Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-544940-20160820233338/@comment-544940-20160824111418

AlphaOfAlphas wrote: 544940 wrote: I mean don't get me wrong there is a lot of stuff which has been explained and that stuff is great/interesting, but a lot of stuff which should be touched on/explained on but isn't. The lore is what got me most interested in the show; the lack of lore is what made season 5 so boring. They barely explained anything about the Dread Doctors, Chimeras, Hellhound and La Bete. Up to now, we barely know anything about Dr. Valack and his relationship with the Dread Doctors. Most of the episodes, especially in 5a, were filler episodes consisting of chimeras-of-the-day. It was too episodic and they didn't fulfill our curiousity by giving us enough info to work with. They took too long to explain a lot of things. It should have been a 12 episode season because the pacing was bad.

I liked it a lot better when the story was driven by the main villain(s) (e.g. Peter, the Kanima and Kanima Master, Alpha Pack and Darach, Nogitsune), not by their insignificant, episodic pawns (the hitmen in Season 4 and Chimeras in Season 5). I hope it gets back to that in season 6, with a lot of lore explanations THROUGHOUT the season (e.g. we slowly learned more about the Kanima's identity, origins, rules and master THROUGHOUT the season). The clues or snippets of info don't have to be big, but just enough to give us satisfaction as they introduce new questions for us to wonder. I think that's been a frequent problem within the show in all honesty. They've done a good job building something up but in the end fail to deliver it in many aspects, however when this it's delivered it's usually great.