Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37675682-20190303004727/@comment-37422009-20190426085620

"except for Part 1."

Zepelli making up the ability to make Jonathan stronger was totally set up beforehand, yep.

"Part 2 ends off with Joseph managing to outsmart Kars, who's ability at the time is far beyond most jojo antagonists physically, and shooting him into space with the red stone of Aja. This is completely unexpected, un-foreshadowed and unreasonable."

No, he didn't outsmart Kars, it's specifically stated that it was purely some starnge instinct that moved his hand. And no, it wasn't un-foreshadowed, you just didn't pay attention. If Araki was asspulling, he would've left Kars burning in the lava. But he didn't, because it was also specifically stated that the red stone would be what defeated the pillar men.

"Though part 3 is by far my favorite part, Jotaro defeating Dio seemed less like a 'Jotaro manages to outsmart Dio.' and more of a 'Jotaro suddenly develops a new ability that makes him win because Araki needs him for part 4.'"

So we're just ignoring the whole fight of outwitting between Jotaro and DIO just because he gains a new ability. Ok that makes sense.

"Part 4, is just barely acceptable, the fact that Josuke just so happened to be in the right place at the right time to hear Kosaku Kawajiri confirm that he *is* Kira, is stretching it."

Did you even read any of the dialogue? It literally explains it as it's happening this time.

"GER itself is a bit of a deus ex machina, since it's absolutely immune to everything that Diavolo throws at it, and foreseeably everything else. It's sudden, sporadic, and only exists for the single arc. Requiem arrows aren't touched again outside of part 5. And yes, you could give the reason that the stand arrows are still in italy, but you're telling me that with the most-likely hundreds of stand users in the world, still living (there are a lot of dead ones.) that not' one thought to get the requiem arrow?"

It's not like the requiem arrow had already been set up to exist or anything, or that the battle itself was fighting for the arrow. And how the hell are any of the hundreds of stand users going to defeat GER?

"Part 6's deus ex machina comes in the form of Emporio managing to obtain weather report through an asspull about Pucci's perspective. It's really, really stupid, and doesn't make much sense. I may be a bit harsh on this part's ending since it's what killed off Jotaro, my second favorite protagonist of JJBA, but I think that the way that Emporio obtains weather report is really convoluted and stupid."

...he literally tricked Pucci into hitting it into him. That's not convoluted or confusing at all.