genuinely when i first heard this quote when the series first came out i was shook
one thing i wished they stuck throughout the franchise is keep the world a fantasy i loved when the series had an ancient fantastical lore, magical shroud of mystery around it where beast and society lived and fought with medieval level tech while using mysticism, hidden knowledge,alchemy, spiritism and it felt like we were discovering the larger picture of the world discovering how that world truly worked, discovering the secrets we weren't supposed to know. When they went to the si-fi rout it made the world of the trollhunter feel smaller, less important that this is just a blimp and they didn't even build up the alien world in the franchise it feels soulless it feels empty there's no lore or anything too explore further it's just their a large grey blob shrouding the story of the trollhunters not to say that what jim saving the world wasn't important it just felt it wasn't the end all be all is should have been now there were these advanced alien planets that can take over the world if they wanted and easily defeat the trollhunters . then magic begane disappearing, literally, we saw more and more use of alien technology to defeat magic and when the amulet was replaced by krels new and improved device it felt like the original amulet and it irreplaceable magical unknowable power and ethernet, all knowing properties is nothing in the world of aliens and when they used the anti magic device to deal the final blow in the movie it felt like a disconnected send off to the world that started this franchise.