woe.

[thelake]

WTF Harper's Island!? It was stupid. Planning the whole wedding so Abby can come to the island, then kill everyone just to be with your sister? The most stupid murder intent ever. Feeling a connection with your killer father from the first look? The urge to murder people without any reason whatsoever is genetic now?

I'd rather Wakefield killed all of them.

I cried my eyes out when Chloe and Cal died :( They were the best. AND SULLY! D:

Haha this review from TV.com sums up my whole disappointment! Yes!

As flawed as the ending appeared to many, myself included, i must start off by saying I still enjoyed this show very much. I also understand that if the characters on the island were remotely smart, it would be a boring and short show. But when it comes to the last 3 or so episodes (after wakefield openly returned) I must admit my main problem with this show was believing that a group of people could be so incredibly stupid.

John Wakefield is not Superman, and i can't understand why it would be so hard to kill one man with a machete, considering half of the group is armed with shotguns. Henry stopping abby from chasing after wakefield right after they found him seemed stupid at the time, but was understood when Henry was found out to be the murderer. So the first major instance of stupidity would be at the Cannery when Wakefield kills Nikki and Shane.

First of all, I'll even understand that they don't listen to Madison when she shouts "He's here!", I'll let that slide. But seriously, if there was a serial killer on the loose, would you keep the gun conveniently out of reach behind the bar? That was the first instance of stupidity, which caused Nikki's death. (insert frowny face if you care)

Next would be Trish, grabbing the other shotgun and scurrying out of the room with Shay and Madison when she obviously could have had a clear shot at JW.

The next contestant on incredibly stupid people on axe murder island is none other than Shane. Shane is a relatively large individual, roughly 6'4-6'6? I don't know, I can't measure through TV, but he's big. And he has the world's smallest switchblade vs. a large machete, yet he insists on slashing from an unreasonable distance. If you have the close ranged weapon, and you're huge, jump on the small guy, (smaller guy) with the longer ranged weapon and stab the hell out of him. Silly Shane..

And finally, Trish again.. Oh Trish when will you learn. She has a shotgun with 2 shots, she locked herself in a bathroom, and fires both her shots into the door before he opens it.. Why can't people wait until the serial killer opens the door before firing their shots?

That about sums up the stupidity of the Cannery Victims, my next guests are Sully and Danny. They weren't incredibly stupid, but they still had their moments. My main concern with them is when they are blocking off the kitchen entrance to the tunnels. They again insist on firing all shots into the door before there is real evidence someone is behind it. And then Danny, if you know the serial killer has a machete, don't stick your eye up to the hole of the door you think he's behind. I was extremely shocked when he wasn't stabbed in the eye right there, although ironically it turns out i would be sort of right about how he would die, only it wouldn't happen until a little later.

I could go into detail but i'll leave those 2 alone, they've suffered enough, and redeemed themselves when they caught Wakefield. I understand I'm kind of rambling, so my final victim will be Calvin. I hate to do this to him, considering he was one of my favorite characters, if not my favorite, but he did have his stupid moments. And no i'm not talking about when he went to the wrong side of the car and got shot, not exactly smart but i found that part kinda funny. In a creepy.. guy just got shot kinda way. He started out good though! Given with the stupidity theme of the island I'm surprised he was smart enough to shoot the grate that was trapping Chloe. The only thing I find Cal is stupid for, is when they are in front of the pipe bridge thing and they see Wakefield up in the forest. Keep in mind Cal has a shotgun, and Invincible Mr. Wakefield still has just his machete. Instead of waiting until the man with absoloutely no distance weapon gets a tad bit closer and actually aiming for a shot, Cal finds it best to waste apparently his only shell on a blindfire that hits the ground in front of him.. Love ya Cal, but that was fairly unintelligent.

The only saving grace from the poorly scripted fight scenes and stupid unnecessary deaths, was Danny apparently being the only person who wasn't too keen on dying. For a relatively small, sort of babyface looking character, he put up an extremely good fight in the sheriff's office. Breaking free of a few holds, even punching Wakefield with some paperweight looking object? In my oppinion that was the most well scripted kill, showed struggle, and like Wakefield stated later, "He didn't embarass himself."

I still can't believe how 5+ people can't kill a man with a big knife with shotguns. Even I could do it. Adrenaline is supposed to make you do the impossible, not make you more stupid.

And there is this, another short but on the point review:

I kept waiting for the finale to really wow me with explanations of how each victim had individually hurt Henry and how he devised a fake wedding to collect them all on an island and get his revenge.

Instead we were given a really ridiculous conclusion that didn't warrant the original interest. If all Henry wanted was to be alone with Abby on the island, then why invite Cal, Chloe, Beth, Lucy, Dany, Sully, Uncle Marty, and others to the island? They wouldn't have ever come to the island without the wedding. Many of the deaths were unnecessary and unexplained by the simplistic plan revealed at the end. Why did Henry or Wakefield put red ink in Kelly's eyes? It was almost as if the finale was written by someone who had never seen the previous twelve episodes. Nothing was explained adequately.

Yeah. I wish things would turn into a supernatural reason instead of making Henry a crazy and overly emotional killer with an absolutely stupid, too detailed yet still epic fail plan.

Comments

[nowgold.livejournal.com]

yep.

right there with you buddy.

it was just so dumb - if that is the reason behind it all - why MURDER PEOPLE?

WHY EVEN BE ENGAGED?

honestly.

it was dumb. DUMB.

[thelake.livejournal.com]

he had urges he couldn't describe before, like, randomly wanting to kill people. so it's pretty logical, yes? sure.

First 10-11 episodes were totally amazing though, I was really hoping to see a smart and suprising person to be the killer, like Abby's father? It would make much more sense if Abby was Wakefield's kid and Sherrif was crazy angry with Abby because she was partly the reason why Wakefield killed his wife and stuff. But no. Henry had to be the killer because he was the cutest and knew everyone. Yeah man, totally awesome! 5 stars!

[nowgold.livejournal.com]

yep.

henry didn't deserve to be the killer. and it really is like they didn't decide who the killer was till the last minute....

but oh well. it was fun for a while!

[katayla.livejournal.com]

I still have all these eps on my DVR. I might watch them . . .

[thelake.livejournal.com]

meh, their priority should be pretty low though..