MovieChat Forums > The Terminal List (2022) Discussion > Way too many hallucinations/flashbacks.

Way too many hallucinations/flashbacks.


Good god man, can we please kill this trend and burn it with fire?

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Yes it did get tedious especially in the second half of the series. I just skipped through some of the scenes.

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Agreed, just too much.

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It's the trauma and tumah affecting his brain functions so he's getting lots of flashbacks of his bros and family. He's going through the PTSD where RD-4895 was suppose to prevent but didn't.

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An interesting point, actually. The drug didn't just give him the tumor. It really did not work.

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I had the same thoughts while watching the show. Got annoying actually.

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Yeah, we get it that Reece misses his wife and daughter immensely, esp. after the thirtieth flashback and daydream.
Hopefully, they'll chill out on doing this so much in Season 2 if there is one.

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Agreed. At least with Bourne, as far as I recall, the streaky, jumbled flashbacks contained clues that the viewer would try to piece together. They were also clipped/quick. Narratively, this is more compelling when the premise is assassin-with-amnesia; we want to find out what happened. Terminal List's flashbacks were one-note: I-love-and-miss-my-dead-wife-and-daughter. We already know that; instead, we want to know who else is involved in the conspiracy and how they're going down.

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Yep, things like Bourne are centered around past events so it's important to have that stuff as part of the plot. Shows like this, not at all so it's just boring padding.

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This boring nonsense, and also characters droning on about their feelings for an entire scene is just f'ing everywhere now.

It's at the point where I actually appreciate the shows where these annoying scenes are well projected so we can pre-empt and skip forward through them. That's what it's come to.

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