User blog comment:Corbierr/The Biggest Issue With Season 3/@comment-4741712-20141230053233/@comment-4816103-20141230054548

True. My issue is just how they didn't quite flow into one half to the next very well. Like I said, after the eclipse, everything started changing or getting dropped, with new plots coming out of nowhere. Had they kept it more cohesive and had the two halves fit together better in tone and plot, it would have been okay with me. It just feels like two plots stuck together instead of one story. It was all warranted...but it should have been handled with more care than just having things happen out of nowhere, you know?

Tear of gold

Omfa

The tear of gold

The tear of fucking gold

IT DRIVES ME NUTS

I love the idea your friend came up with...Maybe I can find an explaination for the Tear of Gold to put in Classified, but...I don't want to screw up canon, you know? Unless I can make it make sense...

BUT SERIOUSLY THE TEAR OF GOLD WHY DID THEY FORGET THAT IT WAS A THING

I love how our entire fandom can turn rabid over this one little thing, lol. Like...you mention the tear of gold...and everyone FLIPS SHIT. xD I find it fascinating how we chose this one thing to focus on over all :P

Anyways yeah you are totally correct I wish they had put it in...somewhere...somehow...anywhere...at all...

I respect Season 3 for the sheer scale, the extremely well done acting, and how they really seemed to put their all into it. In fact, that's what makes me the most disappointed: there was so much effort that the mistakes just feel...bigger, compared to, say, season 1, where even though that season had it's own flaws, well, it wasn't attempting to do anything too ambitious and just stuck to HHA...