I think it's a little late for Wizard to be pulling out the "Oh, I'm suddenly a good show" card. Even if these last few episodes have been admittedly pretty good, the only memorable arcs from Wizard so far have been Cait Sith, Lizardman, Legion, and Siren, the finale looks promising, but that's not enough to make up for the 40 episodes it spent doing nothing productive, and not even making those parts entertaining since almost every Gate have been annoying or forgettable, and same goes to most the Phantoms.

At the same time this is why I give those 4 arcs I mentioned earlier praise, because I found the Gates and/or Phantoms from those arcs to actually be engaging characters. I do hope that the finale is great, though, if only to give Wizard a tiny bit of redemption, even if it's not enough to make up for the whole show.

I voted for "irredeemable mess" It takes a certain "talent" to make a show about magic be this boring.

I like Goseiger and even then Wizard has been a slog. the fact that this got 53 episodes only rubs salt and hot lemon juice into the wounds.

All you need to do is read some of the of the week threads for the last couple of months, where episodes would do everything the haters asked for, and then the haters would gather and nitpick their way to a massive hole, refusing to let Wizard impress them. Heaven forbid they are wrong and have to face up to their bullshit.

If you like the show so far, it doesn't need vindicating because you liked it and the time you put into watching it wasn't wasted.

If you don't like it the show, then nothing is ever going to salve the feeling that you wasted a lot of time watching it, then 4 more episodes aren't going to change your mind even if they give eyesight to the blind or contain the cure for cancer. Hang around, Gaim'll be here before you know it, and maybe that'll be more to your taste (If you can't wait, there's a large enough back catalogue to keep you busy in the meantime). The best thing about these shows is they start fresh and the mistakes one makes aren't necessarily carried over to the next.

It's far too late to change anyone's mind at this point--pro or con, everyone's mind is pretty much made up.

Well, I for one have found Wizard to be boring and all, but I'm not going to claim I didn't find some recent episodes to be good, some I might even say were amazing. Especially the Siren arc, mainly because of Kumagai. he was easily the most likable gate out of all of them in the series. His character was in only 2 episodes, yet ending up being a well developed and entertaining character. His interactions with Haruto were also probably some of the best moments Haruto has had in the entire show. It is by far my favorite arc in the show, and it's honestly a good story on it's own, if you ask me. I love it to death. And you know what? It's part of Wizard, but I'm not gonna hate on it just because I don't like Wizard as a show.