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Originally Posted by Daradon
I believe my initial fear going into the season was one of the failings. Too many characters. Especially for a single season. If your multiple season, with rich source content like GoT, then maybe you can get away with it, but this didn't work. To much to do all at once. Characters weren't properly fleshed out. One of the things that drove season one, was the duality of the two main characters. This season it felt like the tried to one up it by making it more complicated and having more characters. It didn't work. I never does.
One of the very first lessons you learn in drama is don't introduce more characters unless you absolutely have to. They would have done well to follow this rule. When Woodrugh died, I wasn't sad. I even said, 'well he WAS the most boring character.'
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Not only did they have a ton of characters, but they felt the need to devout scenes to characters who had little to know screen time. There were several scenes in the show, where I had had no idea who they were talking about. That eulogy scene for Frank's henchman, who had been in the background of a couple of previous episodes....why not just introduce a couple of henchmen in Frank's squad and use them for the necessary plot devices?
The drawn out scenes between McAdams and Farrell were just drawn out and pointless...except for where out of the blue they would solve all of the problems in the show. We basically end up with an hour of meandering through the episode and then McAdams and Farrell figuring everything out in 2 -3 sentences, which you'd better pay attention to.