What's your opinion on The Extinction? I personally was very disappointed that a whole new fear was used just as a plot device in S4 and nothing more, I was hoping we were going to get something real big in S5 considering the situation, but at the same time, the Extinction is a young fear, so it kind of makes sense it wouldn't be as prevalent as the others (but i think we should have gotten more than just one statement of it)

I feel the same way. What was the point of introducing an apocalypse-related fear if it wasn’t going to be present in the season set in the apocalypse?

It fit perfectly with the fifth season and the Eyepocalypse. But of course it had to be used for Martin angst! Poor boy, overworking himself and cutting everyone off because he wants to protect them from the Big Bad Extinction!

The setup for it was neat. And I think they could’ve gotten away with making it a red herring, if the following season had literally anything of substance to deliver, instead of a romantic end-of-the-world hike and an oddly framed moral dilemma.

Also, the podcast literally stated that the Extinction was emerging rapidly, and that they had limited time to act and prepare - and then nothing happened. There was no “defeating” or “overcoming” the Ritual - it wasn’t even there. It just disappeared abruptly.

The Extinction was hyped up so much just to be unceremoniously tossed aside the second it became irrelevant to Martin’s story.