Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2601:603:4F00:C360:84C3:164:CC2E:30E1-20200128221549/@comment-32346149-20200130194202

The whole thing is ludacrous, when you think about it. I mean, the notion that Miles, Kerry and Monty planned over a decade of plot in advance is just not believable. Firstly, these three guys just don't strike me as planners. Their methodology has always seemed very haphazard to me. Hell, they didn't even come up with the relics until after Monty had died, and that's become the narrative focal point of the show. How the hell did they plan something that hadn't existed until after the guy died? It's crazy talk.

Secondly, the plot after V3 just doesn't feel like Monty had anything to do with it. It's completely different, both tonally and stylistically (the plot, not the animation). If the plot were indeed engineered before Monty's passing, then I would expect the plot after V3 to feel similar to the way it was before.

Did they have the Beacon arc in mind when Monty was alive? Yes. But everything after that has been all Miles and Kerry. Could they have chatted and speculated about how they were going to end the series while Monty was still alive? Absolutely! It would be shocking if they hadn't discussed that. But if you expect me to believe that given all the narrative elements that have been added post-Monty, that the ending will be exactly some version of what they had planned before, you'd best peddle that shit elsewhere. Because I don't buy it.

Miles and Kerry have to start owning this show. I'm tired of people trying to continuously pin this awful narrative development on a man who's been dead for 5 years. Stop it.