Okay something I haven't seen brought up a lot and that just made me irrationally angry.
All throughout season 3 Margo was going through this arc of noticing Fillory's patriarchal bullshit and then ending up as High King by the end of season 3.
I wanted to see Margo blossoming as a High King in season 4. I wanted to see her ruling on her own, without help and struggling, but she would find her footing as High King herself. Just like Eliot did when Margo had to leave so often! Not with the help of her wedged-into the plot "boyfriend." I wanted her to be a King in that desert, not an exile. What the fuck?
And Season 4 really threw away that entire ordeal by having her times in Fillory be her being comic relief honestly. Then they not only dethrone Margo and exile her from Fillory. [Which, do not get me started--]They also dethrone Fen by jumping 300 years into Dark King future bullshit.
Which also supremely bullshit they'd been away from Fillory for weeks/months at a time and it never jumped this far ahead in time. So. Yeah.
What the actual fuck happened in that Writers Room?