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I have yet to watch any of S2...
I downloaded all the eps b/c I couldn't wait until the end of the year for the ABC to screen it downunder. We saw the season 1 finale about a week before season 2 debuted on US television, so I downloaded and watched the first ep straight away to see who survived the fire. I finally grabbed s2e12 the other day and sat down to watch them all over the last two days. My only criticism of season 2 is that they seemed to focus too much attention on
the stripper family. It kinda felt like the producers thought there needed to be more titty to attract more viewers
and that was slightly disappointing. There were a few predictable moments in the season but that didn't make them any less entertaining. I liked how they answered all the questions raised in the first season, yet managed to find a cliffhanger that ensures season 3 will be just as interesting as what went before.
eta: b/c it's a tv show not a movie
Wolfram -- I agree. It was entertaining -- much more so than I had remembered.
I really didn't like it. The whole Evil Leaper
Day ReLiver thing is kind of annoying. Needless conflict, I say. but, it is interesting with the Dad backstory. I think that part of the reason I don't like it is because Jason Priestly is so damn smarmy. I think that it could be more interesting with a counterpart that was a more sympathetic character.
I haven't watched this season yet ... though I did watch all of last season, and the smug assumption that changing time and saving lives was good irritated me.
I don't like it is because Jason Priestly is so damn smarmy.
Smarmy. That's exactly the word I was looking for. I don't hate him; I just find him annoying as hell. Too bad they didn't get James Marsters for that role.
I am really curious to know how evil reliver knows who the victim is, considering they don't ask him for help.
I am really curious to know how evil reliver knows who the victim is, considering they don't ask him for help.
When Eliza starts running, Jason goes gunning?
the smug assumption that changing time and saving lives was good irritated me.
And that's why I like the introduction of Priestley's character. He makes the argument that he's the force for good, though the tenor of the show seems to imply that he's not. I'm kind of hoping for a big revelation that Tru is not as much on the side of the angels as she thinks. But it probably won't happen.
You just reminded me of this awful movie I saw with Jason when he played a terribly emotionless hitman. Sort of a shitty version of Grosse Pointe Blank.
r. He makes the argument that he's the force for good, though the tenor of the show seems to imply that he's not.
exactly. The way that they have him portray the character is very deliberate, I think. They want you not to like him. It would be so much more interesting if the Anti-Tru was a character that you could like and believe in as well.
I'm kind of hoping for a big revelation that Tru is not as much on the side of the angels as she thinks. But it probably won't happen.
Not in the next four episodes, it won't. Now I wish they'd made enough episodes for me to regret that there are no more episodes.
It would be so much more interesting if the Anti-Tru was a character that you could like and believe in as well.
You're right. I'm trying pretty hard to like him, because I've always wanted Tru to have dire consequences for her heroics - like she could save strangers but at a cost to her personal life, or to her family, or somethinhg. But the show really hasn't gone that way.
