I finally had a chance to watch season 4. Overall, I didn't have any problems with it, except for two. The first was that the political messaging really slowed down the progression of the story and character arcs. There wasn't the sense of breakneck speed there was in other seasons, or the concentration on relationships. I mean, the strongest arc belonged to the Deep. That shouldn't happen!
Also, considering the very direct messaging, it was weird to take the character with the emotional core of the whole series, the good guy Mary Sue, and then rape him multiple times, victim blame, and then don't address it.
It left me feeling like this could have been an excellent five episode season, and two full episodes worth of filler. I mean, I'll still take that.
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