it Was great

dragon-mage said:
I thought season 3 was excellent with some obvious flaws, definitlt doesnt hild a candle to season 1 ,but sid better then two ,i read the light novels and what i love about this series is just the charecters of the story l and the story especily durong the vol 10-15 and vol 20-21,the haters and people should just stop expecting sometging like season 1, season 3 was great looking for to part 2 or season 4

IhnalakoKaina said:
Average s3 fan reasoning, logic and orthography on display right here. The fact that you loved it doesn't mean that it must be good. Possibly quite the opposite.

So "s3 doesn't hold a candle to s1...", and you don't see the problem with that? S1 was not perfect either, so that would mean s3 sucked fuck, no? I think they're all wasted potential, but to different degrees. And explain to me: Why are we not allowed to expect this to have been as great or greater than s1?

Btw, we're rating the ANIME, not the LN. So stop invoking that as if it's a saving grace. Really, some people are so driven by irrational adoration that they do not seem to think before they start writting some bs. This season was a LETDOWN (think about what that means before you call me a hater).

King_Forerunner said:

They were clearly exaggerating and the reason this anime “can’t” live up to season 1 is because it is forever tarnished by season 2 things that were cut like eclair vs ren in volume 6 make the moment when Eclair beat ren in season 3 much weaker and things are only “Letdowns” if you have high expectations I know most peoples mine included expectations were in the gutter and this season far exceeded these incredibly low expectations and was a good season in its own right despite the rushed pacing and being dragged by season 2

IhnalakoKaina said:

So you thought s3 would suck, but it didn't suck that much is what you're saying?

btw, my expectations weren't sky high, they definetly didn't skew my perspective on what makes a show good or bad. If you think "well we cant expect nothing from s3 therefor no matter how bad it is we'll say itwas good" then you don't understand the meaning and purpose of rating.

I don't even think the storytelling defects from s2 made s3 unsalvageble to begin with. There was a way to make s3 good as hell, and they didn't. But that wasn't the only thing that made s3 bad anyways.

King_Forerunner said:

Partially yes

I didn’t say that either yes my expectations where exceeded but that wouldn’t have meant I thought the season was good I did think it was good even though I had low expectations

And what makes season 3 bad other than things the bad pacing and issues caused by the rushed pacing?

IhnalakoKaina said:

Inconsistent animation, bad script. The relentless introduction of new characters, who then just blend into the background not living up to the hype they brought in, the seemingly illogical nature of the characters who do things beyond reason, or sometimes are forced into a painfully unfunny attempt at levity, the direction of the story, which for a while now has been turned into a bloated, conflated mess that tried to go too far beyond it's margins.

I guess I could come up with something more, but that would be nitpicking. Anyway, I did respond your question out of grace, but what does it matter what else was wrong with the show? Don't try to imply that all pacing issues were because of s2 skipping content. Like I said, this season was salvageable, it could've been better than it was. And that is the basis of rating. Just because it wasn't a complete, irredeemable mess doesn't mean that it wasn't bad.

Which going back to the op and his claim:
No. It WASN'T great. The previous season being bad doesn't mean we should give this one some sort of credit, or cut it some slack. If it's bad, it is bad.

King_Forerunner said:

Well I disagree with most of your earlier points the animation was pretty good aside from a few weird moments the script wasn’t bad it set up not only season 4 but also season 5 maybe it felt like characters blended into the background but this is more of a pacing issue has there been more episodes the characters would have been better fleshed out and if you are talking about Ren and Itsuki teaming up with Malty there are logical reasons they made an illogical choice the direction is fine they are dealing with what they always had to the waves but before that they have to kill the phoenix I’m not saying it couldn’t have been better it could have but it wasn’t bad

IhnalakoKaina said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation

Put some effort mate. Not only your argument but your writing too is an eyesore. I didn't say animation was bad, I said it was inconsistent, but i guess your reading and writing skills are about the same level. Amongst all that babble you yourself said it: the pacing sucks, because the script sucks, because the show sucks, and it's not the fault of s2, and even if it was, that doesn't make bad things good. Wasted potential, letdown, bad anime adaptation. Done.