04-26-2015, 07:53 AM
I had some problems with this episode, some of them with the script and some with the acting.
On a purely personal level, I was really sorry to see the writers decide to burn the trailer; as one person here already said, it was, essentially, a character in the show and it was one that I liked. Heck, even the official site has a page about the trailer.
Monroe’s presentation to the Iron Hans group was very good...until it suddenly ended without an ending. Just kind of fell off a cliff and boom - we’re back to the group leader. Poor writing. Another scripting error has already been mentioned - the “villlain” was obviously the daughter and we both (my wife watches this one with me) spotted that one immediately.
And the actress who played the girl was simply not up to the part. The show also suffered (IMO, badly) from the shortness of the slot; both Monroe’s speech to the group and the girl’s dying speech could have been much better with more time available. But that is a constraint that the makers obviously know about and they just didn’t compensate - those two scenes, which could have been very strong, ended up being relatively weak.
At this point I just wish they would get rid of Juliette. I’m sick of her.
I hang around because: I live in Portland and I like seeing locations I know; I really like some of the characters; I like the mixed languages (even if they get a lot of the languages wrong - that one surprises me); I like the fairy tale references (when they bother to make them); and, of course, because I think the Wesen are fun. It’s not always a great show, but when it works it is a lot of fun.
On a purely personal level, I was really sorry to see the writers decide to burn the trailer; as one person here already said, it was, essentially, a character in the show and it was one that I liked. Heck, even the official site has a page about the trailer.
Monroe’s presentation to the Iron Hans group was very good...until it suddenly ended without an ending. Just kind of fell off a cliff and boom - we’re back to the group leader. Poor writing. Another scripting error has already been mentioned - the “villlain” was obviously the daughter and we both (my wife watches this one with me) spotted that one immediately.
And the actress who played the girl was simply not up to the part. The show also suffered (IMO, badly) from the shortness of the slot; both Monroe’s speech to the group and the girl’s dying speech could have been much better with more time available. But that is a constraint that the makers obviously know about and they just didn’t compensate - those two scenes, which could have been very strong, ended up being relatively weak.
At this point I just wish they would get rid of Juliette. I’m sick of her.
I hang around because: I live in Portland and I like seeing locations I know; I really like some of the characters; I like the mixed languages (even if they get a lot of the languages wrong - that one surprises me); I like the fairy tale references (when they bother to make them); and, of course, because I think the Wesen are fun. It’s not always a great show, but when it works it is a lot of fun.