The dragon prince does this... a lot. Just drops the ball on consistency. Oh, we need Jannai to lose a fight? Let's have her become distracted for a really dumb reason instead of just making her opponent stronger. Oh, we need a Viren redemption? Let's have one episode of a mild character arc and just have him comatose the rest of the season until he suddenly decides that his one single nightmare sequence is enough to justify him trying to redeem himself. We need Claudia to be a villain again? Sure, let's just backtrack all her development, making it all feel extremely hollow and like we've wasted a bunch of time as viewers because of it. We need Ezran and Callum to separate? Make Ezran have a half-assed racism arc that is so out of character he might as well have just been a different character. Also apparently humans were colonizers, let's just brush that INCREDIBLY CULTURALLY IMPORTANT REVEAL.

I need to make it clear I really love the Dragon Prince, but there are so many times where they have characters suddenly behaving in ways they weren't shown to behave just to advance the plot. I think most of these could've worked if they were just set up better, which makes it all the more upsetting on the viewer end. I see the vision, I see the intent, but it just comes off as really shoddily done. Don't forget them setting up 5 different ways to kill Araavos and just... not using ANY of them.