My Incoherent Ramblings (Pt. 1)
It didn't end up as long as I thought. It kind of gets tiring and tedious stating the horribly obvious. There should be a part 2 as soon as we see 5D's episode 1. Oh, as a bit of a forewarning, I will be saying the word "shit" quite a lot. XD

-My Thoughts on GX's Ending-

Well, it started off as inane as humanly possible and ended as inane as humanly possible. These two episodes alone summarize why I dislike GX's writing staff. It seems that whenever they do something cool, they automatically make it not cool by making the ending one gigantic load of insane, impossible shit. The Seven Stars Arc: Diaperman wanting eternal youth. Saiou Arc: Megalomaniac and misunderstood outcast possessed by evil space radiation that wants to destroy the entire universe. The entire Yubel Arc: Hermaphrodite Duel Spirit's interstellar love affair with an under-aged boy. Darkness Arc: Wakame and Goat-head. Seriously, it's like they start off with a well enough premise, but slowly but surely, the plot starts to falter under all of the CARD GAMEZ LOL and they're left with a disorganized mess.

...Where in the hell are Misawa and the others?! Did they live, did they survive?! Will they be in 5D's?! Are they safe and sound back in their respective homes?! What about Satou?! What about Cobra?! Did they all just die? It seems that once everything is back to "normal," everyone forgets that these people even existed. Which means they are either the world's biggest gathering of narcissistic morons, or the writers are too busy making sure Judai gets yet another duel with someone else.

So, for all of you who don't know or just don't plain care. GX's ending was just as insane and dumbfounding as the actual series has been. Yugi explains that he gave Judai Winged Kuriboh to "test him" which sounds about as reasonable as me giving some random stranger on the street my keys to "test" they won't break into my house and steal my shit. It then continues with Judai using its magic time traveling abilities, or with Yugi slipping Judai a mickey and making him trip unbelievable amounts of balls, to go back in time.

Judai's cavalcade into this drug-induced, baron, fantasy world Domino City allows him to meet a younger Yugi with a Millennium Puzzle. The duel happens and blah blah blah. All you really need to get from this is that Dark Yugi pops out (with a rather underwhelming remix of a DM song), summons Osiris, and Judai, smiling like he just saw Asuka's boobies, attacks with Neos and then...he's in the desert...

...Wait, what!? What in the hell happened!? Did he win? Did he lose? Why is he in the middle of the damned desert!? Wasn't he in a time slip!? I can understand if they were trying to emulate Yugi and Jonouchi's duel at the end of Battle City, but there's a difference between not showing the duel and leaving it open-ended and not showing the last half of a duel in progress (which Judai seemed bound to lose if he was attacking with Neos anyway.) That's got to be the most ass-backwards conclusion I've ever seen.

All of that so Judai could regain his love for dueling? Couldn't have Yugi dueled him personally, considering he was about two feet away from him? Might I also add, why in the hell is Judai in the desert!?

Some people are wondering why I'm so negative about 5D's. One of the reasons lie in the fact that it's not necessary at all. They could have easily stretched GX out for a good 20-30 episodes and wrapped up some loose ends (half of which can be traced back to the Seven Stars arc.)

But, instead, they opted to go even further in the future and deal with a completely new storyline just to push some shitty cards. Not to say that YGO in general hasn't been about pushing cards, but if you can't see that 5D's is a business move used to grab more kids into "what's shiny and new", then you're absolutely blind. This ending proves that they were just trying to end the series at an even number.

It's quite funny, too. Because four years ago, I was at the forefront for "GIVE GX A CHANCE U GUYZ" and now I'm extremely pessimistic because of how GX let me down so badly. Another would probably have to be because GX actually had a "closure to an old and herald to a new" sort of vibe about it when it was first introduced while 5D's has a "buy our cards, buy our cards, buy our cards" sort of vibe about it right now.

As a long time YGO fan, I'm extremely disappointed. Not only did the ending not make any semblance of sense, but the shit that happened before that didn't make much sense either. Almost everything that doesn't pertain to the current story doesn't exist anymore, including people.

And we never do see Misawa's Fire Dragon. Bastards.