Souls in Darkness

This episode (which I feared would happen the way it did the way the story before led to it) literally ruined my entire impression of the show so far. First season was a bit clumsy as a lot of character introduction was hard to present as well as character development in so few episodes, but it found its legs eventually and ended on a high note. Season 2? Peak way to represent the original story, focusing entirely on the unique character development born from native interaction over chance-based scenarios that made the live action show so entertaining.

Season 3? Trash garbage.

It goes away with a lot of what was unique in the live action to explore much more cliched versions of character development. What is worse, it mostly just retreads old ground by using a different gait - the moment resurrection is introduced as a plot device in a story, it is obvious it will work and happen until the end of the story, any story, if it wants for a character to be preserved. What was unique in the original was (and I tell you that with complete confidence) the best moment from 3 campaigns of more than 10,000 hours of play (at the time of this writing) and that was Scanlan leaving the party. This is not done at all in the adaptation, an action much stronger than a simple death. His disappointment in his comrades, their choices, his example as a father, all of that culminated by possibly the best acting I have seen on screen, done by Sam Riegel - they completely overwrote it for imagined struggles and creating the exact same dynamic problems to solve that they did for the last two seasons. My disappointment cannot be put into words, this here is really a trailer of a movie I can't be bothered to release, just like the showrunners didn't try to keep the original spirit of uniqueness and replaced with banal, artificial story that we could see anywhere.