Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-1741760-20131125192435/@comment-1734566-20131126042852

Well, in order...

1: It's not just a matter of Mal in his own season, but in comparing him to past antagonists. My main problem with Mal is that it took so long to build him up. He was always his biggest cheerleader, being all "Mwuhahahaha, I'm so evil," but then just spends half the season breaking stuff. Even if it was for a larger purpose, those acts in and of themselves are extremely petty. Every other antagonist was evil right away, and didn't spend half the season just promising to be evil with no action to back it up.

2: Yes, every season has inconsistencies. That's understandable in seasons with 26 episodes and 10 or more writers, as the first three seasons were. But this season had only 13 episodes and four writers - the least of any season so far by a considerable margin. You think it wouldn't be that hard for four adults to get together and compare all their scripts to confirm that there are no inconsistencies, but apparently, they couldn't even do that. And the sheer number of inconsistencies is far greater in this season than all of the other four combined.

3: Yes, Scottney has a chance of reviving. I'll concede that. And the whole Gwen/Courtney thing...the problem is that it shouldn't have to be revived at this point. It was doing beautifully up until Episode 11. They had put aside their past conflict and their differences and finally made amends. There was no reason to make Courtney do a perfect 180 and retcon all that this season had been building up. So, if the writers knew what they were doing, we wouldn't be in this situation.

4: Lastly, yes, I still hold out hope for that. I've said that before. Although the 100th episode would've been an ideal place to do that (being the 100th episode, as it would've been a move that would make the episode very memorable and significant, and also the fact that it was Zeke's most prominent appearance since TDWT, and was even somewhat named after him), I am still convinced that he will at least speak due to Peter Oldring being credited. And in my opinion, any spoken English word from Ezekiel is a sign of improvement at this point. XP

All in all, I appreciate you going to the effort to prepare this argument in favor of TDAS. But I'm sorry, my opinion is solidified. I am convinced that this is the worst season ever. Even worse than TDA. And anything, any possibility of a future season that could possibly be worse than TDAS is simply not worth watching at all, ever. Period.

Hopefully Pahkitew will be better. :P