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Thoughts about Season 3 (beware of spoilers)


Thanks to Dreamers, I found out S3 is now available, so started watching last night.

On the plus side, there was some great cinematography in the first 5 or so minutes of the first episode. The choppiness of the editing started to annoy me, and I was glad to see they started to slow that roll by the second episode.

I get the point was to show how events were spinning out of control into chaos, I just think they went overboard with it. Otherwise a great job in creating an ominous atmosphere.

Lots of moments of excellent acting by all of the cast. It was good to see Chelsea back again. She's a good character.

My advice is to go into it with low expectations. Then you'll likely find some good stuff in there.

Unfortunately I fell asleep during parts of episodes 3 and 4, so will have to go back and rewatch.

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Disappointing final season. It's obvious they never had a solid story figured out beyond season 2. Can't blame them, there's only so many places the story could have gone without flogging a dead horse, such as "what did Kevin do now".

Season 2 should have just had 2 or 3 more episodes to wrap things up after Kevin killed the cop. That should have been when everything was exposed and unravelled.

It's very scrappy and messy, just a multi-episode hangover from events in season 2. It lost its charm, character and originality of the first two seasons.

It's bizarre how Meg just disappears mid-way through... almost like she had other acting commitments so they had to write her out.

Kevin getting shot by the coroner - that whole scene was bizarre, and the idea very unrealistic. Was it the same writers as before? Maybe less money went into the production.

"When is it going to end" is the tag-line said by Danny the ghost. I think the writers were having a chuckle at themselves.

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I'm still only a little over halfway done with this season, but I don't think it's stunningly horrible like some fans have thought. Of course, I've yet to see its conclusion so am reserving full judgment till then, but....it still feels like a show that had to desperately squeeze out more from a story that should've just stopped at S1 and been a miniseries.

S1 was just so fantastic and so I don't think further seasons ever had a chance to compete with that. It felt so full and complete on its own that, even if the other seasons were really good, they still would've felt off or tacked on, I think. The later seasons aren't the worst TV I've ever seen, but they do feel a lot like filler.

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I thought season 2 was good, I think most fans enjoyed season 2.

Apparently the creator originally had 5 seasons in mind. I just read that yesterday after I posted my previous comment above. This surprises me because S3 is so underwhelming, but may be the victim of story squashing and "wrap-up" syndrome. The third season unfortunately is devoted to finding an ending, a way out, rather than telling a story.

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Five seasons? Really? Honestly, I never would've thought that. I always thought it was meant for 1 season and based off of its popularity got some more. Hm, interesting. I think they had some writing and pacing problems and that kinda of always made it come across as them stretching out plot, but I don't know...I really am surprised they intended to make a much longer running show.

Did you read that in an article? Did they mention what they had in mind for the other seasons?

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"When we pitched it and we thought about it, we were thinking five to six seasons down the line because we wanted to make sure it could hold that much material. So we certainly have ideas for where everything could go and hopefully where everything will go."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bloodline-five-things-look-forward-783205



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Wow, interesting. Thanks for the link!

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