The Great:
This show had a plan from beginning to end. A well crafted story with an obvious plan throughout the whole thing. The time writing is excellent, the journey fantastic, the effects and message. This could of easily been a 10/10 show.
The mediocre: There isnt much to say here, except: the casting could perhaps been done better. Some of the cast is fantastic, born for the role. Others, and unfortunately, the two main characters. Not so much, but very doable.
The Horrible: This is why it's not a 9/10 or a 10/10 Cassie & Cole You don't feel the love between these two. The main problem is season 2, and one episode in season 1 where Cassie sleeps with Henri. In season 2 it's confirmed that Cassie slept with Deacon, I didn't catch her sleeping with Deacon in season 2 before, and that gave me so much more enjoyability throughout the show. Season 3 and Season 4 is marred with this, because once this is confirmed, everything Cassie does for Deacon, is sullied by the fact that they slept together, romantically involved.
The main problem is that we don't see any secondary romantic relationships with Cole, he has some form of connection with Jessica, but it never turns physical, it's always platonic. Because Cassie has several sexual relationships in the show: Aaron, Henri, Deacon and then Cole, the love story is completely tarnished from a romantic fantasy point of view. If they had written the love story better, truly made them ment to be for eachother, then this wouldnt of happened, or there would be a gradual falling in love period. Cole falling in love with her from first sight makes him seem like a big schmuk, and the love between them kind of fake.
Some scenes are believable, but most are not. I'm not sure if this is the actors not having good chemistry off screen, of if Amanda Schull is just not physically attracted to Cole, the scenes she has with Deacon actually has more chemistry than the ones she has with Cole. There's very little physical contact between the two, and there's extreme few scenes between them that they can remember as good.
The greatest storyline in the show, is with Athan and Eliza, one episode touched me more than the entirety of the entire show. I could really feel Athans pain and despair, something I could never feel for Cole and Cassie, because it felt forced, it felt sullied. It's not that Cassie had sexual relationships in and of itself, it's more that Cole looks like a schmuk in love the entire show, and just pining over her. In season 2 he locks her up at the end of one episode, then at the beginning of the next episode he has already forgiven her. It's forced and unbelievable.
When you want to write an epic love story, which was supposed to be a HUGE part of this show, you absolutely need the audience to immerse themselves in it. My immersion was completely broken by their love story, not believable in any sense. I could very well put this as a 6/10 because of that, however the overall story, the timeline plan, the entirety of well executed plan start to finish I'll give this show a 7.
It's sad, because it should of been a 10.
The mediocre: There isnt much to say here, except: the casting could perhaps been done better. Some of the cast is fantastic, born for the role. Others, and unfortunately, the two main characters. Not so much, but very doable.
The Horrible: This is why it's not a 9/10 or a 10/10 Cassie & Cole You don't feel the love between these two. The main problem is season 2, and one episode in season 1 where Cassie sleeps with Henri. In season 2 it's confirmed that Cassie slept with Deacon, I didn't catch her sleeping with Deacon in season 2 before, and that gave me so much more enjoyability throughout the show. Season 3 and Season 4 is marred with this, because once this is confirmed, everything Cassie does for Deacon, is sullied by the fact that they slept together, romantically involved.
The main problem is that we don't see any secondary romantic relationships with Cole, he has some form of connection with Jessica, but it never turns physical, it's always platonic. Because Cassie has several sexual relationships in the show: Aaron, Henri, Deacon and then Cole, the love story is completely tarnished from a romantic fantasy point of view. If they had written the love story better, truly made them ment to be for eachother, then this wouldnt of happened, or there would be a gradual falling in love period. Cole falling in love with her from first sight makes him seem like a big schmuk, and the love between them kind of fake.
Some scenes are believable, but most are not. I'm not sure if this is the actors not having good chemistry off screen, of if Amanda Schull is just not physically attracted to Cole, the scenes she has with Deacon actually has more chemistry than the ones she has with Cole. There's very little physical contact between the two, and there's extreme few scenes between them that they can remember as good.
The greatest storyline in the show, is with Athan and Eliza, one episode touched me more than the entirety of the entire show. I could really feel Athans pain and despair, something I could never feel for Cole and Cassie, because it felt forced, it felt sullied. It's not that Cassie had sexual relationships in and of itself, it's more that Cole looks like a schmuk in love the entire show, and just pining over her. In season 2 he locks her up at the end of one episode, then at the beginning of the next episode he has already forgiven her. It's forced and unbelievable.
When you want to write an epic love story, which was supposed to be a HUGE part of this show, you absolutely need the audience to immerse themselves in it. My immersion was completely broken by their love story, not believable in any sense. I could very well put this as a 6/10 because of that, however the overall story, the timeline plan, the entirety of well executed plan start to finish I'll give this show a 7.
It's sad, because it should of been a 10.