The show lacked a mainstream audience because it had no cohesive and continuing plot, although it did posess socially irredeemable characters. When Cassie's character left the show (the actor's decision, if the rumors are correct), the producers and writers decided that the smart plotlines tied to a main character were just not as profitable as a more action-oriented plot. Action is not supposed to be an interlude. A series is supposed to set a tone, and then FOLLOW that tone, so as to create a distinct fingerprint for the show. It would be like Boston Legal turning into a John Woo shoot-em-up, or a Buffy episode suddenly taking a turn for the worse and adding a laugh track. You create a tone and you stick with it.
However, it never seemed to do this, and miserly choices made it worse not better. It was simply one catastrophic decision after another by the producers and writers, beginning with the casting of a chubby, late-20's something anf giving her a fashion unconscious wardrobe, a bad haircut and worse makeup. A lead actor in a series is supposed to appeal to a wide range of folks (ergo the term lead), and that means choosing someone who is either very attractive and personable, or very talented. You cannot skimp here, because a failure of the lead to carry the show means the certain death of the show. Ella Dee was not such a character. She was over 400 years old, and was supposed to have gotten over all the teen angst and insanely bad personal choices. Yet, she didn't, and that - almost more than anything - drove me up the wall, across the ceiling, and down the other wall.
Using the excuse that Buffy did it to justify an immortal demon-hunter sleeping with her specified enemy is pathetic. For a show that wants to set itself apart from the strong comparisons with Buffy, they certainly toed the line on that one. The premise of the show was a burgeoning witch (Cassie) learnign to fight off prophecy and the advances of the demon Azazel. That this premise was dropped like a steaming turd almost immediately after the show started was a jump the shark moment, and cause for shutting down production.
"How boring would the show be if the characters didn't make the wrong choices. Anyways choice is up to the individual, it depends on what they see through their perspective."
Wht the previous poster failed to recognize is that the characters in Hex weren't supposed to easily make the right choices, tempted as they were from all sides. They were supposed to make the right choice after agonizing with it for a long time. However, in Hex, the characters always made the WRONG choice, which was maddening and boring and unrealistic. No one makes the wrong choice all the time. While choice is dependent upon the individual, members of soceity are aware - through constant culturization - what the correct range of choices are. The characters NEVER make the right choices. Darwin says that animals that make the wrong choices in development do not flourish. He was right; Hex was gone after only two seasons.
I still say Cassie, because the actor was more attractive, and she started out having an actual plot to back up her actions.
reply
share