Lightning. Just Lightning.

So, after this whole trial and the Queen showing up out of nowhere business, the Queen of the Night, furious at Tamino and Papageno for jumping on Sarastro’s bandwagon, snuck into the temple, because she can apparently teleport. And that’s when she starts using her powers. A bit late in the plot, but whatever. There, she meets Monastatos, who wanted to make a deal with her to have Pamina as his own wife, which she made with him, by the way. Man, she wasn’t kidding when she told Pamina she’d disown her, keeping in mind that the Queen knew Pamina hated Monostatos. Then, all of a sudden, a great lightning bolt shows up and vanquishes the Queen and her followers, and the light of day shows Pamina and Tamino’s wedding. And…curtain. I have literally no explanation for this sudden lightning. Maybe the Queen’s high-pitched aria from a bit before woke Zeus and he was pissed off, so he threw a lightning bolt in her general direction. Strange, but a pretty good plot device, though. At least there was a happy ending, which, you guessed it, also came out of absolutely nowhere.

• Foreword
• Point One:
  Tamino Casually Fights A Random Dragon
• Point Two:
  Hey Diddle Diddle, A Cat and a Fiddle, A Queen of the Night Jumped Over the Moon
• Point Three:
  Love at First Sight… or Love At First Photoshop?
• Point Four:
  Tamino Takes Advice From Twelve Year Olds
• Point Five:
  Love at First Sight… I Guess?
• Point Six:
  Tests and Queens and Confusion, Oh My!
• Point Seven:
  Random Things/People Showing Up Out Of Nowhere Cliché… Again
• Point Eight:
  Lightning. Just Lightning.