Talk:The End Times/@comment-2A02:C7F:820:3200:987F:7DF5:7383:243A-20171110071839/@comment-44956785-20200130101519

Well, a decent amount of it made sense to me. I for one loved the plot arch of Tyrion's curse turning him from a champion to a tyrant while the single greatest sworn enemy of the Elves turned out to be the saviour they needed all along. The fact that Malekith didn't go along with it willingly at first and had a heartfelt moment of questioning before plunging himself into the flame really sold the redemption arc.

Same thing for Thorgrim Grudgebearer. Despite the obvious checklist feeling of having deathmaster Snikch finishing him off, I loved his final speech before executing Queek. It felt like a fitting end for the High King to personally execute the most wanted of their kind.

Now, I will concede that the battles got incredibly repetitive. There were so many times when it was just blatantly obvious which side the reader wanted to cheer for, and how that side would always almost win but not quite. Towards the end the actual sieges began to drag on and feel incredibly impersonal as a checklist of characters was slowly bumped off during each major fight.

In summary, I don't think the story doesn't make any sense, and I do like a few specific scenes, but most of the arc left me disappointed and feeling like a lot of it was uninspired.

(And yeah, as to the original comment, killing a Fantasy world meant to be driven by a playerbase is just a bad move as a company. How can you get profit out of a meaningless product?)