thispatternismine | Whispers of Fate final impressions

I ended up bailing on Whispers of Fate a few episodes before the end. Everyone just started acting completely stupid out of nowhere. Like, unrealistically & infuriatingly so. Including the main character, who is supposed to be a genius (& it's clearly not him just letting everyone think he's beaten because we see him flopping around alone in his room being all 'I've tried nothing & I'm all out of ideas'). I might have tried to push through, but I'd seen some spoilers about the ending, which was something that sounded interesting, but it'd have to set up well & feel earned to have decent impact, & epic levels of dumbassery was not earning it.

Funnily enough though I poked around on MDL after bailing, since I was no longer worried about stumbling over more detailed spoilers than those I'd already seen, & it turns out that, while it's adapted from a novel, the author has taken so long to finish it that it was still unfinished while the drama was in production, so they had to make up an ending, which involves characters being infuriatingly stupid... wow this sounds familiar somehow...