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Fridge Brilliance
- In Episode 7 Gary asks Avocato to give him a sign by flickering the lights. When he enters Avocato's room with Little Cato the lights do flicker.
- In Episode 8 Gary meets several alternate versions of himself, including the obnoxious “Mustache Gary” who relentlessly rubs it in that he'll never be able to grow a mustache. While yet another strange thing Gary’s fixed on it's possible his inability to grow a mustache (or belief he can't) is actually a subconscious fear that his Dark and Troubled Past will prevent him from becoming a mature man.
- John Goodspeed gave his son Gary the original Mooncake (a pet caterpillar) as a gift before leaving and going off on a mission. And when he sacrifices himself to close the tear in Final Space he ends up unintentionally bringing the present-day Mooncake (an anomalistic alien creature) who would eventually find Gary into the universe. So in a way John once again gave his son a friend.
- Speaking of which… a mooncake is a traditional Chinese sweet eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They're meant to be shared and represent togetherness and family. John named the original Mooncake something symbolizing he and Gary would always be together in some way and the current Mooncake technically brought the crew together.
- In episode 12, when Gary calls out his mother Sheryl on how she treated him he mentions baking cookies as one of the things they never experienced together. This goes on to explain Gary's obsession with cookies as they represent the love and warmth he was deprived of due to her negligence and abandonment.
- A more likely explanation is that Gary (who was trapped in a spaceship alone for five years) learned to associate happiness or pleasure with cookies due to HUE's method of using cookies as rewards (or more often punishments). It would explain why Gary imagined his “family” to be giant anthropomorphic cookies: he tends to visualize happiness as cookies because that was more or less his only source of joy for five years.
- The “cookies = happiness” interpretation actually makes a moment in Season 1 quite heartbreaking. Episode Four begins with Gary seeing a cookie floating in space and trying to eat it. H.U.E’s forced to stop him because Gary is in the middle of space and would instantly die if he removed his helmet. Gary desperately fights for the cookie but ultimately lets go and watches in quiet resignation as it floats away. Keeping with the idea above it isn't hard to view the scene as Gary giving up all hope for a happy ending to his story.
- A more likely explanation is that Gary (who was trapped in a spaceship alone for five years) learned to associate happiness or pleasure with cookies due to HUE's method of using cookies as rewards (or more often punishments). It would explain why Gary imagined his “family” to be giant anthropomorphic cookies: he tends to visualize happiness as cookies because that was more or less his only source of joy for five years.
- Clarence sheds his skin several times as he's running off to be with Sheryl. When someone’s described as "wearing a second skin" it means they’re being dishonest which is fitting given Clarence's personality.
- Considering that Clarence’s been wearing a skin which looks identical to his real self for all of Season Two and only shows his real (but completely identical) one to Sheryl it could be argued that it symbolizes how he was never genuine with anyone, even his adoptive children Fox and Ash, only showing his true colors to Sheryl which was also fueled by nasty tendencies.
- Clarence is unattractive and every time he sheds a skin each one looks more nasty than the last until his final skin looks the same as the first. In other words he's as ugly on the inside as he is on the outside.
- Why are there Titan marks in Wisconsin? It must’ve been one of the places hit when the Titan from Season 1 pulled it into Final Space.
- When taking a closer look at Kevin and his situation he's actually similar to Gary (which is all the more ironic considering he's the one who created one of the few individuals Gary despises).
- At the most basic level Kevin looks similar to Gary to the point he could pass for an older version of him. They have similar builds, are roughly the same height and have mechanical upgrades (Gary has a robotic arm; Kevin has a Celenium-pumping chest plate).
- He’s stuck on a dead Earth with only robots for company (an army of KVNs) which has left him with screws loose. This mirrors Gary's time aboard the Galaxy One.
- He has an Interspecies Friendship with a Ventrexian (Biskit).
- Kevin even had a Forgotten First Meeting with Quinn! Although in his case it's complicated; he actually met Nightfall, not the current Quinn.
Fridge Horror
- The fate of John's copilot Jack is pretty cruel when you think about it. Despite seeming genial (if annoying) he's given a severe beating by John and Gary for crimes he hadn't yet committed seconds before being affected by Invictus. He basically went from being healthy to in horrendous pain in an instant, then spent what would seem like the last moments of his life in agony. And that's not even going into how much of his consciousness might be left in Lord Commander…
- Then again, given Season Three how do we know Jack was as nice as he seemed to have been? Lord Commander doesn't seem to be under immediate control, rather being fueled by a thirst for power. That leaves two options: Lord Commander was and is still being influenced by Invictus or Jack always had Lord Commander's desires deep down and being given his powers pushed the wrong buttons.
- Quinn’s been stuck in Final Space for what can be assumed to be from several months to a year. What Gary discovers is that she's been surrounded by the dead Garys that sacrificed their lives for their Quinns. This means the Quinn we’re following has been stranded in an endless abyss with only a demonic creature, its world-destroying minions and the seemingly countless dead bodies of her boyfriend. For almost a year.
- In "The Closer You Get", Avocato’s possessed by Invictus and shoots at Gary and Little Cato. It's not clear how many of Avocato's decisions are made by Invictus but the fact he attempts to shoot Little Cato is a Call-Back to how he was once ordered to kill him as a display of loyalty by Lord Commander.
- It's also a demonstration of how stronger and more dangerous Invictus is: for all his power Lord Commander was unable to force Avocato to hurt his son and, even with Little Cato Mind Controlled couldn't force him to kill his dad. When Little Cato tries appealing to his father’s love the Invictus-possessed Avocato ignores and brushes him off, even going as far to disown him.
- Invictus doesn't erase Avocato's care for Little Cato or Gary — he instead corrupts it. Invictus convinces Avocato that Gary was lying when he asked him to look after his son and instead believes Gary took Little Cato to replace him as his father. The weirdest part is the wording used which is "thief". In other words he's no longer acknowledging Little Cato's personhood in the slightest. It's essentially turning Avocato's love for his child into outright possessiveness which makes the split second he nearly shoots Little Cato a parental version of If I Can't Have You….
- There's also a darker interpretation of this: given how Avocato briefly tries to fight Invictus' will it's possible he's mildly aware of how he's acting but can't stop himself. Imagine being in his shoes: you're forced to feel misplaced emotions, almost fatally shoot your best friend and your kid’s forced to shoot you after you’ve refused to give him or your friend any mercy. And even that isn't enough to end your misery as the monster inhabiting your body teleports you, leaving the last interaction you have with your child as one that's fueled by anger, envy and spite. Yikes.
- The Arachnitects never said they made Invictus but found him when the Titans explored the universe. Which means either the Beings of Unimaginable Light created Invictus, showing they aren't as pure as it seems… or Invictus is as old as the Beings and just as powerful (remember, the Beings are the Top Gods so far).
- If Little Cato discovered Avocato’s dark secret about how he isn’t Little Cato's real father and that he murdered his biological parents the rulers of Ventrexia will he run away or worse, disown him?
- Why are so many people after Gary and by default the rest of the Team Squad in the second and third seasons? It’s possible they’re being corrupted by Invictus into specifically eliminating Gary, even if it means crossing lines they normally wouldn’t; this seems especially true for Todd Watson.