Agreed! Earth 1, 2, 3, and on and on, all have speedsters. Earth 1 gots lots. Others get only one? I asked my son if the other Earths felt put down not being number 1. He patiently explained how the comic universe doesn't transfer over exactly to television. We did think that despite its predominate theme (run superduperfast) there are clever quips from time to time and the cgi is pretty good for a tv show.
The first couple seasons did seem to focus on solving crimes, with a great deal of characterization and sub-plots thrown in. The last couple of seasons seems to have shifted, in the words of another poster, into soap opera.
This all sounds so, so good. It almost makes me second guess jumping ship so soon.
Especially Season 5, which almost exclusively focused on the problems of the main characters and all but forgot about the show being a somewhat police procedural. If the actors weren't so good at doing what they do I would probably have stopped watching long ago.
The Swedish version or the Kenneth Brannagh?
We will give it a go. Started to watch the Swedish version but my wife did not care for it much.
I understand all that, but as it was shown, I thought letting him go and the prince regent giving the order to kill him were sudden and without proper set-up. We all knew they were going to let Delaney go, but BAM! There it was. A prison break out or a side conversation or something to indicate it was happening. Same with the prince regent. He was like, whatever, whatever, and then BAM! Kill him. Maybe it's just me. I understand the situations just fine. The logic is there, but on screen, I felt like there were scenes missing in-between those motions. That they had skipped a scene in each of those situations. One minute he's chanting, then whats his name behind the tribunal is making a face, and then Delaney is walking out the front door. I still haven't watched it a second time, but I felt that sequence was a bit unclear.
