(Although, minus points for the part where they introduced a kickass ninja girlfriend mostly for the purpose of refrigerating her/saving her.)
That one I'll grant -- the handling of Emily blew hot and cold throughout, and she's one of the few characters I never quite believed. And the "I must change time because my girlfriend has been fridged!" plot felt pretty cheap compared to the rest of the story.
I felt like there were some scenes that showed individual members of Liber8 learning more about What's Going On In The World than they had seemed to know in season 1.
It's possible -- I'm honestly not sure. But it's pretty clear that the story performs a very deliberate misdirection at the beginning. 2077 *seems* pretty utopian at the beginning of the series, because we're seeing it through Kira's *very* privileged eyes. (And as we later learn, messed-with memory.) They then slowly and carefully deconstruct that over the next three seasons, until we see a world that is squirm-inducingly creepy under the surface -- more or less a Black Mirror variation.
So I'd generally look to that for inconsistencies. There might be some actual mistakes -- that wouldn't be astonishing -- but every time I *thought* I had caught an error, I later concluded that I just hadn't understood the timeline. The fact that the flash-forwards are shown in fairly random order makes it tricky to piece together correctly. I actually had a, "Wait, what?" reaction to the Sonja origin story, but later decided that it worked if I rearranged the order of events.
Kiera also gets pretty "serious" about Brad in the sense of emotionally loyal
Fair -- the "do you trust him?" plot got stretched significantly too far.
But, I should also say, mostly I minded the Brad love plot because I'd spent 3 seasons rejoicing in the super-rare phenomenon of a female protagonist with no major romantic plot/partner.
Also fair -- but honestly, I found it in-character. Her loneliness was a fairly fundamental character point from the beginning, and I empathized with that a lot. Mind, I'm someone who does *not* do well alone -- I've been happily married nearly my entire adult life -- so I really felt for her on this. I find the male-stoic "I don't need relationships" character type just plain weird, personally.
So yeah -- I do see where you're coming from here. But it felt in-character for her to grab at some companionship when she could. (And assuming that was always intended to go as poorly as it did, I'm curious where they had originally planned to go after that.)
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Date: 2017-11-19 03:30 pm (UTC)That one I'll grant -- the handling of Emily blew hot and cold throughout, and she's one of the few characters I never quite believed. And the "I must change time because my girlfriend has been fridged!" plot felt pretty cheap compared to the rest of the story.
It's possible -- I'm honestly not sure. But it's pretty clear that the story performs a very deliberate misdirection at the beginning. 2077 *seems* pretty utopian at the beginning of the series, because we're seeing it through Kira's *very* privileged eyes. (And as we later learn, messed-with memory.) They then slowly and carefully deconstruct that over the next three seasons, until we see a world that is squirm-inducingly creepy under the surface -- more or less a Black Mirror variation.
So I'd generally look to that for inconsistencies. There might be some actual mistakes -- that wouldn't be astonishing -- but every time I *thought* I had caught an error, I later concluded that I just hadn't understood the timeline. The fact that the flash-forwards are shown in fairly random order makes it tricky to piece together correctly. I actually had a, "Wait, what?" reaction to the Sonja origin story, but later decided that it worked if I rearranged the order of events.
Fair -- the "do you trust him?" plot got stretched significantly too far.
Also fair -- but honestly, I found it in-character. Her loneliness was a fairly fundamental character point from the beginning, and I empathized with that a lot. Mind, I'm someone who does *not* do well alone -- I've been happily married nearly my entire adult life -- so I really felt for her on this. I find the male-stoic "I don't need relationships" character type just plain weird, personally.
So yeah -- I do see where you're coming from here. But it felt in-character for her to grab at some companionship when she could. (And assuming that was always intended to go as poorly as it did, I'm curious where they had originally planned to go after that.)