[Arkwright]

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

Are you trying to defend the possibility that ep 26 will be something that will be appreciated by the fans or are you totally destroying our hopes? Because in my case your suggestion heavily brings me to the latter.

Spoiler for response:

I was trying to say that it's not certain that episode 26 will be ruined by episode 25.

In other words, if it stops before the tea party, people might find that objectionable, sure. But if that were the case, it would have been purely the fault of episode 26, and the pacing of episode 25 would have been completely unrelated (and this episode would have been downvoted for nothing.)

If you want my own opinion, I think I've decided I would rather have a good adaptation of that chapter than a cliff notes version of that AND the entire tea party, even if neither option was close to my ideal situation.

How they would cover the tea party in this situation, I have no clue, though. I do suspect that from DEEN's perspective the average anime watcher doesn't care as much about the "theory/red truth" section of the story, compared to the character-based scenes.