yeah the stuff with Isabel was intense and Liv as Peyton was great, I'm not really into Blaine's dad VS Chase Graves though that whole plotline and what Major is up to is kinda losing me
this season stunk. -Liv's boyfriend sucked -Brother Love sucked -Filmore graves sucked -Ravi as a pretentious white girl was AMAZING
I think outside of the young girl, the show has just become so outlandish. It felt a little more grounded prior to this season.
I can see where you're coming from, but it just wasn't a problem for me. Does it not seem earned to you? Maybe I'm interpreting "grounded" a bit differently.
I felt bored this season. I didn't care for the plot at all and a lot of the main characters were bad. And I LOVED seasons 1-3.
This was my least favorite season, but I still enjoyed it. The writing is still more witty and less eyeroll-inducing than the other CW shows I watch. Just felt like they tried to go too big with the scope of the show.
Hmm, I think, in the same way that I'm a sucker for anything time travel, I have a thing for sci-fi/fantasy narratives involving an ostracized community disagreeing on how to deal with its otherness in society, the same of which can be found in previous seasons of Agents of SHIELD and Supergirl regarding Inhumans and aliens, respectively. Maybe I put too much stock into the supposed real-world parallels.
I was really into the Chase Graves storyline, although that might be my Logan Echolls bias. But I did think his dilemma of saving zombies was great, until he let his anger get the best of him by shooting Major's squad. I wish they'd given him a better ending. I thought he was a good character for awhile there. So I was just as disillusioned as Major when they turned him into a real villain.
1) finally caught up so I can post 2) just found out Rose is from New Zealand from these tattoo videos, I literally can't believe I didn't know that. 3) I liked this season just fine, I was invested, definitely okay with it coming to an end while it's still good. My only real complaint with this season is that they leaned SO hard into the human brain takeover. I had casually rewatched s1-3 in the weeks leading up to this and it was immediately shocking to me that Liv just literally became the dead person for the whole episode. Sometimes it's fun, but I definitely liked it better when it was less prominent, or like, one aspect of the personality coming through. The episode where she was on the racist old lady brain was such a SLOG because she was so relentlessly horrible as a person. Rose is clearly a versatile actor and I'm sure they were having a lot of fun, it just brought the show up to the line of jumping the shark a few times, IMO.
I definitely am tired of her personality swapping. At first it was done quite subtly, but now they have taken it quite far and some of the personalities acquired (such as the racist one above) just made the episode tedious. Also everything surrounding Filmore Graves was such a boring storyline. I felt like we were supposed to care when Chase shot that boy soldier dead, but I honestly just felt bored. Would have liked more of a focus on the cult. Ravi is STILL the best thing about this show.
I've made a couple excuses for the brain takeover writing this season, and my main two were 1) Clive knows now so she doesn't fight it as hard and 2) because brain tubes have been around and eaten, it's now a more intense experience to eat a single brain.