I had great hopes for the second season after watching the great premiere but now I'm not so sure if the quality will remain. It seems to be slowing down again. What do others here think?
shareAre you serious? We're about to find out what the Raps have planned for humanity. We hear Katie's voice in the preview for next week saying that people are being sent to the Factory in greater and greater numbers, and shipped out in those stasis pods. Will asks the question "How long do we have?" implying that there's a definite end date when no humans will remain on Earth.
Then we have Bram's friends at the labor camp who are either about to blow up a Rap shuttle or use it to deliver a bomb to the Factory. And don't forget Broussard's cell making progress on a way to incapacitate the drones, maybe even attack their "hive" inside the walls. Things are finally moving along the way they should with the family drama taking a back seat. The fight for Earth is now front and center.
I think in the last couple of episodes they've moved the story a lot better than the first four.
I'm guessing if you asked the showrunner and writers, they would say they felt like they had to close out the Charlie storyline from S1 or face a huge continuity jump as to what happened to Will in Santa Monica as well as reconcile the Katie/Will lying/honesty thing.
Personally, I think they're a little too in love with their own conceit that this show "is about" living under occupation, not fighting space alien occupation and that viewers don't really care that much about the Will/Katie dynamic or the family dynamics generally.
S1, for all of its non-alien aspects, had a fairly dynamic set of narrative elements involving the resistance, Will's job in Homeland, and crisp side narratives involving Bram and the Tunnels and Maddie in the Green Zone. S2 seems to lack that dynamism surrounding non-alien narratives.
Anyway, they appear at this point to be building up to a strong science fiction finish. I expect episodes 7, 8, 9 & 10 to be pretty alien-focused with the purpose of the aliens being something involving harvesting human bodies for their own use.
With that out of the way, I think long term in future seasons they'll also be coming up with some way of jamming the drones which will leave the aliens vulnerable, and we'll get back to some occupation political conspiracy. With the alien's powers diminished due to lost tactical ability from disabled drones, we'll get a high-level power struggle between occupation forces who want to help the aliens because it furthers their own long-term power agenda versus human-loyal occupation figures, and the new Governor General (the pin-drop lady) will be shown to be operating a subtle fifth-column within the occupation.