User Reviews

SPOILERS--so many spoilers. This may be the episode at which we give up on the show. Why let Elam survive the bear attack if he's just going to be killed 2 episodes later? I'll tell you why: ANGST. The writers seem to have feared that Cullen didn't have enough pain and angst in his life. The proof of it? In what universe would nobody help him bury the body? Just because Cullen asks to haul the coffin in his buckboard, NOBODY accompanies the body out of town, leaving Cullen to dig the grave and move the coffin alone? There's only one reason for this to happen, and it has nothing to do with the world of the show, and everything to do with writers deciding that we needed a scene of a tear running down Cullen's cheek, and a scene of him sitting on the coffin, wailing. Unfortunately, for me to enjoy a show, there needs to be INTERNAL consistency too.

I had issues with this episode because how Cullen killed Elam didn't make sense?. First, he pushed the knife down that got him stabbed and he was already on the ground but holding the knife. That would have been the time to get the knife off him and regardless of how Elam's amnesia condition Cullen killing him and telling others that he was not Elam anymore was just wrong. It didn't quiet match the Cullen's character to kill someone he cared for, they could have kept Elam alive until he gradually recovered and whether actor Common didn't care to be on the show or it wasn't his decision, to bring him back after surviving a bear attack and then kill him off in two episodes didn't make sense?. There was so many great characters that got killed on this show like "Lilly", but I guess they needed so much drama and pain to be part of Cullen's life. Like Cullen said himself to the man he killed that he never thinks there is peace for people like him in this life or life after, I relate to that.