Thread:Corbierr/@comment-25576856-20150221010401/@comment-4816103-20150221025433

I was talking about heroes. Yes, the villains were important, but they aren't the main characters. Nina was important because she was the Chosen One. Joy was important because she had a rather pointless almost death scene. Fabian was important because Fabina. Eddie was important because he was suddenly the Osirian which was not foreshadowed at all (and don't bring up the time when he woke up to Senkhara, that's not enough to make me care).

Yes it did focus on Joytricia. Just because they weren't together doesn't mean they didn't matter. In fact, they mattered more. For example, Patricia seemed to be considering risking the sandflies if it meant Joy would be safe. It's about subtext and the characters thinking about each other more than they think about anyone else. You only saw them a little at the end, but the entire episode had moments. Yeah, in season 2 you saw them all happy and knew everything was getting wrapped up. But I didn't feel it, especially because half of the time those moments at the end were the only moments they had in the finale. At least in season 1's finale all the important relationships were shown throughout the episode. They were all wrapped up, they just didn't need to show everyone in their own scene. Which they actually did in the deleted scenes anyways, to an extent.

No! The finale is the ending of the story, yes. So isn't it better to focus a bit more on the characters we've watched through the entire season? Season 2's finale had very little time for development moments and everything was kind of rushed because nothing big happened until the last five minutes. Yeah, I agree on the Victor thing, but I disagree about everyone else. All the character stuff was taken care of in the episode before, which annoys me. The season 1 finale was full of scenes that showed development- Fabian tackling Rufus, Jerome saving Sibuna, Patrina being super close in the episode, Jason proving to be an Anti-Villain, Nina finally accepting the idea of being the Chosen One... compared to season 2, where all the development had already sort of stopped by this episode with the exception of Victor, probably because there was no other time to show him as a good guy. You can say that it's easy to tell that characters changed, and that's true, but the finale should highlight it somehow, and not just in one small scene, but throughout the entire thing, in subtle ways, through dialogue and interactions and even facial expressions.

-Sigh- Two reasons...but they're both big and imporant.

- It makes a lot more sense. Eddie never interacted with Nina and never showcased any protective instinct. Fabian, on the other hand...

- It sticks to the theme of the American characters being the heroes and being the protagonists kind of undeservingly as Fabian was still more of a hero and more of a protagonist, so making Eddie the Osirian just doesn't feel deserved because it wasn't built up and all he did was hold a crown and respond to the voice in his head.