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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9828895" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Episode 7 was the victim of a release schedule that, for people rushing through and lacking patience, effectively made Will's coming out scene the climax of that "mini-season", which some found pretty disappointing, in an episode that was mostly exposition and set-up for the finale. Then, with fans divided, homophobes brigaded in to review bomb and sow discord. And lots of people had extra time to stew over it all because they had time off for the holidays.I personally like the episode 5-7 batch well enough, but it was a terrible batch to release as a unit (especially on Christmas when people might rope less interested family members into watching), because it suffers the most from the two fundamental challenges of season 5: 1) too many characters who need to all be doing something and getting their moments in every episode, and 2) needing to finally explain all the mysteries the show is based on. Whereas "volume 1" of the season ended on some twists and mysteries, this volume was spent untwisting and explaining basically all remaining mysteries before the finale (maybe, we'll see how the finale goes), which necessarily is never going to satisfy everyone, is going to tend towards being wordy, and which leaves people with less to be excited about going forward. And while generally the show does a surprisingly good job of managing it's whole unwieldy ensemble, the desire to actually get them all together before the finale just led to awkwardly staged scenes that there was no satisfying way to write.</blockquote>

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