First off, I did enjoy this episode a lot. I continue to love all the action that's going on on the mothership and seeing the resistance together continues to be a lot of fun for me. I'm surprisingly also liking the fast pace a lot. I didn't expect this when I first heard that Scott Rosenbaum would try to quicken up the storytelling.
However, I can see why this show is continuining to bleed viewers. Human characters like Tyler and Valerie continue to be underwritten. I would say they are more like concepts (Valerie=pregnant human woman with a hybrid child, Tyler=the whiny kid that is surrounded by a dark secret) instead of actual characters. And the human/visitor romantic relationships continue to be uncompelling to watch. Lisa/Tyler have been forced and contrived since the word go and I attribute their lack of chemistry to the way the relationship has been written. Ryan/Valerie never had any chemistry either, but at least they were still boring to watch in the first 4 episodes. At this point, they have become a huge turnoff. There's nothing there for viewers to latch on to except for them to hope that Valerie finds out the truth about Ryan and shows him the door. At the rate the show is going, I fully expect them to pair off Anna and Chad next. That's another potential romantic pairing that would be unappealing to watch due to lack of romantic/sexual chemistry, the actors being mismatched physically and a lack of a believable foundation for a hookup between the 2 characters. But that surely won't stop the writers from going through with it.
However, I can see why this show is continuining to bleed viewers. Human characters like Tyler and Valerie continue to be underwritten. I would say they are more like concepts (Valerie=pregnant human woman with a hybrid child, Tyler=the whiny kid that is surrounded by a dark secret) instead of actual characters. And the human/visitor romantic relationships continue to be uncompelling to watch. Lisa/Tyler have been forced and contrived since the word go and I attribute their lack of chemistry to the way the relationship has been written. Ryan/Valerie never had any chemistry either, but at least they were still boring to watch in the first 4 episodes. At this point, they have become a huge turnoff. There's nothing there for viewers to latch on to except for them to hope that Valerie finds out the truth about Ryan and shows him the door. At the rate the show is going, I fully expect them to pair off Anna and Chad next. That's another potential romantic pairing that would be unappealing to watch due to lack of romantic/sexual chemistry, the actors being mismatched physically and a lack of a believable foundation for a hookup between the 2 characters. But that surely won't stop the writers from going through with it.
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