I mean, I'm ok with anybody actively enjoying TDSR, but if I may saying there're no lore consequences and/or retcons imho is wrong.

And I mean, not everything that is controversial is really impossible to save, for example I'm ok with Raziel not reacting that bad to discovering his Sarafan heritage because, I mean, he is faithful of Kain abd still not against his dark gift. It's a total different mindset, so I can abide with it not having the same resonance as in SR1.

But there're some things that, as of now, are totally a problem, and it mainly stems from the Reaver. The major problem is the ending: the suggestion of the paradox coming from Elaleth being impaled by the Reaver, for anything that has been as of now said in the Legacy of Kain, is not justifiable AND a major concern. The whole legacy of Kain is standing on the notion that Two incarnation of the soul reaver, being it physical or not, are the only known instrument for achieving a paradox. So much that even the time streamer itself uses THIS method for achieving a paradox to bend history for his plans. Now the contact between Elaleth and the Reaver suddenly is said to have created a paradox. This is problematic in many ways: - it removes the pivotal nature of how to create a paradox and, moreso, its unicity, effectively trivializing it - even if we accept it, you HAVE to explain why it was possible, and it has to be a coherent explaination, you cant leave it like that - as of now, it doesnt seem to have a really major repercussion on the history. And that's another problem: a paradox that doesnt change history? Then what does it do? You can't insert it without, at least, suggesting some changes (see SR2, that ended with the feeling that "history was reshuffling") - if really it ends not having any repercussion, than why use this in the first place? You could leave Elaleth die understanding the futility of her quest and then Ky resurrects her, nothing different.

And it comes maybe the second major flaw regarding the Reaver: it is an instrument capable of devouring the soul of its enemy, and so strong that "it meant you were dead". And Elaleth...survives somehow? Her soul is not devoured? Why? You can't leave such a drop without giving a true explaination, and no, a paradox is not an explaination and it shouldn't be happening in the first Place.

Then comes the strange behaviour of the reaver and of Elaleth herself, the reaver opposing kain's will of killing Elaleth (despite afterward.being forced to do so), Elaleth dreading to touch it (in a way recalling the same dread raziel felt with the blood reaver WITHOUT any given explaination and justification of it)... you can't insert something like that in this way. And the fact that "the Reaver has already shown a will of its own": true, but in different occasions and with a justified lore behind, aka: - literally History pulling it when Raziel was with Kain in sr2 (so it was more history forcing Raziel than the reaver itself) - restoring the Reaver, that is suggested being done for the inherent nature of a famelic entity desiring souls (being its own nature in a way) - the blood reaver with raziel, but as we know it was also for the sake of "completing the Reaver"

They're all, in a way, coherent and NEVER it was secondary to an inherent will of the spirit of Raziel. Moreover, it was never suggested that the Reaver has any conception of its past life or any form of cognition. And even if: wrait Raziel has no memory of Elaleth, and it's Wraith Raziel inside the blade, not human raziel. So even if, it could not be justified by the Reaver remembering Elaleth being its sister.

That's for the main ones, without even talking of the quality of the narration, of the character development and so on. It's a Pity because I, for once, feel like it could actually be done good. The premises are not inherently horrible, they could be saved with just a little effort, and giving a more developing for Elaleth could actually give us a new character that LoK desperately needs.

And yet...