Thread:Skyzy/@comment-4952704-20160226083046/@comment-26247132-20160522052133

ZeVikingSif wrote: Season:  From all the CW shows i watch every week (including this one), i have noticed a common theme: They make shit up as they go along. I have a lot of faith in this show, as i do any, but please JRoth, have something coherent, have something that will matter in retrospect instead of adding conveniences so you can move from Point A to Point B in your story.

There was a lot of needless deaths and needless everything pretty much. I genuinely liked Pike as a villain, he could've took a different route in how his story went, but he was fine. There was one episode i couldn't be bothered with looking up where it showed a flashback where he was a teacher and i thought that was handled excellently. ALIE is pretty much where i noticed they were making shit up as they went along, they had no plan. If you took her out of the story, the only thing you miss is what she warns everyone of at the end of the season. I'll give her something: she is pretty.

The Polis stuff was exactly, 100%, no exaggeration, meh. That's all i can summarize it as, 'meh'. It's not something i'll take away from the series as a whole, i liked the idea of "Blood must not have blood" but that was handled terribly. Pretty much there was a lot of "covert racism" as Skyzy put it and i don't have much to say on that matter other than she's pretty much not wrong.

Oh and fuck what they did to Emerson in the later half of the season. That was completely lame. There is no other word to describe that other than lame.

I'm responding to this here from the other thread.

You are exactly right about the "CW show" theme. The fact that this show actually deviated from it the first two seasons is why I stuck around and started giving other CW shows a chance, thinking the Network finally figured out what it was doing wrong. But, no. They went right back to doing it all wrong again. They were SOCLOSE to finally getting it right and ruined it!

Pike's flashback episode (Join or Die) should have happened so much sooner in the season. It was much too late and out of place (back to the terrible pacing of this season). Polis had sooo much potential and I was starting to get into it...just as they ruined it with the "Not blood"/Ontari/ALIE stuff. And Emerson!!! I was so frustrated with that Demons plotline for him. I loved him as always but it made no sense for it to be his character and he did not deserve that death. He should have lived forever, as Clarke cursed him to do a few episodes earlier.