User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 393: Silver Memories, Review./@comment-24467372-20140717115254/@comment-5268982-20140717124708

See, that's the main reason I hated the chapter.

If you need to leave it up to the readers to fill the plot holes you leave behind with their own theories, without ever giving them a definite response, then you did not do a very good job telling a story.

I can think of a million theories to fill those holes, but I know Mashima will never get to them (same with Gray understanding out of nowhere that Silver was his father) and that's just lazy writing. If it wasn't for all those cheap plot twist made solely for shock value, then perhaps this mess would have been avoided.