Guillermo del Toro's The Strain coming to FX - Part 1

[Marvolo]

That was my thoughts as well.

Why not just have a helicopters fly over the city at night and drop some silver bombs mid-air? Showering the city in little bits of silver would kill many strigoi.

I also thought Fet took too long getting to the nest. It took him a whole day underground to get to the Vamps nest while the previous episode made it seem like it took him a few hours at the most.

They wouldnt even need silver if they had used heavy artillery and high yield bombs. The strigoi would have been shredded and incinerated from the heat and kinetic energy.

 

[Brother Jack]

I wonder why no one thought to firebomb central park? At least as a Plan B. Surely they could get ahold of heavy artillery, helos, and high explosives from a base in new york. When the park was being over run there were thousands of strigoi sitting like fish in a barrel.

That was my thoughts as well.

Why not just have a helicopters fly over the city at night and drop some silver bombs mid-air? Showering the city in little bits of silver would kill many strigoi.

I also thought Fet took too long getting to the nest. It took him a whole day underground to get to the Vamps nest while the previous episode made it seem like it took him a few hours at the most.

The answer to your questions is that this isn't a well written show.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

Season 3 overall has been a big improvement compared to the meandering second season of The Strain. The Battle of Central Park however is a good example of the clunky writing that seems to plague this television series. I love the concept of this series, I love the visuals, the creature effects, the music. But the inconsistent writing really seems to stick out, for every good episode there's an episode that feels either rushed or clumsy. Not to say that books were perfect either, but they've definitely strayed way off path. And with that in mind, I have a feeling season 4, The Night Eternal will feel rushed or cramped.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Honestly, I think these books could have been perfectly fine if they were simply adapted into a trilogy of films, rather than stretch the story out into 40 odd episodes.

 

[TheFuture]

Honestly, I think these books could have been perfectly fine if they were simply adapted into a trilogy of films, rather than stretch the story out into 40 odd episodes.

Big studios probably balked at the idea of a trilogy consisting of fugly vampires.

 

[Teelie]

They probably figured fugly vampires would kill off whatever Twilighters were left to milk dry. Besides, we already had these in a psuedo form with Blade Trinity, just without the spitting tongue parts.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

 

[TheFuture]

This show seems to be pushing destiny a lot now, from Zack's strange birth presenting him as different from early on to Fet possibly avenging his family name against the man who help sullied it in the first place.

You can throw Quinlan's "destiny" to destroy his "father" in there too.

I can only assume **** is going to go awfully wrong for at least one of those characters before season 3 ends.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I'm surprised at how much of this was taken from Vampire The Masquerade.

 

[squeekness]

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Dutch and Eph? Gross!

 

[Great Cthulhu]

That's one hell of a way to end an episode!

 

[squeekness]

Went out with a bang, you could say.

 

[kvz5]

Is

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Quinlan dead?!

Because that's all that matters.

 

[squeekness]

I doubt it.

 

[Marvolo]

Wtf kind of bomb was in that suitcase?

 

[TheFuture]

That ending was probably the highlight of the entire series thus far. Disappointed now that I won't see more of the ancients whooping ass.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Honestly, I think these books could have been perfectly fine if they were simply adapted into a trilogy of films, rather than stretch the story out into 40 odd episodes.

It was originally pitched as a movie trilogy by GDT, but when studio's rejected it, he wrote the books instead. Which have subsequently been made into a TV show.

Just started season 3 last night, loved the first episode. I knew The Master was going to make mincemeat out if those Navy Seals.

 

[divan]

The direction in this episode was spot on.

 

[Elevator Man]

That ending was probably the highlight of the entire series thus far. Disappointed now that I won't see more of the ancients whooping ass.

Agreed, [BLACKOUT]but at least they went out with a bang. No pun intended. [/BLACKOUT]

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Quinlan definitely escaped the explosion in the nick of time. Though as the ambush began I was concerned that he wasn't going to survive.

Spoiler

Dutch and Eph? Gross!

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Agreed. It was easily the low point of the episode, imo. So they killed off Nora for this contrived romance (for lack of a better word). Also Dutch still hasn't won me over or redeemed herself as a character.

 

[kane9321]

eph and dutch...WHY?

 

[Teelie]

They were setting it up for several episodes but I was hoping it wouldn't happen. Unfortunately they did that. Dutch should have known better.

 

[kvz5]

Yeah I knew it was only a matter of time before it happens. I like Dutch and I don't even mind her nerding with Eph but I didn't see to have them hookup. Funnily enough, in the books Nora and Fet ended up together and Eph and Dutch are one half of those pairings.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

 

[Sawyer]

I dig Eph/Dutch tbh.

 

[Great Cthulhu]

I wonder if they're scrapping the destruction of the black site from the original novels/comics?