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I recently binged the two seasons of this show on Netflix. I was an obsessive fan of the OG Roswell, until Tess came into the picture and the show got ruined. This reboot, or whatever you call it, was never able the capture the magic of the OG show. The quality of the actors in the main roles was just not there. You could see the difference in Jason Behr's appearances in this new version. He brought it. Janine is decent, but did not have enough nuance for the lead. Nathan was only tolerable after the amnesia. I think a lot of his problem was due to the writing of his character. They made him a pathetic weenie so as to show Liz being a strong, independent woman. The problem is, why is she even attracted to him, then? They should have written their story differently to make a mutual attraction make sense more. None of this really made much sense, and it made this, supposedly central coupling fall completely flat. The writing in this version was pretty terrible. The political statements were too blunt and over the top. Perhaps it could have been done better had it stuck to the source material more, and modern politics injected more subtly. (That's just a guess--I've never read the books myself, but they've got to be better than this!) A lot of people here have focused on the race-optics, but I find quotas for their own sake tiresome. The story suffered for the lack of Maria, not because she was black, but because she was needed more to round out the story. They did bring in too many characters/story-lines (like others have said), and the story-telling suffered all the way around because of it. The producer tried to be everything for everyone, and accomplished too little for all the main characters, which is not satisfying in any way. I think I may look for where I can stream the OG Roswell, since I haven't watched it in a couple decades. Maybe I'll even look to read the books. I'll probably watch season 3 once it's on Netflix, if I remember. I do like the basic premise, even if I don't care for this particular interpretation so much.

Currently on a catch-up binge, but would like to follow up on the questioning why Chloe didn't talk to Amenadiel about Lucifer after the big reveal. Hello! He went to heaven with Charlotte. He wasn't around to ask, even if she wanted to. Now, my take on this season so far. It got back a lot of it's fun, but it might be getting a bit too much. I feel hit over the head with some things, here. Sort of like movie trailers like to do, if you KWIM. Something like, you must watch this because: bam, bam, bam--here's all the cool-looking scenes in 5.9 seconds.

I've never liked the song that Lucifer played in the beginning--until now. That was gorgeously sung, and haunting with the audience and suit changes, set against that lighting making it look slightly disturbing. Then, in true Lucifer fashion, it ends in his making a joke. Loved it!

I know I'm late to the party but I'm currently binging this show on Netflix. Too bad I couldn't point this out to others earlier, but it was clear to me that the reason Lucifer didn't want to be touched by Chloe when she was going towards his scars from where his wings were cut off, is that is a huge source of emotional pain for him.

You know what, though? In retrospect, the horrible misleading advice coupled with freeing Jaime looks really bad for him. We kind of know he was trying to do good, but I kind of wonder myself after the Jaime incident.

All the actors have to work with is what the directors are willing to put on the screen.

I was thinking that after Drogon flies off with Dany's body, he takes her up north where he hatches her up as the new Night Queen. Jon's headed up there for retirement, but also happens to be there to confront her again.

You know, thinking about a re-do, I think perhaps a few re-edits might improve things for me. There were a number of weird things that bothered me in recent episodes. Jon yelling at the ice dragon was stupid and out of place. Perhaps some quick edits between his scene and danger closing in on Bran would help Maybe they did this somewhat, but they needed more in order to make the audience feel the frustration along with Jon, so that we were yelling at that dragon together. There was also nothing that showed why Dany snapped at that particular moment (or if it happened earlier, it should have been more clear in retrospect). I don't know if they had anything more to show this that ended up on the cutting room floor, but if they did, they should try to add it. There wasn't much that explained why Tyrion made the choices he did, either. Why was he so invested in Cercei and her baby? Maybe showing him remember some old scenes here would help sell that. Just a few more scenes could have sold the ending (so far) better, but Bran really needed to play more of a part in things, if he really ends up the ultimate ruler. It was weird how he was supposed to be important, but barely did/said anything at all. Even just having characters ask him questions, and despite his refusing to answer, getting a glimpse into some of his visions (nonsensical as they may be) would help the audience accept his importance).

Dany was never my favorite character, and I didn't miss anything. At first I hated this show because it was so incredibly violent all the way around. (I got more into it after my husband kept watching anyway.) That violence didn't start with Dany. Some of the favorites--Jaime, Theon, Arya, and even Sansa a bit, did incredibly violent things. Oh, Robert, too. Catelyn. The Hound. Lots, and lots of violence to go around. Some were justified, some sort of redeemed themselves, some regretted it, others didn't. One thing for sure is, Dany wasn't the only one, so nothing was clear-cut for her decent into crossing the line. ETA: I should add here that it wasn't out of the question for me that Dany would ultimately burn KL to the ground, but that something more than a moment sitting on a dragon would change her mind about crossing the line that she seemed to have about killing children, at the very least.

You know, everyone keeps mentioning the Iron Bank, but I thought when Cercie (sp?) took over Highgarden, she was able to pay them back with riches from Highgarden's ample supply of gold, (or gold mines, or something). Am I missing something?

The job of the Hand is much different than the job of the king.

As far as my feelings toward this season are concerned, I think it's my favorite so far, But season 1 comes in at a close second. The story this season was pretty tight, though the conclusion was a big let down. I found both Fisk and Karen incredibly annoying season 1. Fisk was much less annoying this season, and Karen grew on me tremendously. The actress that played her did a great job this season. If there was one thing I didn't like this season, it was that Matt wasn't allowed to win fights. He was supposedly better able to take on a dozen FBI agents with guns, that one person in hand-to-hand combat. It just gets too ridiculous after a while. I actually really liked Elektra in season 2. She had great sexual chemistry with Matt, which was sorely lacking between Karen and Matt except maybe in the crypt. I used to like Foggy more, but he was incredibly annoying this season. It also annoys me whenever shows put pudgy doughboys together with super hot women. I mean, it could be believable if there were a money/power imbalance between them, but his girlfriend has just as much money if not more. As far as sister Maggie is concerned, I appreciate the realness the actress went for, but someone who devotes their life to a religious order is not going to have such a potty mouth. They just aren't. I think there's some laziness there in the script writing.

Why would Matt care about Dex's mental health? Dex had just hurt and killed numerous completely innocent people, including Matt's priest and surrogate father, and he's supposed to pause because this monster somehow managed not to be too homicidal so as to get caught, and Matt is supposed to magically know that he's working hard to to keep it together--maybe? I seriously don't understand why everyone wants to demand absolute perfection from everything Matt does, while giving passes to the most selfish and heartless monsters. This happens even within the series, calling Matt an asshole because he doesn't acquiesce to every demand of his friends, even though he's just trying to keep them out of danger. Even to the point of preventing him from killing a monster who kills anyone nearby that has the unlucky job of giving him bad news, a monster who has some seemingly omnipotent ability to know and control everyone around him to the point of escaping any imprisonment he might be temporarily subjected to. The dude should have died to make the entire world safer, if not by Matt's hand then by Dex's.

Still annoyed by Maggie. I was happy she was gone for the first half of the season, at least. Engineer Jen looked so familiar, but couldn't place he until my husband found out that she was on Psych. Really liked Bo's more reasonable, milder personality that has developed over time. He was a bit much at first. Glad the baby thing didn't happen. It would've taken over the whole storyline. The end with the pipeline and ranch purchase was very predictable (except for the heart issues), but I didn't mind too much. This show touches on so many hot button issues (abortion, guns, environmental protection) for conservatives without really getting things too riled up, that I'm quite impressed. One thing, though. I do tend to side with environmentalists, but protesting a natural gas pipeline just because it might leak like oil pipelines do seemed a little crazy. Maybe I just don't know enough about natural gas pipelines. Is it liquified in some way or something? I know the gas is flammable, but it would go up in the atmosphere, not pollute the ground, right? I suppose I could look that up, but I don't think shows like this one should make that necessary.

Anyone else notice this: Roman is supposedly making them all suffer by trying to tear them apart....after first getting them all back together??