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iariaI enjoyed it. I'd have definitely watched a second season so I'm disappointed it was cancelled after only one. At least it was a self-contained season so there no real hanging threads. It worked well as a single season.
+ Lincoln and Amelia and their relationship was my favourite part. I loved their dynamic. I love how Lincoln goes from trying to treat Amelia as an impersonal object acting as his body to introducing her to Agent Cutter as "my eyes and ears and sometimes my second brain". At how much they grew to respect and care about each other. I loved this line from Lincoln about Sellitto: "He kept coming, kept trying and finally he brought me you." Sellitto's greatest act of friendship - bringing Amelia into Lincoln's life, aww.
+ I love how in the beginning it's Amelia's risk taking, jump into the fire attitude, that catches his attention and makes him decide to hire her and then slowly over the course of the season you see that change. He becomes more hesitant and cautious, he worries about her, until it culminates in him telling her not to try and save Agent Cutter because "it's too dangerous". I love it on several levels.
One, he was attracted to her initially because she had his same lack of fear and unwavering focus but as they become a team he becomes faced the downside of caring with someone with that kind of approach to life. (I feel like the show missed a beat in not having a Lincoln/Sellitto scene where Sellitto gets to tell Lincoln 'ha, how do you like it from this side of the fence!) Two, I love how far their relationship has come, how much he's grown to care about her, and this is probably the ultimate way to show how he feels. Lincoln choosing Amelia's safety over even trying to save the victim and willing to accept losing to the Bone Collector.
Another aspect of this whole thing is how Amelia reacts. She gets more assured over the course of the series. As Lincoln gets cautious with her life she doesn't budge from her desire to do whatever it takes and gains confidence in disagreeing with him. I loved their fight at the hospital so much. A+. I love that Lincoln actually resorts to commanding her not to go, and her refusal and impassioned speech about how she can save the next victim was great.
And once again Lincoln is left helpless to stop her, once again on the other side of the equation. I like how it becomes a refrain - Amelia shoots back at his attempts to stop her with "you'd do it if you were here" and throwing his own words back at him and then demands that he work with her and do what he's good at.
+ I loved Lincoln's reaction when she became trapped in the room with the bomb, when she turned back for evidence and then the relief when he saw she survived. This pair is so perfectly set up for those sort of moments - her being in peril, him helpless to help and then the relief when she's okay. Although it's even better because despite being a paraplegic Lincoln's greatest asset has always been his brain and he does manage to help save her multiple times. It's great.
+ I really liked how everyone ended up coalescing into a really good team. I liked Lincoln's moment in the finale realising that he can't do it alone but he wasn't alone anymore, and him trusting them to help save his son. That said while I liked the different characters fine as individuals most of the supporting cast didn't get a lot of depth and I wish we could have learned more about them. I liked Castillo and his death as sad but it also didn't get to me as much as it would have if we'd known more about him or if his relationship with the others (besides Sellitto) had been deeper.
+ I liked Claire a lot, she was my favourite after the main two. Her relationship with Lincoln was great. I loved how well they understood each other and how they helped and supported each other with their issues. I was so tense and worried about her when Peter showed up in the finale. I was so pleased this version of the character survived. I loved her stabbing him and then standing between him and Lincoln, and just how ballsy she was in confronting him.
+ Agent Cutter sacrificing herself in order to protect Amelia and stop her from risking her life was pretty badass, but also why did she stay standing under the steam instead of standing up and lunging forward? She, and both men, seemed certain that her wound was fatal so I suppose she knew even trying to escape wouldn't save her but that if she got close enough to the ropes Amelia would have jumped in and gotten hurt/killed too.
+ I was sad that they didn't manage to save Agent Cutter. I guess they wanted to up the stakes and keep the final showdown in house so to speak but she was great and I loved her dynamic with Lincoln and the potential with Amelia. Boo.
+ Either I missed the scene or the show skipped having the Bone Collector's identity shown revealed to the public. Lincoln implies to Naia that it was all over the news but I wish they'd taken a scene to show it.
+ Peter's downfall seemed to happen a little quickly but I liked that in the end he was defeated by the same thing that brought down Lincoln the first time, the thing he's spent this whole season chastising Lincoln for: his ego. I also liked them paralysing him.
+ The show made a couple of dumb choices in the final couple episodes that annoyed me. Like:
- I don't get why Naia and Camden weren't immediately sent out of the city? Escort them to the airport and stick them on a plane to Sydney and they can have a beach vacation while out of Peter's reach.
- Lincoln not having a massive security presence guarding him, especially once they uncovered Peter's identity, was dumb. He should have had a bodyguard and police on his door.
- I can't believe that Sellitto wasn't immediately taken to the emergency room regardless of how well he felt. He was kidnapped by a serial killer! Who likes conveluted ways of killing people and never leaves anyone a chance to survive. WTF?! That was such a dumb choice all around (both characters and writers.) I did love that Lincoln left his apartment to see him at the hospital.
+ Despite those issues we did get some great moments of people being smart - Amelia realising Peter was watching her and using her camera to trick him, Lincoln using his paraplegia to fake an attack, Castillo giving Naia his watch.
+ I don't understand why Amelia was still at the restaurant after the bomb went off instead of rushing to Lincoln's apartment herself. They should have skipped showing the scene of her realising the truth post-escape and instead had the confrontation with Peter play out uninterrupted, sirens happen etc, Lincoln tells Claire to phone Amelia, tension as the phone rings and then suddenly Amelia (and the FBI) are rushing into the apartment. Relieved moment as Lincoln and Amelia see each other alive and then we get Amelia explaining the camera trick and her realisation that it meant Lincoln was in danger.
+ Lincoln and Amelia and their relationship was my favourite part. I loved their dynamic. I love how Lincoln goes from trying to treat Amelia as an impersonal object acting as his body to introducing her to Agent Cutter as "my eyes and ears and sometimes my second brain". At how much they grew to respect and care about each other. I loved this line from Lincoln about Sellitto: "He kept coming, kept trying and finally he brought me you." Sellitto's greatest act of friendship - bringing Amelia into Lincoln's life, aww.
+ I love how in the beginning it's Amelia's risk taking, jump into the fire attitude, that catches his attention and makes him decide to hire her and then slowly over the course of the season you see that change. He becomes more hesitant and cautious, he worries about her, until it culminates in him telling her not to try and save Agent Cutter because "it's too dangerous". I love it on several levels.
One, he was attracted to her initially because she had his same lack of fear and unwavering focus but as they become a team he becomes faced the downside of caring with someone with that kind of approach to life. (I feel like the show missed a beat in not having a Lincoln/Sellitto scene where Sellitto gets to tell Lincoln 'ha, how do you like it from this side of the fence!) Two, I love how far their relationship has come, how much he's grown to care about her, and this is probably the ultimate way to show how he feels. Lincoln choosing Amelia's safety over even trying to save the victim and willing to accept losing to the Bone Collector.
Another aspect of this whole thing is how Amelia reacts. She gets more assured over the course of the series. As Lincoln gets cautious with her life she doesn't budge from her desire to do whatever it takes and gains confidence in disagreeing with him. I loved their fight at the hospital so much. A+. I love that Lincoln actually resorts to commanding her not to go, and her refusal and impassioned speech about how she can save the next victim was great.
And once again Lincoln is left helpless to stop her, once again on the other side of the equation. I like how it becomes a refrain - Amelia shoots back at his attempts to stop her with "you'd do it if you were here" and throwing his own words back at him and then demands that he work with her and do what he's good at.
+ I loved Lincoln's reaction when she became trapped in the room with the bomb, when she turned back for evidence and then the relief when he saw she survived. This pair is so perfectly set up for those sort of moments - her being in peril, him helpless to help and then the relief when she's okay. Although it's even better because despite being a paraplegic Lincoln's greatest asset has always been his brain and he does manage to help save her multiple times. It's great.
+ I really liked how everyone ended up coalescing into a really good team. I liked Lincoln's moment in the finale realising that he can't do it alone but he wasn't alone anymore, and him trusting them to help save his son. That said while I liked the different characters fine as individuals most of the supporting cast didn't get a lot of depth and I wish we could have learned more about them. I liked Castillo and his death as sad but it also didn't get to me as much as it would have if we'd known more about him or if his relationship with the others (besides Sellitto) had been deeper.
+ I liked Claire a lot, she was my favourite after the main two. Her relationship with Lincoln was great. I loved how well they understood each other and how they helped and supported each other with their issues. I was so tense and worried about her when Peter showed up in the finale. I was so pleased this version of the character survived. I loved her stabbing him and then standing between him and Lincoln, and just how ballsy she was in confronting him.
+ Agent Cutter sacrificing herself in order to protect Amelia and stop her from risking her life was pretty badass, but also why did she stay standing under the steam instead of standing up and lunging forward? She, and both men, seemed certain that her wound was fatal so I suppose she knew even trying to escape wouldn't save her but that if she got close enough to the ropes Amelia would have jumped in and gotten hurt/killed too.
+ I was sad that they didn't manage to save Agent Cutter. I guess they wanted to up the stakes and keep the final showdown in house so to speak but she was great and I loved her dynamic with Lincoln and the potential with Amelia. Boo.
+ Either I missed the scene or the show skipped having the Bone Collector's identity shown revealed to the public. Lincoln implies to Naia that it was all over the news but I wish they'd taken a scene to show it.
+ Peter's downfall seemed to happen a little quickly but I liked that in the end he was defeated by the same thing that brought down Lincoln the first time, the thing he's spent this whole season chastising Lincoln for: his ego. I also liked them paralysing him.
+ The show made a couple of dumb choices in the final couple episodes that annoyed me. Like:
- I don't get why Naia and Camden weren't immediately sent out of the city? Escort them to the airport and stick them on a plane to Sydney and they can have a beach vacation while out of Peter's reach.
- Lincoln not having a massive security presence guarding him, especially once they uncovered Peter's identity, was dumb. He should have had a bodyguard and police on his door.
- I can't believe that Sellitto wasn't immediately taken to the emergency room regardless of how well he felt. He was kidnapped by a serial killer! Who likes conveluted ways of killing people and never leaves anyone a chance to survive. WTF?! That was such a dumb choice all around (both characters and writers.) I did love that Lincoln left his apartment to see him at the hospital.
+ Despite those issues we did get some great moments of people being smart - Amelia realising Peter was watching her and using her camera to trick him, Lincoln using his paraplegia to fake an attack, Castillo giving Naia his watch.
+ I don't understand why Amelia was still at the restaurant after the bomb went off instead of rushing to Lincoln's apartment herself. They should have skipped showing the scene of her realising the truth post-escape and instead had the confrontation with Peter play out uninterrupted, sirens happen etc, Lincoln tells Claire to phone Amelia, tension as the phone rings and then suddenly Amelia (and the FBI) are rushing into the apartment. Relieved moment as Lincoln and Amelia see each other alive and then we get Amelia explaining the camera trick and her realisation that it meant Lincoln was in danger.
