User blog comment:Lurkenfrau/Dropped Plot Points? Maybe Not.../@comment-24399666-20151118144517

Very good post. I agree for the most part, although I'd never thought about it in those exact terms before. :) Personally, I've never been bothered by the lack of answers to the Keys and the Coins. Those don't even seem like dropped plot points to me; more like tidbits about the world that impacted our main character for a time. So... yeah, pretty much exactly what you just said. :)  Answers are good, but there's a difference between a "believable, fleshed-out universe" and a "universe where all answers to all questions are provided." In fact, in certain situations (like millennia-old mysteries that nobody in-universe knows the answers to) those two things can even be polar opposites. I think the real difference lies in the protagonists' motivation to findthe answers. Motivation is everything. The Keys, for example, were established as unlocking something that is supposed to remain locked, and has remained locked for nearly a millennium. Something that's kept hidden far, far away from our homebody protagonist who, up until this season, would have been perfectly content spending the rest of his life just enforcing the law in his own little corner of the world. For Nick to actually find the answers to the Keys for no  other   reason than just Writers' Mandate (or in this case, Fans' Mandate), would actually make the story and the world less believable. (Thankfully, I think they're setting things up so that Nick needs whatever the Keys unlock, because it's the only thing that will stop the Uprising. At least, that's where it looks like it's going, which is all to the good. :) ) When I think of "dropped plot points," I actually think a lot more about, say, the powerful international governmental organization which is charged with enforcing Wesen law... and which all Wesen in the world seem terrified of... placing a bounty on Nick's head, Nick retaliating by sending them a picture of a single dead bounty hunter, and then... nothing. :|  Sorry I had no pie. ;)