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Yserbius t1_iy4rjtm wrote

It's faces I have the hardest time with. Non-regular characters showing up mid-season and I'm supposed to know who this is.

Worst offender: Mr. Robot. One season ends with a dude dramatically walking out of a taxi as the camera slowly pans up and reveals him to be... uh.... (quickly googles) a guy who was the focus of three episodes two season ago.

Best one: The Witcher. One episode was going to do the whole "face obscured by camera to dramatically reveal who this was" and had to preface it by a long seemingly unrelated hallucination of a memory by a different character since the face of this person was only shown very briefly once in the previous season.

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Roook36 t1_iy4t2o6 wrote

The Witcher season 1 also had issues with it being non-linear. And the two main characters never change, age (over decades) or wear different clothes. Also it's all a fantasy setting so you can't be like "oh bellbottoms. This is the 70s"

They introduced a whole bunch of character in episode one. Dramatically killed them all (like who cares, I don't even know who they are). Then threw them back up on the screen several episodes later without telling you it's a flashback. So I'm like "this lady looks familiar, where did I see her before" but in my head the character is dead so I think it must be a different show.

And I know who you're talking about with the reveal and I absolutely needed that hallucination because I'd have had no idea who I was looking at lol

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bflaminio t1_iy6v5dv wrote

> Non-regular characters showing up mid-season and I'm supposed to know who this is.

For all its faults, She-Hulk subverted this beautifully. A character showed up that we were supposed to remember, and Jennifer calls it out to the audience and forces a "previously on..." segment.

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