#Callum can stay - Ehasz clearly wants his 'Aang but better and he's also Sokka'

[sir-adamus]

It’s such a shame because, outside of all the behind the scenes awfulness present in most productions, there was a lot of cool potential with T/DP, and even with a very mid first season that potential kept investment. But season 3 was…. Rough.

The pacing is one the biggest issues, and it doesn’t help that they literally had Ez separate from the group, be king for a couple days, then meet back up with his bro and Ray/la.

I’m not interested in the main ship. Don’t even get me started on how fast that moved!

Sor/en was great but man… everything else felt like such a chore to get through. Like you said, never have I lost interest in a show so fast. Couldn’t even watch the fourth season, maybe it was somehow better, but… part of me is doubtful.

Soren was the only redeeming part of the third season, his actor Jesse Inocalla just has great line delivery in general - he's also in i think episodes 15 and 16 of Sword Art Online Abridged and he's great there too - and Soren's arc was the only one that didn't feel like it was firing all thrusters out of nowhere because it was happening in a realistic timeframe

Rayl/lum goes from 'complete strangers' to '"in love"' in the space of three weeks in-universe and it makes zero sense (which is made even worse because they eject Ez from that main throughline and so the 'romance' takes over the entire plot). and then it rapidly shoots into 'the war that has been brewing since the first season started and is tied to multiple inciting incidents starts and is over in the space of like half an hour and now Everything is Fine'

also Callum goes from a tolerable if kinda bland protag in the first two seasons to an utterly insufferable overpowered ass in the third - his eidetic memory only ever comes up when he needs to pull magic out of his ass, he destroys a precious locket that had been passed to him by Rayla after she herself had received it from one of her adoptive fathers, simply so he could prove her wrong and win an argument with her, and then he pulls off bullshit flying magic that is noted to be incredibly difficult and rare for the naturally magic elves to do