I dunno if surprising is the right word. But it's certainly bad.
Twists are meant to be used sparingly, or else they lose their impact. A discrete work, like a book or movie, shouldn't have more than one or two twists at all. Serial works can include more twists if they're spaced out over time. But having something like twenty twists all thrown together at once at the end of a long-running series is just... well, it's crap writing, that's what it is. And I think what makes it worse is that many (admittedly not all) of the twists on the Dresden Codak list are meant to be lulzy jokes. But Tsubasa is playing them for straight drama.
Also, I wouldn't say that I'm in the Tsubasa fandom, per se. I don't really participate in the fandom side of things. I'm just a person who's reading the series solely for the trainwreck value, and occasionally snarking at it in my personal journal (as opposed to snarking at it in broader fandom spaces, which wouldn't be as welcome).
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Twists are meant to be used sparingly, or else they lose their impact. A discrete work, like a book or movie, shouldn't have more than one or two twists at all. Serial works can include more twists if they're spaced out over time. But having something like twenty twists all thrown together at once at the end of a long-running series is just... well, it's crap writing, that's what it is. And I think what makes it worse is that many (admittedly not all) of the twists on the Dresden Codak list are meant to be lulzy jokes. But Tsubasa is playing them for straight drama.
Also, I wouldn't say that I'm in the Tsubasa fandom, per se. I don't really participate in the fandom side of things. I'm just a person who's reading the series solely for the trainwreck value, and occasionally snarking at it in my personal journal (as opposed to snarking at it in broader fandom spaces, which wouldn't be as welcome).