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Well, I must admit this one landed a bit flat after season 4. With all of the previous seasons I was eager to listen to “just one more episode” at the cost of my sleep, this one was more of a slow trot towards the finale. I'm not unhappy with how the story ended, but there were definitely bits of it that I was let down by. For example:
- The Jon/Martin pairing had all of the neccessary trappings spinning up, but once it landed, nothing has changed. Sure, there are love declarations and Martin plays the damsel in distress but I really felt like I'm missing some tenderness between them. Neither of them lowers the guard towards the other, their dialogues are still snippy and full of ironic remarks. Sure, it's the apocalypse - but they still sound like they're unable to fully trust each other. This might have been intended - plus, the author said that the relationship itself won't be much of a focus in the fifth season. Still, it felt like a bit of a weird situation.
- The statements felt less scary. I feel like before our current reality acted as a grounding framework. Something along the lines of “see, a normal world... EXCEPT THE DARKNESS EATS YOU!”. With the world turned to hellscape my perception shifted a bit, and some of the statements, felt like very elaborate indulgences. Most of the time they were still tasty morsels of horror, but they didn't fit as well, so to speak.
- After a most excellently performed twist in the season four finale, the plot of this season seems... very straightforward. “We'll walk up to the Eye and kill him” - well, guess, what, they do walk up to the Eye and kill who they wanted to kill. In that sense it ends up being Kill Bill, straight and simple. Web's shennanigans is half-expected, half deus ex machina. It's not a bad narrative - I just expected more of a ride after episode 160. And having majority of the exposition provided by all-knowing, all-powerful protagonist is just not as satisfying.
But I still enjoyed that season, a lot :)
Well, I must admit this one landed a bit flat after season 4. With all of the previous seasons I was eager to listen to “just one more episode” at the cost of my sleep, this one was more of a slow trot towards the finale. I'm not unhappy with how the story ended, but there were definitely bits of it that I was let down by. For example:
- The Jon/Martin pairing had all of the neccessary trappings spinning up, but once it landed, nothing has changed. Sure, there are love declarations and Martin plays the damsel in distress but I really felt like I'm missing some tenderness between them. Neither of them lowers the guard towards the other, their dialogues are still snippy and full of ironic remarks. Sure, it's the apocalypse - but they still sound like they're unable to fully trust each other. This might have been intended - plus, the author said that the relationship itself won't be much of a focus in the fifth season. Still, it felt like a bit of a weird situation.
- The statements felt less scary. I feel like before our current reality acted as a grounding framework. Something along the lines of “see, a normal world... EXCEPT THE DARKNESS EATS YOU!”. With the world turned to hellscape my perception shifted a bit, and some of the statements, felt like very elaborate indulgences. Most of the time they were still tasty morsels of horror, but they didn't fit as well, so to speak.
- After a most excellently performed twist in the season four finale, the plot of this season seems... very straightforward. “We'll walk up to the Eye and kill him” - well, guess, what, they do walk up to the Eye and kill who they wanted to kill. In that sense it ends up being Kill Bill, straight and simple. Web's shennanigans is half-expected, half deus ex machina. It's not a bad narrative - I just expected more of a ride after episode 160. And having majority of the exposition provided by all-knowing, all-powerful protagonist is just not as satisfying.
But I still enjoyed that season, a lot :)