Re: The Following - TV Series

[ODogg]

Re: The Following - TV Series

I'm still watching but I must say my respect for this show has gone downhill. I'm willing to suspend belief a lot for movies/shows but I didn't think this would be that type of show where I would have to from my initial impressions. I just watch it and am entertained but I gave up long ago on saying "Why did the FBI..." and the like...because this show lost all sense of realism a long time ago.

Just enjoy it for what it is...LOL...

I also don't have any idea how this show can go for more than a season with the entire premise and where the show appears to be heading..

[roadman]

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I'm still watching but I must say my respect for this show has gone downhill. I'm willing to suspend belief a lot for movies/shows but I didn't think this would be that type of show where I would have to from my initial impressions. I just watch it and am entertained but I gave up long ago on saying "Why did the FBI..." and the like...because this show lost all sense of realism a long time ago.

Just enjoy it for what it is...LOL...

I also don't have any idea how this show can go for more than a season with the entire premise and where the show appears to be heading..

I think it's pretty obvious Joe's character, Purifoy, lives for season two because the show is coming back for another season. I could be wrong on that note, unles they kill him off and bring back another great actor to play another serial killer.

I threw out reality awhile ago with this show, especially since I read that they patterned this show after 24, which didn't have much realism to follow, either.

The weeks episode had Bacon's character grab a follower by the throat.

Hello, Jack Bauer.

[JBH3]

This thread has slowed down since the beginning of the year.

Just interesting to note.

Wondering if people are still watching it till the final episode next week.

I really like Joe's character unraveling.

I was onboard w/ the concept but stopped watching after ep3. Cannot take the writing of how every episode is blunder after blunder by FBI/Law Enforcement.

[Hiro1]

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I don't get the dumb FBI argument. If they were really great at their job everyone would be dead or captured by the 3rd episode. Maybe this type of thing should have just been 2hr movie instead.

[aukevin]

I don't get the dumb FBI argument. If they were really great at their job everyone would be dead or captured by the 3rd episode. Maybe this type of thing should have just been 2hr movie instead.

That's why I accept it, it's just funny to see though.

[Burns11]

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I don't get the dumb FBI argument. If they were really great at their job everyone would be dead or captured by the 3rd episode. Maybe this type of thing should have just been 2hr movie instead.

You can write a story where the FBI aren't breaking basic procedure and still have people get away with stuff. Ignoring basic police procedure would maybe have been OK 25 years ago, but we've had 2 decades of network TV obsession with police procedurals. You don't have to look far into those shows to find writing that does police right but bad guys get away (usually to fuel a multi-episode story arc).

[roadman]

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You can write a story where the FBI aren't breaking basic procedure and still have people get away with stuff. Ignoring basic police procedure would maybe have been OK 25 years ago, but we've had 2 decades of network TV obsession with police procedurals. You don't have to look far into those shows to find writing that does police right but bad guys get away (usually to fuel a multi-episode story arc).

Tend to agree, but this show is patterned after 24, not the CSI's or Law and Orders of the world. I haven't watched much CSI, but Law and Order, Jack McCoy was always on the police case about trying to following the law, but he tried to jump over that line in the court room all the time.

There were two cases where last weeks episode was patterned after 24, Bacon grabbing by the throat one of the followers and burying alive the FBI lady.(ie Renee Walker of 24)

24 had moles and botched attempts every episode and every season because Jack Baeur had to save the day in 24 hours. (ie, a whole season)

I'm like aukevin, once I knew it was patterned after 24, I was more accepting of the blunders by the FBI, similar to CTU in 24.

Not trying to sway people one way or the other, if you followed(no pun intended) CSI's, then yes, this isn't the same as those shows, but if you followed 24, you'd understand a bit better.

[Sinner]

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This show is so crazy tonight, most give up on it or anybody watching?

[CMH]

This show is so crazy tonight, most give up on it or anybody watching?

I haven't watched the past three episodes now.

Not because I don't want to. No time.

But me and the girlfriend both agreed we didn't miss it. So who knows if we pick it up again.


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[roadman]

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Wow, that is all.

A ending similar to 24.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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So Claire decides to go back to Ryan's place to get busy instead of being reunited with her son. What a great mom!

[DakkoN]

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So Claire decides to go back to Ryan's place to get busy instead of being reunited with her son. What a great mom!

What do you mean 'instead'? Didn't they say in the scene right before that Joey was somewhere else (Washington DC IIRC but not sure) and Ryan told them she could stay at his place and they would fly out to see Joey the next day...

[The Chef]

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What do you mean 'instead'? Didn't they say in the scene right before that Joey was somewhere else (Washington DC IIRC but not sure) and Ryan told them she could stay at his place and they would fly out to see Joey the next day...

Thats exactly what was said. It was painfully obvious what was going to happen the moment he said he would let her stay at his place seeing as they kept showing the ex-girlfriend in every recap before each new episode as if to keep her fresh only to have her never appear on the episode following that recap. The only thing I didnt see coming was her stabbing Ryan, figured she would kill Claire to keep the whole idea that everyone around him that gets close to him dies.

[Bruins]

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Wow. I was wondering how they'd leave a cliffhanger, since I've got this feeling that I don't buy the fact that Joe is dead, but I really didn't see that coming.

[roadman]

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Thats exactly what was said. It was painfully obvious what was going to happen the moment he said he would let her stay at his place seeing as they kept showing the ex-girlfriend in every recap before each new episode as if to keep her fresh only to have her never appear on the episode following that recap. The only thing I didnt see coming was her stabbing Ryan, figured she would kill Claire to keep the whole idea that everyone around him that gets close to him dies.

Interesting you mention that, because all along, I knew Molly would be in the final scene with Ryan. In a prison flashback, she told Joe that she would follow if she was the one to kill Ryan Hardy.

It's like my son said, who the heck is coming back for next season?

I was still hoping Joe was alive, liked his character.

I know I've been beating the same drum, but just like 24, this show doesn't care who they kill off.

The scene where they are trying to find Debra and she is gasping for air.

I've read an article about this show with retired detectives and police chiming in that of course, early on, this show wasn't spot on with correct police work where Hardy would go alone. They did say, though, that later in the show, it seems like they were trying to have it be more realistic, but they also said, if it was realistic, the drama wouldn't be there, either.