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This sixth and final (half) season starts where season 5 ended: Black Claw leader Bonaparte dead by Reynard’s Diana-controlled hand. This leads into a frantic set of episodes, where monster-of-the-week vies with a scramble to tie up all the loose ends in only 13 episodes. Black Claw conveniently disappears in a puff of smoke, while the arc focusses on the Magic Stick and what it means, leading up to a potential catastrophe that could destroy the entire human world. (Well, if you are going to potentially save the world, best to leave it to the end, otherwise it’s hard to top.)
There were possibilities for “happy” endings that would have been annoying resets: these possibilities were not taken. However, there were hanging guns that never went off (Black Claw conveniently vanishing; Diana conveniently not destroying the world in a fit of pique; re-hexenbiested-Adelinde conveniently not reverting to a monster). Also note: if you kill one major character, viewers might think they are really dead even in a fantasy series. When you kill them all, viewers are more suspicious. Despite these issues, the season did tie up most loose ends, without giving the impression that the characters’ adventures over.
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