For those who have seen all of Season 2 **Spoilers, duh**

(Long post alert, i've alot of thoughts :) .)

I just finished watching the second series on Sky box sets last night (where i assume you also watched it, or on a similar service), and i've several thoughts that i was musing over, which i was thinking of starting a new thread over, but this thread is as good as any to post in... :) .

Overall i really enjoyed the series, but several of the editing choices, logical leaps we were left having to make when certain scenes weren't shown, several forgotten or abandoned plots points and several "wtf?!" moments have stuck with me.

Firstly, while i know everybody in the show, particularly the police, seem very quick to go for their guns because, like in the Wild West, most of the people there carry guns themsleves, but in the first episode i believe, it's pretty ridiculous when we see PC Ingrid pulling her gun on two kids shoplifting, but it's even more ridiculous when we find out in the next episode, that the kid that stood up to her was her brother!

Of course there are several things in the show that are in there to create laughs, but, while we see that in the first series the entire police department of the town is four officers and with Dan missing, then out of action, they were down to three and often only two, when Eric swans off.

But even in those circumstances, they often make bad use of their limited numbers, like when all three officers left the station empty the night the serial killer attacks the taxidermist.
But during daytime hours we see several civilian workers in the building, but were none of them really not a better choice than the (clearly included for gags) ten or so year old kid to try and hack the hitman's phones? :) .


Skipping forward to Governor Odegard's killing by the new governor,
her dropped phone initially seemed like it was going to be the thing that led to his comeuppance, but whether it was an intentional red herring, a forgotten plot point or the writers decided just to not use it in the end, it's eventual non discovery seemed strange.

Initially when her body is found, one of the police tries calling it and when keeps ringing, they say that it still exists/is working, so it isn't in the water, but when Ingrid and her father go looking for the Governor's car at the factory and eventually find it, they don't try to call the phone there.
I was thinking then that the digger operator might show up with it, but no.

On Vincent's sudden blindness, it was very strange, he didn't seem to be faking it as he didn't react to the eyeless guy that showed up at the tent, but then unless Natalie throwing the jar of flies at him, "scared the sight" back into him, he caught it no problem and then he could suddenly see again, which suggests that he was faking it, but if so why?

Of all the things we see Dan do, killing the guy like a werewolf or vampire was possibly the most ridiculous... :) .

The point at which Eric disappeared for an episode or two after his wife's death, but then he shows up out of nowhere to save Michael from the mercenary - sure we've to assume that he heard on the radio about them ramming Petra's car and maybe someone reported seeing strange men with guns, but a 30 second scene of him listening to the radio and grabbing a rifle would have been nice :) .

And lastly the bit of the flare making the helicopter explode was completely ridiculous - i'd have believed it if the flare had made the pilot crash, like in one of the Bond films, but i guess that helicopter was made out of explodium! :) .

How did u see the whole of season 2 ?
only 2 eps are out at the moment ?
Now this wont hurt... Much

Never mind I found out :) sorry

Now this wont hurt... Much

Just finished watching ep 10 - what? Is there more episodes??
It's been a bit confusing, and definitely feels like perhaps some storylines were shot but edited out - Bianca; Hildur's phone; Vincent blindness; the shaman's castration!!
Why did he castrate himself?? Where did he put his genitals?? If he was going to find Dan anyway what was it's point??
I liked Dennis Quaid in it but his jaw seemed to be sloping in the last few episodes and I couldn't tell if he was trying to act drunk or if he'd had a stroke?
I liked the odd comedic bits of the little computer boy, and the weird conversation Petra and Ingrid had about Hildur's handbags!
I don't really get why people kept saying Eric couldn't be a good Sheriff (or what difference it made to Munk etc for Eric to be the Sheriff??), and I don't really know why Dan killed Elena. I guess just to show how different he is now to before.
But the finished series overall I have enjoyed (because I decided not to take it seriously) but it feels like there was a problem with the storylines, and maybe planned storylines had to be changed.
If some of the oddities were red herrings I'm not sure I know what the red herrings distracted us from?
It felt like it intentionally 'jumped the shark' lots of times - or polar bears!
I don't know what direction a third series would go. More Twin Peaks?
Or perhaps the red aurora was to do with aliens!

I still don't understand why the shaman castrated himself (or what he did with his penis after)?? I cauterised himself so he obviously didn't want to die (or get an infection!).
Lots of the plot points on this forum I agree with, so many it the twists seem a bit misjudged or undeveloped.