Eh it was really just the one dude that grabbed the barbed pipe or whatever and started hacking away while everyone ran around in a panic. It’s not great writing but it was mentioned earlier that some of these dudes were obsessed with the research and hadn’t even the facility in a super long time. It’s not the biggest leap to assume that they might snap in the moment and do something insane to protect years worth of their work. It’s not great writing but sits down pretty far on the list of things to take issue with this season.
not that it matters but did it ever explain why the scientists gouged their own eyes out? seemed important
remember when one of danvers actual moments of detective work revealed the power being cut in annies murder video and then in the finale that not actually happening at all
Officer Prior just decided he was gonna keep Annie's evidence file at his home and get real mad if anyone, even his superiors, wants it back. The writing was absolute garbage the entire time. John Hawkes, what are you doing?
I read through a handful of interviews and the show runner kept saying she didnt want a lot of things answered. Which I guess is fine for some stuff and you don't want it to come off where you explain every single thing, but somethings feel like they needed a touch more explaining. But I will probably always feel that way about these kinds of shows.
I’ve never seen a cop with facial piercings like that before. Let alone one who instigates fist fights every day. Someone would have ripped them out after like a week. I assumed it might be some native custom for that region, but apparently its just what the actress wears in real life.
That's cool for like "is it a ghost or mental illness". Not for a piece of fucking physical evidence linking two criminal investigations together.
The Hollywood women power moment of them being the ones who killed the scientists was so cringe. Should've seen that coming. This whole season was a horrible attempt of trying to recreate season one with women and it just didn't work. They had such a great setting and backdrop along with a good mysterious inciting incident just like season one. But the writing, acting and character development between the two leads was an epic fail.
Writers: "it was, uh, like, something really important that the scientists found. Like, life saving shit. That should be good enough for the audience. Ok so back to the inane symbolism."
that was very "my mom was bit by a spider when studying them in the Amazon Rainforest" moment. There wasn't a better reason for that?
okay, she destroyed the samples. if this is such a big deal for humanity, why didn't you go public with the information re: pollution and the permafrost? seems like something scientists would want to share if so important for human health.
Marnie from Trueblood even had an offhand comment along the lines of "don't confused the spirit realm with mental illness". It was entirely ambiguous and made the show worse.
(Circles are flat by definition you trite ass shitwriters please replace these fuckards with AI already)
There's bad writing and then there's bad writing that thinks it's genius writing and this show oozes with that latter disgusting purulence
"Sometimes, endings can feel lazy, and this really didn’t feel that way. It stays true to the piece. I remember watching the finale for the first time and bursting into tears, because I was so proud of what we created, but also because the ending is just so beautiful."
I totally forgot about that. I guess that was aLl iN HeR HaEd or Up tO uR ImAgErnaTiOnS the official reports says it was an ice avalanche
I do somewhat agree with him that all four season finales have been very big letdowns, including season 1
I doubt I ever rewatched the season 1 finale but I do recall being somewhat letdown just because of how incredible the rest of the season was. It was one of the first shows I remember getting way too into all the theories then when a lot didn’t get answered or come true, I found myself a bit underwhelmed.
Definitely wasn't a let down but was a little anti-climactic considering the possibilities that were built up throughout the season.
season 1 caught flack for leaving stuff unanswered/unresolved, but that finale actually gave viewers something with emotional/character development this finale missed the mark on all fronts
In my opinion it does not suck. Others disagree but I also feel like sometimes TMB grades like Ricky Bobby’s dad where if it’s not first it’s last.
If you expected Marty's children to be the masterminds, yes I can see season 1 being a letdown. Season 1 is an opus from beginning to end
I was actually enjoying it at this point. I love Jody Foster. They were riding on some good intrigue and an interesting setting. Going forward, the characters stop developing, the plot holes will only widen, and writers will occasionally try to plug them up carelessly and cheaply, which is far worse than leaving them open. Thankfully, there's far better arctic circle noir out there. A pretty great subgenre, actually. This is the worst of the lot by a mile.
It doesn’t suck, it just gets progressively worse and the finale is a dud. The show is very visually satisfying and I appreciated the horror elements.
It was very easy to miss the relevance of the final scene outside the hospital because your brain was definitely exhaling from the conclusion. Rudy believed he was supposed to die so that he could be with his son, and it didn’t happen. It was quite a poignant final scene for me. If you haven’t rewatched season 1, man, just make that the next tv thing you do.
So who put the tongue back in tsalal? Why did Pete’s wife all of a sudden forgive him? why did Danvers and Navarro keep getting separated in tsalal? Who was the ghost behind Navarro in tsalal? was “she is awake” ever explained? i think the show runner said every thing that happens in the show has a Danvers/realistic explanation and a Navarro/supernatural explanation. So what was the explanation for Danvers hearing the ghost whispers? why did the recording of Annie show her talking to the phone prior to being attacked but what we saw was her getting attacked as she was destroying stuff? how was Annie able to deduce from scientific scribble that tsalal was promoting more pollution? why was Danvers able to immediately identify the handprint with the missing finger on the hatch door but not the boot at the crime scene? why did Hank cut out the tongue if the point was to distance her murder from tsalal / the mine? Why does the leader of the cleaning lady killers ask who danvers is at the door when she definitely knows who the chief of police is in her small town?
I think the season was a total dud. A lot of shows try to get away with good visuals, trendy song remixes, big name actresses but strip all that away and the mystery was just not compelling enough. Writing got progressively worse as the season went on.
also weird how Navarro's sister's death is considered a tragedy but then the moral of the story at the end seems to be if Navarro follows voices to her own death, that's fine