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Episode 4 establishes very tight restrictions on how the Blue Truth can be used, the story never addresses these restrictions when later episodes just start using it far more freely.

Episode 4's ????? has Lambdadelta state (though she is of course, unreliable) that Beatrice is faking her near-defeat once again and that her melancholy and wishing to die is all fake. This turns out to not be true (of course) but the question mark it places on things severely undermines the very effective emotional thrust that the end of the Episode 4 Tea Party was built on. Further, if a reader does come to the conclusion that Lambdadelta is correct here then nothing useful is accomplished by this, as the start of Episode 5 spends 90 minutes establishing to the reader (and this is the case) that Beatrice really is in this state. Rubbish!

Episode 5 has a specific scene that only exists to throw people off the scent of the solution of the story. It is a total piece of bastardry that relies on figuring out the specific moment the perspective changes mid scene in a way that is honestly hard to detect even when watching for it. This scene powered much of people rejecting the solution, as honestly? It's bad. It's bad stuff, and I just kind of have to vaguely ignore it to treat Umineko as a well constructed and fair mystery.

Episode 5's ????? has Lambdadelta (oh no, her again) state that the Gold Truth can only be used by the "territory lord of the world [...] the Game Master himself!" Ryukishi's explanation for how someone else uses the Gold Truth in Episode 6 (given in an interview) is so stupid that I routinely have Umineko fans reject it out of hand and instead prefer to close this plot hole with "ummmm... maybe that person... counted as the Game Master! When they did that!" Yeah.

Episode 6 has Lambdadelta "looking at Battler's hand", an ability that a higher dimensional being like her, one that sees all the world as people playing things like games of cards with each other, possesses. This allows her to see, in a very potent way, all of the plans and hidden gambits and so on that someone has in reserve, with her using it here to verify that Battler does possesses a plan. She sees he has one, and that plan later fails and he falls to ruin... BUT BATTLER HAD A SECRET OTHER PLAN THE WHOLE TIME. SHE SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT. SHE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SHOULD HAVE. THERE IS NO WAY TO GET AROUND THIS. Furthermore, Lambdadelta later, after it is totally clear that she didn't see any other plan of Battler's earlier, has the sense, or intuition, that he might have had something all along and something still might happen and- NO. NO NO NO. NOT ALLOWED. ILLEGAL MOVE. RYUKISHIIIIIIIII!!!

The start of Episode 7 thing is less bad than three bullets up on this list, but it's still the sort of thing that Wouldn't Be Here if the story wasn't serialized. It's a rather funny thing how some people act as if it's a test for you to see that The True Culprit Isn't A Servant while others say "it was a different mystery bro, wasn't even about Umineko". Fucking Hell.