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Post by kostgard on Jul 24, 2015 15:56:27 GMT -4
Meh. I was really hoping the quarter thing I noticed (that they handed Ben a "state" quarter that was minted decades after they stopped minting them) was going to lead to some twist inside the "2000 years in the future" twist and that was a clue that things were fake. But nope - just lazy prop design. They honestly went with "it's just a small group of people who somehow managed to kidnap all these people and build this facility and keep it sound for thousands of years while the rest of the world fell apart and somehow they have food and fuel and helicopter mechanics and everything else it takes to make a modern society run." Totally unrealistic crap.
Also? Remember how in the first episode Juliette Lewis tipped Matt Dillon off to the fact that there are no crickets, and he found that little speaker in the plant making cricket noises?
Are we supposed to buy that Toby Jones anticipated that crickets will be wiped out in the future, so he better make sure that they preserve recordings of crickets and make sure that they have the little speakers in the supply chest (unless he somehow also managed to procure his own injection molding operation and can manufacture all the tiny plastic devices he needed) so he could hide the cricket speakers in his town?
The fake crickets would make sense if it was some sort of isolated government experiment. Makes no sense for a town with the only remaining humans thousands of years into the future.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Post by biondetta on Jul 25, 2015 4:11:50 GMT -4
And I'm assuming the government agency Matt Dillon worked for was in on Filcher's whole plan anyway, since they seemed to actually know about what was happening to the missing agents. But that whole storyline sort of disappeared. I think the story would have been more entertaining if it was more along the lines of a government experiment, rather than some bizarre thing in the future. There are way too many unbelievable elements with the actual story. I kept waiting for another twist in the end and the actual "twist" wasn't what I had in mind as it was even lamer. I mean, the teacher was indoctrinating the kids, so why wouldn't she have known about their "ark"?
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Post by Mugsy on Jul 25, 2015 9:16:19 GMT -4
I have a feeling that if you watched the whole thing from the beginning again, there will be all sorts of things where you go, "Oh yeah, what happened to that?" Like the crickets. Why fake them when there were other real animals around. Of all creatures that would survive a carnivorous apocalypse, insects would.
Did Pilcher fake them to create a Truman-esque artificial world? Did he fake birds chirping too? Because I would notice the absence of birds before the absence of crickets. It's such a small thing, but they made a point of creating the plot point and then specifically focusing on it, but for what? Ugh, this show.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2015 9:33:56 GMT -4
Yep. An acceptable twist for me would have been if Pilcher had was a controlling madman who created these creatures on an exclusive island that he populated with his cult, who then proceeded to kidnap people at his bidding to populate his pretend-town. Hell, I would have taken the "it was all a dream" non-twist over the "it was really real for real" nonsense. I wonder if the books were as bad as the show? Anyone catch the commercial for M. Night's new movie? Looks promising, which means it will end up sucking. I think M. Night is very talented and creative, but the success of Sixth Sense ruined him. He has spent the rest of his career trying to one-up that. Dude, it's never going to happen. Just make good movies and stop trying so hard.
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Post by kostgard on Jul 25, 2015 11:05:43 GMT -4
And I'm assuming the government agency Matt Dillon worked for was in on Filcher's whole plan anyway, since they seemed to actually know about what was happening to the missing agents. But that whole storyline sort of disappeared. I think the story would have been more entertaining if it was more along the lines of a government experiment, rather than some bizarre thing in the future. There are way too many unbelievable elements with the actual story. I kept waiting for another twist in the end and the actual "twist" wasn't what I had in mind as it was even lamer. I mean, the teacher was indoctrinating the kids, so why wouldn't she have known about their "ark"? Yeah, that's why the story was lame - stuff like the crickets and Flicher knowing people in the Secret Service was just an extremely disappointing red herring. When your red herring sounds like a more interesting story than the actual one, you should go back to the drawing board. |
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Post by scarlet on Jul 25, 2015 11:50:35 GMT -4
I...didn't hate it? I don't know, maybe my expectations were low, but the only issue I really had with the finale was the time jump and the two sentence explanation that the 1st generation had somehow staged a coup and put all the adults back in suspended animation. If that was the setup for a second season, I'd pass. But as a series finale? Not so bad.
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Post by Neurochick on Jul 25, 2015 20:04:19 GMT -4
My problem was I didn't care about the first generation. To me they looked like a bunch of people who got rejected from a CW show.
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Post by bklynred on Jul 25, 2015 23:34:01 GMT -4
This, exactly! The first generation is completely toothless. I think they're meant to have a Children of the Corn, creepy cult feel, and they just come off (to me) as stupid, spoiled brats.
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