Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-70.185.106.56-20131112011558/@comment-69.251.45.144-20131114074726

So, fuck-all happened this season. Terrible pacing - it felt like they were trying to return back to the roots of two teams bitching at each other in a canyon. But then they also tried to have story elements. A bad mix - firstly, RvB as it is now really came into its own when it embraced a plot (Reconstruction). Secondly, you ended up with really long sequences that had no plot significance, just idiots yelling at each other, and the plot only got momentum going with the final few episodes.

Apparently, this season was written by someone new and I can believe it - it feels like someone trying to capture an existing spirit that they're not personally familiar with while also introducing their own changes - so it's both trying to be safe (going back to the bitching in a box canyon) while also kinda unfamiliar (the whole civil war thing kinda drops on you outta nowhere - completely unconnected to anything in RvB ever before). Overall, this season was a miss. A bad miss. It wasn't terrible - it was a miss not because it was bad, but because nothing happened. It didn't try to accomplish anything.

The Carolina twist makes me hopeful - hopeful that maybe next season, something will finally fucking happen and we'll have a real story. I mean, yeah, it's a twist that makes no fucking sense whatsoever, but fuckit, if it means next season will be remotely interesting, compared to the borefest that was Season 11, that's fine by me.