Thread:Corbierr/@comment-25576856-20150221010401/@comment-4816103-20150221180007

But that was the barest effort to foreshadow anything ever! They foreshadowed the mask more than the Osirian thing! (Seriously, in the background of a lot of episodes, the mask is directly in the viewer's line of vision and it's almost sublminal and it's kind of cool I must admit they did that one really well.) One conversation? That's it? Hell, if that's the build up, Joy would have made as much sense, being born 12 hours apart and having a rather opposite personality to Nina! By foreshadowing, I mean, show him interacting with Nina more often. Show him with some amount of protective instinct that just sort of comes out. One conversation with his dad does not equal sufficiant foreshadowing, and in fact just makes it worse since that scene was never really mentioned again until the finale.

ANYWAYS, other people were also important in the season 1 finale. Nobody had a big hero moment that made the others useless, everyone did something of use that time, even if it was something small. Season 2 was almost like that, but really the most important things people like Patricia, Jerome, Alfie and Amber did was rescue Eddie, be kidnapped, rescue Eddie and help out Jerome, and, uh, help out Nina a little, respectively. I mean getting Eddie back home was important because it set the stage for the Osirian thing to happen. But anyone could have done their job. And in the end their actual importance drops significantly as other people start doing superheroic stuff and they just sort of sit there watching. Everyone did something in the season 1 finale, and even things that weren't super important still at least showed development or mattered for the character, not the plot alone.

I wish the deleted scenes were kept too. There was even a Ferome moment! :D But while the main couple was indeed Fabina and the final moment was their scene, the finale was about everyone. I don't mean in terms of romance, obviously. I mean everyone got to matter. Nobody was just sitting there with nothing to do, everyone contributed and their being there meant something. Okay, you can make a case for Mickra, but as the second most shown pairing in the episode, you could also say they were also important to the finale even if they did absolutely nothing. How do you measure a character's importance? I measure it by if they did anything useful that no other character could have done in their place, if they showed development, or if they had enough screentime to make up for it. In this way, everyone in the season 1 finale was important, because their roles all mattered in the long run and they all got a mini-spotlight. Just because they didn't have a special scene at the end doesn't mean they didn't matter overall.

Yes, but that's implying that the most important part of the story is the plot. In some cases, that's true, it's called plot-driven. HOA is not the kind of story that should be plot-driven. The season 1 finale also tied up the plot, but it didn't make the characters any less important to do so. Everything was balanced in my opinion- you had the climax with escaping Rufus, building the cup, etc. You had the romance tied up. And lastly, you had the character arcs being either completed or at least highlighted. Season 2 the season overall, being a lot more interested in plot and romance for the most part, (I'm just generalizing, bear with me), sort of pushed characterization to the side or twisted their personalities to work. Now I'm not saying it happened all the time or with every character. But it happened more often in season 2 than in season 1, which of course set the stage for season 3...

I admit that Fabian would have been too obvious, but at least Fabian would have deserved it! But no joke, Jerome would have been AWESOME. He has in fact saved Nina on multiple occasions and even got worried when she was gone, if only because he thought Rufus was involved. That would have been a PERFECT twist, and it would have even given more meaning to the whole gem search...