DOTA: Dragon's Blood - Book 3

Here the writers literally ran out of steam and it seemed to me that the story was planned out for those 2 or so seasons but they couldn’t manage to end it in the second one. Truly, the first 2 episodes were the proverbial last pages and after that there was an unnecessary stilted epilogue where everyone had to sort out their inner complexes and social issues in relationships and one character had to establish a new order in order to convince himself, despite his omniscience, that it wasn't the real Lotus. The entertainment literally ran off to places in the galaxy where the story had rather sporadically and bizarrely failed to go. I liked DOTA better in the D&D fantasy mode, with character development and exploration of the lore and the outside world. None of that was on the menu anymore; indeed, I wouldn't sign up for the verbal haggling of all the characters or the bogged-down, overdone fight sequences even if I had no other choice. I hope we don't revisit this particular storyline, and I'll be waiting all the more for the next installment of Arcana. I would never have believed that I'd rank LoL higher than DOTA anywhere. A better 2 stars. (16/08/2022)

I can’t make up my mind whether I liked the last season of DOTA. The resolution of the whole story that was spread out over the previous two seasons came after just two episodes, and the rest was just this weird study of a tragic man's struggle against fate. After the second episode, I asked myself "What’s left to say now?" and I'm still not sure if I'm satisfied with the answer I got. Was it necessary? Well, maybe. At least considering one of the characters, it does make some sort of sense, and it adds one more important message about the meaning of life and the nature of an ideal world, which I don't think is a bad thing. Was it fun to watch? Not really, only at certain moments. I still think it was a very good fantasy, but this final part didn't blow me away as much as the rest of the series. It didn’t feel like something significant was happening like in the previous seasons. Instead of a satisfying ending to an epic heroic saga, it was more of a relationship/family drama. Plus, I saw the ending coming a mile away. It was still good, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. Animation-wise a great show, content-wise it's weaker for me. 6/10 (11/08/2022)