This show sucks SO BAD
I think I'm calling it quits. Usually when I vow to finish a season I'm able to do it. But this one is simply too much. It's been real, y'all!
I mean, I hate dream sequences so much, seriously I fast forward through them even on a good show like The Sopranos because it's a complete waste of time most of the time.
Coma and deathbed hallucination sequences are EVEN WORSE. Because it's all a cheap trick for writers to add meaning and backstory elements that don't really ever exist that way. Who ever has a dream that explains everything about your life, where people you know play metaphors and it all just comes together with depth and clarity?
But even as bad as coma dreams are by definition, Extant has taken things to an entirely new low. The writers must actually be in real-life comas - that would explain it!
I mean, really? She suddenly remembers a childhood trauma during her deathbed hallucination, then forgives her dead father five minutes later right after essentially blaming him for ruining her life with something she couldn't even remember until just then. Oh, and her mom died that day too, I think. How tragic can Molly possibly be?
And what was the point of any of it? Her dad was a jerk before, and he died in the previous season which we thought was rebooted/erased til they decided to restore Ethan's memories. She might as well have been forced by the guilt to be a stripper while in college training to be an astronaut. But I guess she already is a reformed whore with a heart of gold since she was trying to jump everyone's bones due to alien DNA and her mental breakdown. I have never seen such a Mary Sue in all my years of watching bad movies and bad TV shows.
I also noticed that she said that the Humanichs are "only machines." Really, Molly? What about your SON? Oh, Julie cleared that up. He has "humanity" unlike the other robots. Mmkay. Robots bad but not Ethan. Just like Molly, he's more special than anyone else on Earth.
But the biggest slap of all was the giant glowing door that said Final Destination. Because yeah, a person in a virus-induced coma can TOTALLY make a rational decision with the help of hallucinations whom she knows are just figments of her imagination (because she said it to them) to walk through a metaphorical door to life or death. It totally makes sense. The next time you're in a coma, just walk through the door! OR don't! But you'd better have made your final decision before you go through the turnstile because even metaphorical hallucination turnstiles will lock behind you. And make sure you forgive people who are figments of your imagination! That is the key to coming out of your coma. They stretched that useless scene out for like ten minutes.
My thing is, why put Molly on a deathbed in the first place? We ALREADY KNOW she's not going to die. Halle Berry is the star and producer of the show. Molly isn't going anywhere so what's the point of a deathbed scene, particularly a cliffhanger ending with Molly on the deathbed?
And I just love how the preview for next week showed us that both Molly and Lucy are alive. And that the Hare Krishna guy from Mad Men is a goner, a character whom I'm not even sure has a name or an actual reason for being on the show yet somehow was featured prominently in Molly's deathbed dream.
It looks like the Mary Sue version that Molly exemplifies is the Sympathetic Sue, who "collects tragic events the way normal people collect baseball cards."
- Father trauma/abandonment and seeing too much as a little girl.
- Parental death.
- Loss of fiance.
- Terror in space
- No one believed her.
- Her husband cheated.
- Loss of husband.
- Loss of home.
- Loss of career.
- Loss of sanity.
- Loss of freedom.
- Loss of moral standing.
- Loss of robot son.
- Loss of real alien son.
- Terminal illness which includes a deathbed scene (not).
- Also, Last of His Kind and Survivor Guilt.
Don't you think this is all A LITTLE MUCH? The only thing that hasn't happened to Molly is rape, and accidentally killing someone she loves. And torture. So, I guess that's all you have to look forward to. Enjoy! But there is one thing that will never happen to Molly, and that's death.
So goodbye, all. I won't be bringing down this board with my hatin' any more!! No one is even saying anything about Extant anywhere, good or bad. The silence is deafening and I had to get my last rant out to somebody. Thanks for reading!