Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-14138255-20170905222207

I'm kind of hoping they'll point this out in some way, how being in Haven is so insignificant compared to roughing it in the countryside, especially if Haven has a blissfully chipper atmosphere considering all that's happened. The only reason they'd even attend at all is if they're trying to use it to find Cinder and co. While there they might stumble upon Leo's affiliation with Salem.

Of course, this would require (what's the word?) some eye for potential, something Merry is consistently bad at (they're given several opportunities to examine people's emotions and feelings after Beacon in V4, and they botched most of them without payoff). Not to mention a lack of direction I feel.

I think the Blake sneak peak was ok, but much  slower than they clearly intended. I get the sense that neither of them said "can you make it go a little faster, more of a break-neck chase speed. Maybe add a few more debris to make it seem more plausible why she had to stop and shield her eyes?"

That kind of lack of direction (and a bit of screenwriting failure) came with Whitely too, how he kind of witlessly said "haha, you should have known better, now I will inherit the company" in almost the same manner as he did when he was 'nice' (which was as subtle as a sledgehammer). This is all shocking since it was a VA from TeamFourStar, which have some of the best up-and-comer VAs out there. They just couldn't say "can you please do another take?" or make the dialogue better than a stale "it's not wise to fight with father." How about "(beat) What did you expect? That father was just going to accept your 'you're not the boss of me anymore' approach? What did you even learn at that academy?" backed up by him acting innocuous the whole time before that. SUBTLETY

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I have no idea where that came from.