Fairy Gone 2nd Season Episode 12 Discussion

Jonesy974 said:
Holy fuck this show was bad. Like, real bad. Its a shame because it honestly had potential, but it was all wasted.
As a whole the show just tried to do wayyyyy to much so it never really fully committed to any plot line or even fleshed out half the back stories it teased.

Just taking a look at the end of the series here, it takes 23 episodes for Marlya and Ver to reunite. Marlya gives the same speech she gives to Ver every time the cross each other and this time it finally sticks. Ray Dawn who was this mysterious pseudo-bad guy the whole time, who they made seem like he had some big brain 200IQ plan going on the whole time, turns out was just a guy who admitted to fucking up by committing a war crime back in the day solely because of poor judgement, but was otherwise a decent dude who just wanted to be a good leader for his people.
Ver promises to never leave Marlya again...dies 20 minutes later doing stupid shit, just so Marlya could get a pointless deus ex power even though her fairy already had the power to stop other fairies.

Now lets delve further into all of the things this show fucked up from the get-go:

1. First and foremost, the yuri bait. From the onset Marlya was so obsessed with finding Ver, and every time she talked about her it was always in a manner that described how deep their bonds were. They never said the phrase "like family" until the 23rd episode, so the entire time they were constantly teasing some level of romantic feelings, especially on Marlya's part. And it amounted to absolutely nothing.

2. Marlya is an expert marksman who never killed a single person, and vowed to never do so. So in the actual grand scheme of things she contributed literally nothing to the team or to the story outside of main plot elements and her fairy doing things.

3. Ray Dawn and Veronica both being wastes of characters right when they redeem themselves at the end. Nothing they did in the previous episodes amounted to anything either.

4. Damien acting like a bad guy for the first half of the show, and always acting like he has a grand ulterior motive, but turns out he was just a good guy trying to stop the Black Tome from falling into bad hands.

5. Damien's back story with saving and raising Veronica not being explored.

6. Chima being shown and treated like a deux ex machina creature that was going to have massive plot relevance at some point but never did.

7. Klara and Serge always acting like they have some sort of thing going on there but that never amounts to anything.

8. The show itself tried to combine war, politics, revenge plots, fantasy, the mafia, religious cults, evil shounen final invincible threat, and other genres all into one, and in doing so overloaded and succeeded at none of them.

9. Wolfran literally wanted to destroy the world because his family died (a thing that was also never confirmed either. They said they died, but also tossed in a "but well they never even found the bodies soo...").

10. Most of anything that was "plot relevant" to the story didn't even happen until the second half (ie: Marlya's fairy powers, divine beast, fusion fairy, the entire religious cult plot line), making the first 12 episodes of the show practically irrelevant. Other than being introduced to characters, nothing of plot significance happened.

11. Axel was actually the guy who murdered the guy hiding in the slum town, and it tried to make it seem like he was actually part of Eins or something important, but that was never elaborated on. Outside of killing that guy for unexplained reasons he was just a information broker.

12. Robert was even more useless in the second half.

13. The guy who stole Ozz's fairy (who I believe was the child of the red fairy tome author) was teased like he was going to be a major player in the second half. I think he was even in a key visual. And he ended up being a nut job who lost one fight, gave out plot info, then immediately killed himself.

14. All of the different color fairy tomes were all supposed to be important for their own reasons, but that was never explained. They were all essentially their own bible about fairies with important information in them, but never explained what kind of information each one had or what differentiated them from each other. Even the black tome was a mystery outside of it teaching how to summon the divine beast.

15. The second in command of Gui Carlin was introduced as the most OP mother fucker and was presented as a legitimate threat only to die like a bitch an episode or 2 later.

16. So many weird scene cuts. Particularly between episodes. One episode could end with them riding on a train with them about to do a mission. Next episode starts with them back at HQ with whatever mission already completed off-screen. So many things were just implied to have happened, or forced in between scene changes which was incredibly jarring at times.

17. Wolfran was working for Arcame, (an organization that didnt matter) but then wasn't working for Arcame. Then he was working for Ray Dawn, but then wasn't working for Ray Dawn. Then he was working for Eins, then stopped because the speech Free gave him for the 11th time finally worked.

18. The archbishop and Eins always were one step ahead of Dorothea even without spies or leaked information. This also raises inconsistencies such as how Free was allowed to get Verosteel (something that happened but was never shown) right before Dorothea started rooting out Gui Carlin and Eins....but then Eins is one step ahead and steals all of the fairy weapons because they knew Dorothea was on to the archbishop.

19. Bitter Sweet and the blonde girl were just kind of written off and didnt make an appearance until the final monologue. And they didn't do much in the meantime either, they just constantly tried to third party whenever the black tome pages were around and always failed.

20. It was implied that there was a little something between Free and Sweetie too but that was also never explored or elaborated upon.

21. The entire show half of the time felt like a promotion for Know-name's music. Every OP/ED and Insert song was done by them, and they crammed full fledged insert songs in at every possible chance.

Honestly if I kept going and thought of every plothole, fuckup, or bad writing possible this list would probably hit 30-40 bullet points. So I'm going to stop before I lose my fucking mind. I dont know what I'm going to rate the show yet, but it wont be good that's for damn sure.