Making it up as they go along

I watched the first episode of the new third season and this was all I kept thinking. I have zero appetite for the next episode, let alone to binge this (I am not a binge-watcher anyway but they fact they released it such suggests that's how the makers intend it to be consumed).

I will give the season a chance, but I am not really fond of this new fork in the story and this cult of the Witness on Titan. It seems like they've taken notes from Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale[/i]. It also reminds me of the second season of [i]Helix: taking us back to banal and cruel medievality instead of continuing constructing an authentic feeling timeless future. And it all feels a bit too much set-dressing over function with one-dimensional characters when the first two seasons worked so well in the moral grey.

Titan was a nice idea, an idea I felt excited about towards the end of the last season, but the time-jumping vest allowing the wearer to splinter around a room feels both silly and lazy. The whole thing fell apart by this point. Fortunately Stanford does a good job at convincing he is talking to his past self. I guess it is only his character and his love for Cassie that keeps me invested now.