Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post

If the writers failed to make it clear, while employing so many convoluted plot mechanisms, that is on them. As it is, there was so much filler in the story, they more or less wrote a book anyway.
What you call a failure, I take it with the greatest sense of appreciation. For me good writing is not about spelling out the A, B, C of why something happens, but to provide enough pieces for the reader to come to the conclusion "oh I see, that's why it happens" WITHOUT being told straight out.