Yugioh Zexal, episode 6

[cypsiman2]

On the last episode, a painfully obvious and painful plotline was established wherein Yuuma was framed for pranks he did not commit; at the time I'd stated that obviously Yuuma would be exonerated, and all those who'd so erroneously accused him would then beg his forgiveness, how could they have possibly thought such horrible things about him, truly they are not worthy of him. Then it occurred to me that there was another, equally insipid and trite possibility, that Yuuma would not get the forgiveness of his peers, but he would be magnanimous of his peers and would endure the slings and arrows of their unjust accusations, truly Yuuma is such a marvel, would that we could aspire to his heights.

Well, the fraud is exposed...and yet neither of these things happened. It was just..."Oh hey, we can prove that Yuuma did not do all those horrible things that everyone said he did." And nothing comes of it. To me, that seems an incredible display of narrative incompetence; that Shin Yoshida is unable to properly prop up his idiot hero through false accusation martyrdom...that's just special. True, I shouldn't be surprised, Shin Yoshida is after all both the man behind the DOMA arc AND the man who screwed up the Memory World arc for the anime, so gross incompetence of the highest caliber is not an unknown with this guy. And yet, I am.

Comments

[junglefowl26.livejournal.com]

So.....both options you predicted would be stupid and predictable, and going with neither was even stupider?
Would there have been any outcome that actually would have pleased you.

[cypsiman2.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a matter of them setting up a plotline, and then failing to follow through on it; regardless of how stupid the plotline is, dropping it is just bad writing.

Really, the only outcome that would have satisfied would have been one in which the obnoxious false martyr crap was never brought up to begin with.