Agreed. Derek really is a wonderful program. I am glad to read someone else is watching it.
Indeed.That is crazy. At first, I anticipated that you were going to say they found him alive, sadly, you did not. It sounds like a Dateline/48 Hours/20/20 episode in the making.
Sorry to hear about the guy, but glad they caught the killers!
Yes; they set things up for a main character to die heroically -- and then that heroic action is shown to have been utterly pointless. Is this the kind of thing people want in their entertainments these days?I was very disappointed with the last fifteen minutes [of Wayward Pines]. A season two is a possibility, but now, I don't know. It reminded me of Twin Peaks meets the X-Files meets something else, but now it appears it is becoming more Hunger : not good.
Barrett-Jackson Live
Oh, to be wealthy.
Well, I like that too. Sometimes, though (see For Whom the Bell Tolls), it's even better when the heroic gesture doesn't allow him to get away clean. But it should have some point to it. If all the characters, Maria and the guerrilla chief and his wife, were all killed along with Robert Jordan, and then we find out it was all pointless because a peace treaty had been signed the day before . . . gahhhh.Not me. In my world, the good guy should always win.
The whole thing is written in the most simplistic way. I don't think there has been an interesting conversation yet. They barely have conversations. If you think about it, the characters don't really interact that much. If we could read a script, not a single interaction is probably longer than a half page, and you know how scripts aren't formatted for efficiency. I understand that we're talking about a simpler time and between the illiterate and/or working class a fair percentage of the time. I get the setting in all its period limitations, but at the same time, language was also rich and potentially, greatly profound in that same period. To go back to my drinking game about Ross and his horse, the show spends as much time on scenic views and the grandiose visual as it does dialog. I like the scenic views, and I also understand how important they are to the cadence and vibe of the show. It's not an either/or. Half-way or greater through the season, I'd like some meat in which to chew. Give me some greater substance. For instance, they've established that Ross is an empathetic, good, and true steward, but because they spend so little time on character interaction, I don't feel they did the work to establish his relationship with the prison boy (forgetting his name now). All of a sudden, without a lot of set-up, he and the doctor are breaking several laws to go see him, and then remove him? It's all quite romantic, but it didn't necessarily make a lot of sense from any perspective other than the humane one. To further that, the drinking binge? Why did it affect Ross so deeply? The entire program is playing out like a budget romance novel, not a good piece of literature. Maybe I'm dense for needing a handful of episodes to realize it, but to be honest, I didn't. I like the show, but I'm liking it less now that I feel it has established itself as what it is: a basic story with basic characters with basic language. Take away the beautiful technical side, and I think you'd be left with a program that could play at 1PM weekdays, and it wouldn't be one of the top ones at that.
