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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4162197" data-attributes="member: 8158">I watched the first half-dozen episodes and saw it locked into a terrible, stagnant formula. Freak-of-the-week shows up with powers that are thematic, scary, and also happen to have some specific and obvious weaknesses. Protagonist raids his big-box store for ways to exploit said weaknesses. In between, protagonist has some idle chit-chat with his sidekick who's one step lower than him one the loser chain, with his love interest, and with the devil. For all the glibness of the devil's chit-chat, it's pretty much a dead-end diversion where he goes poof without anything substantial coming of the chatter. Big waste of time.A show has to break away from freaks-of-the-week rut in order to survive, because only the most rabid viewer won't eventually find it monotonous. Smallville outgrew it, X-Files relegated FoW episodes to filler material after the first couple of years, and so I hope Reaper has become a little more ambitious as well. If it has, or if it does, please notify me.But see, the devil issues some variation of that line pretty much every week, right?</blockquote>