As someone who hasn't watched season 3 yet, I'd say yes.
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As someone who hasn't watched season 3 yet, I'd say yes.
I didn't mind but liked season 1. Season 2 really annoyed me just no reason why it just did and looking online I wasn't the only one who seemed annoyed by season 2 because people felt annoyed as well. So yeah hoping season 3 is a huge improvement.
You're definitely not the only one. I felt season was bad enough that it soured me. I'm still on the fence about whether I'll be watching season 3 or not. I hope that the showrunners have listened to the criticism.
Season 2 was fine up until the very last "stinger shot" of Old William as a "test host", but I do hope that Season 3 finds a way to erase the disappointment engendered by that 'reveal' and the fact that I felt it was done purely for 'shock value' and to confuse people unnecessarily.
I cannot wait to see this. The best skiffy show on TV by far.
As soon as it appears, there's nothing surprising about WWII World - is there? Of course it's a park.
Honestly, I'm sure the producers have no concern about assuaging the disappointment of folks holding narrow expectations.
To clarify what I meant by my earlier comment, my hope is that the story that the Nolans want to tell in Season 3 will organically address and assuage the disappointment I felt over the final shot of Season 2.
IOW, I hope that Season 3 will win me over again through its narrative and hopefully begin to seed stuff that will ultimately make the "Old Man William as a Test Host" thing make sense narratively instead of just coming across as being done purely for "shock value".
IOW, I hope that Season 3 will win me over again through its narrative and hopefully begin to seed stuff that will ultimately make the "Old Man William as a Test Host" thing make sense narratively instead of just coming across as being done purely for "shock value".
I liked the general thrust of season 2 but it way overdid it with the complex timelines.
Other than the "Old Man William" thing at the very end, Season 2's timeline of events really wasn't all that complex.
Once you mentally untangled it, it wasn’t. From the perspective of the viewer who was given the perspective of a mindwiped Bernard, it was hard to follow.
I disagree. We were pretty much told straight-up from the very first shot of Episode 2x01 that we were dealing primarily with a period of two weeks beginning with Dolores shooting Ford in the head at the conclusion of "The Bicameral Mind".
I do not think the format contributed positively to the experience of the season.
I was a little confused along the way but the finale cleared any confusion up for me. Also I don't mind if I'm a little confused as it gives me something to think about
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I'm not sure if this was true and Reddit isn't really a reliable source for stuff but I read online there and a few other places that season two the writers were a bit ticked off with online forums for predicting everything so they kept changing things in the show during season 2 to out spoiler the spoiler freaks who kept guessing stuff.
So the writers were agitated by online people. That is not the way to make a good show.
So the writers were agitated by online people. That is not the way to make a good show.
Interesting if true, as I wonder just how much of a buffer they would have had and how much of a response time they would have had. It doesn't really sound healthy for the show, not to mention the writers who just want to write a story. If true, must have been a stressful environment.
True but why do dickish stuff like that and take it out on the viewers?
