Glaring Flaws


I'm at episode 1 [edit] just notice I said episode 1, it was episode 4 or 5 iirc [/edit] of the first season and, a few minutes from the end of the episode, I feel compelled to come and post here about some really quite ridiculous flaws in this episode alone.

1. A coffee pot filled with coconut milk, infected blood and an electrical charge starts to bubble up, and then apparently explodes. Without being sealed the pressure would simply vent through to wide hole at the top of the pot. Absurd.

2. Bats somehow make it to the station in the arctic and then make camp on the solar panels (immediately stopping power, when I'd imagine that solar systems are rigged to a battery rather than a continuous direct supply of power). Putting aside the fact that non native life wouldn't manage to travel there, once they got there they'd last about 5 minutes. Absurd.

3. Prison attack. A prison has a series of locked doors that need to be progressed through one at a time, only once the previous door has been secured. Apparently all the wolves had to do was get past the outside gate and they had direct access to all areas of the prison.

4. They watch the security footage of the Evan Lee Hartley acting like the pack alpha and then walk away without watching what happened next. Really? And then they piece together what happened next. Erm, just watch what happened next you planks.

5. Horses on island with no eyes. Abraham, having seen one horse, makes reference to "their eyes" then another horse comes round the corner. Why did he assume that there were more horses and that they were the same?

I can overlook mistakes but this litany tries my patience. I hope the next episode doesn't build on the nonsensical.

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I made it through 4 episodes somehow and came across the same flaws in each and every episode. Even the animals weren't realistic as wild animals. Most of the cats were way overweight (bellies dragging the ground when they walk). Horrible writing and yet somehow it gets a 7.1 rating. smdh

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I made it a few episodes more but that was because I don't like giving up on what I've already invested time in. With 4 or 5 episodes to go, and two of those 2 hours long, I didn't have the will to continue.

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It gets way worse. I just finished season 2. The stupidity has caused me to actually feel dumb myself. I think I will go play in the street now.

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OP, it gets worse as you watch all the way to the end of season 2. I did this in a binge, since my Dad was visiting my house and had missed most of season 2. I had only to watch a few episodes of season 1, before the scientific inaccuracies made me crazy, and deleted it from my DVR. I am a Neurosurgeon (MD), with 2 PhD's one in Physiological Anthropology and the other in Biological Psychology, I also have a Masters of Science degree in Neurology relating handedness, bipedalism and speech; so I know my way around the fields they show dealt with. They did so very poorly, to say the least. As you get into season 2, I assume that the writers figured that anyone with a college level (no, make that a high school level) of basic biology, chemistry, and some normal experience with other animals on the planet, and knew how important the discovery of the double helix was (by Drs. Watson and Crick) would have either stopped watching or passed it off as just a sci-fi show. I had, for the sake of my father, not scream at the TV. By season 2, the two of us were both yelling at impossible science, and pausing the show to discuss how wrong the show had gotten things.

The absolute worse is the shows disregard of the fact that HUMANS ARE ANIMALS!!! The last episode of season 2 could never have happened. Humans are great apes, not some omnipotent beings not represented on the taxonomic nomenclature set up by Linnaeus.

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As a student finishing my masters in applied ecology and having backgrounds in both wildlife and feels biology I'm also familiar with what concepts this show tries to pass off. Too many inaccuracies. Too many sweeping liberties. No consistency and not enough booze in the cabinet to make it past the 5th episode.

This show is a mess.

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Not to mention the editing errors...
In his first action sequences on the very first episode the wind must have blown his hat back on his boring head at LEAST once.

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Really? Doesnt look that way.

So where are you doing your neurosurgery these days Steph? Which medical group? Are you in the AANS?


Humans are great apes, not some omnipotent beings not represented on the taxonomic nomenclature set up by Linnaeus.


He did classify humans as "great apes" and out them with orangs and chimps (gorilla had not been found yet)


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