From doesn’t have a story anymore
After the exasperation of the last few seasons, I went back and rewatched season one in case I had missed something and the show has always been like this when it struck me that season the first (And maybe parts of season the second?) actually feels like a competent story being told.
Ignore the plot elements and later reveals; Season one feels unique from its later instalments because there feels like a narrative through line is being run between all ten episodes, the climax being the attack on colony house and then the twist reveal of the radio broadcast at the end of the season.
The character interactions all feel so much more natural, it’s refreshing to go back to a time when Sarah wasn’t so fucking annoying, there was decent acting from Tabitha! So many great moments because the writers clearly had planned stuff out for this season and this season alone.
Later seasons don’t feel like they have this through line of a story anymore and just feels like either they are throwing more and more shit at the audience to give the illusion of depth or are very clearly limping to the barn with whatever material they have to stretch things to the arbitrary fifty minute mark.
I would be more forgiving if this was like Lost whereby the writers wanted to end things after season the third but the network wanted them to keep going so they did. But From is literally beginning to feel like a parody of itself, especially in this last season, where the seeds were being sown in season three.
There’s no satisfying narrative being told. It’s just a lobotomised version of storytelling whereby characters are taking and actors… Acting, but it doesn’t feel like a cohesive narrative anymore. Did they shoot all the original writers for season one and then replace them with monkeys on typewriters for the rest of the show?