Andy kind of annoyed me in this one. I don't know why all teenagers in TV Land have to be so whiny. Have the people in Hollywood ever actually interacted with a human teenager? Because I've never met one who'd act like this in real life. And I'm still technically a teenager myself. But seriously, his father says that his powers could hurt people and what Andy hears is "you should never, ever, ever use your powers ever again". It makes no freaking sense.
Lauren and Wes' romance (we all know it's headed that way) seems forced as hell. I mean, the Florence/Rome thing was cute, I'll give them that, but there's no chemistry there. There are plenty of good romantic relationships on this show (Caitlin and Reed, Marcos and Lorna, hell, even Johnny and Sonya are fine, although personally I have a soft spot for Johnny and Clarice), but this one doesn't work.
Also, I want Caitlin and Lorna to talk and come to some sort of an understanding. I mean, they both have valid points, but we didn't get any resolution of their conflict in this episode. Can they be friends, please? Maybe I can will it into existence. Also, I bet that Caitlin will be the one to deliver Lorna's baby.
Some character development, but very little forward momentum once again on the plot side of things. The show is definitely treading water and suffering greatly on the pacing front. This sort of thing shouldn't happen on shows with smaller episode counts.
I feel like half the fights between characters come out of nowhere. Reed lectures Andy for no reason and Andy blows up for misconstruing his words. Then, even though he just made his kid feel like shit, Marcos tells Reed that he's a good dad. Caitlin gets mad at Lorna for trying to teach teens how to fight, being all "we should be trying to give them lives after the war" even though they're literally in the middle of that very war and it's obvious that fighting skills are a necessity for all mutants right now. Like, gurl, I know you have a brain so if that's what you think, you must not have eyes then. Reed seems hesitant to burn his and Marcos' tracks after looking at a picture of (iirc) 4 people that we've never met. The building is empty - what do we care?
tldr this was the first (and hopefully last) episode where character's actions make 0% sense and seem to be done purely to fill time by creating pointless drama
Shout by ScorpiaVIP 2BlockedParent2017-11-09T21:55:57Z
Expected the episode to end with Caitlin teaching the refugees a science class, with maybe only one or two 'students' present, but saw none of that yet. Guess they're saving that for a future episode. Also, please don't let Lauren and Wes become a thing before we see them have more meaningful moments together. A 10 second 'visit' to fake Rome doesn't equal a romantic connection. In other news, Andy is still a whiny kid. Somebody please slap him!