Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20151029065609/@comment-1037137-20151109081705

I dunno for sure, but hopefully she is. Still, I am discouraged by the Chief's lack of focus. The dude is literally the face of the series.

Sounds fair enough. Glad you can get some occasional enjoyment out of RTS, even if just to relieve the boredom, lol. But yeah, EU games can work really well if done right. Though those are not as plentiful as EU books, specials, novelizations, spinoffs, etc. Halo Wars apparently is doing well enough to warrant its sequel. We'll see how that pans out I guess.

No, but they genuinely believe it to be character development that gave the guy something to do, some kind of purpose in the series, and made him evolve from a memetic loser to someone who would fight to the bitter end to win. Naturally, I was not the least bit impressed by their arguments, they explained themselves fully but I have never met someone to come up with a defense like that for it, and I don't see this gag as anything more than an overblown annoyance that should've been put out of its misery years ago. I don't see the humor in it and most others I know can't stand or don't care for the gag, so I was shocked to find someone who actually loves it. It's something I'm surely never sympathize with as it is just there to milk a parody that was not welcome when it first emerged and has only served to get in the way so long as Fresh refuses to buck up and revert the guy. It's certainly not character development by any stretch of the imagination, it destroyed any chance Zeke had at such development and reduced him to a one-note joke that refuses to die. It's never been especially funny. And it sure as hell isn't clever. I don't think so.

Yep, you pretty much summed up all the problems I have with Gwuncan as a pairing, and why its formation instantly made it irredeemable to myself and certainly quite a few others. I just cannot stand what thet resorted to to ensure it became canon, or its backwards and hypocritical message accompanying it, and for its abrupt emergence. A whole season of denying affection for each other and Gwen suddenly is pining over him while Duncan doesn't express jack until their first kiss? It's still incredulous to me. Oh, and the same person who argued in favor of Feral Zeke also argued that it was necessary to stage the entire thing so that there was no obstacle to Heather or Alejandro's advancement through the game. As they clearly were supposed to be the big draw when they finally clinched the finals. Otherwise they might've been outed much earlier without the war going on during the triangle. I still don't buy that, I think you could've found other ways, and it should not have come to so much derailment that left such a black stain on all three of those involved, something that is far more infuriating now since All-Stars did absolutely nothing to fix any of them, but instead dealt them even more damage. The fact that World Tour did it and did NOTHING to redeem Gwen, Courtney, or Duncan and did not smooth over things in the aftermath of that debacle to me is still a major minus to that season. And just to get f'ed over on that with All-Stars years later means I have no remaining patience for the trend started in TDA that that mess propped up.

This pairing needed more development as an actual pairing if this was an idea they were so diehard on making canon. And it definitely should've omitted the entire cheating scandal. The whole thing just puts me off, it doesn't make me laugh or feel happy for any of these guys. I also don't appreciate us being manipulated for sympathy for them, most especially the two cheaters in question. I'm never passive when I see derailment unfolding.

Another grand opportunity wasted, I mean I was really hoping Sierra would be more independent and less Cody-centric in this season, but that was a fool's fantasy obviously. I really wanted to see some other aspects of her person, but what we got was an entirely meaningless plot where her comic relief just became cringeworthy. I really wanted to give her a second chance.

Likewise, nice that I can confide all my views and feelings to someone here freely. It especially meant a lot last year to become friends when I really had almost no one left after that whole mess I created for myself. Guess things really worked out in the long run, I suppose I'm not as disliked as I used to be now on here. Oh, well you certainly are good at it when you're at it, you definitely present one the most fair and objective perspectives around here as a critic. Serves you well as one of the admins too.

TDPI is really what kept people around and gave them a reason to stick around for the long haul. Even with its gimmicks now being seen as too much for one sitting. Apparently TDRR really has connected to fans again, though that's not something I'll be experiencing for myself firsthand for a while. I only know that some of my closest friends, even some who claimed to haved hated TDAS even more than me were greatly satisfied with what they saw in TDRR. If only I had more trust and less hard feelings towards the crew to work up the desire to watch it myself.

Not nearly enough, at least not anything from TDAS onward he hasn't. I just wish he'd get something for the crap he pulls so often, doing that and nearly killing these guys has just been getting progressively less and less funny. The slowtox and bear attack in TDPI simply don't begin to answer for it, I mean I'd really like to see things made difficult for him for a change, by the contestants if not the full-blown retribution you say could be a hit or miss deal. But after tormenting these guys and making them feel subhuman in a lot of cases over five seasons, somebody should be snapping and trying to return the favor somehow by making it harder for him to get away with it unchecked. They don't even have him fretting over lawsuits anymore as a check on himself. Just anything. Anything to answer for his misdeeds in Season Five.