mtsi wrote:I don't get the hate. THIS episode was fantastic. Loved it all. Loved the Audrey ending completely. Can't wait for next week....mostly because someone I know is in the episode. Can you imagine??
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1. Richard's character did nothing other than establish what a bad guy he is for several episodes and then died for no apparent reason.
2. "I am 25 years your senior" This line is so badly written that it either is trying to imply something that it doesn't (that Richard is 25 years old; Dooper escaped 25 years agol! Did we hit you over the head with the fact that he's his son enough yet?), or is trying to imply something seemingly irrelevant (that Dooper was 25 years old at the time that Richard was born)
3. "Goodbye, son" Yes, I gathered. Thank you for the exposition spoken to absolutely no one. No one - incidentally, the same group of people who hadn't already figured that out.
4. Did Chantelle and the other dude drive from South Dakota to New York back to Los Vegas in the span of a few episodes? I mean they have those fancy extradimensional guns or whatever but must we really take this to a place of time travel/portals? I mean, why didn't they just teleport themselves out of the shootout if they're really that magical? I'm aware that you can impose time travel/portal limitations that make this not a plot hole but you're getting into real "convenient for the writers" territory there.
5. Speaking of which, I appreciated the shootout scene for its humor, but that renders Chantelle and the dude also totally pointless. As far as I can remember (to be fair, due to the pacing of the show I really might be forgetting something important) all they really do is kill the warden, the glass box guy, and then try to kill cooper. The warden being dead didn't really change anything did it? And the glass box guys being dead might be important, but it's not like it made any more sense for Chantelle to do it than any other random hit man. And the guy who kills them is hilarious and all, but it kind of feels like Deus Ex Insurance Guy when Cooper wouldn't have even been around for them to shoot him anyway. All three of them could have been removed from the plot and nothing would have really changed much.
6. Diane's rape being used as a shallow plot device is insulting compared to the nuance and depth Laura's rape got in FWWM. Sure, what do you expect from a rape demon (if that really is bob, though at this point I massively doubt even that) but there was still no need to take it to a place like that.
7. As I already mentioned, Cooper coming out of his coma totally cured is beyond cliche and one of the biggest writing sins I can think of, and undermines a lot of what Stooper Coop's story had to say about mental disabilities, since disabled people don't suddenly "snap out of it" as such, even with everyone around them expecting them to/hoping for it.
8. Audrey dancing to her old song... wasn't that exactly what some hater-haters in this thread were mockingly accusing us of wanting in this thread earlier? I won't rip this scene too hard, since I can see redeemable qualities in it, especially taking the very ending into consideration, but it did feel like pretty blatantly out of place fanservice, at least at the beginning.
This is all only what I can come up with off the top of my head... due to the disconnected pacing I find I consistently forget about half the scenes pretty much instantaneously, so I'm sure there's something I'm leaving out.
In addition, anywhere outside of this thread I'm seeing nothing but "HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE BEST HOUR OF TELEVISION". Nearly everyone else is too blindly excited by Coop's return to criticize at all... so don't worry, you're not going against the grain by "not understanding the hate". There's really very little hate to understand.