Small and Sincere Critique of the Planet X Arc

Putting aside the excitement of the moment, a few weeks after the finale, I decided to analyze and rewatch the entire Arc and I realize that everything was very poorly written and rushed. There were plot holes without solutions or that had solutions as illogical as they were incoherent, missed opportunities with the Rocky Planets, the irrelevance of Saturn, the disappearance of the Dwarf Planets, the bad decisions of the Sun, the hallucinations of Jupiter that disappeared from one episode to another... But above all, the poor handling of the Planet X character and how they rushed things too much to give it an ending just before 2025.

As an argument, I will say this: Go to the Video of the Arc of Planet X and you will see that X only appears in the second half of the video, rather the video should be called the Arc of Ganymede who had the most screen time, but X did not have enough presence and impact to be considered the protagonist of this plot.

And then, as the main conflict of the plot, which is Jupiter's absence, appears and disappears in the last hour; the plot, in summary, is easily divided into introduction, body, and conclusion. They gave 2 hours to the introduction until the conflict affecting the Solar System appeared, 1 hour to the development or body of the conflict, and less than 5 minutes for the conclusion with X forgiving Jupiter and leaving the Solar System, a bittersweet climax for so much preparation over the past year. If X was such an important character with such a significant role, they can't give him an anticlimactic, unjustified, or rushed ending because it ends up being disappointing. His ending was not proportional to his role within the story and the expectations from more than a year ago.

As for X's character, they ruined everything. They gave him a personality in Planet X Return and changed it in seconds without any prior development for Solar System Without Jupiter. They didn't take advantage of the wisdom he had about the secrets of the Solar System's past, which could have helped in his role as an antagonist or in achieving his revenge goals. They didn't give him a logical and sufficient justification for managing to stay sane during his exile. They exaggerated his evil gestures, removing the seriousness of the moment and his character. He had good motivations to be the antagonist, but his objectives to achieve them were poorly constructed (if he was already angry about Jupiter's orbital change in the past, why then, to take revenge on Saturn, does he seek to do what he disliked at first?). X only had 7 episodes within the Solar System out of more than 30 in the entire Saga. He didn't even have direct dialogues with the Rocky Planets, even knowing the truth about Theia, and his relationship with Proteus wasn't developed enough for the emotional impact on X upon seeing that he lost his only friend to feel real and natural, affecting all of us.

And finally, how are they going to call it the Planet X Arc if it never developed in the more than 3 hours of video? The fact that he is an antagonist doesn't prevent it; even antagonists can develop, but X changed his entire personality, his goals, his dreams, his everything in seconds when he left the Solar System and forgave Jupiter. Writers can create countless worlds and plots, but even among them, there are rules that must be respected, and one of those is this:

If you have a character who hasn't overcome a trauma or resentment from the past for millions of years, what makes you think they could overcome it and be able to forgive in just a few minutes? Everyone heals at their own pace, but they didn't ensure that the healing process was realistic, and that process involves everything and relapses. If your character is going to have a real trauma or resentment (the revenge), you need to give them a real solution.

And with all this, I don't mean to say that everything in SolarBalls is bad. SolarBalls has very good characters, good animation, good editing, good soundtrack, good voices, and good dubbing, along with a great knowledge of space and astronomy that attracts us all; it is a series with a lot of potential, but its only flaw, and the one that weighs the most, is its poor writing. SolarBalls has bad writers, and unfortunately, the writing of a series or movie is the main thing for telling a very good plot; having everything like good animation or good music but bad writing is being everything (a good drawing, a good song, or a good video) except a good story.