In Final Space, no one can hear you think.
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Fridge Brilliance
Season One
- 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 flicker.
- In Episode 8, Gary meets several alternate versions of himself, including the obnoxious "Mustache Gary" who relentlessly rubs it in his face that he'll never be able to grow a mustache. While possibly just another strange thing that Gary is fixed on, it's possible that his inability to grow a mustache (or belief that he can't) is actually a subconscious fear that his childhood trauma and stunted emotional growth will prevent him from becoming a mature man.
- John Goodspeed gave Gary the original caterpillar Mooncake as a gift before leaving and going off on a mission. And when he sacrifices himself to close the tear to Final Space, he ends up unintentionally bringing the present day Mooncake who would eventually find Gary into the universe. So in a way, John once again gave Gary his best friend.
- Speaking of Mooncake... 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 will always be together in some way, and the current Mooncake technically brought the team crew together.
Season Two
- In episode 12, when Gary calls out his mother on how she's treated him, he mentions "baking cookies" as one of the things they never experienced together. This goes a long way to explain Gary's obsession with cookies, as they represent the love and warmth he was deprived of due to Sheryl's negligence.
- A more likely explanation is that Gary (who, as you remember, was trapped in a space shuttle alone for five years) learned to associate happiness or pleasure with cookies due to H.U.E's method of using cookies as rewards (or, more often, punishments). It would explain why Gary imagined his "family" to be giant anthropomorphic cookies in Episode Two: Gary tends to visualize happiness as cookies, because that was more or less his only source of joy during those five years of complete isolation.
- 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 is 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 of it 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, as you remember, was trapped in a space shuttle alone for five years) learned to associate happiness or pleasure with cookies due to H.U.E's method of using cookies as rewards (or, more often, punishments). It would explain why Gary imagined his "family" to be giant anthropomorphic cookies in Episode Two: Gary tends to visualize happiness as cookies, because that was more or less his only source of joy during those five years of complete isolation.
- Clarence sheds his skin several times as he's running off to be with Sheryl. When someone is described as "wearing a second skin", it means someone is being dishonest and fake, which is pretty fitting given Clarence's personality.
- Considering that Clarence has been wearing a skin that looked 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 his own children or crewmates and only showed his true colors to Sheryl; which was also fueled by his same nasty tendencies.
- Clarence is pretty unattractive, and every time he sheds a skin, each looks more nasty than the last, until his final one looks the same as the first. In other words, he's as ugly on the inside as he is on the outside.
Season Three
- Why are there Titan claw marks in Wisconsin? It must have been one of the many places hit when the Titan from Season 1 pulled it into Final Space.
- When taking a closer look at Kevin Van Newton and his situation, he's actually very similar to Gary Goodspeed (which is all the more ironic considering he's the one who created the mechanical being that Gary absolutely despises).
- At the most basic level, Kevin looks similar to Gary, to the point that he could pass for an older version of him. They have similar builds, are roughly the same height, and have mechanical upgrades (Gary has his robotic arm and Kevin has his Celenium-pumping chestplate).
- He is stuck on a dead Earth with only robots to give him company (in this case an army of KVNs), which has left him with a few screws loose. This mirrors Gary's time aboard the Galaxy One.
- He has an Interspecies Friendship with a Ventrexian (namely Biskit).
- Van Newton has even had a Forgotten First Meeting with Quinn! Although in his case it's a bit more complicated. He actually met Nightfall, not the current Quinn.
Fridge Horror
Season One
- The fate of Jack, John's copilot, is pretty cruel when you think about it. Despite seeming to be a genial (if annoying) guy, he's given a severe beatdown by John and Gary for crimes he hadn't yet committed just seconds before being corrupted by Invictus. He basically went from being perfectly healthy to in horrendous pain in a heartbeat, then spent the last seconds of his life in agony. And that's not even going into how much of his consciousness might be left in the Lord Commander...
- Then again, given Season Three, how do we know Jack was as nice as he seems to be in the past? Lord Commander doesn't seem to be under anyone's immediate control, rather being fueled by his thirst for power. That leaves two horrifying options; Lord Commander is being influenced by Invictus and is in an And I Must Scream scenario, or Jack always had Lord Commander's darker desires deep down and being given his new powers merely pushed the wrong buttons.
Season Two
- Quinn has been stuck in Final Space for what can be assumed to be from several months to a year. What Gary discovers is that, while she is alive, she's been surrounded by all of the dead Garys that likely sacrificed their lives for their Quinns. This means that poor Quinn has been stranded in an endless abyss with only a massive demonic creature and the countless dead bodies of her boyfriend for company. For almost a year.
- In "The Closer You Get", Avocato is possessed by Invictus and shoots Gary and Little Cato. It's not made too clear how much of Avocato's decisions are directly made by Invictus, but the very fact that he attempts to shoot Little Cato is a dark callback to how he was ordered to kill his son by the Lord Commander.
- It's also a clear demonstration of just how powerful Invictus is compared to the Lord Commander. Lord Commander, for all his power, was unable to force Avocato to hurt his kid, and, even when he had Little Cato mind controlled, he couldn't force him to kill his dad. When Little Cato tries to appeal to his fatherly love, Invictus-possessed Avocato ignores and brushes him off, and even goes as far to disown him.
- Invictus doesn't even really erase Avocato's care for Little Cato or Gary — instead, he corrupts it. Invictus convinces Avocato that Gary was lying when he asked him to look after his son, and instead believes Gary just took Little Cato to replace Avocato as his father. The weirdest part is the wording he uses, 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 petty possessiveness, which makes the snap second where 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 that, deep down, he's mildly aware of how he's acting and simply can't stop himself. Imagine being in his shoes: You're forced to feel corrupted emotions of misplaced jealousy and anger, almost fatally shoot your best friend, and your kid is forced to shoot you after you've refused to give him or your friend any mercy. And even that isn't enough to put you out of your misery, as the monster inhabiting your body teleports you away, leaving the last interaction you have with your child as one that's fueled by rage, envy and spite. Yikes.
- The Arachnitects never said they made Invictus; They just found him when the Titans were exploring the universe. Which means either that the Beings of Unimaginable Light created Invictus, showing they aren't as pure as it seems... or that Invictus is as old as the Beings, which means it's certainly as powerful (remember, the Beings were the Top God so far).
Season Three
- if Little Cato discovered Avocato’s dark secret about how he isn’t Little Cato's biological father and that he murdered his biological parents, the rulers of Ventrexia, will he run away or worse, disown him?
- Nothing like that is hinted so far. Little Cato didn't seem mad at it, but that was possibly because he was too scared of Ash to think about it clearly.
