>>92207083>All of us knew the season was doomed when they leaked the thing that Ashi would stay.I don't think that's fair. Having a B story isn't indicative of a bad direction. Plenty of fantastic movies have B stories and they work out just fine. It's just that the execution has been very poor.
The [as] promos around the show made the daughters of Aku, Green Samurai, and Jack losing his sword to be this huge and interesting deal with the first three episodes setting the bar really high for people's expectations.
But things just flopped around after episode 4 and the resolution to all these plot points has been terrible.
It's also worth noting that the first 3 episodes were more subtle in their presentation and allegory, whereas later on Genndy seems to go out of his way to explain everything in a very simplistic and straightforward manner.
TL;DR: the premises aren't bad they're just executed poorly
