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Sentry 616 wrote: I think that V7 is shapping up to rival 3. I agree, but I doubt we're on the same page as to why. V3 is entirely overrated. People give it so much praise for how shocking the finale was (it wasn't, because of the dozens of death flags that preemptively spoiled it, but that's beside the point), but they forget about how cliche and unimaginative the plot was up until then.

Tournament arcs and election arcs are similar in one sense: they're what writers do when they're out of good ideas. They've been done to death, and everyone knows there's going to be sabatoge involved, in both cases. It's also a plotline that requires no imagination to engineer. They're practically prewritten.

That's why V7 mirrors V3. Because they're safe and rely on preestablished, trope-heavy narrative elements that never come as a surprise to the viewer.