This season is strange in that it feels backwards. The first two episodes were my favourites of the whole series, and then it gradually grew weaker and weaker, until the final three episodes were some of the weakest I'd seen from this show.
Characters who were handled carefully in the previous season became useless and annoying, relationships felt forced and overplayed and as a whole, the story felt out of focus.
The real problems surfaced around the halfway mark. Most of the time people were drifting out of character and subplots were cropping up with no seemingly logical reason other than to create unneeded drama. In the end all these subplots had achieved was to hold back the main plot more than it should have been.
But it was Nazir's character that was the biggest disappointment this season. "Broken Hearts" was the worst episode of the series, followed by "In Memoriam" which was the second weakest. Both served to turn Nazir into a terrorist caricature plucked right out of 24. In the first season I had seen Nazir as almost humane, in a way. He was a terrorist, of course, but he seemed to have some sort of philosophy to him. This season, he wasn't reluctant to admit that no such thing was true; he was your standard terrorist.
After watching the first season I made a prediction that the series would lose its foundation and stray off in new directions, and I'm half-right. The show is desperately clutching on to its roots and seems ready to milk its premise more than it should be while slowly burying itself in subplots and far-fetched plot twists.
Characters who were handled carefully in the previous season became useless and annoying, relationships felt forced and overplayed and as a whole, the story felt out of focus.
The real problems surfaced around the halfway mark. Most of the time people were drifting out of character and subplots were cropping up with no seemingly logical reason other than to create unneeded drama. In the end all these subplots had achieved was to hold back the main plot more than it should have been.
But it was Nazir's character that was the biggest disappointment this season. "Broken Hearts" was the worst episode of the series, followed by "In Memoriam" which was the second weakest. Both served to turn Nazir into a terrorist caricature plucked right out of 24. In the first season I had seen Nazir as almost humane, in a way. He was a terrorist, of course, but he seemed to have some sort of philosophy to him. This season, he wasn't reluctant to admit that no such thing was true; he was your standard terrorist.
After watching the first season I made a prediction that the series would lose its foundation and stray off in new directions, and I'm half-right. The show is desperately clutching on to its roots and seems ready to milk its premise more than it should be while slowly burying itself in subplots and far-fetched plot twists.