Season 2, Episode 2. Let's review..!
A guy chained to a wall was able somehow to throw down a rope for Our Hero to climb out of a well.
How was this emaciated fellow able to throw down a rope? He was chained right up on the wall. Was this glaring discordant detail critical to the plot? Were we meant to call out to Our Hero, beg him to notice and ask that question, or was it just another in a series of annoying oversights which make taking this show seriously all but impossible?
Psh. It doesn't matter.
Next up.., a new woman has arrived to discover her long-lost love, (a 'diverse' same-sex relationship, we must mention, for the check box win), and what does she do?
Is she overwhelmed with joy? Does she hug and kiss and anxiously hang on every bit of news to discover what happened since her partner went missing? Just think! Like a parent finding a long-lost child after six months, would you waste precious time scolding for your kid talking to strangers? Or would you forget recriminations and just be overwhelmingly thankful to see your loved one again?
Well, if you're like me, you guessed wrong! This is the New-new-age of gushy selfishness, after all. This woman isn't happy. She is ANGRY! She is full of accusation. Why? Who knows? For having been caused to feel bad, I suppose..? (In the age of selfishness, YOUR feelings are paramount, and a lover's job is exclusively to make you feel good. Vanishing without a trace makes you feel bad, so don't you see? She DESERVES to be reprimanded and cold-shouldered, not treated with joy and affection and grateful curiosity.
Next up...
One of the recurring Strong Female Protagonists, (regularly described by other characters as 'Strong!'
and 'Amazing!') is unable to warn or rescue a bunch of newbies from the zombie hoard. Oh my! So what does she do? -Why, she flips out in a decidedly NOT strong way, with hysterical, irrational flailing around and pathetic whimpering. It takes her would-be boyfriend to restrain her from getting the two of them killed by rushing out a back door and smashing a window. Gosh, I love Strong Female Protagonists in the New-New Age. They are very inspiring!
A 'man' wakes up trapped under a bunch of fallen house debris and needs to stay quiet in order to prevent himself and the other guys from all being eaten alive by Monsters. What does he do? If you're detecting a pattern, you may guess: He flips out! He starts making noise, begging that he "Just wants to go home!" Is he six years old? What is wrong with him? In the world of "FROM", that's just normal. Everybody is a safe-spacer. And so it takes all the effort of the others to calm him down. They talk to him like he's of kindergarten age, which mentally, he basically is.
I was disappointed to see that their efforts succeed and that he wasn't eaten alive. -Instead he died of regular injuries, but not before his whinging attracted the monsters which then killed one of the more promising men. Once again, weak fools get good people killed. That's the only lesson so far taught by this ugly show.
By far, these characters are just that; ugly, weak and emotionally unstable.., (and my goodness, they all certainly swear a lot during the course of their many futile tantrums! Such imaginative writing!). I can't recall any other show where I was so actively rooting for the monsters! (Except I'm only half-doing that, because even the monsters are annoying. FROM is entirely a series of projections cast into TV land by people who are apparently helpless calves in the Forest of Life.)
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