I loved the first season, it had a compelling plot and the characters where fleshed out to make this fairy tale world seem real. Obvious paralells to real life racism and segregation were not hamfisted in. And the season had a nice cliff hanger. Dunno if covid ruined the series potential, as Orlando Bloom said that the long pause made them reconsider things.
Season two started off well, but it seems like after a couple of episode the financing got cut and so the writers had to cram everything into a few remaining episodes. Out of nowhere we got this new faction which is very powerful but didnt get mentioned at all before? The characters sucked now, it was all just about scowling and stern looks, and just changing their mind all the times or just acting against their best interest, stopped rooting even for Orlando Blooms character cause he just didnt really do much except running around and looking mad/angry.
Also just feels like they did a very bad job of portraying the new dawn. Its prolly Hollywoods Vision of true comunism. Meaning, it all looks nice and shiny from the outside, but when they pull off the mask all of a sudden its Stalin and Mao on speed. We even got some dude in there saying that people should rather pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of blaming everything on their opressors. Why would the main characters give a damn if the hole parliamant gets slaughtered, the same people that put them in a ghetto and killed a bunch of them.
And what was that ending, big love story from the first season was just a joke, cause i guess shes always been a lesbian. The row turned from a ghetto into a circus where everybody is happy. How? The same elite is still in charge, the New Dawn lost and those people are still poor. Even super racist policemen puts up a friendly face, cause he...changed.... his mind, i guess?
Guess the message is, dont fight it, things will change for better just like that.
Season two started off well, but it seems like after a couple of episode the financing got cut and so the writers had to cram everything into a few remaining episodes. Out of nowhere we got this new faction which is very powerful but didnt get mentioned at all before? The characters sucked now, it was all just about scowling and stern looks, and just changing their mind all the times or just acting against their best interest, stopped rooting even for Orlando Blooms character cause he just didnt really do much except running around and looking mad/angry.
Also just feels like they did a very bad job of portraying the new dawn. Its prolly Hollywoods Vision of true comunism. Meaning, it all looks nice and shiny from the outside, but when they pull off the mask all of a sudden its Stalin and Mao on speed. We even got some dude in there saying that people should rather pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of blaming everything on their opressors. Why would the main characters give a damn if the hole parliamant gets slaughtered, the same people that put them in a ghetto and killed a bunch of them.
And what was that ending, big love story from the first season was just a joke, cause i guess shes always been a lesbian. The row turned from a ghetto into a circus where everybody is happy. How? The same elite is still in charge, the New Dawn lost and those people are still poor. Even super racist policemen puts up a friendly face, cause he...changed.... his mind, i guess?
Guess the message is, dont fight it, things will change for better just like that.