Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.101.59-20140402002122/@comment-4616231-20140903201135

Sigma was gone ever since Season 6 and Meta's motivation was still the AI, because now he knew the power he could get from them. That's why he died in Season 8, because he couldn't control his lust for power. Unless you're saying he somehow became MORE insane after falling off a cliff. Really, if he went on a killing spree I would think it's because he would be frustrated he COULDN'T find any more AI. I don't see why he'd suddenly not be interested in them anymore since he's pretty familiar with them by now.

But you know what this also does? It reduces his character. Despite what he was, Meta still had some form of character development for him. And you are literally reducing him to nothing more than a mindless animal for the sole purpose of killing without a purpose. Apparently, since motivation is a problem, just give him no motivation! Sure.

I don't want this because there's way more interesting things they could be doing with the show. I don't give a shit how strong the Meta is and I don't want them showing it off for another season because I already know that he's strong. This is basically the same as I've said before:

"The cliche'd "revenge" motive would just be an excuse to bring him back for pretty fights. It doesn't matter what he's surived, his story is over. There's nothing left he could do except come back to the show and die. Because you know he's not going to win. If he did we wouldn't have a show."

Except replace "cliche'd "revenge" motive" with "lack of a motive". Honestly, it doesn't really matter what "role" he's in if ultimately he's just in the show for fight scenes. And you shouldn't base your show around trying to make a good fight scene - you should base it around trying to make a good show. To me, if the Meta returns, that just tells me that they've run out of ideas and that apparently the only way they can provide entertainment for people anymore is watching a brute as mindless as the fans apparently are randomly killing things. If you want that stuff then geez, you're better off to just play the damn game.

The fans need to get over the Meta already.