FAU

Don't make Desmond suffer anymore.

Carter should not force her to sympathize with the kidnapper who put her through hell all these years.

For the forced reveal/taking a hostage nonsense.

Exactly, he's just a pathetic glorified creep/stalker.

Rosewood is full of creepers and teen girls are the main choice.

I thought about that and then remember that this show still needs its forced, pointless love triangle/love interest for this series.

Because the dome chose her or some bs because she sucks at it, she got credited for doing nothing.

Sandstorm? Seriously, they need to stop hiding behind science because this is just bs disaster of the episode.

No wonder, it's easy to just spouting dialogue in the background for him. Yeah, they're all so forgettable.

In a way, Jack is just there being shoved into scenes because they don't know what to do with him except be a LI and pointless subplot fillers. Charlotte is even worse, especially after making her David's daughter. What's worse is that they're not written well at all, they pretty much isolated Jack and killed people close to him and even after knowing everything, Emily barely seems like she actually cares and the writers think this bs is supposed to be romantic.

They're brushing past important parts of the story that should've been more of a focus considering the premise. I do wish he was on a better show though, so in a way, wasted would be right.

So we get Phil turning into some evil maniacal villain for no good reason at all, Julia getting credit for not actually doing anything least of all being an actual leader (Barbie stopped Phil, 5-Head's mom discovered what Phil did, the church lady saved the day with the convenient food storage), the stupid love triangle with Joe, 5 Head, and the undead dome girl, oh and more Jr family bs.

That just makes all the characters' actions/reactions in the dome all the more ridiculous in that short amount of time.

Can you blame her though? :P.

It's because it's gotten old at this point so I hope it's something new. It took them 8 episodes before the plot finally got going and there's only 13 episodes for this book, this show has just been about Korra and the others going through subplots until the villains finally did their thing.

It depends on what expectations you're talking about especially when the "at least it wasn't as bad" or "at least it didn't do this or that" excuses start flying out. Lots of shows wastes their potential unfortunately, it's just a shame for all of them with all things considering.

And that's a contradiction, praising it for having realistic elements at the same time as not being realistic at all. The execution is awful, but that in turn undermines the good ideas this show might've had, which is the problem. Soaps are usually more melodramatic/ridiculous in nature and tone than this, but this series does come close, it's just that it uses many of the cliches/contrivances that soap operas do. As for the status quo, nothing has really changed and usually shows like this will throw drama at them only for it to not matter in a couple episodes (or in this case, in the same episode like Carter's fight with Bird).

After the way they wrote them this season with Julia snapping at Barbie's 'betrayal'? XD.

Exactly, but like I said, it's more contrived drama they threw in there. They're not interested in actually setting things up properly.

It most likely will, it's how and when that's troubling given all the problems this series has with the network.

More like making more bs up as they go along, none of this feels planned. WTF? XD.

Still has brain dead supporters.

It's not just the contrivances or cliches that this series is riddled with, it's that it doesn't even try to come up with something new or unique despite the fact that the premise alone should've provided something new, interesting, and unique for a series like this and yet they've done almost everything they can to avoid it: having the main character barely even care about it at all, having the other characters going along with it, dumping in contrived drama just for the sake of it, etc. Once you shrug and brush everything off like the writers did with this premise, this show is left with almost nothing.

I never said anything about the acting though, it's always the writing that I've focused on and it makes sense given that the problems are mainly there. A show barely functioning is never a good thing because unless there is some sort of major turnaround where tptb realizes and course corrects the direction the series, it can only get worse form here. Other family dramas have done a better job handling their characters by comparison and they're not wasting a good premise that they're struggling with like this one is. As for soap operas, they're generally more overdramatic and ridiculous. I'd say this series is more teen drama than soap even though it relies on the same contrived drama cliches.

Hence the disappointment and resulting criticism, the show itself doesn't have much to offer either since they decided to brush that aside. With all the excuses, one would expect something special out of this series and yet it doesn't offer anything new or unique enough to warrant that. It's pretty much similar, but it's the same general idea in posting. This is what you would say to make almost anything sound good or better than it actually is. And those shows wasted their premise and turned into terrible shows, which I've also posted in. In TWD's case, it was a decline in quality. Comparing this to other bad shows doesn't exactly make it any better either. Which plenty of shows do as well, that's not really much of an excuse either, I guess I can also add this to the list of excuses for this series. I just find it fascinating how many excuses are thrown at a show like this, I've been to other forums for both good and bad shows so this type of reaction to fans such as yourself on these forums is much more interesting than the show itself. It didn't even take long for people to come up with a lists of excuses in a short period of time defending this series, especially when it sounds more like people trying to make up long analysis trying to convince themselves that it's something better/deeper than it actually is.