12-06-2025, 03:51 AM
Dead Like Me is alright. Maybe just people I know overpraised it though versus it being more generally so. You can kind of tell when Bryan Fuller quit because a bunch of plot threads just vanish never to be mentioned again. My major complaint would be that most of Rube's "wisdom" is meaningless and George is pretty right for dismissing it although the show mostly just frames it as her character rather than that Rube should be challenged on anything. Also I get the deliberate pacing of the show but the characters actually whiplash all over while not changing all that much, which makes sense for George but she actually does this the least and clearly matures over just a couple years. We're supposed to believe that the others haven't over decades? They never even bother with Roxy, which is misogynoir. Sounds about white.
Actually the most irritating thing about the show is its inconsistency in whether other people can hear them talking to the souls or not. I really think the writers never seemed to conceive of the idea that all the stuff with souls could operate on a separate plane even though this would be fix some nonsensical dilemmas they raise that Rube can't explain while fitting entirely into it being how the souls operate already. The Reapers touching the person opens up the ability for the souls to move into a transition plane and then from there to Heaven. WHICH IS ANOTHER THING. Everybody in the show goes to Heaven or it's simply not addressed like with the serial killer. I get why they didn't want to demonstrate otherwise but what if George reaped some old dude and it turns out he was a Nazi who ran concentration camps or serial killer or something, that would really fuck her up! But they never have this dilemma at all because everyone seems to be rewarded. In fact, a large crux of why the Reapers seem to accept the job is because it gets people to their reward.
Also I thought this would be hard to find a clip of but apparently lots of other people noticed it in modern times.
Actually the most irritating thing about the show is its inconsistency in whether other people can hear them talking to the souls or not. I really think the writers never seemed to conceive of the idea that all the stuff with souls could operate on a separate plane even though this would be fix some nonsensical dilemmas they raise that Rube can't explain while fitting entirely into it being how the souls operate already. The Reapers touching the person opens up the ability for the souls to move into a transition plane and then from there to Heaven. WHICH IS ANOTHER THING. Everybody in the show goes to Heaven or it's simply not addressed like with the serial killer. I get why they didn't want to demonstrate otherwise but what if George reaped some old dude and it turns out he was a Nazi who ran concentration camps or serial killer or something, that would really fuck her up! But they never have this dilemma at all because everyone seems to be rewarded. In fact, a large crux of why the Reapers seem to accept the job is because it gets people to their reward.
Also I thought this would be hard to find a clip of but apparently lots of other people noticed it in modern times.
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