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My favorite characters just died...most of them! What?! This episode was so hard to watch! I had tears falling for half the episode!

Now I am in a strange position: I have zero hype for season 3 because I won't probably see these characters again, but I can't wait to see it to know what happens next.

What I can tell is that I enjoyed this season more than season 1, and I hope the next one will be even better, even if I'll miss Marci and Winter Wyvern.

Why the heroes dead respect to ur story thats not fair they are better then mirana and davion every heroes most have their own story i hope s3 is better and dead heroes back.

I'm not even sure where to begin, but I can certainly tell you, if you ever wondered what a Dota anime would be like, you probably would never have thought it would be like bad fanfiction mixed with Korra, Voltron, and Game of Thrones.

Season two somehow achieves the impossible - it rushes through its half-baked material while also failing to advance any of the central plotlines of the story in a meaningful way. For any good bit of action or characterization, there's always something that pulls the rug out from your feet and leaves you disappointed. Again, whatever you thought an anime version of Dota would be, this ain't it. It's just a kid's edgy fanfiction.

I pushed myself to finish the first season of the show after finding it difficult to care about the story or lack there of. The poor dialogue didn't help either. While season one seemed to take its time trying to build to some sort of climax, season two takes the opposite approach where everything is rushed rushed rushed and poorly developed. As someone on reddit eloquently stated, this is an adaptation of turbo dota. Character voice lines sometimes clip together where it sounds like the editor forgot to leave space for someone to breath. Conversations consume almost every second of screen time, and worst of all, the conversations attempt to say a lot but end up saying almost nothing at all.

The central storyline of the season throws us headfirst into some bizarre attempt at a Game of Thrones storyline where Mirana tries to take control of her family's kingdom in order to use their forces to fight the elves, but her weird creepy uncle really wants to marry her because this is Game of Thrones now. Season two spends literally most of its runtime on this pseudo-political garbage, and it's about as boring and hackneyed as you would expect. Even though season two feels like it's constantly rushing, the majority of the Helios storyline feels like filler because it keeps going in circles, and it gets even worse when the show attempts to make some kind of "promised one" story for Mirana instead of Davion.

Invoker vs. Terrorblade never moves any further. Invoker vs. Selemene doesn't go much further, and in a stroke of absolute befudgery, ends with Selemene just getting her powers back and teleporting away. Why? Because Fymryn is an absolute moron and she can't stop screwing everything up. GOD!

Beloved characters from the game make more of an appearance in season two, and while this excited me, the way they're ultimately handled felt like a monkey's paw. Crystal Maiden maybe has 10 lines in the entire season, and is probably on screen for less than 5 minutes. Her sister, Lina, has more of a presence in the story, but her character resembles almost nothing about Lina, save for her design and abilities. Even then, Lina is probably in the show for a total of 10-12 minutes?? And then they make Lina try to put out a hit on Mirana because she thought it would make Mirana's uncle leave the throne or something??? And Lina wants the throne because....??????

There are some genuinely nice character moments between some of the characters here, like Winter Wyvern and Brom, Luna and the Not-Pangolier Pangolier, but this all comes crashing down in one of the most bewildering finales I've ever seen. I was so damn excited to see Lina in the show, and I'm so crushed with how her arc turned out.

For some reason, the showrunner decides to kill not one, but three of the Dota heroes in one episode to some boring villain who doesn't emerge until the 11th hour named Kasshura, who is basically an incel for Mirana. Lina literally gets killed off-screen. I kid you not. One moment she's fighting this loser, and the next, she's dead in a blood-covered chair. Kashurra sucks, flat-out. I read a bunch of threads after finishing the show, and half the audience has no idea who he is, or who he is supposed to be, because his only characterization occurs during a exposition dump after he attacks Davion and co.

He's some sort of sentient void dragon that is obsessed with Mirana to the point that he will kill anyone around her because she's basically some sort of chosen one that has the power of sunlight. Or something. He also orchestrated the murder of her parents and almost got her killed too, multiple times throughout her life, but somehow... this was all part of his plan? It's enormously stupid and groan-inducing and made even worse by the fact that this nameless loser is the one to kill Lina, Winter Wyvern, and Marci. Yes, Marci gets choked out in an agonizingly long scene where the evil tentacles from Book Two of Korra show up to strangle her. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if Studio Mir reused assets here. For a show hellbent on rushing past things, they sure take an almost sickening pleasure in showing Marci's face as the life is choked out of her. Somehow, I doubt this is what Valve envisioned when someone approached them about adapting Dota into an anime.

Part of me can't help but feel that these three characters won't stay dead due to the aforementioned multiverse of possibilities that Invoker Dr. Strange won't shut up about, but the writing is deliberately being manipulative, and that just pisses me off either way. For all intents and purposes, these characters seem pretty dead for the time being, and if we have to wait for a season three to have their deaths feel less cheap and forced, then it's just bad writing either way. I'm not a fan of taking a multiverse character and acting like they're the same character, because they're not.

Oh yeah, remember how it was a big plot point that Slyrak was going to possess Davion and ultimately kill him? Well, Slyrak just nopes out of Davion at the end of the season, which makes you wonder why this plot point even mattered.

For the life of me, I can't imagine what they thought people would think when a beloved character like Lina is on-screen for maybe ten minutes, then she gets killed off-screen to a bland, one-dimensional antagonist no one has ever heard of before. I'll be honest, I'm mad tilted I wasted my Monday night after work finishing this season. There was a small part of me that was growing to like the show, but season two's ending threw all that good will out the flippin' window and I likely will just read some summaries about season three if there is one because I'm not trusting this show again with my time. At this point, I really don't care about a season three.

I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!

The only positive thing I can say about the finale is that it perfectly captures that feeling in Dota where you play like an hour long match, lose every single lane, and then get camped in your fountain for the rest of the match. Then some Pudge player named Kasshura keeps hooking you so him and his cronies can keep kicking you in the ribs. Then you uninstall Dota and try to forget about playing it again. Yeah, it's exactly like that.

3 badass waifus dead in one episode, and the evilest woman gets her power back and seems eviler than before.

The story really didn't have to be like this.