**Contains spoilers** **Contains spoilers**.
So with all the CCTV that the monocle guy had, not one camera was focused on the front door. No intruder alarms at all, no solid metal security blast proof door behind the wooden one to stop someone throwing sticks of dynamite at the front door in a drive-by bombing. Not even a simple code entry system that needs to be inputted upon entry or an alarm gets set off.
I mean, it is not as if that team of misfits had not created a WHOLE LINE of enemies that would some time or other like to pay them a visit at their HQ. A HQ known to be so.
So that was a MASSIVE PLOT HOLE. As was the knife thrower not having amongst his weapons a poison tipped knife to render his victims unconscious. NEVER quite thought of that did he, yet the Chinese Ninja types did centuries ago. (A veil of poison, to stick the knife in before throwing!).
The series is proceeding along though, so far quite interesting as Sci-fi fantasy goes. NOT one of the usual dud's & utter garbage that Netflix & others usually inflict upon us. Only just heard of it.
Didn't like the donut shop slaughter scene in ep 1, was there really a need to have a STROBE effect going on. A faulty ceiling light flickering on & off with strobe machines dotted around the place flashing on & off.
Those with Photosensitive vision just have to cover their eyes for a minute or so, it that how it works!. Same went for the frizzy hair movie star public appearance also in ep1, with ENDLESS camera flashes. We had about a minute of that. No concern for some of the viewers in the producers attempt to 'excite' people.
I wonder what POGO the intelligent Chimp was doing all the time the mansion was getting shot up?. Pogoing around on a Pogo stick in a soundproofed back room?, hence the name.
AND how about the violin player, number 7, she hears automatic gunfire, then is supposed to just walk into the room where it just happened asking "Oh whats going on". Anyone with any sense would be on the blower to the POLICE, straight away. So AS IF she would have just wandered into a battle scene as she did with no apparent, (as of yet!) powers. A complete INSULT to our intelligence.
So for that and the other plot holes & inefficiencies this episode gets two stars, not the original three it was going to get. On the whole so far the series is worth a whole lot more, so far an engaging, off beat series.
But any scene or episode of any series that insult the intelligence must be marked down, else you end up with producers doing it all the time, actively dumbing down our intelligence to make their scripts actually work. Treating us as thick headed Schmucks.
(Mind you, they must have in mind a core block viewership by location, to start with. The main focus of this USA produced series). Must feel with that particular core block, the series producers can get away with it, that those consumers will swallow it all down as the larger Sci-fi & fantasy community around the rest of the World are encouraged to do.
The better made series RAISE UP our intelligence to make the scripts work, not dumb it down, even if it leaves some viewers not quite understanding a particular aspect of it. Viewers soon understand when they are being taken for fools with implausible scenes & scripts. Maybe that core block are more used to it over the years, more conditioned to put up with it.
Massive Gunfire, violin girl walks into room, "What's going on?". NOT VERY LIKELY IS IT!.
TWO Stars is more than enough for this episode & its script failings. Like the Clairvoyant guy wouldn't have set up his own private clairvoyant practice to feed his drug habit. Like he wouldn't be resourceful as we have already seen him be in securing $$$ from his abilities. Big markdown for that big PLOT HOLE.
Many more script failures to come no doubt, but an intriguing series so far. Off beat, out of the ordinary as a whole & quirky. Looks great in HD, good filmography, well put together & high enough standard of acting.
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