shavedape
Well Known GateFan
Agreed
You know there is a writer on staff who came up with the Pope/chef thing and thinks it's the most clever idea evah. :roll: Too bad the average viewer isn't as stupid as the Failing Skies writing staff thinks we are. I mean, we're to believe that in the 300 people in this camp Pope is the only one who knows how to mix yeast with flour to make bread? :roll:
And don't get me going about how they had the ability to communicate with the skitter in the cage but the whole scene was flat and pointless, no info was revealed in that moment. That was a HUGE writing error right there.
I know I'm a bit of a broken record with this point but there is a problem with the writing on this show, an arrogance and a hubris that flies in the face of viewer anticipation. They aren't giving us viewers what we want and they don't care -- they just want to write what they want and stroke each others egos on the writing staff. The logical outcome of this type of mindset is obvious. We all know what is going to happen and once again there's little we, the viewers, can do about it.
I like Pope, and that is why he can never be a TRULY effective "bad guy". Now he is the camp cook...er, excuse me...Chef (trained in the culinary arts). Do I really need to know that? Did we actually sit through a scene of him spitting out the food whilst in his cell, then being offered the cook job? We are talking about cooking chicken and rice and chefs and stuff? Um, where are the aliens? And why did the aliens feel a need to demoralize the humans when they have no problem using glow bombs to annihilate entire cities? And, um...the spaceships lock in on flares, but not on the camp cookouts? SLOPPY. I dont even want to get into the skitter in the cell unattended and the kid on the table unattended.
You know there is a writer on staff who came up with the Pope/chef thing and thinks it's the most clever idea evah. :roll: Too bad the average viewer isn't as stupid as the Failing Skies writing staff thinks we are. I mean, we're to believe that in the 300 people in this camp Pope is the only one who knows how to mix yeast with flour to make bread? :roll:
And don't get me going about how they had the ability to communicate with the skitter in the cage but the whole scene was flat and pointless, no info was revealed in that moment. That was a HUGE writing error right there.
I know I'm a bit of a broken record with this point but there is a problem with the writing on this show, an arrogance and a hubris that flies in the face of viewer anticipation. They aren't giving us viewers what we want and they don't care -- they just want to write what they want and stroke each others egos on the writing staff. The logical outcome of this type of mindset is obvious. We all know what is going to happen and once again there's little we, the viewers, can do about it.
