McGUFFINS/DEUS EX MACHINAS/ IMMENSE PLOT ANAMOLIES/UNNECESSARY BURDENS:

• Bobby’s Gauntlet
• Bobby’s dwarf-suped-up hotrod
• Bobby’s possible toy raygun/ gun hand pose
• The exact nature of Bobby’s magic with the Gauntlet
• Tisandra as faerie princess/clichéd damsel
• Tisandra’s quest for Avalon and following that, Kingdom of Exiles
• Zuzu as possible superfluous character?
• Zuzu’s desire/want in this story and her sexual relationship with Tisandra
• Clarence’s quest to get back to circus (works as pillar/harbor to the story & characters. Strong pillar)
• Noah (what to do with him)
• Noah’s animals (what to do with them)
• White Stag or means of summoning The Huntsman
• Kurlos’s desire to sacrifice Tisandra to his father (why? What personal involvement/want in that?)
• Rossum pursued by government (must be connected with Custodians)
• Rossum’s sandskin/holograms/none of the above
• Rossum’s entrance in the story (circus? Pre-circus?) and his reasons for joining the gang
• Red Scare vs. Bobby and company
• Bobby’s spontaneous progressive heart? (Oklahoma greaser encounters homosexuals, black man seeking equality, faerie lesbian advances on his sister, circus freaks, anti-Establishment icons, personal curse/ involvement with Tisandra’s quest)
• Asmodeus as Kurlos’s father and their connection to the Teind
• The Teind as yet another gimmick stacked
• Custodians as mindless drones of….who? what?
• Dread Lanterns
• Bobby’s world/family/friends following his return 5 years later.
• What impact that has on Bobby/why continue?

I can't even look at the plotline. So tangled, so damn confusing that I want nothing to do with it. I have only a vague idea of where everything fits together and even then, under examination, it's tattered and piecemeal at best.

So tired. So tired of the whole thing. There's no enjoyment in this particular world for me for right now. All it looks like is a rat's nest of plot. And I don't want to get entangled with it right now.

Tisandra's new do, losing the medieval vibe for a look more fitting the Atomic Age. Into a salon. Out with a bob.