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One complaint...

posted 8 years ago by Theblunt (1)
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Anyone else notice how terrible the dialogue is at times? I enjoyed the show but the constant:

"This is my motive"
"But this is the dilemma"
"Well, these are the stakes"
"Okay, now I feel this way"

Type of dialogue really got annoying after a while. The show (and most shows like this) are at their best when the viewer can pick up these facts based on the characters actions, or indirectly from their dialogue. I'm no film critic, and I understand that a certain amount of exposition is necessary for the viewer to follow the story... I guess I just felt insulted by the writers sometimes.

Like, "yes, I'm aware he wants to kill you and that if he succeeded it would be bad for your secret mission. I successfully deduced as much when he tried to stab you in the face after finding out your secret plans - please stop telling me now."

I dunno, maybe it's just me.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6349) 6 years ago

The problem I had was the continuous misuse of pronouns. When they're in the objective case, they use the nominative and when they're in the nominative the use the objective.

Example: the phrase that is usually "for him and me" will be spoken "for he and I".

Example: the phrase that is usually "He and I will go..." is "Me and him will go..."

And so on.

Pretty much every single time.