Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-159.63.2.118-20140918135606/@comment-6192846-20140919154309

When the creator leaves plot threads dangling after raising the stakes, yes he does need to develop the plot after that. Otherwise, it's just being sloppy. But that's not the commentary being answered. The op's stating they don't like the direction mothy's taking the plot.

The answer is that, if that was the end, then yes, it'd be disappointing and anti-climatic. However, plot threads exist afterwards and the amount of vagueness of what occurred apropos to the theater leaves too much room to assume that would be the end for either the characters or the story.

Your example is also dealing with one antagonist replacing another antagonist with an established protagonist. The character arcs are done well in that story. In here, we are not even sure who the main antagonist is (let alone the protag).

All these characters have dubious and/or conflicting motivations. Even without further elaboration from mothy, we as an audience recognize the tension and potential conflict developing between them all. To cut short all these characters set up before they actually do anything in favor of a singular character would be understandbly disheartening.

But once again, that doesn't seem to be the case just yet, so I don't think it's fair for the op to judge when the characters' fates are left ambiguous and the story hasn't reached its end yet, likely not even its climax.