Timebomb lowkey felt like fan service

In Season 1 Act, we never seem ekko and powder actually interact as children. The only interaction we have actually seen them have as children was during the fight scene between ekko and jinx and that music video video.

In season 2, they show us a scene of ekko standing infront of jinx's body after the explosion which doesn't make sense at all since his leg got injured during the explosion.

After Ekko is gone for an entire act, they decide to dump a whole AU where Zaun is doing okay and the people are doing fine like as if the whole shimmer plot didn't exist in that timeline. Btw, it's the timeline that Vi is dead.

They give us an entire powder and ekko romance plot which lowkey came out of nowhere. I mean I do ship it but it was so rushed. Ekko and Jinx's chemistry wasn't enough in the show.

Ekko seems willing to reconcile with jinx despite all the firelighters she has killed. Reconciliation can work but the way the writers went about it was bad. We didn't even get enough interaction between them before the teamed up.

Off topic: Vi and Ekko's dynamic in season 2 was so abysmal. Actually they didn't even have a dynamic at all in season 2. The only interaction they got was when they teamed up on his overboard for a few seconds during that final fight. I could rant on and on but I just can't be asked right now.