User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Roots/@comment-28146494-20171008025004/@comment-31194372-20171008192535

Admittedly, I wasn't around for all of that, having jumped onboard more profoundly early in Season 5 - "The Boredom" was the first episode I watched broadcasted in a solid two years - I could definitely see that bothering a lot of people, especially if the episode was advertised as being much more profound than it actually was.

That's the brilliance of it, though. The episode exists to deceive the viewer for a solid nine minutes. Even "The Promise" makes its gist more clear from the get-go.