Until I thought about it two minutes after it happened, then I came to the conclusion that it was pretty lame. Even more, it kinda makes Ginny a borderline crazy person. Your thoughts?
shareLame twist? Did you see it coming? No, so it was extremely effective. So it was lame because she was having flashbacks of the only person who got her to where she is and the first person who believed in her. Plus everyday people say they feel their parent's presence during important events. Neither lame nor unrealistic.
shareI didn't see it coming, that is why I was initially impressed, but after further thought it seemed to me that is was not all that effective. She actually has conversations and arguments with her dead father. She actually sees him and interacts with him as if he were physically present. That is indeed, very lame.
shareI could have lived without the twist too. I would have preferred they just let us know she was thinking this stuff. Since it would have been later in the show, it would have been enough of a surprise when they revealed in one of her memories about the accident.
Actually, I don't mind her thinking about these things. We all have things come back to us at appropriate moments that our parents said or things we did with them that were important. They just "drama-ed it up" because this was a TV show.
All in all, I liked the show, and I'm looking forward to episode 2.
I didn't think it was lame, but I did call it around the time of her emotional breakdown with him and he was emotionless and telling her to grab her glove over and over like he was still training his little kid. Then when she was pitching to him and he kept dropping the balls. I asked my wife, why would a "catcher" drop the baseball instead of tossing it back to the pitcher. You want to practice similar to an actual game situation. Just like in basketball if you're helping someone shoot threes in practice, you don't catch the rebound drop the ball and make them grab another ball off of the rack; you pass it back to them. I just thought that was weird and said that her dad was probably dead (on account that it's a common trope) and that she was probably throwing the balls up against a box or something; causing them to fall to the ground.
I really enjoyed it. Definitely check it out next week. It accomplished for me what a show should: entertainment.
Lame twist? Did you see it coming? No, so it was extremely effective.
I didn't see it coming, but that doesn't make it good. They could reveal next week that she's not a woman. That would be another twist. The next week they could reveal she's an alien. The next week they could reveal that one of the other players is a terrorist. The next week they could reveal they're not on Earth. The next week they could reveal that it's all a dream. These would all be twists and all of them shocking. Would any of them be any good? It's not hard to trick the audience. Who cares?
This was a twist just for the sake of having one. Not everything needs a twist. It didn't serve the story at all. They could have removed the twist and just revealed in a non-twist way that he died and still drawn sympathy for the character. Instead, they made it a distraction from the story because they did it as a shocking twist. It was pointless.
I feel like they stole this from Mr. Robot
shareGregg325 my sentiments exactly!
I am a big baseball fan, and as this is a tv show obviously their will be things that are nitpicked which i've already read...i've overlooked all of those and was really enjoying the show....until the Mr. Robot ending.
Hopefully this is a one off and now that she's at "The Show" the father's spirit won't be popping up too much...was a shame because i was really digging the character of her father, but if they fight club/Mr Robot it, I'll probably lose interest.
The actor is only recurring so I'm guessing the father will only show up in flashbacks and I'm hoping the ghost thing was only one episode.
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"
I actually thought it was a pretty cool twist but it just felt like they stole it from Mr. Robot. Who knows though. It could have just been a crazy coincidence.
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