Vocenoctum
First Post
Sadly, this was another bad episode in a bad season of what was once a great show. I seem to be in a minority in that I liked the vast majority of season two, but this season...
I'm in the "minority"* in that the last 3-5 episodes of season ONE were irksome enough to make me doubt the show. So, season 2's errors glared brighter for me than some perhaps.
As I see it, the show suffers from three key weaknesses: too many characters, to many fake-outs, and several characters who have become damaged (almost) irrepairably.
I think it's about writing/planning/pacing. The metaplot was planned out, and I think they had scene's planned for certain episodes. Then they sort of... lacked a plan on how to tie it all togethor. Their "filler" lacks planning. They stretch things out to make the episodes end on a cliffhanger, or they squish it all in without a lot, in order to fit it to the cliffhanger. They have no sense of pacing IMO.
And the changes, constant changes...
I'm probably the only person that cared, but throughout season 1 & 2, when they episode started with a flashback... they'd reshoot the flashback scene.
THEY CHANGED things in the reshoots. They tweaked the PAST (without an "in character" explanation) to fit their new idea on how to fit stuff.
They have no sense of continuity, they just hand-wave everything. It's all a plot device to fit an ever-changing plot. Until they realize things and start trying to define things (at least internally defining Power Limits and such), it's going to keep being a mess, IMO.
(* no way to judge if either of us actually a 'minority". Season 2 was much lower than season 1 in ratings, and 3 is even lower, but I'm pretty sure neither case is one of them being actual "low-rated" shows. Probably way overbudge for their ratings though.)