With Dani… the example that comes to mind is when she confronts her father about framing Charlie. That should be a powerful scene, it should be one that’s fraught with tension. Instead she just seems to blurt it with no setup and very minimal impact afterwards. It’s like the writers know what her issues are and are intent on hitting all of them, but can’t be bothered to let them arise out of the plot organically. And we’ll have to agree to disagree with Tidwell/Dani.
With Charlie it’s mostly that in twelve episodes nothing’s really happened with him. We haven’t found out anything new about his character, and he hasn’t really changed. Investigating His Past was a lot more emotionally interesting in the first season as well. In this one it just seems to be something he’s doing on the side.
They also seem to be using his wackiness for comedy a little more than they did in the first season, which takes away from the seriousness of the show over all. Which would be alright, but they also decided to replace the old captain with Tidwell, who I would go so far as to describe as a zany character. On his own that would be alright, but in all of the police-meetings we now have two weird characters instead of one and it makes Dani seem like she’s babysitting them. It shifts the tone from having Charlie be one weird character in a mostly realistic world, to just a weird world. It also doesn’t help that a lot of the Murder Plots have gotten increasingly bizarre and whimsical.
It’s just… it’s really a pity compared to how well and subtly the characterization was handled in the first season. The show started with us barely understanding Charlie and by the understanding him, and how Dani goes from willing to turn on Charlie in the first episode to the trust she’s willing to show him in the last.
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With Dani… the example that comes to mind is when she confronts her father about framing Charlie. That should be a powerful scene, it should be one that’s fraught with tension. Instead she just seems to blurt it with no setup and very minimal impact afterwards. It’s like the writers know what her issues are and are intent on hitting all of them, but can’t be bothered to let them arise out of the plot organically. And we’ll have to agree to disagree with Tidwell/Dani.
With Charlie it’s mostly that in twelve episodes nothing’s really happened with him. We haven’t found out anything new about his character, and he hasn’t really changed. Investigating His Past was a lot more emotionally interesting in the first season as well. In this one it just seems to be something he’s doing on the side.
They also seem to be using his wackiness for comedy a little more than they did in the first season, which takes away from the seriousness of the show over all. Which would be alright, but they also decided to replace the old captain with Tidwell, who I would go so far as to describe as a zany character. On his own that would be alright, but in all of the police-meetings we now have two weird characters instead of one and it makes Dani seem like she’s babysitting them. It shifts the tone from having Charlie be one weird character in a mostly realistic world, to just a weird world. It also doesn’t help that a lot of the Murder Plots have gotten increasingly bizarre and whimsical.
It’s just… it’s really a pity compared to how well and subtly the characterization was handled in the first season. The show started with us barely understanding Charlie and by the understanding him, and how Dani goes from willing to turn on Charlie in the first episode to the trust she’s willing to show him in the last.