Chatter Of The Squirrel

24 Agonies

October 25, 2006 on 11:27 am | In Me! |

The show should be more appropriately named: “Bad Things Happened to Women who Don’t Listen”.

Agonising through season 2 now.

Daddy tells daughter to leave L.A.
Daughter thinks it’s daddy’s sad needy ploy to mess with her life and hangs up.
Daddy tells her a nuke is going off and not to tell anyone.

She doesn’t listen. Goes and tell her boyfriend, and kidnaps a girl.  Takes the girl’s daddy’s car and drive away. Cop stops them for speeding and finds girl’s mommy’s body in the trunk.
All sorts of stupid things happen one after another just for the sake of building tension.

Stupid characters.

Stupid rich girl finds purpose in life by funding and helping terrorists?

Stupid rich girl’s sister in denial about her sister’s involvement. Almost getting herself killed and letting her terrorist sister get away.

Stupid guy living alone in the forest. Lets girl go, sends her out into the woods in the middle of the night with a pistol to scare away cougars. But why didn’t he remember to give her a flashlight? And in the next episode, she has a flashlight anyway.

Stupid whiney loser breaks into convenience store and whines about pregnant wife.

And all the clumsy ways to build inter-character tension and betrayal… So often, the characters could just open their mouth and communicate their intentions instead of generating unnecessary tension to cause everyone to stumble over each other.  Such as, “I’m being such an ass cos I just inhaled a lungful of plutonium and I’ll die in less than a day. Now, will you stop second guessing my orders?”

But why am I still watching this, right?

For the same reason why Plan 9 From Outer Space has such a cult following.