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Sooooooo.
I guess, I didn't expect this. To be perfectly honest, I admit that I had no idea what to expect when starting to watch this series. Well, what I actually was kind of expecting was a mystery. In the beginning I thought that the MC was in a coma and that this town and the crazy things happening there are the result of his comatose brain's activity.
But soon I realised that I was very wrong. I hoped for many things, but certainly not that holey, stupid thing that some people are referring to as a plot. Because. What?! Are they serious? This is ridiculous and unbelievable on so many levels that I can't even...
Well, many other reviewers already described what's wrong with this show (possibly more coherent than me, too—but it's 3:45 am, I'm very possibly suffering from sleep deprivation and English isn't my first language, so there's that) but I'm going to add my two-cents nevertheless.
This was illogical and irrational, to say the least! And I'm only at episode 6. (But this "twist" caught me unawares and turned everything to, excuse my french, sh!!t, that I had to consult google in order to find out whether this was really, really going where I very much feared it was going to. )
It did.
So, a mutation that changed mankind. Or the "devolution" of the human race to these savage, super-strong aberrations, monsters, that lurk & live like brain-dead, naked beasts in the woods. And they don't only survive by killing big game with their pointy teeth and sharp claws, eating raw flesh—bye-bye fire and cooking, medicine, technology, even houses..—but manage to be at the very top of the food chain and are now the biggest threat to human kind.
Yeah. Human kind is devolving into those things and we are meant to believe that—while they so obviously lost all of human ingenuity and are a step down in the evolution—they are superior to humans? Are responsible for the almost-extinction of men? Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that humans are at the shiny tippytop of evolution (ever), but what I am certain of is that these creatures would definitely not win against human (nuclear) weaponry. But that is only the very start of what's wrong with this series!
We have hibernating human beings that are being woken up thousands (!!) of years in the future (in 4028) to live "happily" in Wayward Pines to ensure the survival of the human race. Unbeknownst to the residents of this lovely small town, of course. Because they are kept in the dark about everything that matters. All they know is that they've been abducted (in the 21st century, which is still the century they're living in as far as they're concerned) and are now kept prisoner in a town in which everybody's forced to put up a happy front and silently obey some stupid rules (let's sum them up as "don't-ask-don't-tell") or be publicly executed.
Instead of telling people the truth about anything they're executed for spray-painting walls! Very logical, especially when every human being and their genes are so very important for ensuring the survival of the human race!
But what is even worse and more unbelievable is the fact that all adults are supposedly too weak to stomach the harsh truth, whereas teenagers and children are not. The so-called adolescent "first generation" is taught about the creatures and everything at school and they're forbidden from repeating anything to their parents. Because adults can't handle it, will kill themselves rather than live in a world in which humans are almost extinct. Teenagers, though, are supposedly resilient, and are equipped to not only handle the truth but to do so on their own while lying to their own parents about it all.
Why some adults (like the teacher or the scientist and his sister who build Wayward Pines and ALL THE OTHER 200ish PEOPLE WHO SECRETLY ENSURE THE WORKS of Wayward Pines) are capable of living with full knowledge of the truth, despite being of age" without trying to commit (mass)suicide is not explained, though
It's quite a mystery as well where the lovely residents of Wayward Pines get their supplies like food and electricity etc. from. There's, after all, only so much that 200 behind-the-scenes people living in a secret facility can do without ever venturing outside, or anywhere. Or are we supposed to believe that these handful of people are (stock) farmers, scientists, electricians, and so on,who manage to solely ensure that the unsuspecting people of last-town-on-earth don't lack anything material like food, clothes, houses, toiletries and all the different stuff that they're accustomed to from before?
Or are they pulling all these supplies out of their asses? Or did they "deepfrost" these supplies as well? If so, is no-one concerned with them inevitably running out of these supplies at one point? Wouldn't it be much smarter to have the townspeople learn how to grow crop and so on instead of playing "real-estate agent"?
There are so many glaring plot holes I can't even begin to list them all in this review!
Have only a handful of Americans been deemed worthy enough to ensure the survival of the human race? Genetic diversity, anyone?? Have the writers ever heard of the word gene pool or do they have any idea at all how evolution and mutation work? Did they have biology at all in school? One can only guess. And, as far as I'm concerned, this guess isn't really in their favour, to be honest.
Well, I'm deeply disappointed by this series, which actually started out rather promising. Don't get me wrong, I'm not averse to science fiction in general, quite the opposite actually. But it has to be believable and make sense. It needs to have a solid plot that doesn't immediately collapse at the tiniest scrutiny...
score 3/10
Perse_phone 28 May 2016
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