User blog comment:Corbierr/The Biggest Issue With Season 3/@comment-24596535-20141230134503/@comment-4816103-20141230174426

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That's what bugs me the most, too. Benji not only could have made a very great secondary character, he was a big part of Eddie's backstory. Unlike the whole missing father thing, which is pretty self explanitory, having a deeply rooted rivalry with someone tends to need a little explaining. Of course, they just decided to randomly introduce him and then kick him off an episode or two later, like, okay, whatever...and he was never mentioned again. Nothing he did mattered. If they wanted to have Eddie getting jealous, they could have Patricia's friendship with Alfie or Fabian start growing and he feels like she prefers them to him; mirroring her obsession with Keddie, in a way.

Or, to make Ben matter to the plot, maybe he could have been brought in to the school specifically to throw Eddie off his game in terms of Sibuna. Ben not only makes him prone to envy...you know, a sin...he also makes him focus entirely on winning a pointless dodgeball game and makes Sibuna drop everything for that as well, giving Team Evil a chance to not only distract the heroes, but maybe even catch Eddie sinning. Benji, of course, will think he's just there for a dodgeball game. KT, when sneaking off, learns the truth and tells everyone. Eddie thinks Ben is a Team Evil member and flips out, especially when he's near Patricia, even worse. But then maybe Eddie is about to get taken for a sinner for wrath and Benji sees and manages to save him despite their rivalry. They make up, and Ben leaves, but Team Evil is still one step ahead because during this time with Eddie being distracted, they still managed to capture Patricia and move ahead in their goal. That makes Ben at least tangently related, his arrival now makes sense, and it's much more interesting IMO.

Yeah...thing is, I like Frobisher only because he's the mastermind of the most genius plan in Anubis Villain history. Other than that, no, nothing about him works, not even the fact that he's RFS because HELLO HE WAS DEAD WE SAW HIS GOD DAMN GHOST. Anyways, IDK what to really add, I do agree with you. Except, well...yeah, while the sinner plot was really kind of pointless and took three great characters out of action for a bit...damn...Sinner Sibuna were hot. Somehow the actors made evil look attractive, and that's all I can really say. They needed a better plot, because I actually loved the characters...enough to write an OS from Sinner Patricia's POV, wanna read it? :D Anyways, yeah, second half just really needed work. The plots that were working were dropped in favor of new ones dug up out of nowhere with no foreshadowing that just got increasingly more dramatic and strange.

Jeroy...in Sibuna...Ahhhhhhhh...wasted potential...t-too much w-wasted potential....It's so hard for me to talk about them without breaking into inchoherent capslock. Seriously, you said it, anything else I add would be redudant. They wasted two interesting characters and two stellar actors on love drama when they could have been kicking ass in the mystery.

"Descendants need to stay the fuck away from drama..." YES PLEASE! Dear god, I agree with that so much....Patricia needs to stop being jealous, Jeroy....yeah...and Alfie, well, he may have needed MORE drama or else he wouldn't have been with Willow in the first place, yeah?

Hahaha, you're welcome ;D

Oh yeah, so much acting talent was wasted. Lemme just say, every actor was fantastic. It's hard to pull of strong emotions someone like, say, Tasie has, or make a sudden romance look convincing and cute as hell like Eugene and Klariza did...or make evil look so PERFECT like Brad, Jade and Alex did. But even though they were so good, none of them were given roles that really...let them shine the way they deserved to. Brad and Jade especially.