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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3924171" data-attributes="member: 8158">Oh my god. People talking about Reaper as if it were good. Further evidence that the planet needs a good, thorough nuking.For those fortunate enough to have never seen the show, please don't buy into any of the praise. The show has fallen into a freak-of-the-week formula that would disgust even the creative teams behind the first season of Smallville and X-Files. The first episode freak was an arsonist that came back with fire powers. The next ep's freak was an evil power plant worker that came back with lighning powers--can you already smell the stench of stagnant imagination? So far, this isn't anything that you didn't see on Smallville or X-Files, but it gets worse. Every week the slacker gets a container to put the bad guy in that ultimately doesn't work so he has to steal crap from the Walmartesque superstore where he works in order to exploit the bad guy's weakness. Fire extinguishers for the fire guy, a lightning rod for the electricity guy, defoilant for the bug lady. Totally formulaic. Oh, and we get Ray Wise showing up as the devil to make some quips and cryptic remarks before disappearing. Pretty pointless. You also get some scenes with the superstore boss getting mad and acting like an a-hole and devising punishments for the slacker strike force--apparently, in this parallel universe, when low-level employees serving as unskilled labor constantly screw up and insult you, you can't just fire them.</blockquote>

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