Responses
I feel like this wouldn't have been so frustrating iif the chapter hadn't ended here
That's true. That long flashback arc was essentially an extended cliff hanger and it ends only to drop us into another one *immediately* like what. Get me out of here.
(╯°Д °)╯╧╧ (At least other folx are into it.)
Frfr
I can't believe we went through that FOREVER flashback arc which ended in death only to return to a present that brings the same characters and readers back to (what feels like) the exact same point. It's a repetition of all the same beats. I get the story logic of it but I find the repetition tedious and bereft of all tension. Alive, dead, whatever, all I want at this point is a solid development in which the characters get to do and be something else damn.