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Old 2011-10-08, 02:05   Link #62
Rising Dragon
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Age: 36
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Originally Posted by Triple_R View Post
It's not stupid for people to expect the start of a new season to flow smoothly from the end of the previous season.

Mystery and intrigue is great, but when you have a very well-developed male lead, and he suddenly starts working with the established antagonist group when there's been no foreshadowing of such a turn before, viewers are naturally going to want to get at least some inkling as to why.

Do we need to have everything answered up-front? Of course not. But dropping a bombshell characterization change on viewers in the very first episode of a new season without any hints as to "why?" is pretty jarring stuff.
That's not a stupid reason, no--but let's be fair here, JC probably doesn't always know if they'll be able to continue something, hence anime original endings, and I can't fault them for that. It's unfair to have huge foreshadowings at the very end of an episode, and never follow through.

What's upsetting me here is the people who demand an explanation on the new change NOW NOW NOW!!! and are acting like petulant children when they don't get their way. Saying that a season will fail because they didn't explain a new twist the moment it appeared is completely unfair, and a VERY stupid reason.
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