Ball of Magic Fire

Wow. What a total derailment of a show in the 2nd season after such promise. Another episode and still more mystery and guessing. Unfinished plots everywhere. The girl who came back who killed her brother is unwatchable and possibly one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. Now it's giant killer locusts flying around killing people or not killing people ? I don't know where to start with this convoluted mess of a season. I think that weird nursery rhyme about it comes for 3 has to do with those locusts who killed the annoying guy who was pissing everybody off. The guys wife who was in bed and now it's either the daughter or the drug addict girl who will be the 3rd one ?? Those "silver bile bullets" lol. Guess those were another dead end. The music came on the radio signal which stopped the creatures who we still know less about than the very first episode. Why, what, when, all questions still a total mystery. I'd say that was good if we had an inkling as to a reason in 18 episodes. Let's just say the finale better be some of the best television I've seen to save this titanic of a show.. lastly, the writers are the ones from Lost and I didn't know that until recently. We all shoulda known from that and saved ourselves in the beginning from this nonsense. The budget must have been under a million dollars for this because the acting and filming location etc.. are nothing special to be nice. I'm now curious as to how badly they will polish this turd off. What a disappointment!!

8 stars for those 20 minutes alone because it made the episode feel like an oasis in the dessert of poor writing.

Seriously, it was like taking a breath of fresh air.

Again, those first 20 minutes had the best characters in them. No poor dialogue, no random decisions.

And it's weird, the way the episode starts of is like a different writer came to the rescue of who ever wrote the previous episode.

I swear, it went FROM being almost a dead end story to having the defibrillators punched to MAX to try save the corpse of plot holes and inconsequential drama.

I wish... I wish Season 2 had more like those 20 minutes and more of Victor.

Again, 46 minutes of screaming and not a single step made.

Season 2 it is done for the money and to prolong it. Unfortunately its done on the viewers expense. Expectations are not met.

I took a paper and a pen and noted what was new in this episode. Nothing. Nothing happened.

The second mistake was that they decided to have a week and episode release.

Honestly, i am about to stop watching. I think a new season is out of the question if they keep feeding this nonsense.

Imagine that at the end it becomes clear that all this place is a dream or just some alien monster plot. The disappointment!

Season 2 is bad. As a thrill, as plot development, because of drama filler used to cover the lack of genre trops.

I thought season 1 was pretty good, but now I am just getting tired.

The show keeps making new random 'mystery' up without ever bothering to move forward or solve the existing threats. We are close to the end of season 2 and still no nothing about the environment.

Important things were never explained, but more random stuff was thrown at the viewer. There is 0 chance that the writers will be able to come out of this, unless they pull a cheap 'Lost'-Conclusion.

I had high hopes for this season, but now I just want it to be finished. At the current pace, we might as well need another 12 seasons.

(Shortened summary in the bottom of the review)

The momentum of action since episode 6 keeps going with since 9th episode doing a great job at raising the stakes even higher and make it feel like that no one is safe. Sometimes this episode could be little all over the place, but other than that its actually not a bad episode, but actually something that is exciting to watch anyways.

You should watch this episode too, it has some important answers that you cant miss.

(9.7/10)

Shortened summary: The stakes are at there highest, people are dying and questions are slowly getting answered, giving us even more questions from the answers.