Originally Posted by
Frobisher
Judging by the mixed reaction, I reckon having the turn happen in Excalibur was a bit of an unforced error. Excalibur hasn't exactly been the best book at selling or communicating story beats. Obviously you're supposed to go into the tourny and it's wall-to-wall Saturnyne shithousery (because Krakoa can't win in a straight up fight), but this really needs to be shown by the characters' reactions to it - not just wrongfooting the reader by having characters just cheerily go along with everything like the "this is fine" dog.
Imagine if we'd had the Krakoa swordbearers arguing among themselves in their quarters after Betsy exploded into a million pieces, instead of say, two issues worth of Logan looking for a sword by himself earlier on.