User blog comment:Corbierr/The Biggest Issue With Season 3/@comment-25576856-20141230175402/@comment-4816103-20141230212651

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That goes hand in hand with it, I think. I mean, if they weren't so ambitious, they wouldn't have had all these wasted ideas in the first place! But as hard as they tried, they also seemed to be lazy. It's weird, but it feels like at the same time they were pushing the envelope, they were also trying to play it safe as well. I feel like they should have been MORE ambitious- well, more couragous, I guess. If they had a vision, they should have followed through with it.

Peddie- YUP. To be honest, I'd have been perfectly okay with them not being broken up at all. I mean, do we need drama at all? Jeroy was already full of it! As opposed to re-using plots that have been done before, they could have just kept them as an ass-kicking duo! I bet anyone would rather see that than what happened in the show.

Well, it actually is a valid reason, it just doesn't feel like one because they didn't explore it or even mention it. I don't even know if it was always meant to be that she was scared and they just wanted it to be implied, or Jade just came up with it on her own, but it doesn't matter because the show didn't bother telling us, anyways. Considering Jade said it, though, I think it can be plausible because the actor should know their character pretty well.

Jerome- You have a good point. I think, well, the fact that Mara's revenge got so over the top WAS the thing that disconnected things. It seems like Mara went so far into the "bad" zone that no matter what Jerome did, he was the good guy. Plus, nobody learned anything from it, so it didn't matter anyways, it just made the relationships change. To be completely honest, I had to stretch things to make it fit my point...hehe...

That's true. We never saw the moment he got a crush on it, it just sort of happened. Season 1 was kind of like that- we never saw when Mara started crushing on Mick, or Fabian on Nina either. Maybe not Alfie on Amber, but the kiss might have had something to do with that, so I'm not sure.

Benji- Yeah, right? And beyond being part of Eddie's history, he could have been a great character in his own right. I might put him in Classified, actually, in order to flesh out Eddie's history and to flesh him out as well. Thing is, Eddie having a rival would have been an awesome subplot had it started at the beginning...Ugh...Anyways, yeah, I'm pretty sure he's a NYC boy. He always came off that way, with his bad boy traits and all.

Two Halves- What can I say? Preach it! I mean, I don't mind having huge episodes like that in the middle..but they made it feel too end-y...like they should have left more things unsolved that would have become important in the "second half". I think part of the thing was that most of the plot threads were solved by this time...so they had to come up with more stuff.

YES. Agree.

'Jeroy- PREACH IT, seriously, I don't want to be repetitive, so...YES. '