I usually lurk around TV show threads, but goddammit if this show isn't forcing me out of my cave. I've never felt the need to express myself so much about a show...it's just perplexing.
This was definitely the best episode so far, but it still doesn't touch the quality of other shows. I'd prefer if more episodes were character-focused like this, although I doubt that will happen much. We finally have a reason to root for a character, which is more than can be said for any of the Garveys (yet), who are, I guess, the leads?
The last ten minutes were admittedly good, and there were some sprinklings of intriguing stuff before that. But once again, Lindelof is murderously smashing his audience over the head with pretentious symbolism. In the premiere it was the deer, last week it was the bagels, and now it's the bloody pigeons. Why? Is he capable of writing something without using cheap hooks that exist solely for the sake of mystery? Clearly he is, judging from some of the great episodes of Lost, but unfortunately he has picked up Jackson fever - only in this case, it's overuse of flaccid symbolism rather than CGI.
Again with the same piano motif. It was beautiful and poignant the first five times it was used (and that's being generous), but when it continuously pops up in every "important" moment, it becomes jarring and annoying, comical even.
Also, there's one thing I don't get in relation to Matt and the Guilty Remnant. They're both on opposing sides of an argument; their goal to remind the common folk of the new "reality" as they see it. But...the common folk don't really seem to oppose the views of Matt and the GR, it's more that they don't care about them. Matt spends his time proving to others that both saints and sinners disappeared, but no one is actively disputing that or arguing with him, so he just comes off as another asshole in a show full of assholes. The same goes for the GR, although in the opposite sense. I have far less sympathy for the GR, however. Were we actually expected to feel sorry for them in the pilot when the crowd attacked them? Perhaps all of this will be cleared up in the coming weeks? Hopefully, because the trailers make the upcoming episodes look amazing.
I am interested in where the show is going, however, due to the seeds of conflict sown this week. Hopefully they can be delivered upon.
This was definitely the best episode so far, but it still doesn't touch the quality of other shows. I'd prefer if more episodes were character-focused like this, although I doubt that will happen much. We finally have a reason to root for a character, which is more than can be said for any of the Garveys (yet), who are, I guess, the leads?
The last ten minutes were admittedly good, and there were some sprinklings of intriguing stuff before that. But once again, Lindelof is murderously smashing his audience over the head with pretentious symbolism. In the premiere it was the deer, last week it was the bagels, and now it's the bloody pigeons. Why? Is he capable of writing something without using cheap hooks that exist solely for the sake of mystery? Clearly he is, judging from some of the great episodes of Lost, but unfortunately he has picked up Jackson fever - only in this case, it's overuse of flaccid symbolism rather than CGI.
Again with the same piano motif. It was beautiful and poignant the first five times it was used (and that's being generous), but when it continuously pops up in every "important" moment, it becomes jarring and annoying, comical even.
Also, there's one thing I don't get in relation to Matt and the Guilty Remnant. They're both on opposing sides of an argument; their goal to remind the common folk of the new "reality" as they see it. But...the common folk don't really seem to oppose the views of Matt and the GR, it's more that they don't care about them. Matt spends his time proving to others that both saints and sinners disappeared, but no one is actively disputing that or arguing with him, so he just comes off as another asshole in a show full of assholes. The same goes for the GR, although in the opposite sense. I have far less sympathy for the GR, however. Were we actually expected to feel sorry for them in the pilot when the crowd attacked them? Perhaps all of this will be cleared up in the coming weeks? Hopefully, because the trailers make the upcoming episodes look amazing.
I am interested in where the show is going, however, due to the seeds of conflict sown this week. Hopefully they can be delivered upon.
