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Season 3 Thoughts?

posted 9 years ago by tristanp25
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While this was by far the most entertaining season, with season 1 suffering from a lackluster, petty main plot and season 2 having been a bore until the season finale, season 3 lures intrigue, though rushes through and slaps together conflicts. Here are my issues with it:

Spivak - You have all this slow build about Spivak and his experimental activities throughout his ageless decades. The season spends time painting him as a smart and revolutionary human/beast hybrid experimentor, only to have Roman and Peter easily put this guy down in a matter of like 2 minutes without even a scratch. Is this a joke? I was like how did they rush this and treat it like nothing or as if Spivak wasn't a blip on the radar of threats?

Destiny's Oracle Powers - Destiny has a lover named Andreas, who is actively involved in the drug trade as a bootleg merchant, yet as a psychic she doesn't pick up on any energies of his delinquent habits? She so often does spiritual tracking but didn't think to find out more about a guy she's involved with?

The Pryce is Wrong - To say I'm disappointed with how Pryce died is an understatement. I would've much preferred the test subject with a firearm take him out during that board room scene if he had to die. His test subject channeling his consciousness and stabbing him was wack.

Roman vs Peter - Why did the writers destroy their friendship? I mean by the time they perpetrated their actions towards Andreas and Destiny, I couldn't wait for them to kill each other off for being cruel, disingenuous pricks to a good-hearted Destiny. If they were gonna die it should've been while fighting Spivak together. You know, the main plot driven villain?

What does you guys think about season 3?

[–] chibimon 9 years ago

I don't agree that this was the best season. While entertaining, season one was definitely the best. Two and three were just....kinda blah and weird though I enjoyed them.

I loved Destiny and hated what happened to hated. Loved her so much in fact that it made me turn on Roman who I liked for most of the show but they really turned him into a prick.

The whole Chango/Olivia gimmick became very tiresome to me and I missed the more serious aspect of Olivia's character, she became more of the comic relief.

I agree 100% about how easy Spivak was to beat. I was like what?

Most of all, I missed Dougray Scott's character Norman. He was definitely a much missed element.

[–] JackSlaterIV 9 years ago

Season three turned into the olivia show. What a disgusting character. I wanted to fast forward through her scenes .... Which end up being the majority of the season. I dont gove a crap about her crazy antics, the whole time i just wanted somebody to put her down. But no, she is dying , decomposing, couldnt digest blood at one point, legit crazy and gee she can kill anybody at will. Wtf? So the chausuer (sp) brother and sister, norman, all the bs she pulled justforget about it and lets kick back and watch her talk to herself for ten episodes.

The season was about everybody lying to eachother and thus backstabbing. By the way what is maries motive??? Hooking up with who she knows is her brother, and then knowing him for about a week she determines he "destroys everything" and kidnaps a baby? I am sorry there is too many things i have issues with in this season. Very dissapointing.

[–] harleydanaher 9 years ago

I thought the show runners clearly wanted the show's story to cover a minimum of four seasons, with 3 dealing with the hunt for Spivak and then 4 possibly revolving around Roman and Peters relationship disintegrating, ending with a confrontation. My guess is that in finding out they only had the final season they had to get down as much as possible for one season. Ultimately it came off rushed, badly written and lazy. Like we are supposed to believe that basically everything transpired in like two weeks? Some thing that summarized the whole thing for me was when Pryce died and Shelley managed to arrange this huge illustrious send off for him and yet no one even knew he died apart from some dude he was going to date and his Assistant. I personally enjoyed the shows first season and second was okay in building up what could have been a really good 3rd season, but alas it was'nt to be.

[–] Daria_McCloud 9 years ago

I believe you're right, I think the original intent was for a season 4 but Netflix pulled the rug out from under them, forcing them to squeeze everything into one final season. A fourth season, even just an abbreviated one, could have allowed the writers to build things up properly. Overall, I still liked the final season, but I do think the first two seasons were much better.

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[–] pinkfloydrevolution 8 years ago

LOL! I totally forgot about the stupid funeral thing that nobody knew about. Also Roman got shot the same night, which maee his confrontation with the underling doctor nonsensical. This season was such a train wreck.

[–] jwhawkes 9 years ago

Honestly? I thought it was a train wreck. It came off as if the writers had no knowledge whatsoever of Seasons 1 & 2. Big cliffhanger ending from season 2 was reduced to a side note. Characters were a 180 from their personalities in the first 2 seasons. The list goes on and on. This was in no way what I expected or what I felt was promised by Season 2.

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