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 FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2018-01-20T14:16:08Z
Not gonna lie, the ending sucks. It's the right ending for the story, and maybe it could have made sense with a couple more episodes. But it feels so rushed, and so many threads are left unfinished and it really really makes no sense.
First what didn't happen, even if we knew it for a while. No meeting between Lily and Ethan. That was an interesting story. We didn't get to see Mr Hyde, huge disappointment. The creature's storyline has been completely separated and then so pointless. At some point Victor discovered he knew Vanessa, never exploited. The others never find out what he did. Or that Dorian's immortal. Or what Lily is. Or that Ethan is the Lupus Dei.
Sure the show is supposed to be about Vanessa. But then why the other ? The creature's story has had no point for a while. Same for Lily and Dorian, so boring, and no link to the main story. Then what was the point of them when so many more interesting things have been left unexploited ?
Victor just bumps into the others and follows. That's... ok, nobody's even thought about him the whole season. Well, he deserved to be part of the ending, come on, then he should have not been left on the side until the last minute.
The fight is pretty good. As always, Cat is a beast. So badass, so interesting, why would they introduce her so late ?? It's a little plot armory though: even Victor kills vampires on vampires, just as good a shot and fighter as Ethan, come on. But, despite Kaetenay's tallk of giving Ethan the power to save her, he doesnt even use it there. No vampire/werewolf fight, huge letdown.
Then come Vanessa. And it's totally wrong. Did she really become the Mother of Evil ? No, that would have been more interesting. She wants to be killed. She does not even fight, or need to be convinced. So maybe Dracula tricked her, but she does not seem under a charm, or to have been coerced, and he does not seem to have any doubt about her either. Supposedly they've been together for over a week. But if she's not evil, or forced against her will, why did she even agree in the first place ? Why did she not just kill Dracula, because she totally could have. Or at least refuse him and not release a plague that kills thousand of people ? Or maybe she just had a moment of weakness and now has remorse ? But she is not even conflicted one way or another. What was the point of all this ? This doesn't make any sense. It's clearly missing at least another episode in the middle to develop this point.
As for Dracula, what was the point of pushing him so hard, making him supposedly so terrible that even Lucifer his shitting his pants next to him ? He was winning, but she is dead and he just leaves... He's not killing all of thel in anger ? No even attempting revenge on the man that killer her ? He's just "well, damned", and disappears ?
I'm not complaining that it's not a happy ending, or that Vanessa dies, it's a rather fitting ending. But all the rest ? What a massacre on a show that was so mastered until then. This episode is a huge disappointment and clearly does not does credit to everything that came before.