Zaffy

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Isn't that the name of that ultra annoying woman that is supposed to be funny?

I really enjoyed this season, especially after that uneven and quite bad season 2. However, I found this episode the worst of the season's lot. Not that I disliked it, but It was a bit of a mess. I am still not really invested in most of the secondary characters. Even if I tried I can not care about Darcy and I cannot stand of Judy. I also find the Sheriff and the deputy's stories too repetitive and boring. Mayor and wife have been improved, but having the writers trying to add some "real drama" feels like from a different show. So Alan will have the chance to play another version of Harry, the Mantis one. I am not sure I like the Mantis alien, way too horrific for the show.. Well, we shall see!

I found GOT horrible.. it was definitely not my cup of tea, but still I think it was awful, even if it had a great production and cast and music. Talking about "/r/im13andthisisdeep", my nephew, 13yo at the time, was super excited when Denyrys took a ride on the back of a dragon for the first time. At the same episode a child was burned alive on the stake. When I asked him how he felt about it, he replied "who cares? Danny flew on a dragon". Next year the boy was accused of bullying another student at school with 2 other schoolmates. This is the effect these series can have when they rely so much on the "shock factor" and violence, like the brutal destruction of a ship full of kids that happens cause well...it's cool to show these slicing humans effects.

I am not sure if we are having mediocre to bad writers or they write in such low level to please their target audience of mediocre iq. But this is how it is now, juvenile, shallow and style over substance.

The true MVP of the episode was the repair man/photographer. He reminded me of that uncle from Derry Girls. Both these two men can bore you to death! I really enjoyed this one. 2/2 this season!

Last season was a real hit and miss for me, especially on how much they focused on the uninteresting secondary characters. So, I was quite reluctant to start watching the new season. Well, I am glad I did, the first episode was ok and quite promising. Even the mayor's family did not annoy me!

Because she is completely nuts/sociopath/serial killer? Probably with a traumatic past. After all, in our era (TV and books) it seems a traumatic past is the easy explanation for every character, good or villain.

Yes indeed too bad, but I think at one point the stars of the show became bigger than the show itself. It was the Stabler & Benson and now it is the Benson show. Like Organized Crime is basically the Stabler show. I stopped watching it cause it was so stupid. One week Stabler is on national TV for a police scandal and the other he is working undercover. It does not make sense except for giving Meloni the chance as undercover to act different kind of personas.

One of the things that really annoyed me was the cynical approach of "let's (brutally) kill innocent people and children for the greater good". I don't know if they followed the book in this one or they just wanted an impressive horrific mass killing sequence, I wouldn't surprised if it was the latter. They get into so much trouble for nano technology attack to slice everyone in pieces instead of maybe use other means, like gas and put everyone in the ship to sleep? In any case, this approach is horrible and quite used on TV and makes me wondering how much it has affected people tolerating same situations happening in real life. We seem to be ok/get used to it/shrug with massive loss of innocent lives.

After season 6 or so, the show has suffered some really bad seasons. It has been a hit and miss. When Stabler was still in, we had a show that ended up revolving around the 2 stars but not in a good way, all stories were suffering just to "accommodate" them. I didn't really have a problem with "Saint Olivia", but now she has become insufferable. The writing is really bad and the acting as well. And I do not get it, I know Mariska can act well. Maybe they have market research we do not know about and follow what "the audience wants", dunno, it is just bad.

The thing that really annoys me with SVU is that while we really need some decent (police) heroes that are not the usual cynical antiheroes of the "peak tv" era, we end up getting the Saint Olivia caricature. Mariska's narcissism has destroyed a decent tv hero. No, I did not like the episode, it was boring, "bad cop" Bruno sucks (reminds me of hysterical Stabler) and well the show has reached the point where nothing really matters except what Olivia will do and say. Olivia can cure an agoraphobic, Olivia can console a victim...., Olivia can save kidnapped girls, Olivia can save NYPD and make NY sleep better, Olivia this, Olivia that.. sigh.. and it is contagious, even Fin now can help a homeless person sleep well for a night.

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why not? not every book is good, not even best sellers! Ok, after episode 5 I stopped watching. I saw that coming when around episode 3 I started Fast Forwarding through. I read the rest of the episodes summaries in Wiki and I was not impressed, so I am ok with my decision. I mean, I do have Netflix and I still do not care to continue watching the damn thing. Apparently I am not the target audience for this series, but then who is? I guess 10-20 years old, because it all seems so juvenile (oh look, oppression can create delusional mad scientists/cult leaders) and just made to impress (the usual style over substance). I think the true destroyer of worlds is Netflix's mediocrity in such vast numbers.

I found the first episode a bit frustrating and most of the characters annoying. Thinking about it, the less annoying character was the lady that killed herself at the beginning and that only because of her very limited screen time. They are trying way too hard to shove everything down our throats and make it feel significant and mysterious, like the investigator who talks too much without really saying anything. Basically that was the whole first episode, too much trouble for nothing. Let's see how this will go.