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Instead of a tragic - but sensible - ending, magical aliens showed up after Earth was kaput, and gave him what he wanted. There is nothing to tie this ending to the rest of the plot besides the main character, no agency involved in its happening, no nothing. It's unsatisfying. It's a deus ex machina, and not the good kind.
THAT I agree with but it makes sense in that the boy ironically became human through his use of emotion and experience. I would've preferred the bitter sweet ending. Sometimes being human IS living a life of tragedy. But they couldn't leave that little boy at the bottom of the ocean, I get that also. Idk ๐คทโโ๏ธ seems thematic just a little to "disney" fir me.
Although I agree that they couldn't just end it at the bottom of the ocean, if it were written better it could have had an ending that actually tied into the rest of the story, rather than what it wound up with. The whole thing just felt like a lot of missed opportunities.