Before I start I will say the series kept me interested. I wanted to find out what was in the conclusion of it. What are those faceless creatures, how did Holden get powers?
However, there are a lot more questions I have to ask that are about Holden's character motivation.
Holden took his best friends' death pretty lightly, and upon coming face to face with the orchestrators and perpetrators he never once brought it up. I was waiting the whole time at his meeting with Frost for him to say, you killed my best friend, you can't do that and pretend to be a good guy. But I guess he totally forgot that in the name of shiny tech?
Holden isn't the only socio, Kevin's brother seems dead set on saying he's got nothing left, but I was under the impression that Kevin left behind a pregnant widow who could probably use support?
The whole Willa/Holden thing made no sense. "I'm desperately in love with you, but after one argument I'm assuming we're broken up so I'm going to immediately start sleeping with another girl and go on vacation with her and pretend to be married, but like tomorrow I'll forget her name because you're all I want." How does that make sense? Did he not care about Charlie at all? When they were shooting at them and driving away he didn't even groan out a 'Don't leave her she's with me.'
Their reaction to people trying to kill them is so low key. It's like they think they are accidentally shooting at them or something. They don't try to report it to the police or even shoot back. It's like she just tried to kill me and release hell on earth but I'm just going to close her in a barn and leave. That should work, no way that's coming back to bite me in the ass.
I mean someone shoots at him and says they are after him and threatens his family and he's just like alright I'm going home now.
Then we come to the finale, the bridge scene. WHY WAS THE PLAN TO BLOW UP THE BRIDGE WHILE THEY WERE STILL ON IT?!!! HE SPENT 15 MINUTES TALKING ABOUT HOW HE'D SEEN HER DIE ON THE BRIDGE AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE HER, WHEN SHE COULD HAVE JUST WALKED OFF THE BRIDGE SO THEY COULD BLOW IT UP WITH HER AT A SAFE DISTANCE!!!! Or even both of them. It doesn't take a demolition specialty to know you shouldn't destroy a bridge while you are standing in the middle of it!
I feel like the writers needed someone to content check this. You can't let the plot points drive the story you need the story to reach the plot points. I saw an analogy once. You can have a story about space unicorns, yes. But you can't have them all flying around without helmets, but defeat the villain space unicorn by breaking his helmet. Either the unicorns can live without being imploded in space or they can't. You can't have both because you weren't creative enough to find a logical conclusion.
However, there are a lot more questions I have to ask that are about Holden's character motivation.
Holden took his best friends' death pretty lightly, and upon coming face to face with the orchestrators and perpetrators he never once brought it up. I was waiting the whole time at his meeting with Frost for him to say, you killed my best friend, you can't do that and pretend to be a good guy. But I guess he totally forgot that in the name of shiny tech?
Holden isn't the only socio, Kevin's brother seems dead set on saying he's got nothing left, but I was under the impression that Kevin left behind a pregnant widow who could probably use support?
The whole Willa/Holden thing made no sense. "I'm desperately in love with you, but after one argument I'm assuming we're broken up so I'm going to immediately start sleeping with another girl and go on vacation with her and pretend to be married, but like tomorrow I'll forget her name because you're all I want." How does that make sense? Did he not care about Charlie at all? When they were shooting at them and driving away he didn't even groan out a 'Don't leave her she's with me.'
Their reaction to people trying to kill them is so low key. It's like they think they are accidentally shooting at them or something. They don't try to report it to the police or even shoot back. It's like she just tried to kill me and release hell on earth but I'm just going to close her in a barn and leave. That should work, no way that's coming back to bite me in the ass.
I mean someone shoots at him and says they are after him and threatens his family and he's just like alright I'm going home now.
Then we come to the finale, the bridge scene. WHY WAS THE PLAN TO BLOW UP THE BRIDGE WHILE THEY WERE STILL ON IT?!!! HE SPENT 15 MINUTES TALKING ABOUT HOW HE'D SEEN HER DIE ON THE BRIDGE AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE HER, WHEN SHE COULD HAVE JUST WALKED OFF THE BRIDGE SO THEY COULD BLOW IT UP WITH HER AT A SAFE DISTANCE!!!! Or even both of them. It doesn't take a demolition specialty to know you shouldn't destroy a bridge while you are standing in the middle of it!
I feel like the writers needed someone to content check this. You can't let the plot points drive the story you need the story to reach the plot points. I saw an analogy once. You can have a story about space unicorns, yes. But you can't have them all flying around without helmets, but defeat the villain space unicorn by breaking his helmet. Either the unicorns can live without being imploded in space or they can't. You can't have both because you weren't creative enough to find a logical conclusion.