Reviews

Let me see if I have this right.. a woman escapes from an abusive boyfriend, hides out for 2 weeks literally terrified he might find her, gets pissed when her sister comes to the house she's hiding at for fear her ex might have followed her (who, btw, just shows up to inform her that the ex is dead according to one obscure post on the internet), only to immediately go to see said ex's brother for an inheritance she was getting according to a letter she found in the mailbox at the house NO ONE was suppose to know she was at, address in HER NAME and she didn't fine THAT suspicious??? So women are terrified for their lives up until MONEY is involved... hahahahaha.. whatever...

I'm rating it a 6 instead of a 4 only because the first 2 seasons were somewhat decent, albeit the scene of the almost teenage lynching of the mean, bully, yet innocent kid (Murphy) was poorly written, really should have been a warning of the kind of trite I was in for. It begins to decay by the 3rd season and I stopped watching midway through season 4... just gave up, kinda like the writers did (although I got the impression their hearts really weren't in it from the get go)... Most overused expressions in practically every other episode: "I just want to take care of my people" "I'm trying to do whats best for my people" "They are lying" "I know I can do this" "Trust me" "We're going to war" "You're going to get yourself killed" just to name a few (my personal favorite being "I had no choice" sometimes used several times in ONE episode). As the two main characters, Clarke and Bellamy both suffer from Christ complex to the point of being insufferable. The female lead, Clarke, who runs head first into EVERY situation and we get to suffer through her angst about how to fix things when she misreads the situation, blowing it way out of proportion, until she hits on several solutions that don't work before her epiphany, which only works for a little while until she again misreads the situation, blowing it out of proportion (you get the meaning.. wash, rinse, repeat)... Then we have the male lead, Bellamy, who's emotional state only has 2 modes, overly aggressive then doing a hard 180 into overly contrite. There is NO middle ground. Over the 4 1/2 season's I watched, there was NO character growth with these two, I'm talking no learning from their mistakes, just keep repeating them over and over like a broken record with the beloved line "I had no choice". Then there's the bit players: 1) Bellamy's sister Octavia, a bad-ass wanna-be who stayed hidden most of her life and runs wild once on Earth (nice character growth development on her in the beginning but then the writers didn't really know what to do with her and she became a generic bad-ass), 2) Raven, the stereotypical female bad-ass who's also a conceited mechanic that, by mid 2nd season, I regularly 10-seconded through until her scene's were over, 3) John Murphy as the brooding, ostracized bully whom I felt was one of the better played characters, 4) Jasper the shy, geeky male bad-ass wanna-be who also got regularly 10-seconded because he got on my last nerve by the end of the second season, and 5) Monty, Jasper's supportive and understanding, forgiving punching bag of a bbf ( I began to enjoy him once he stopped being Jasper's door mat) Yep, the young en's run the show which wouldn't be so bad if there were NO adults around (that would explain the continuity of continued stupidity and vapidness) instead of the 3 major adults characters they have, who come off as not only incompetent but also self-centered clueless buffoons. They like to hold Clarke and Bellamy somewhat on a pedestal reminding us what REAL leaders they are, so brave and resourceful... I thought about reading the books but after watching this, decided to pass...

Yep, I nodded off during SEVERAL of the episodes. And that's hard for me to do. Just kept watching from where I woke up and it didn't seem to make a bit o' difference as to where it was in the plot or what episode I was on because it's just the same thing episode after episode. M15 trying to turn the male lead against the female lead, the "police commissioner" trying to bury the male lead and the female lead trying to keep her son from harm... throw in some random fights and violence, a few nonsensical subplots, rinse, repeat.... Not really sure what all the brew ha ha is about with the M15 going to such lengths trying to get the hard drive and keeping the world coming to an end a secret since they discredited it in the beginning when part of it was leaked. AND, why in the world is the UK the only ones to know this??? I mean if such a catastrophe was going to happen, it would be all over the world. With amateur astronomers finding comets and such and with the internet, there is NO WAY to keep this kind of a thing secret. For me that's a huge plot hole.

I tried really hard to like the 2 main characters but I just found them sad and depraved in their own way and began to care less and less about them. Both the female lead and the M15 characters are almost hard to tell apart because they are both acted in the same, bland, stoic way. The female lead's son tries to kill her in the beginning and ends up in a mental facility because she's trying to protect him?? The male lead keeps whiny about how he wants to keep his family from harm and loves them, all the while having an affair with his dead (whom he murdered) partner's wife?? M15 has the secret about the end of the world on a hackable computer??? It might work for you but for me... ah... no. The music... I couldn't stand the music. The allegros and crescendos all seem to be in the wrong places. Not sure why this is considered a Scifi because that element just wasn't there. Its a badly written, poorly acted cop show that WANTS to be hard and edgy. Seriously, watch the first episode and the last 6 minutes of the last episode for the Scifi. I gave it 4 stars for those parts alone. They were the best parts.