>>115688559>See, that rings more true. Because it brings the issue more towards executive meddling, which is also something NoL had to deal with. The difference is that NoL picked her battles, and waited to push the CatrAdora romance until she knew she had the audience support, which she then used as ammunition against the executives, something the V-crew couldn't do.And, yes, I agree that they're not quite as competent in character writing as the She-crew, which forced them to rely on plot more, which they then were hamstrung by.I'm sorry, but the "executive meddling" rings hollow. No, let me be stronger - that's a bullshit excuse for their incompetence. They told us the meddling came in the form of being told Shiro had to be alive, and not being allowed make Shiro gay (until they were able to imply it, and then they were able to do more than imply it, and... It's A Whole Thing). That definitely hurt the quality, but not enough to excuse wholesale shitting of the bed in the end. Executives didn't make the writers go "okay, we'll have the villain literally destroy every reality in a multiverse, and then we'll have Allura just realize she's powerful enough to fix that, even though she never displayed a fraction of that power." Execs didn't make them introduce the entities then drop the idea. Execs didn't make them spend an ep visiting an alternate reality that didn't matter. Execs didn't make them ignore Lance-Allura until the final season, then slam them together before Allura snuffed it and Lance went off to a farm.
Seriously, fuck the suits, but we were told where the meddling hurt the show, and honestly that was a minor detail compared to the bigger problems. Shit, Shiro's arc was solid until he was put in charge of the Atlas, and the problem with THAT was that The Atlas sucked ass.
Execs didn't make the writers go "we want a boring generic military vessel instead of a castle that's also a spaceship."
