W Episode 9

Folding A Plot Inside Out

This is the most contrived piece of work I've watched in a long time. I was prepared to suspend my logic because, well heck, from the 1st episode I couldn't help thinking in my head, "I ought to be singing 'Take On Me'.. someone must have caught a glimpse of that 80s MV from A-Ha and decided it was worth making a series out of..." problem is that it has about as much development of characters and plot as the MV, which as you know, isn't much at all. Trying to move this thing forward without a full plot concept from the outset has now required the writer to go beyond the realm of suspended logic to completely absurd and tragic. You know this was going to happen when you got so many sweet kisses right from the onset. A writer thinking that these things will cover for the lack of plot. I remember a lot of the hype when this came out, so I guess to some extent the writer was right... but that only gets you so far, then people relax and once that happens the questions come out... starting with:

"What is the point here???? Where are we going with this???? Because I'm not following it very well."

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