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Season3

posted 9 years ago by chrisseeu
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I think season 3 lacked the excitement of 1&2. Still great television. Enjoyed each and every episode but felt a little let down by season 3 . Still I'm writing this with the final episode still to watch so it may blow off my socks and I will eat my opinion.I eagerly await.

[–] merej 9 years ago

I very much prefer season 3 to season 2. Season 2 had too much of the 'big social issue of the week' thingy going for my taste. I am as liberal and tolerant as the next blantant hypocrite but I resent having this attitude shoved down my throat with a billboard.

Also while I find it impressive how many very interesting and different things were going on in London at the time, jumping from one distinct social group to the next made the single episodes seem rather disjointed. Not to mention that the end of season 2 was about as frustrating as the final Deadwood episode, which had me kicking the wall with disappointment for quite some time, while I really love the continuing - and beautifully resolved - story arc in season 3.

there better be coffee

[–] SrEditor 9 years ago

I really hope I love the end of this season, because currently (after the first 2 1/2 eps) I just feel depressed. Watching Reid deteriorate into the violent one, watching Susan become the owner she hated, watching Rose and Flynn...*sigh* It just goes on and on, with no resolution.

[–] merej 9 years ago

There is some payoff in the end though it's somewhat bitter-sweet.

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

[–] SrEditor 9 years ago

Worse than bitter-sweet. This is all-out nihilism.

If I didn't already know that he survives somehow, I'd be furious. I want to see the Susan/Caitlin character redeem herself somehow, instead of sliding into the black pit.

[–] ms moss 8 years ago

I really hope I love the end of this season, because currently (after the first 2 1/2 eps) I just feel depressed. Watching Reid deteriorate into the violent one...

But's that what I found so amazing about this season. For two seasons Reid was the calm rational one so to see him go totally off the rails was just amazing.

As for what happened to Theodore Swift at the end, that doesn't sit well with me. I have to think he survived. Killing the man who kidnapped your daughter is one thing, but leaving Swift for dead just because he's too powerful/rich to go to jail is another.

[–] lantzn 8 years ago

Well he did just order his men to kill Reid and Reid's men were all there to hear it. He was too dangerous too keep alive. Chances are he would have had contracts put out on all of them while waiting trial.