While the first episode captured my attention, building up the tension, the second episode undid it all..
In the first one we see a lot of people die, a bus full of people, a repair crew for the bridge and at least two policemen. So it slowly it dawns on the remaining policemen that something unexplained but evil is afoot, especially when it is clear that a section of the bridge is destroyed, but the ghosts create an illusion that it is not.
The thing that struck me the most was that people seem to shrug away that other people just died horribly. A cop drives into a gap when he tries to cross the bridge and his colleagues go like: oh look, that is fake! So how about checking on your colleague? But nobody cares to.. Apparently just taking it for a fact that he is dead.
So by the end of episode one it is very obvious something bad is going on and they determine that they have to figure out how to deal with it and clearly need the help of the lead. And in episode 2 everything is forgotten.
Everybody goes his own way as if nothing has happened. And when a boat arrives nobody but the lead sees it as a way out. And just to get out, not to get help. And what about fighting back, as you were talking about in the first episode? The police only come visit the boat to bring in the skipper for questioning and when that same skipper asks someone to help repair the engine, that guy refuses because the skipper can't pay him. Like he doesn't even propose to help repair the boat so he can escape the town or to get outside help.
What is even more surprising is that there is no outside communication apparently, but you can clearly hear the radio in the bar. It apparently still receives outside signals. What is more, there is no doubt in my mind that at least one inhabitant will have a radio set that allows them to talk to the outside world. Just because your phone doesn't work, doesn't mean you can't communicate in other ways.
Like in so many other series it is clear that the focus in episode one was on the strange happenings, but in episode two it shifted to the main stay of about every series: drama, usually of the sibling or spouses kind. We need to invent contrived conflicts so as to make things happen.
I didn't think the series was going to get better.
The thing that struck me the most was that people seem to shrug away that other people just died horribly. A cop drives into a gap when he tries to cross the bridge and his colleagues go like: oh look, that is fake! So how about checking on your colleague? But nobody cares to.. Apparently just taking it for a fact that he is dead.
So by the end of episode one it is very obvious something bad is going on and they determine that they have to figure out how to deal with it and clearly need the help of the lead. And in episode 2 everything is forgotten.
Everybody goes his own way as if nothing has happened. And when a boat arrives nobody but the lead sees it as a way out. And just to get out, not to get help. And what about fighting back, as you were talking about in the first episode? The police only come visit the boat to bring in the skipper for questioning and when that same skipper asks someone to help repair the engine, that guy refuses because the skipper can't pay him. Like he doesn't even propose to help repair the boat so he can escape the town or to get outside help.
What is even more surprising is that there is no outside communication apparently, but you can clearly hear the radio in the bar. It apparently still receives outside signals. What is more, there is no doubt in my mind that at least one inhabitant will have a radio set that allows them to talk to the outside world. Just because your phone doesn't work, doesn't mean you can't communicate in other ways.
Like in so many other series it is clear that the focus in episode one was on the strange happenings, but in episode two it shifted to the main stay of about every series: drama, usually of the sibling or spouses kind. We need to invent contrived conflicts so as to make things happen.
I didn't think the series was going to get better.