There’s always a lot of tension when we get to the end of a Pretty Cure series. But I feel like this final battle is particularly fraught. In part that is almost certainly due to the fact that Godatz was once Fennel, someone everyone believed to be their ally. His betrayal is not something so easily brushed aside, and the confirmation in episode forty-two that he acted out of nothing more nor less than jealousy makes it a particularly bitter pill to swallow. In many ways, it means that the problem begins and ends with him, because as we see from flashbacks, there was nothing that Cinnamon, Rosemary, or Ginger actually did to hurt him. That does not take away the real pain he felt at being outclassed by Cinnamon, but because he did not, as far as we know, talk about what he was feeling, there was pretty much no way that the situation could…
