Groupoid, the typo is thankfully fixed now. She had accidentally dropped an o out of “that counts as a cliffhanger”. So yeah, kinda unfortunate.
Catbirds, I don’t feel like this situation would be comparable to either the notoros or Pastor Anne, although obviously this is an opinion only.
The notoros were an extremely major threat, but they appeared by “chance” (more or less a random encounter) and happened over one long scene. Or maybe two, but still. And the giant didn’t appear by happy accident, Lalli woke it up with the small charges he threw. So to me it was more “the main threat of overall dangerous environment is almost realized by the notoros but Lalli’s action to use the environment against the most immediate threat saves the day”.
Pastor Anne on the other hand did the job on the murderghosts, but getting them to her took decisive effort from Reynir. Surprisingly decisive, he seems to largely be happy to just go with the flow. But getting to the church he trusted his instincts against Onni’s advice, bullied Onni to meeting Anne and disobeyed Mikkel’s direct order to not stray from the road. And there was build-up with Reynir’s visions to indicate the church would be instrumental in the solution of the ghost problem.
So, in neither case the solution just dropped out of the blue. Btw I would be happy if the bears and Surma were resolved by the team getting them to fight each other. But if the long time mystery threat Surma comes face to no face with the team purely by accident (falling through breaking floor into the Shrieking Blanket’s lair) and pretty much directly after arriving gets inadvertently slain by itself, again by accident… anticlimactic! Although on could also argue it goes to show how unstable the environment and the situation are, and how foolhardy the team who would definitely had died if no for the fortunate accident. Just not my personal preference.
