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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

I'm still baffled that season 2 followed up the mediocre season 1 by instead being one the best things of the year right alongside Fargo.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Noooope, no one is convincing me to suffer through that borefest agian. Bar episode 3 and the final 2 everything about season 1 is mediocre when taken as a whole.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Season 1 was mostly garbage and season 2 was great.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Season 1 was mostly garbage and season 2 was great.













I'm not liking this sequel to Groundhog Day.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

UmOk posted:

Did anybody say season 2 was bad? Pretty sure a lot of poster just said they like 1 better.

Season 1 was hot garbage outside of like 3 episodes and that something as good as season 2 could possibly come out of it is a miracle in itself.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Longbaugh01 posted:

Season 1 was such hot garbage that it got a second season and retained a loyal following going into that second season.
:rolleyes:

Fine, it was mediocre.


Season 2 by comparison was fantastic, not a single episode running off-beat.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Season 1 was the cold and stale leftovers of season 2.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who liked season 1 over season 2 to enter the kingdom of God.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Lick! The! Whisk! posted:

Claiming Season 1 is better than Season 2 is not rational or correct, but claiming Season 1 is bad is also not rational or correct.

It absolutely lays the groundwork for everything that Season 2 uses for payoff, on top of being an excellent season in and of itself. Never mind how the final episode is start-to-finish fantastic.

Basically the only real missteps of Season 1 are the way they (fail to at all adequately) pay off Aimee's character (she just literally disappears in the middle of an episode) and the entirety of Christine's character from concept to execution.

What are you talking about? Season 2 starts off by wiping the slate clean. Any character or plot auxiliary to the main story in the new location gets put into the side-plot category where they remain until appropriate.

Season 1's misstep are that its slow, uninteresting and, above all, extremely poorly paced. It's not the like plot, setting or acting was actually bad when viewed in isolation, it was just extremely poorly put together. Hugman and cult-baby stand out as something that could have been scrubbed entirely but the real problem is the GR. They get into speed in the final 2 episodes but for most of the season almost all their scenes amount to slowing the plot to a crawl. There is also a problem of Lindehof being way too far up his own rear end and having scenes which serve no purpose but to be weird for weirdness sake in that special prestige television way. (You'll find me making the same complaint about episode 3 & 4 of Legion in the Legion thread) But above all its boring, outside of episode 3 and the final 2 anything interesting happening is immediately cut short by cuts to more boring cult-baby scenes or the GR being the GR. Season 1 had a great pay-off but the build-up was absolutely miserable and not worth it.

Season 2 by comparison was an almost perfect season of television. Paced perfectly from beginning to end.

MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Apr 23, 2017

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