User blog comment:Drgyen/Burning Skies is a contrived piece of.../@comment-1191892-20120612063208

To be honest this has been my reaction to the plot since R2, when they introduced a Chimera who could talk and a doctor who somehow knew everything about what was going on. It's a pretty common thing when you bring a writer on board to have the plot suddenly turn into a huge, overblown conspiracy for no good reason (see also Crysis 2) and have a bunch of plot twists just for the sake of having them. R2 really annoyed me because if you think about it, Hale could have gone for inhibitor treatment in Bryce Canyon, Chicago or Iceland without changing the plot since all three times he fails to actually shut down the Chimera Tower. The only difference would be Warner and the other guy would still be alive and Malikov would be dead (oh noes).

Still, Burning Skies went worse again by making the Chimera into a bunch of morons being manipulated by humans. I mean, Rretribution was bad enough with the sexism, the suggestion the Chimera had been literally fighting with one arm tied behind their back and the horrible Gary-Stu protagonist who had destroyed eleventy bajillion conversion centres and wiped out entire strains by himself, but this managed to top it.