The rating of 3 is given only because Wendy Malick who I adore is in this series. I did not see the pilot, and these comments are only about the 3rd episode. There are spoilers here, incredible spoilers but it concerns plot holes big enough to drive a 747 sideways through. I can imagine the writers have to fill 47 minutes and I cannot imagine how difficult that is but my God! Again, these are plot holes so if you have not seen it look away now, or you can watch it and then look away. The episode "Captain Coles Playlist" contains the following snags.
Number 1 murals are generally drawn at street level where people can actually see them not on rooftops. Taggers think of their work as art to be seen and appreciate it. Not a whole lot of people can do that on a rooftop.
Number 2 during a full-on gun battle at the zoo, seven shots were fired not a single soul gets hit. Both the bad guys and the police need serious time at a gun range. Additionally since the bad guys hadn't actually seen the face of the tagger, why did they automatically assume the guy they're chasing is the one they were after?
Number 3, Lee doesn't carry a weapon and is expected to go up against armed aggressors? I know this happened all the time in Walker Texas Ranger but ordinarily if a guy has a gun and you're a police officer you pull out your gun, routinely done by the LAPD all the time. Ordinarily when you have armed bad guys you don't want to beat them up, you pull out your weapon tell him to drop it if they don't do that you shoot them.
Number 4, the understanding that a package of "chew sticks" leads Carter to the house he lived in as a kid as the taggers residence. Unless this house mother is the source who manufactures these chew sticks herself how does the detective conclude that those two things connected?
Number 5, ordinarily when a person dies in a body of water there's usually water in the lungs. The murdered asst district attorney was killed in his home. There was absolutely no autopsy done? Had there been one it would have would have come out immediately that there was no water in the lungs, therefore one could have seen at that point murder instead of assuming loudly it was suicide. It would have been more plausible to make it look like he committed suicide possibly leaving a gun in his hand with a hole in his head. But since he was hit in the face with a rod that wouldn't even come close 2 blunt force sustained in hitting a body of water in his car, a car that has airbags, this was the best they could do? Primo's of his death wouldn't have fooled even the Keystone Cops.
Number 6, upon the recognition between the district attorney and the witness, the witness could have easily said to any of the fifteen officers working around him "Hey that's the guy who was in the room when the man was killed". But the writers still had 11 full minutes of the show to fill. Therefore there is the elaborate showdown where the witness goes back home where the killers would find him ending his life and everyone else around him. This kid is written really stupidly.
Number 7, backed up files on computer are left on the hard drive, not reproduced as more paper files. That would completely defeat the purpose of using computers to backup files. It's supposed to save space, paper, and time when you're trying to research a particular subject in the file.
And number 8, the final battle at the house. All of the bad guys are focused on shooting this one boy yet leave witnesses to the crime everywhere. They have to at that point, leave and try to disappear before more police appear or murder everyone in the house since they have been witnessed trying to murder the tagger. Leaving everyone in the house as a witness in their attempted murder the kid at this point is a futile endeavor.
As mentioned, I haven't seen the first two episodes but from looking at the third I can only imagine if the writing is as lazy as this episode was this series is really not going to last very long. People are entertained only so far by people getting kicked all the time. Then again, I could be wrong, after all Walker Texas Ranger was on for years and that show really sucked.
Number 1 murals are generally drawn at street level where people can actually see them not on rooftops. Taggers think of their work as art to be seen and appreciate it. Not a whole lot of people can do that on a rooftop.
Number 2 during a full-on gun battle at the zoo, seven shots were fired not a single soul gets hit. Both the bad guys and the police need serious time at a gun range. Additionally since the bad guys hadn't actually seen the face of the tagger, why did they automatically assume the guy they're chasing is the one they were after?
Number 3, Lee doesn't carry a weapon and is expected to go up against armed aggressors? I know this happened all the time in Walker Texas Ranger but ordinarily if a guy has a gun and you're a police officer you pull out your gun, routinely done by the LAPD all the time. Ordinarily when you have armed bad guys you don't want to beat them up, you pull out your weapon tell him to drop it if they don't do that you shoot them.
Number 4, the understanding that a package of "chew sticks" leads Carter to the house he lived in as a kid as the taggers residence. Unless this house mother is the source who manufactures these chew sticks herself how does the detective conclude that those two things connected?
Number 5, ordinarily when a person dies in a body of water there's usually water in the lungs. The murdered asst district attorney was killed in his home. There was absolutely no autopsy done? Had there been one it would have would have come out immediately that there was no water in the lungs, therefore one could have seen at that point murder instead of assuming loudly it was suicide. It would have been more plausible to make it look like he committed suicide possibly leaving a gun in his hand with a hole in his head. But since he was hit in the face with a rod that wouldn't even come close 2 blunt force sustained in hitting a body of water in his car, a car that has airbags, this was the best they could do? Primo's of his death wouldn't have fooled even the Keystone Cops.
Number 6, upon the recognition between the district attorney and the witness, the witness could have easily said to any of the fifteen officers working around him "Hey that's the guy who was in the room when the man was killed". But the writers still had 11 full minutes of the show to fill. Therefore there is the elaborate showdown where the witness goes back home where the killers would find him ending his life and everyone else around him. This kid is written really stupidly.
Number 7, backed up files on computer are left on the hard drive, not reproduced as more paper files. That would completely defeat the purpose of using computers to backup files. It's supposed to save space, paper, and time when you're trying to research a particular subject in the file.
And number 8, the final battle at the house. All of the bad guys are focused on shooting this one boy yet leave witnesses to the crime everywhere. They have to at that point, leave and try to disappear before more police appear or murder everyone in the house since they have been witnessed trying to murder the tagger. Leaving everyone in the house as a witness in their attempted murder the kid at this point is a futile endeavor.
As mentioned, I haven't seen the first two episodes but from looking at the third I can only imagine if the writing is as lazy as this episode was this series is really not going to last very long. People are entertained only so far by people getting kicked all the time. Then again, I could be wrong, after all Walker Texas Ranger was on for years and that show really sucked.