Oh, man.

I started watching this mostly because of OhmFluke. I loved their acting in Until We Meet Again, and was excited to see them together in another BL. But unfortunately it just so happened to be this one.

First, I just want to be clear I'll be calling Dew from the Blue world (aka the first Dew we meet) as Blue!Dew and Mum from the Orange world (aka the first Mum we meet) as Orange!Dew. Any respective people from their worlds will also be called Orange or Blue, such as Orange!Mint and Blue!Mint. The last Mum we meet, the one who's been traveling universes, I'll call Rainbow!Mum. (Thanks to Aprillen for labeling them this, it saves time!)

What started off as a solid idea and interesting writing slowly dissolved into a plot mess and characters acting out of character when it suited the plot. The idea of a reversing/contrasting timeline is really hard to pull off -- I can only think of Doctor Who as a show that successfully pulled it off -- and if the writing isn't solid, it gets incredibly messy and confounding. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened to this story. They laid out the universe rules pretty well for us, but then once the loop was close to completing, I feel like the writers didn't know where to go from there and then just gave us a bunch of random things (such as Rainbow!Mum or Blue!Dew remembering things he shouldn't have been able to since it happened after that time in his timeline).

Giving us two endings was an interesting choice, and I see why they did it. Wake Up, aka the happy ending, was so incredibly out of character from everything we'd gotten before it almost felt like a completely different show. It didn't go back to the multiverse plot and Orange!Mint seemed to be way more well-adjusted than previous scenes of her and her alternate self, Blue!Mint. It was a breath of fresh air in a sense, but it also clashed completely from the previous ten episodes. I have a theory they wrote this to appease the masses, but it wasn't exactly where they had planned the plot to go towards. Dream On, aka the sad/open ending, fits a lot more neatly with the previous episodes, but it does end in a really messy and devastating way, and still doesn't resolve half of the other questions we have from the show.

Unfortunately for this show, either ending wasn't really satisfying and left us with enough plot holes and questions that made it seem like the writers were making the show up as they went along. While the multiverse and contrasting timelines were interesting, the writers often went back on what they had previously said were the rules of the show. And where did Rainbow!Mum even come from? What is his purpose? (Well that one is clear: to bring Orange!Dew into the whole multiverse experience and bring more drama). His presence just makes things far more complicated than the show could handle. We also never really know what happens to Blue!Dew and the people of his world once that timeline closes, which is an interesting choice because they showed us a lot of what happened in his world throughout the show.

As for the side characters, especially Vee and Game, they feel very much like side characters. Since they don't have anything to do with the multiverse plotline, they feel out of place in a lot of ways. I would have liked to see more of them, but I don't think they fit well with this show. Blue!An was a creep that needed to be stopped every time he tried to go after Dew, but the show talked about it as if it's fine since he's just "in love" with Mint. We didn't really get much of Orange!An or other characters so I don't have much to say about them.

Honestly, at this point, I'm happy this show ended so I don't have to put in more thought into the mess it is. As much as I loved OhmFluke in UWMA, I am saddened they got this mess of a story. Don't bother watching, friends. It'll just confuse and frustrate you, and you'll be left wondering where the time you spent on this show has gone. (It's gone into the five million plot holes this show has.)