Poor Sarah the decisions she has to make for her town always turn out to be the worst ones. But I guess that's the point of this show. With running a country hard choices must be made those decisions aren't the best ones sometimes for the people but work for the town. At least Sarah knows to admit when she was wrong that's what makes her a strong leader. Lets see how she gets out of the current bind.
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For a history teacher, Sarah sure doesn't learn much from it
chuck-50919 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I like this show, but the way that Sarah is being presented makes her a really crappy leader. For somebody that's supposed to be a history teacher, she sure doesn't seem to have learned anything from history, or at least that's the way the writers have presented her so far.
The real problem for this show up to this point is that the writers rely too much on dramatic effect and not enough on showing Sarah as a realistic character, someone who as a history teacher really knows and understands American history and can build upon the foundation that our forefathers had in writing the Constitution instead of being somebody who's continually bringing up the Town Charter. Seriously, relying on a document that is over 400 years old? Even our Constitution has been updated with Amendments. As a history teacher, Sarah knows that or at least she should.
Sarah does say something regarding the laws for the new nation in this episode about "the joy of starting a new nation is fixing the things that America got wrong", which sounds nice except that it's been 3 months and there's been no laws that have been fixed nor have there been any new laws established. There's only been her Executive Orders. And how is it that after 3 months of Independence, Greylock still doesn't have a functioning Federal Government? There's a Judicial branch (SIDE NOTE - From a pre-independence standpoint, given how small Greylock is population-wise, why does it have a courtroom and how does it afford it?) And with Sarah leading things along with a small group of friends as advisers, there is some sort of semblance of an Executive branch (even though there are NO Departments (State, Commerce, etc) because Sarah would rather tackle everything herself rather than appoint someone to any of those positions), but there's still no Legislative body. Maybe there's a Town Council, but we either never hear about them or Sarah ignores them. Either way, that's on the writers of the show. Apparently there will be elections in the next episode; elections that should have been held right after independence was declared.
And the bad writing isn't just reserved for Sarah. Some of the characters are fine (Corrine, A. J., Grover, the teenagers). Other characters not so much. Liz comes across as being anti-Sarah simply for the sake being anti-Sarah ("I voted for independence; I didn't vote for you!"); no explanation as to why she has such a hostile attitude. And then there's Sarah's brother, Danny; exactly what is Danny still doing in town? Lydon now has it's operations up and running in town; his part in that particular project should be finished. Doesn't Lydon need him elsewhere? Or was his only job was to get the project up and running and now Lydon has nothing else for him to do?
Overall, I like the show despite the flawed premise that it's built upon. I'm hoping that the writing improves, but given that this show has already lost half it's viewers since the pilot episode, I don't think that this show will be around long enough for the writing to improve.
The real problem for this show up to this point is that the writers rely too much on dramatic effect and not enough on showing Sarah as a realistic character, someone who as a history teacher really knows and understands American history and can build upon the foundation that our forefathers had in writing the Constitution instead of being somebody who's continually bringing up the Town Charter. Seriously, relying on a document that is over 400 years old? Even our Constitution has been updated with Amendments. As a history teacher, Sarah knows that or at least she should.
Sarah does say something regarding the laws for the new nation in this episode about "the joy of starting a new nation is fixing the things that America got wrong", which sounds nice except that it's been 3 months and there's been no laws that have been fixed nor have there been any new laws established. There's only been her Executive Orders. And how is it that after 3 months of Independence, Greylock still doesn't have a functioning Federal Government? There's a Judicial branch (SIDE NOTE - From a pre-independence standpoint, given how small Greylock is population-wise, why does it have a courtroom and how does it afford it?) And with Sarah leading things along with a small group of friends as advisers, there is some sort of semblance of an Executive branch (even though there are NO Departments (State, Commerce, etc) because Sarah would rather tackle everything herself rather than appoint someone to any of those positions), but there's still no Legislative body. Maybe there's a Town Council, but we either never hear about them or Sarah ignores them. Either way, that's on the writers of the show. Apparently there will be elections in the next episode; elections that should have been held right after independence was declared.
And the bad writing isn't just reserved for Sarah. Some of the characters are fine (Corrine, A. J., Grover, the teenagers). Other characters not so much. Liz comes across as being anti-Sarah simply for the sake being anti-Sarah ("I voted for independence; I didn't vote for you!"); no explanation as to why she has such a hostile attitude. And then there's Sarah's brother, Danny; exactly what is Danny still doing in town? Lydon now has it's operations up and running in town; his part in that particular project should be finished. Doesn't Lydon need him elsewhere? Or was his only job was to get the project up and running and now Lydon has nothing else for him to do?
Overall, I like the show despite the flawed premise that it's built upon. I'm hoping that the writing improves, but given that this show has already lost half it's viewers since the pilot episode, I don't think that this show will be around long enough for the writing to improve.
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