Originally Posted by
sunofdarkchild
No. what we got was a story where the writing staff, including Hickman, wasn't interested in the central premise of the swords the whole event was marketed around and built on. That became clear to me today when the issue about Apocalypse's fight with his wife, which the whole event had supposedly been building to, was almost all about council politics with maybe 25% of the book devoted to the fight. If even this fight couldn't get a decent focus or length and is overshadowed by Cyclops arguing with the council then there was no interest in the sword-fights to begin with on the part of the writers.
There is good in this event, but the fact that the central premise of a contest of swords was not something anyone seems to have had any interest in writing really hurt it. They could have not had the swords at all and the event would have been much better.