Is it me or...


were there no likeable characters on this show? Aside from Maia or maybe Richard the rest had some serious character flaws. The premise of the show kept me interested but without an endearing character I got bored. The plot was driven by people lying when there was no need to, or getting angry when there was no need to. I really wanted to like the show but how can you when everyone is the antagonist?

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It isn't "you!" I felt and thought the same; did like Richard as well, though.

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I meant to add that with better writers there would have been characters - with *deep* flaws - that we loved to hate. Collier is kinda interesting, but not at the JR Ewing iconic level, to use a dated reference.

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Are you serious? Diana, Lily, Richard, Shawn, Marco, Tom, Alana, Nina were not likable? Don't bother!

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In my opinion, it's just you. I found most of the characters to be extremely likeable.

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I like quite a few of them! Diana and Tom, Shawn, Richard is awesome! Maia.

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AM I THE ONLY ONE

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I'm with you. I can never see the actor who plays Tom as anyone but Owen Crawford from the Taken series (TV show not movie!) so I just hate him. Everyone else is just 'blah' or annoying. If I had to save one 4400 cast member from a burning building I guess it'd be Marco.

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Yeah, I totally agree. I still have 15 episodes left to watch, but most of the characters grate on my nerves.

Like Tom. Tom is a selfish bastard. Even though he works for the government, he has no regard for the rules and laws unless they benefit him. He covers up crime after crime but has the nerve to play high and mighty with Ryland.

Diana is a bit of a whore. She stole her sister's boyfriend. That reads whore where I come from. And she broke up with Marco. I love Marco.

Shawn is a man-whore. Again, stole his brother's girlfriend. Then proceeds to sleep with pretty much anything with a vagina.

Isabelle is not worth mentioning. Evil and obnoxious.

Kyle is a murderer. Sort of. Still, turning yourself in after evading arrest for weeks or however long doesn't really make you a hero.

Jordan is probably the only well written character I've seen. Again, still have two episodes left in season 3, so if his character goes to hell, I don't know about it yet.

The only likable characters, from my viewpoint, are Richard (kinda), Maia (kinda), and Marco.

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Yeah, the writers push drama into everything on this show. Characters can't talk about the smallest thing without sounding either angry, alarmed, hysterical, demanding, or accusatory. The most normal subjects are very emotionally charged when people on this show talk about them.
I think the target audience of this show is young teenagers. The writers want viewers to hate this character, love that character, etc.

By having so much conflict and such highly emotionally upset, angry, heartbroken, confused, demanding, etc. characters, the writers are seeking to evoke similar emotions in the viewers. This show is just way to predictable in that way. It is formulaic and one dimensional in its approach.


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I just started watching this on Netflix and I am into the third episode. I think the writing on this is formulaic and shallow. I think this show was written to appeal to jr high and high school kids. Or maybe it was written by some.

The Homeland guy Tom Baldwin: the writers make this guy antagonistic almost all the time, even when it makes no sense.
For example, when Shawn Ferrell, one of the returned group and a relative of his, goes to the hospital to visit his cousin, his touch temporarily causes the kid's brain activity to spike, which is a good thing. Shawn is freaked out by this power he is beginning to understand he has. Tom learns about Shawn's visit and the effect on the patient.

So Tom goes to Shawn and gets antagonistic with him, asking in an accusing tone "what did you do?" several times. It was like he was a cop trying to break a suspect.
Now, any normal person in his shoes, knowing that Shawn has demonstrated some kind of healing ability would have been friendly, interested, supportive, etc. but not grilling him in an angry tone. A normal person would have been hopeful that Shawn might be able to wake that kid from his coma. He would have praised Shawn and asked him to come to the hospital and try again.
But with Tom, most of the time he has that aggressive attitude. Tom is too one dimensional. It is like the writers are afraid the viewers won't recognize him unless he is angry or something. (sarcasm there)

Seriously though, these writers are way too formulaic. While stories need some conflict in order to be interesting, these writers try to force conflict into situations where it does not logically belong. They force drama into everything. It gets a bit absurd. It is almost like listening to some jr high school girls talking about, well anything. DRAMA.
Honestly you can only take so much.

And I think it is going to be the same with this show.
When Shawn's friend asks him about how he won the fight with the bully at school so quickly it wasn't a simple question, it was loaded. Like he was implying something was wrong. Just about everything in this show is that way. They all sound like Al Gore telling us the ocean will rise 20 feet by 2005 (as he said back in the early 90s).

Very formulaic, one dimensional, stereotypical and immature writing.



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I completely agree with you about the reaction to the healing ability. I just started watching it too and that was my initial thought. ''Why is he angry? His nephew could save his son. Become his best friend, not his enemy." I hope it gets better because the concept is great and that alone is keeping me interested for now but the fact that the acting is terrible and the characters are cheesy makes me want to stop watching.

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