Yep! For me it's also become a case of I've started, so I'll finish. I really don't care about the story anymore, and I don't much care what happens to any of the characters either. Both the story and the characters are usually very important to me when watching a show. But this show has just become a big yaaaawn to me, sadly.
shareHa! This is exactly what I was coming to post myself! I've watched the entire series and kept expecting it to kick into gear and grab me, but it never really did. I think the show could have used a lot tighter focus--it couldn't decide if it primarily wanted to be a murder mystery, an anthropological puzzle about a dormant virus, or just a case study of an isolated community near the arctic circle...and was never successful with any of them.
Watching each successive episode has been frustrating because it just dragged on and even now, with one final hour to go, it still doesn't feel like a resolution is about to be reached.
A missed opportunity.
"...sooner or later it all comes down to money."
I'm glad I'm not alone,I've really wanted to like it but it is just too slow with not enough happening,I record it and it has been taking me longer and longer to get round to watching it,that's never a good sign.I liked the Stanley Tucci character but haven't really taken to any of the other characters,well,except for Petra,that is really only for eye candy purposes though. :D
shareI thought it looked great but it dragged on a bit and I started to lose interest halfway through. The series could have been a pacier 6 parter.
Just watched the last episode half-heartedly, thinking it was the penultimate episode, and only realised it was the last one when the Sky announcer said so - it didn't feel like much of a finale.
Watching for completion only-I'm so glad the last ep is over.
shareYou're not alone at all. I found the 2 hours pilot amazing and then the series became very repetitive. It's been renewed, let's hope season 2 will be different.
shareFunnily enough, I thought the opposite was true and found episodes 1-3 tedious. I really thought it picked up around episode 5-6 to the point where it became something I had to watch as soon as I got in from work (I work evening shift) instead of recording it for the weekend.
My family say they think they could have got to where they were going in about 8 episodes and that they enjoyed it but thought it was slow at times. I didn't mind the pace.
I was disappointed a bit with the finale - the penultimate episode was great from a human drama perspective and Richard Dormer has been the driving force of the show IMO - but felt that there wasn't a great payoff to some of the subplots. I won't post spoilers since I think the US is an episode behind.
I'd have preferred a one-off, self-contained series with a real payoff but it felt as though they were leaving some things open for Season 2. I think that the show was written with the preconception that it would be renewed has been a hindrance.
It was originally written as a film, but the director decided that he couldn't do it justice in 2 hours or so.
Stretching it out to 12 episodes was also a mistake though, as the finale was extremely underwhelming.
6/10 from me. :(
If the opposite of Love is indifference, what's the opposite of Hate?
Underwhelming indeed, it really had me entertained and locked in for a few episodes, but it seemed to decline steadily after DCI Morton died and the murder mystery was complete. Will likely watch 2nd season or at least give it a shot.
sharelet's hope season 2 will be different
Totally Agree. Lost interest very early on but I wanted to find out what happened so I kept going. I now am annoyed with myself I finished it and will no doubt end up watching the second series to see what happens next. It started off well then got very slow then sped up again.
It was like two programmes in one, you had the Pettigrew/what is up on the glacier/what is up with Henry storyline which was very good and then you had the totally ridiculous prehistoric larvae storyline.
I think the idea behind it could have worked had it been better written but the major let down for me was the silly unbelievable things that happened regularly in each episode. My favourite would be Marcus walking into the research centre, sticking Shirley on a stretcher then just wheeling her out the door, down the road, filling a boat full of wood and then burning here in a lord of the ring esq burial WITHOUT ANYBODY BATTING AN EYELID. People who like it say that you need to just let all that nonsense go and just accept it - if that's what you need to do to enjoy a drama TV series then in my book it can't be that good.
Then there is all the loose ends(aka plot holes),the biggest one that annoys me is why did Liam pick Stoddart to throw up in to? I'm sure he would have come across many people on that long walk in his bare feet to Stoddarts house, the other infected people seemed to either be in close proximity to their victim or not liked the person. To me that seemed like an agenda and didn't make sense but hey, I'll just let it go because that's what you need to do with Fortitude to enjoy it.(but if anyone knows the reason why he did please tell me, I really want to know :))
Stoddart self-selected. Liam was wondering along in his daze, barefoot and w/o even a light coat when Stoddart saw him and got the boy to come inside. Bet he wouldn't make that mistake twice!
I think the idea behind it could have worked had it been better written but the major let down for me was the silly unbelievable things that happened regularly in each episode. My favourite would be Marcus walking into the research centre, sticking Shirley on a stretcher then just wheeling her out the door, down the road, filling a boat full of wood and then burning here in a lord of the ring esq burial WITHOUT ANYBODY BATTING AN EYELID.Totally agreed with you on this. share
There is no real way of knowing if you are in a minority or not, but for what it's worth, I agree.
It has been underwhelming and I can't even put my finger on as to why. Pacing is fine, could even be 50x slower as far as I'm concerned, scenery gorgeous, acting good, story potentially exciting, characters being unsympathetic no problem, but it is meh... Not even Tucci could save it. Haven't watched the finale yet and don't know when I'll do.
May be the showmakers just aren't very talented and that's all there is to it.
It started out nicely, but at some point in the middle there was tension just for the sake of tension. And then comes the conclusion, the explanation of all of this which was so anticlimactic... I expected a lot more. 9/10 for the first episodes, 6/10 for the entire season.
shareSpot on!!
Unlikeable characters - everyone was incompetent except DCI Morton so they killed him off for no apparent reason - ridiculously unprofessional police force, clueless for the entire series then miraculously the scientist works it out at the end, but only tells the teacher, a tiny community but no-one communicates. The cop leaves the Russian in a hole but doesn't bother mentioning it. This show was a 9 at the beginning with so much potential but a 2 by the time you see the final episode of Season 1, it just left me annoyed. As for the loose ends - that would be the entire show. It's like they were so surprised that the show was renewed that they had to completely stuff up the final episode to leave us hanging. Pretty obvious they can't contain the bugs so they should have infected the entire island and let this show go the way of the Mammoths!
So they could potentially have a perfect 12 episodes mini-series but instead they preferred to drag this to god-knows how many seasons. Good job, greed destroys everything.
shareI agree,too many shows are allowed to run to too many seasons,Grimm and Revenge come to mind.I just got fed up at the prospect of having to watch 22 episodes every season with those two.Then there are the shows that start out to be one season,only to be extended because the viewing figures are high,then in the next season,the figures suddenly drop,the show then gets axed without any conclusion.
I think Fortitude could be in the latter camp and get axed halfway through season 2.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Hated the loose ends they left. Not even any half-baked resolution, just outright drop offs.
I so agree. What a disappointing show. The only nice stuff about it was the glacier and the landscape… and DCI Morton.
shareUnlikeable characters
This show had the basis to be really good. But yes it did move slower than that glacier. And with a "meh" last episode. It had so many unnecessary characters. Should have been 6 episodes.
shareThis show had the basis to be really good.Agreed. I didn't find it slow, to me it was good in terms of progressing and plot revealing, but the acting was not so great plus the movie had many weird things.