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Another series of wank-off crap from Damon Limpinoff

posted 7 years ago by Sandoz (2021)
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Against my better judgment, I started watching this show because I'm a sucker for stories that deal with "end of the world" scenarios...or even potential end of the world stories. This despite the fact that the no-talent hack Lindenhof was the "creative" force behind this show. I should have known better after enduring his crap finish to Lost, and his moronic contributions he made to the script of Prometheus.

So, just like Lost, once again we get a bunch of "ordinary" people dealing with an extraordinary occurrence, and a lot of resulting weirdness that transpires after said extraordinary occurrence.

But let's cut to the chase--at conclusion there are no answers given to WHY these things have happened. Yeah, a lot of fools are happy with the old "it's the journey, not the destination" you need to enjoy... Well, pardon me if I cut loose with a big Bronx cheer to that. It's my opinion that if you lead characters AND an audience watching those characters through 3 seasons of weirdness, you can maybe leave your characters in the dark as to why these things happened, but you need to at least give your audience an explanation for the weirdness. And we were given none, except some lame-brain final talkety-talk scene that all the 2% departed went to another "place" just like ours but were there alone. Well ok, then just where did all the people who had been living in that other place go to? And who or what was responsible? And WHY? And what about all the other bizarre crap that occurred, like characters being able to die and return from the dead repeatedly? And what the hell do resurrections have to do with a disappearance event anyway?

If asking these questions and not getting any explanations from this lame-brain show doesn't bother you at all, all I can say is that you're evidently starved for entertainment and will accept any moronic tale that comes across the airwaves just because you think it's "edgy" or "artsy."

There's a reason this show was ignored by Emmy and other award shows: it's ultimately a waste of time to watch all of it.

[–] mobocracy (869) 8 months ago

It's part of a too-common trend, writers and directors who want to spend their time indulging in human drama using some kind of science-fiction-ish scenario as the jumping off point to a bunch of human drama while ignoring the science fiction element as much as possible.

I actually liked watching the Leftovers -- maybe in part because it tended to sort of drive me nuts.

And not just in the complete lack of attention to the event, but in things like in what universe could the Guilty Remnant do what they did and not end up the victims of so much violence?

The last season was not nearly as interesting to watch and more infuriating in terms of the actions of the characters becoming increasingly disconnected from reality.