Am I the only one who thinks that the seasonal story is quite weak this time around? Especially coming off the back of Haunted with one of the best seasonal stories so far. My criticisms are as follows... - The pirate theme is tonally jarring and way too overt. It just feels really goofy for Destiny characters, including some that historically have been portrayed as fairly serious, to start giddily roleplaying pirates and continually reference it without refrain. The Fallen have traditionally been pirates in Destiny's story, but they were believable, serious pirates. Bands of cutthroat aliens who would kill and steal to survive and for revenge, but with their own culture and technology. Now all of a sudden that culture and technology starts mimicking human 17th century pirates for no reason other than 'don't you want to roleplay pirates in Destiny?'. It could be fun, but is not consistent with, nor tonally appropriate for the main story of the game. Such romps work better in side-plots that don't affect the main plot, Grasp of Avarice being a good example of this working with the pirate theme. - More silly family drama. It was bad enough at times in Season of the Lost but at least then it was pre-existing family dilemmas that some people were interested in seeing, (people wondering how Mara would react to Crow). This time it's all been made just for this season, no one had been curious about any of it in advance and it's quite frankly uninteresting. We know Mithrax used to be a bit of a monster, so should Eido. He's been blatantly clear about regretting his past before so it's ridiculous that he's so stubborn about revealing it to Eido now. Ooh and now because he is that pushes his daughter more towards malicious auntie Eramis. Blegh. It feels forced and inconsequential. It also shouldn't have taken up more than two weeks of story, but was dragged out all season instead. Not only is this drama a filler story, but it's uninteresting filler story in a time period that is full of interesting stuff that is relevant to explore. I wonder how many more things about Mithrax's past the writers can invent at the drop of a hat for the sake of one season's story. He's got enough going on in the present to be interesting, quit making more skeletons in his past to focus on! - Eramis sucks in this. We all know that as far as envoys of the Witness go, she isn't particularly high up. But MAN did she look pathetic this season. Couldn't even secure and lock down a SINGLE relic. Instead she just sends these clowns at us (the old crews are another supposedly significant bit of Fallen lore that we somehow hadn't heard about until this season), just for them to be hyped up by the protagonists... who immediately proceed to trounce every one of them without any effort whatsoever. Meanwhile Eramis is just sitting in the background ordering them around and taking the occasional break to call us and stir family drama. She should have been in the action more and frankly Mithrax had no business beating her in a fight when she can use Stasis. What if instead of losing every single relic, she did manage to claim some and we had to go to her base of operations to steal them back? You know... Like pirates do. And instead of fighting some irrelevant clown for them, at that point we fight Eramis herself with House Salvation to get them back from her and she flees. There are some sprinklings of interesting Eramis stuff in there, like the hints of her betraying the Witness. But there's just way too much incompetence for me to care. She used to be ruthless, and I miss the ruthless Eramis that was actually feared by her people. - The interesting plot details that are actually of some importance are kept in the background. These being the easy to forget fact that the Witness has sent her to hunt down the remains of Nezarec, and that they still emanate powerful darkness and signs of life. This is actually somewhat interesting, but needs to be way more fleshed out to pad out a season. The question of 'why does the Witness want to reclaim the remains of Nezarec?'. Instead it's just in the background the whole time and never really questioned by any of the characters at all, despite the fact that it's the most interesting question of the season. I don't care about Mithrax and his family drama. I care about what the Witness and its forces are up to leading into our impending confrontation with them. One can only hope the finale will actually answer the why to it and result in something that is both interesting and of consequence.