bobinator said:
I think "it was just unnecessary" is the summary of the complaints I had about this season. There was A LOT of good and great, but I think it was hard to appreciate because there was just simply too much.
To me you can either tell a simple story in a complicated way (which is what season 1 was) or you can tell a complicated story in a simple way, but when you try to tell a complicated story in a complicated way it just becomes too much at times.
I keep coming back to this example, but the battle at Fort Forlorn Hope is a good case study on my issue with this season. Weak plot contrivances to even make it happen, and when it's over I'm not sure what it was even for.
Agreed. And ultimately it wasn't that big a deal just another one of those things that I think wasn't done all that well.
Thankfully it was a small scene, but the Sizemore scene just stood out to me as the most unnecessary.
* Character that we maybe kinda like now but still certainly don't feel a super strong connection to that we'd really mourn his loss/sacrifice.
* It's a show that has already told us death really isn't permanent so is it really a sacrifice?
* It seemed out of character for him. Yes he had finally gained sympathy/empathy for the hosts, but in "show-time" that is a really quick amount of time to go from treating hosts (and humans) like objects to sacrificing one's life so that they can *maybe* escape.
* And even ignoring all of that... The security force was so insurmountable (unlike all the other ones that are from the Stormtrooper Military Academy), but one guy stepping into the clearing was enough to completely allow for the rest of the group to make a clean escape?
That won the "most contrived" award for me for the finale.