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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
I can get behind the not having Paul, but I liked the Frank arc and I think Vaughn actually did quite a good job. I think Frank is also essential to the plot in a way that Paul wasn't.
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Looking back, I think Vaughn did the best he could. I just feel the character didn't add much and involved a ton of tangents that took away from the story. Things like the drama with his wife, Blake's odd role in all this, the mexican drug lords being shoe-horned at the end and who can forget Stan! None of that really integrated with the Casper murder, the Catalyst-Mayor deal, the twins involvement, or the original robbery and the cop corruption. It was just a parallel plot line that sometimes took half or more of an episode - all to setup this tragic figure who (outside of a Rambo moment at the end and a forced arrangement with Ray) never really figured into anything that important.
I would rather have all the Frank-Jordan, Frank-Blake, Frank-Osip and Frank-Ray time spent on the key plot items mentioned above that got glossed over. I mean, five of the key characters of the season's main plot (Tony Chessani, Chief Holloway, Lt. Burris and the twins) were virtually unknown going into the final 3 episodes. But, hey, we all knew who Stan was
