Okay so it feels like the creator(s) knew that the show was going to be cancelled, so they decided to end it the "way they wanted" or on their own terms. It was still rushed. The creator says he always "knew" it was going to end this way (with V dying, which makes sense) but I call BS on them knowing it would be 3 seasons. Why would you swap out one of the main members of the core crew? Why would they introduce all these new/interesting characters and then do nothing with them?
Still not a fan of the token POC being swapped out. Silent and strong Sembene for strong and mystical Kaetenay. There was some cheesy ass line they had him say to Sir Malcolm that made me laugh. You can tell a white person wrote that, lmao.
I have a feeling they were going over budget and probably had multiple meetings w/Showtime about it. The creators probably had guessed the show would get canceled and made the decision mid-production to change the original way s3 was going to go. So they cobbled together the ending so they still had time to kill V off, an intended. Sad it went this way. While the ending went "their" way, I feel like they did a huge disservice to the end of Vanessa's story, with almost none of it happening on-screen.
I really enjoyed Rory Kinnear's performance though. He is so amazing at emoting with just subtle movements of his face, without any words or dialogue. I don't think anyone on the cast would've been able to pull off the emotions he did in the last few minutes of the finale. Oh, I wonder if that was more symbolism too, how the "monster" has fully returned to being human?
Review by yattoBlockedParentSpoilers2024-02-02T13:12:35Z
Okay so it feels like the creator(s) knew that the show was going to be cancelled, so they decided to end it the "way they wanted" or on their own terms. It was still rushed. The creator says he always "knew" it was going to end this way (with V dying, which makes sense) but I call BS on them knowing it would be 3 seasons. Why would you swap out one of the main members of the core crew? Why would they introduce all these new/interesting characters and then do nothing with them?
Still not a fan of the token POC being swapped out. Silent and strong Sembene for strong and mystical Kaetenay. There was some cheesy ass line they had him say to Sir Malcolm that made me laugh. You can tell a white person wrote that, lmao.
I have a feeling they were going over budget and probably had multiple meetings w/Showtime about it. The creators probably had guessed the show would get canceled and made the decision mid-production to change the original way s3 was going to go. So they cobbled together the ending so they still had time to kill V off, an intended. Sad it went this way. While the ending went "their" way, I feel like they did a huge disservice to the end of Vanessa's story, with almost none of it happening on-screen.
I really enjoyed Rory Kinnear's performance though. He is so amazing at emoting with just subtle movements of his face, without any words or dialogue. I don't think anyone on the cast would've been able to pull off the emotions he did in the last few minutes of the finale. Oh, I wonder if that was more symbolism too, how the "monster" has fully returned to being human?