I just came in to say this episode was terrible. It was poorly written, poorly directed and just had so many cringe moments (drug scene, the black "gangsta" characters, the awful manchild Bruce Wayne wannabe and others that I can't even be arsed to list) that I was wondering if I was watching the same show as last week. It is completely devoid of any emotion, there are no characters I can root for or get behind. It is, utterly soulless, like the unrealistically depopulated and suicidally bland world it portrays.
There could have been a good story here but they decided to kill any sympathy for the formerly enigmatic and mysterious "saviour of mankind" Serac and lost pretty much every bit of tension in one single episode. Ugh, that was painful to watch.
That might be the first episode of this programme I genuinely disliked. It’s utterly joyless, there is no one to root for.
The casual murder lacks any impact, the plot is very cold sci-fi lacking the wit and charm that earlier seasons added. Yes a lot of death occurred in earlier seasons but much of it was knowingly “play” because it was non-sentient hosts.
The only “human” characters are bland or unlikable. The hosts lack anything that makes you empathise both sides of the plot make it seem like you’re a witness to your own death sentence. This week they seemed like they were trying to be profound without having put any of the backstory work to allow it impact and be profound.
The Caleb drug bit was a great idea but poorly executed partly because there is no room for happiness in the plot. It needed a better director to really pull it off.
I’m going to see this through and I’m hoping for a turnaround a twist or something that makes me feel foolish for doubting them. But at the moment it’s leaving me cold.
Yup, pretty much this.