My problems with this season are several, mostly that the plot twists are always either weird (he's not a stalker! here, have a kid! even if he already has an adoptive mom!), or just do not make sense (you're a conman, but hey, keep doing your hypnotherapist thing in another city, nothing wrong with that). We had no scenes with Harold and John truly interacting so far, and the two main bad guys were both put into different locked rooms as if the writers just didn't know what to do with them. The only episode I truly appreciated was Shaw's.
And then, they decide to off Carter. They could have gone many different ways about it, but they just took away any meaning to it, and her last words (and next week's trailer) made it clear they were just stuffing her in the fridge.
Plus, there's that really, really weird sappy dialogue between John and Joss before the kiss. I wouldn't have minded a romantic storyline, although I definitely preferred them to remain platonic friends, but what puzzled me was the bullet thing and what they made John say. It's been two seasons of John saying over and over again that he owes his life to Harold, and that it's Harold who stopped him from dying, by giving him a job in the first episode. They just erased all of that, and recycled the relationship, this time with Joss.
They could have made him talk about Number Crunch, or when John first saved her life, or the interrogations, the bomb vest, any one of the many moments they shared together and that had actual meaning to their storyline, instead of the only one that held no real meaning for them: their first meeting. They went for the trite sappy lines, and then they killed her in his arms while she was pleading him not to let that change him. Way to waste a fantastic character, and what could have been a Heroic Death, a crowning moment of a great personal arc. =_=
And then, they decide to off Carter. They could have gone many different ways about it, but they just took away any meaning to it, and her last words (and next week's trailer) made it clear they were just stuffing her in the fridge.
Plus, there's that really, really weird sappy dialogue between John and Joss before the kiss. I wouldn't have minded a romantic storyline, although I definitely preferred them to remain platonic friends, but what puzzled me was the bullet thing and what they made John say. It's been two seasons of John saying over and over again that he owes his life to Harold, and that it's Harold who stopped him from dying, by giving him a job in the first episode. They just erased all of that, and recycled the relationship, this time with Joss.
They could have made him talk about Number Crunch, or when John first saved her life, or the interrogations, the bomb vest, any one of the many moments they shared together and that had actual meaning to their storyline, instead of the only one that held no real meaning for them: their first meeting. They went for the trite sappy lines, and then they killed her in his arms while she was pleading him not to let that change him. Way to waste a fantastic character, and what could have been a Heroic Death, a crowning moment of a great personal arc. =_=
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