User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 415 - In Which Hiro Finally Gains The Emotional Range Of A Tablespoon (And It Shall Become Your Will To Live)/@comment-4072803-20150113072342

I'm actually a bit angered at how WASTED the dragons are now. Now, don't get me wrong, the emotional bits in this chapter were done very well, and you can Hiro's own emotion poured into the art and writing here, so great work on that one. But at the same time, why are the dragons Deus Ex Machina's?! They've been built up for most of the series as hugely important, and they seemed to be building to some kind of endgame involving the dragons as a whole and why they abandoned their kids. From Igneel's cryptic comments to Grandine's implication that something bigger was going on behind the scenes and that they could still monitor their children, I was genuinely hyped up to see where this was going. But no, now they're Deus Ex Machinas that Hiro used because he couldn't think of anything good for Lumen Histoire yet and he needed Face to be stopped. It just really ticks me off that something that I'd been looking forward to for the whole series has just been.... WASTED.

Also, is it me, or has Igneel's personality done something of a 180? He went from the dragon who flipped his lid when another did so much as dare TALKING to him, to a slightly more mature and wise Natsu. It's not necessarily a bad change, but it's a bit confusing.