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[themightyspazz]

Waiting until the last minute to pack for trips is the best you guys.

From bjornwilde:

What structural aspect of your pup's canon is less than ideal? Is it redundant descriptions? A poorly fleshed out character? No clear rules for magic? Not enough history? A flimsy culture?

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[minkhollow]

Villains By Necessity: I wish there was a map. It's really hard to try to picture what's where, and they always seem to be crossing water to get to the next place.

Warehouse 13: TIME AND SPACE EXIST, GUYS. Quinn's covered a lot of the time issues, but the show also has a tenuous grasp on geography. (Oddly, if they'd just say what Artifact lets them cover a lot of space very quickly - and why they never seem to use it when time's of the essence - I'd be more okay with that.)
And let's not even talk about the mysteriously appearing family members.

Percyverse: I haven't been keeping up since Lost Hero, but I think Riordan could have laid the groundwork for the Roman shenanigans a little better than 'OH BY THE WAY THIS IS A THING.'

Discworld: I'd like to revisit some of the one-off characters and never hear from Rincewind as a POV character again. Rincewind works best when he's not the only thing going on.

Potterverse: oh good lord. Particular to the House of Black, JKR has no grasp on timelines. If you follow the one she made, Walburga's father was like... 13 when she was born? Really????
Overall, I feel like she tried to make the wizarding world a grittier place without fully processing the implications of that. The political system is so very clearly fucked in Order of the Phoenix... and no one fixes it. What I wanted from an epilogue was some sense of 'what do we do now so this doesn't happen again?'

OUaT: THE CAST IS TOO DAMN BIG. I mean, when a series regular leaves to do another show... ::grumbles::
That aside, from what I've heard about the show's plot since I gave up watching suggests it's come down with Lost Syndrome in a big way.

[bjornwilde]

OUaT: THE CAST IS TOO DAMN BIG

This. I'll have you know when I watched the half season finale and Grammy was the one sniffing out Henry, I was confused as that had always been Ruby.

[inlovewithwords]

I think it might be coming down with Lost Syndrome due to, you know. The guys in charge. I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier.

[minkhollow]

Well, yes. That would be why I called it Lost Syndrome.
My other OUaT thing is I want a fucking map of the Enchanted Forest. You can't have a story that's half political by default without knowing whose kingdoms claim overlapping territory, where it makes sense to ally with someone, all that good stuff.

Not to mention the Plot-Advancing Naps last season. How're you going to get from Snow's castle back to Cora's hideout on foot if you have to stop long enough to achieve REM sleep?