The sixth and final season of the animated sci-fi series is now streaming.
Solar Opposites season six has arrived on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, and that means Solar Opposites is over. It ends on a high note (read io9’s spoiler-free review here), and it also does a bang-up job bringing all its storylines to a close—in some surprising ways. It was all a bit of a retcon, but it stayed true to the show and ended up being very satisfying to boot.
First, we learned the fate of the Wall; the storyline wrapped in episode eight, “The Last Flight of the Ariana 1.” After a daring mission to steal Yumyulack’s shrink ray—hoping to use it on everyone to restore them to human size—Cherie and company realize they’ve been chasing after a replica. Yumyulack has cleverly, and cruelly, created an exact copy of his weapon… in cake form.
But it doesn’t end there. With the SD card from Yumyulack’s phone in their teeny-tiny clutches (and an assist from the Pupa), the small people threaten to blackmail Yumyulack with his embarrassing selfies and tickle videos. Reluctantly, he agrees to make everyone big again, but there’s an issue: one person in the Wall isn’t physically capable of sizing up.
It’s Cherie’s daughter, Pezlie, of course, who was born tiny-sized. Cherie’s entire motivation was to make Pezlie normal and able to experience a regular-sized life. Devastated, she encourages Ringo, Nova, and the rest to go ahead and let Yumyulack zap them—but as long as Pezlie can’t grow larger, Cherie doesn’t want to either.
To Cherie’s surprise, everyone agrees to stay small in solidarity (and not tell the rest of the Wall what happened). Yumyulack grudgingly promises he’d help make life in the Wall more bearable by supplying food that isn’t candy once in a while.
“I know in my heart that this is going to work out!” Cherie declares. Then we cut to 90 years later.
The world has suffered a devastating apocalypse. The Shlorpians are glimpsed as rotting alien skeletons in their ship, presumably killed while trying to flee the planet.
