User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review./@comment-5036235-20131025182146/@comment-7418318-20131026080808

I blame it all on some mysterious manipulator who's responsible for all the plot-holes, inconsistancies and illogic stuff that happened during the GMG.

Just take F-Lucy's journal, which in my opinion shouldn't even be in the present timeline:
 * 1) Why would F-Lucy keep the journal on her, instead of leaving it in her hotel room when she sneaked after the DS and ended up imprisoned after finding the Dragon Graveyard?
 * 2) Why would the guards let her keep the journal?
 * 3) Why would she take it along into the past?
 * 4) How could she possibly have the in-depth knowledge about the workings of the Eclipse Gate, when she barely knew how to use it?
 * 5) How could she write the knowledge down legible, when her scribblings in the notebook were almost unreadable?
 * 6) How did the notebook turn up exactly were present Lucy would end up landing after Zirconis threw her?
 * 7) How did it end up on top of the rubble heap?

And that's just fron a single book! I could go on like this for hours about the arc as a whole...