YES. WTH, INDEED. I'm glad it wasn't just me! I could see how they were trying to set up this terribly tragic, "watching our friend die, oh noes there's nothing we can do" scenario -- which probably would have been tragic, if there had ACTUALLY been nothing they could do! Instead they just sat around moping until Young shuffled him off this mortal coil. WHAT.
It worked with Gall because it was a weird sci-fi disease that had always been 100% lethal every time they'd seen it before. Note to writers: If you're going to use an actual injury that has actually happened to people, crack open Google and do some research for pete's sake.
I'm not sure if the show is actually worse than the previous two; it's just that the writers were writing to their strengths before. The plotty, serious episodes tended to flop (Misbegotten *shudders*), but they were good at writing friendship and action and likable characters pulling last-minute, unbelievable saves out of their asses! And then they created a new show in which they do none of that. Huh.
Like you said, I'm getting enough entertainment out of the show to keep watching it (heck, Robert Carlyle's accent alone is worth the price of admission; I still maintain it's the best thing about the show *g*), but so much of it is cringeworthy.
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It worked with Gall because it was a weird sci-fi disease that had always been 100% lethal every time they'd seen it before. Note to writers: If you're going to use an actual injury that has actually happened to people, crack open Google and do some research for pete's sake.
I'm not sure if the show is actually worse than the previous two; it's just that the writers were writing to their strengths before. The plotty, serious episodes tended to flop (Misbegotten *shudders*), but they were good at writing friendship and action and likable characters pulling last-minute, unbelievable saves out of their asses! And then they created a new show in which they do none of that. Huh.
Like you said, I'm getting enough entertainment out of the show to keep watching it (heck, Robert Carlyle's accent alone is worth the price of admission; I still maintain it's the best thing about the show *g*), but so much of it is cringeworthy.