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Okay, I’m going to focus on S3 because that is the most convoluted season of the three. I will quickly add that despite heavy dramatizations here and there in S1 and 2, they were pretty solid in their plot, character development, story building etc. I really did enjoy them a lot.
Now, S3 -_-
I mean it was fine. It was. If we get into the nitty gritty though. It was pretty bad by this author’s standards.
I know they’re capable of crafting a great story with incredibly complex characters, to a point where they’re almost chillingly real, but it seems that in this season the author kind of forgot who Cirrus was along with some others in her cast. For the first time in the story, I felt like I couldn’t understand their actions anymore. In some parts it almost didn’t feel like the characters I had grown to love in S1 and 2.
Also, more than a story, it felt like a collection of moments. Which can be masterfully executed if done well, but here it really just felt like simply that. Moments in their lives. Unresolved conflicts, and if resolved, in an unsatisfactory or underwhelming way. I wouldn’t really blame the author on this particularly. I think it’s more of a circumstance of the setting.
The author, in their beat attempt, tried to tie things up nicely, but it doesn’t work because at the end of the day, these are still high school kids. You don’t have everything figured out by 18. It would be foolish to think that everything in Cirrus’ and Skylar’s lives was resolved by the time they graduated highschool. I think that’s my biggest critique of this story: there wasn’t enough time to bring everything together because they are atuck at the high school age.
I think S3 would have worked much better if it had been a collection of moments of their ADULT lives.
I really did enjoy s1 and 2 so much, bringing tears to my eyes even. But it’s auch a shame that the growth and story of these characters was stumped by the setting in such a large way. Also, I am inclined to believe that the authors health and factors such as time and publishing pressures could have contributed to the plateu of this story.
But hey, at least we know Cirrus and Skylar are happy. Even if we don’t know the extent of it.