User blog comment:Corbierr/The Touchstone Of Ra (Another analyzing rant)/@comment-4741712-20140823051226

Sorry I'm late to this party. I haven't been in a bloggy mood for a while, and my internet was out for a while, but here I am.

Personally, I feel that the newbies were added because a spin-off series would have been Season 4, with the Touchstone of Ra being a backdoor special. Sophia would have been the only one in this special (for obvious reasons), but I don't know if Willow being possessed by the alchemist's spirit would work. Remember the "extra credit" plot line? It would perhaps be a little interesting to see her not get the extra credit because of her new dedication to building the pyramid of Ra. Joy, Jerome, or even Mara could work, though. Wouldn't it be interesting to see Mara as valadictorian suddenly "helping" Sibuna just to build the pyramid? Patricia's and Jeroy's involvement I 100% agree with, no. Make that 100% for Patricia (maybe that was your inspiration for the Rise of Corbierre Patricia plot line?), while I agree with you on Jeroy 110%! Why more for Jeroy? Here's why:

There really wasn't any romantic action between them except for the "Jerome, here.  Now!" line from Joy. As to the ending, I sort of agree with you on, but I don't think that it was just a matter of "Sense when did the Osirian's powers equal a life?" One question arises with the twist ending (Eddie dying, nope, losing his powers) is this: Suppose for a second that Mara (or someone else besides Eddie) really did become the sacrafice. If you recall, when the sacrafice is made (per Fabian's interpretation of the hieroglyph), everyone who has ever touched the stone is turned to stone. If Mara, Victor, or anyone else becomes the sacrafice, everyone (presumably excluding Sophia and the sacrafice) who touched the stone turns to stone while the sacrafice dies, but if Eddie as the Osirian does it, nothing bad happens and the sacrafice is his powers as opposed to his life. (I can only see this remotely justified if the sacrafice to Ra is greater than what's normally required to stop him from turning people to stone!)  So, to recap in a math formula: The ability to use an ancient Egyptian locket, have visions, and protect the Chosen One (while somehow having to stay apart) > A human life. Great morals, writers!!! (BTW, I think this ending was derivative from HHA's ending to the actual series as Ninke/Nina was originally a type of Osirian to Noa, HHA's Chosen One.  In the finale, she gives the enemy the tear of Isis -- Whatever that is, perhaps similar to the tears of gold in HOA? -- knowing her life will end.  She falls over, presumably dead, but has a vision with Sarah and Amneris, saying the tear was the true sacrafice and her life is only beginning.  To be honest, even though I haven't seen all of HHA in context, that seems like a much bigger copout than in TOR).

And as for a rant topic, I have several - Victor's character, darker plots vs. mystery plots, season 3 re-writes you'd make (seeing as you probably dislike season 3 the most), your alternate universe theory for HOA, and Sarah's parents at the end of season 1 vs. Robert's reawakening in Season 3.