MBAR said:I left it out because I feel it's irrelevant. The entire story has been with fourth wall breaks and the entire comic genre is magic nothingness. I disagree it didn't affect her story as it literally completely changes the ending of the first season.TCTTS said:
You conveniently left out the word "tangible." Breaking the fourth wall isn't doing something tangible, within her own story. It's magic nothingness that didn't affect her in-universe story/arc in any real way.
I think its perfectly fair to say that you didn't care for it, but you can't say they didn't do anything and try to come up with a way to dismiss what they did because you don't care for it. The word tangible here is completely arbitrary. I say this before I even knew there is a comic backstory for THIS VERY THING which further erodes that line of criticism.
The fourth wall breaks happened basically once an episode, sometimes twice, for a few seconds each time. They hardly made up the "entire" story. There were multiple times where I forgot that was even a thing she did. So to then devote basically an entire episode to it felt, to me, incredibly off balance. I don't care if it's based in the comics or not. That doesn't make it any less jarring here, in a completely different medium.
Still, like I said, it's not completely about the fourth wall break for me either. It's about how, after the K.E.V.I.N. thing, everything is magically/suddenly solved simply because she asked for it. It was a lot of talking not showing. There was no re-do of the climax, no choice to make or obstacle to overcome in her "real world" life. I would have been *completely* fine with everything else in the episode had there been something more tangible, more character driven, in the real world, AFTER the K.E.V.I.N. thing. Instead, she just *wanted* something to happen, it happened, and that was that, which I found it incredibly unsatisfying.
