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disappointment about shadow and fortune

Khâmul·10/30/2015, 5:51:43 PM·2 votes·682 views

When I saw the lore change for the shadow isles champions(i'm happy for mordekaiser changes,he is my main,but i'm waiting for yorick and eve),I was really happy. But I'm a bit disappointed about the shadow and fortune part. It's well written but I find what annoys me the most,just like in shonens (a manga style): when the main theme of the darkness,they introduce hope. Sure , I was expecting more interaction with shadow isles champions.I really wanted them to be in the front of the scene. Planning a battle,from their point of view( or at least,showing us a real slaughter if it's on the mortal point of view). I'm started to be sick of reading already the same story ( the power of friendship /love bullshit that comes from nowhere). Honestly,there's not so much about shadow. I couldn't feel a trace of fear,despair,death. I was excited at the beginning when i was reading because i was telling to myself " just wait,in the next chapter,they'll come"...I was so wrong.

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Valaran Nara10/30/2015, 6:05:06 PM4 votes

Power of friendship didn't exist.

If you mean MF's company, that's loyalty on the grounds of, "I chose you to be my leader cause I'm intending to skullf**k everyone else."

The Joker had loyal followers. Penguin, Two-Face, and the likes. Tell me, do you think they were friends with their company? Nope. It was a job, one that the henchmen and crew made themselves deathly loyal to. BTW, most of MF's company perished. By the time they made it to the bridge, there was about a dozen, and then a few more died off. There's probably about 8 out of the originally 20 that showed up.

As for the hope, well, you kinda got me there. Hope was what saved Lucy's life. Or, at the very least, the fact that Senna didn't fully pass on (even though that knowledge nearly got him killed). Actually, that wasn't as much hope as a "Fuck, I'll try" because she appeared and he had no choice. Because apparently, he forgot he could even DO the silver dagger. With all the times that locket was glowing.

But when it comes to despair. Yes, Lucy won, but it went from "Thresh killed my wife" to "Thresh has my wife's immortal soul captive and he's torturing her to no ends." BTW, Thresh is the most sadistic being ever. His hope probably dwindled after that battle. He still didn't kill Thresh. His guns are no longer effective because THRESH knows how they work, and his wife...she has no peace. He's in greater despair than before. He's only going because a life mission now. Nothing else matters.

BTW, you have to love how it ended.

"Touch that knife again, and I'll gut you like that Krakenwyrm!"

Edit:

Also, all they did was survive a harrowing. They didn't stop it from happening again.

Peridition10/30/2015, 6:34:22 PM4 votes

What exactly was hopeful about it to you?

A massive amount of people died.

Bilgewater is in (even more) ruins.

Senna is still be tortured by Thresh. Probably even worse now.

It look like if people don't sacrifice something to this Bearded Lady for saving them, she's going to wreck their lives.

I'm failing to see the happy ending.

LordHippoman10/30/2015, 10:19:11 PM2 votes

Did you just want the story to end with Bilgewater destroyed and all the champs dead? That would piss off an unbelievable amount of people. I don't know what a "shonen" is, but there are very, very few stories in the history of literature where the good guys don't at least kinda pull it out in the end. They certainly do exist, but they're far from the norm in this sort of adventure/horror story.