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Last few episodes of s04 were ridiculous.

posted 9 years ago by chillin5000
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Found a lot of season 4 hard to get through. I hated Victoria with a passion since the first episode of season 1. Every little smirk she did or anytime she got the upper-hand was nauseating. So, I was not pleased when the show tried to make her be a sympathetic character earlier in the season. I was scared that in doing this, they were making it so she didn't need to die.

This show was fun to watch for its viewers, because Emily was getting revenge on snooty little pricks the entire time. It was fun watching her take them down and having her always be a step ahead. In the last few episodes, they flipped the script, and it was cringe-worthy. People liked watching Emily dominate, not the other way around. It was bad enough that Victoria garnered any sympathy or allies, but to actually give her credit for conceiving a plan to take down Emily? pssshh.

It was also not very convincing. Victoria playing the defeated sad woman... Never bought it, knew it was a plan. Then she blew herself up in the house? Right. Uh-huh. That shrew would never end her life, despite how good it felt to the viewer. They showed her with the lighter and then it went to a different camera angle and panned away from the chair she was supposedly sitting in and then the house blew up.. So, it was obvious then she was not dead. It pained me that it took them a couple of episodes to actually come out and say she wasn't dead. It was the worst twist, ever. The "duh"-est twist, ever.

Also Emily, trying to reach supposedly-dead journalist guy, by calling him, at the police station and seeing that his number was disconnected. Hint Hint, moron is playing you. The Emily Thorne depicted throughout the first 3 seasons would have been 10 steps ahead of all of this. Instead, when she was speaking with him later that day on the phone, she didn't think at all to try and record the conversation???? Really?! If she did, she would have had proof that he was alive and a frickin' confession from Victoria, herself.

In conclusion, show was fun til season 4. Victoria lasted too long. Show was fun to watch until anytime Victoria was on the screen.

~This has been a chillin5000 rant~

Thank You

[–] singthewee 9 years ago

Madeleine Stowe was fantastic as Victoria! But alas season four had so many problems. Just too many to keep up with. Ultimately, the way it ended was very rushed. The intention was to see Victoria die and Amanda sail away to happiness. Not done very good. Victoria was a complex woman and there are two sides to every story, as the first three seasons depicted, but season four was one-sided and uninspiring. Very contrived and mechanical. Nothing organic about it. The show runner spent the entire time making Victoria as nasty as she could be so we would all LOVE IT when she died. I know I did, but then looking back at seasons one and three (two was obnoxious), I find it was a raping of the set up the previous seasons had done. Nothing fit, and it flowed unevenly. So many characters were unnecessary, coming and exiting, and all the while the entire season would have fared just as well without. Just a lousy way they ended it. One year later, I remember it as seriously un-watchable. I don't know how, or why I did it.

Close your eyes, give me your hand...

[–] kironkid 9 years ago

I'm midway through season four. It's been difficult to watch from the beginning of season three. The writing and scenarios are just too ridiculous. I'll finish the series. But it's been an arduous watch. I can't recommend it to others. 89 episodes???

[–] wdbehg17 9 years ago

I don't even remember at what point I just stopped watching, it was either some time near the end of season 3 or the beginning of season 4. Once all of Emily's plans started backfiring to the point of ridiculousness I just dropped the show entirely. Truth be told this show started to become crap the moment season 3 started.

Emily supposedly went through years of training in order to make her plan of revenge work and then in season 3/4 a bunch of snooty spoilt rich mama's boys/girls gets the drop on her and all of her plans backfire? COME ON!! 

This is my response to whoever wrote seasons 3 and 4: http://giphy.com/gifs/jack-nicholson-middle-finger-fAGln5qp01U9q

[–] Naomilarisa 9 years ago

They should've done 88 episodes for the double infinity.

[–] StuOz 9 years ago

I am finding this thread way too critical and I felt the need to respond in case those who have not seen the series get turn off getting the DVDs after reading this thread.

My only negative about Revenge is that key characters kept being killed off but other than that I have no real problem with the series at all. In fact in this age of reality TV all over the place, we all should be getting behind something like Revenge in the hope another series like this is made soon (yes, now we have Empire which is something I guess)

Yes, as noted above, Victoria does change a lot in season four, but many of us change in life...but then come to think it....what does Revenge have to do with life...as the producers once noted it is a soap opera with the word "opera" being the key thing here.

Revenge is nothing more than a 21st century version of 1980s Dynasty...so take it as that...a bit of over-the-top fun with nice women.

Thank you.

[–] Adster (262) 6 years ago

I don't know what you mean they made her sympathetic?? it was because of margo however you spell her name LOL. that Victoria went off the rails at the end. she was the one that baited Victoria by telling her that Emily pushed her letting her lose the baby. she had actually given up finally and was going to just let Emily move on until that had happened.

The issue for me was they made her out to be the villain in season 4 more then Victoria. but the BIGGEST 2 issues i had in season 4 was David Clarke coming back. it really ruined any point of what the show was about. there was no need to bring him back at all. it was all because they were out of story and had to do a 'days of our lives' they could have completely skipped that and made it about the Malcolm character in some sort of other way. it took FOREVER for Emily to reunite with her father that was frustrating and dragged on WAY to long. and the 2nd dragged out story was Jack. I was over Emily friend zoning him the entire season. that dragged on to long as well.