I was listening to Operation Cobra’s final podcast (315) and I realized that not only did I agree with everything they said about Quiet Minds but that the writing on ONCE is really starting to bother me as well. Inconsistent rules of magic, huge gaping plot holes, characters acting OOC to what they’ve done before, curse/amnesia/TLK/villains who have the same psychological makeup as the one before, lack of equal representation of all kinds of people, filler and colorless characters, no time to breathe or explain because you must advance plot…. There is a difference between hating/bashing and having actual legit criticisms. A lot of what people say are legit criticisms. But lately it just gets shot down as “you’re a hater”
Yeah…I also listened to their podcast and realized I was nodding my head at ALOT of what they were saying. It was refreshing to hear someone just straight up say the writing is pure crap at this point. Makes me feel like I wasn’t going crazy. That I didn’t have to bow down to the all mighty A&E and their “brilliant” team of writers, because I felt there was nothing brilliant about it. The only reason I stuck around was for the characters.
Then I started listing to their previous episodes and found I pretty much straight up agreed with almost everything. From the contrived magical fix-its to the plots that were left open never to be explored again. It just got worse and worse, when I was hoping it would get better if I held on. There was just too much crap I put up with up until now and “Quiet Minds” was my breaking point.