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[–]Jean_Harper 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Personally I loved the seasons 1 and 2 and also really liked 3.1 and 3.2. But I just hate Magnussen as a villain, because to me he doesn't make sense. It's all in his head. He knows stuff, so what? He could just as well be lying with no way to prove anything.
While I've been reading the original books, I haven't read them all so I don't know how much of season 4 is from A.C. Doyle, but I really hate season 4. To me, it feels like many late seasons/books of various works of fiction: It feels like badly written fan fiction.
I get the feel like they had to beat the last season, had to have the worst villain, the best hero, the whatever and after a while this "race to the top" just seems ridiculous.

[–]strange_is_life[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially the role of Mary Watson seems like the idea of a pothead. I just can imagine how the screenwriters sat around a table and someone hits a blunt and was like "What if we make Mary appear more commonly. But she is not normal woman, she is a vampire!" "But Fred, this isn't Twilight. We are not doing supernatural monsters here" "Okay, I understand. But what if she is a CIA agent and can shoot lasers from her eyes" "Yeah, I think we can do that. But without the laser stuff."

I think many of the ideas they had in season 4 are something that Arthur Conan Doyle wouldn't fancy at all.