a blast.
posted by Tevin at 6:22 AM on September 13, 2019

I think Aubrey stunned it into not fighting back for a second, and then Sylvain dropped the whole-ass crystal on it?

Regardless, this was awesome and I loved it.
posted by nonasuch at 7:00 AM on September 13, 2019

There were a few times when I glanced at how much time was left since it sounded like it would be the perfect place to end on a cliff hanger. So I'm glad the Quell situation was resolved in this episode.

My one hope for the last episode is for me not to cry like I did at the end of Balance. But seeing as how I teared up when Aubrey saw Ned saving her and her father, I'm pretty sure, happy or sad, the tears will flow.
posted by later, paladudes at 3:56 PM on September 14, 2019 [1 favorite]

Holy moly I really really like how it ended. Extremely pumped for the proper finale for this one too — I’m glad that the quell thing got resolved this episode to give Duck’s story time to finish.

And that name reveal
posted by DoctorFedora at 2:36 AM on September 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

This episode was so good. I loved everything about it. One of my favorite things about this family is how reliable and trustworthy they are, and especially Griffin's storytelling. I really felt that come through in this one. For example when he was talking about how Sylvain came to be inside Aubrey this whole time, it was told in such a careful & thorough way so as to make something that could have been just left vague & hand-wavey instead easy to believe and understand and just enjoyable for the degree of thoughtfulness that is so rare in my day to day. I was expecting that reveal something like Steven Universe, which, to me, because I don't like that show very much, meant expecting to be disappointed so I was pleasantly surprised. There were so many of these little moments that just felt so expected and so right in a very comforting way.
posted by bleep at 2:02 PM on September 15, 2019

I would love an animation of Duck spiking that log with Beacon and whipping it around, hammer toss style, into the Quell as a distraction. Although I can picture it so vividly, maybe I don't need one. I'm aching for a The The Adventure Zone Zone for Amnesty. I kind of wish they would get someone else to guest host it (maybe Jesse Thorn or John Hodgman) to be able to dig into Griffin's world-building decisions in a way that I don't think he would offer up himself.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:10 AM on September 16, 2019 [1 favorite]