Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26986589-20161029210635/@comment-26986589-20161031234452

Nikoli the rebel wrote: As a teenager, I always loved the "Series of Unfortunate Events" which were a set of 13 children's books that took 13 books to explain the universe fully. One of the things it did right was explaining right away the motive of the big bad.

However, that wasn't the only secret. Throughout the story all the way up until the last book there were deep and meaningful secrets that we discovered and some questions that were never answered. For example, during the seventh book the protagonists leave somebody to die who we find out in a latter book was their own father.

I bring this up because a plot can have an atmosphere of mystery about it while still having explained the motives of all of the important characters. But when the only mystery IS the motives of the important characters (namely WTCHS) then the plot loses a sense of depth and exhausts the viewers with constant teases of potential. My point exactly regarding Cinder.