And the train ride from Georgia to Colorado- that would have been fraught with problems and delays. I get that wasn't the point of the show, but that kind of stuff takes you out of it.

Yeah, the type of show the writers are aiming for takes a long time to properly buildup. We're talking at least 3-4 old-school style 23 episode seasons. They're foolish to attempt it in three 8 episode seasons.

surfandturfsbisa96 said:

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And the train ride from Georgia to Colorado- that would have been fraught with problems and delays. I get that wasn't the point of the show, but that kind of stuff takes you out of it.

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They are pretty loose with time on the show.

Remember that Link/Dylan knocks up annie, X finds her, she gives birth/dies, X goes to Georgia finds his wife, they travel back, etc.

That right there has to be at least a year or more. But they are flying so the episodes so fast that you just have to accept the time jumps.

Yoda said:

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In the show's defense, when Xavier flies out of the bunker, Annie is already close to 9 months pregnant. When she finds him after the crash, she gives birth just a few days after. I think X was only gone from the bunker for maybe 2 months.

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I should have clarified better.

From episode 1 of season 2 until the last episode, about a year had passed to justify the timeline.

We just don't have any concept of time because of how the episodes are structured.

The crowd reaction when the mountain collapsed - you could almost hear the director shouting thru his megaphone - "everyone on 3 put your hands up and look away like you saw something scary - all at the same time"

That said it was entertaining but felt like a cliff note version of the show.

Big Al 1992 said:

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The crowd reaction when the mountain collapsed - you could almost hear the director shouting thru his megaphone - "everyone on 3 put your hands up and look away like you saw something scary - all at the same time"

That said it was entertaining but felt like a cliff note version of the show.

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I appreciated they were telling everyone they needed to get as far away as they could because the mountain was going to be destroyed in a nuclear explosion. By all appearances they stopped after they got like a mile away and were also happy to setup shop on the road and camp in the shadow of the destroyed mountain which is likely to be emitting some level of radiation since there were multiple nuclear reactors inside that melted down.

I agree with what others have said, the show would have been better served with at least 10-12 episodes so that things didn't feel rushed and still had time for the flashback episodes, etc.

But overall, even with the flaws, I enjoyed season 2 and look forward to the conclusion in season 3.

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• I saw no reason why the reactors would melt down just because the doors were being forced open and then forced closed. They probably would have just gotten stuck, or one command would have overridden the other. If the system were designed by smart people, they would open no matter what given that the air supply was running out.
• My wife kept asking why the ceiling tiles were falling down when there was nothing happening yet to make that happen.

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The incredibly unlikely confluence of events causing the meltdown is Alex, right? I think we are SUPPOSED to think it seems like a wildly unlikely coincidence.