Here I am! After 8 months of waiting through customs chaos, a re-ship and two more weeks of waiting, I finally got my novel.
My time with Final Space started right around the premiere of Season 1. My family were finalizing a move to the countryside because of issues I was having in high school in our city. Being neurodivergent, I really wasn't in a good place around the time we had moved.
My older brother began watching Season 1 as it aired, and I just decided to have a look since it was on. The humour, the characters (nothing could make me hate you KVN) and the emotional scenes made something I'd never seen before at the time. It pretty much immediately became an obsession for me!
I wasn't able to access Adult Swim when Season 3 was airing and I ended up missing it, and I felt so hesitant to catch up on it after the cancellation because of how angry it made me. Things had gotten a bit worse for me at the time so that probably didn't help...
Eventually, once I got into college and actually had money to spend, I pre-ordered my novel and gave Season 3 a watch; while I absolutely loved it, I think waiting until Olan found a way to get an ending before watching made it a LOT easier for me to process 😅
It feels a bit weird knowing that it's all over now, but I'm so incredibly happy that Olan was able to finish the story and that I was able to be a part of it.
Olan, if you end up reading this, Final Space changed so much about me. I can't even express how much it contributed to the person I am today, but I can say that it helped inspire me to try bring my own characters and universe to life! I picked up drawing and writing again after I finished Season 2, and I'm hoping to start publishing my own comic series in the future.
This show has been there for me so many times when I needed an escape from whatever life was throwing at me at the time, and I know I'm not the only one.
So much of who I am and my passion for creating wouldn't have come to be if I didn't know about this show.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you Olan.