You're probably right. I thought the first three episodes had interesting bits and flaws in about equal measure but this episode had nothing much to offset the flaws with and, sadly, those flaws are endemic (the show is bland and gutless) - it's not just that this was a poor episode.
What's unforgivable is that many of the flaws are ones levelled in a well-reasoned way at the original (too middle-class, too much time spent faffing around after Peter). These seem to have been compounded rather than addressed by retelling. I thought that the survivors finding a house early on which Abby would use as a base to search for Peter, rather than wandering around in a camper van looking for Peter was a good idea and would offset some of the original's pacing problems at this point. But the fact that they are doing nothing at the house, no farming, no defence just makes them look even more stupid and, having lost the characters all trapped together in a small space, it's actually working against any sense of them forming a core, coherent group.
There are only two episodes to go, I think. So Christmas chaos willing, I will watch them (if only to see if they have the guts to present the book's extremely downbeat ending, which I have heard much about) but I won't be watching the next season if there is one.
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Re: Maybe it's just bad?
Date: 2008-12-14 09:45 am (UTC)What's unforgivable is that many of the flaws are ones levelled in a well-reasoned way at the original (too middle-class, too much time spent faffing around after Peter). These seem to have been compounded rather than addressed by retelling. I thought that the survivors finding a house early on which Abby would use as a base to search for Peter, rather than wandering around in a camper van looking for Peter was a good idea and would offset some of the original's pacing problems at this point. But the fact that they are doing nothing at the house, no farming, no defence just makes them look even more stupid and, having lost the characters all trapped together in a small space, it's actually working against any sense of them forming a core, coherent group.
There are only two episodes to go, I think. So Christmas chaos willing, I will watch them (if only to see if they have the guts to present the book's extremely downbeat ending, which I have heard much about) but I won't be watching the next season if there is one.