One line from another’s review exemplifies the problem I continually had with this show:
"It quickly becomes clear that there's only one way to keep Larkin alive.
Tom brings her to the shore... and sends her off into the water!"
That would NOT keep her alive.
He was [delusionally, perhaps] KILLING HER.
Just as he KILLED his wife when he led her to the water in the first or second episode.
Remember, they found the real Mariel’s body mid-season. The thing walking around looking and talking like her is NOT her.
All the characters seem to be in denial about this FACT of their situation.
The "hybrids" are not a changed person: they are a new life form that uses human genetic material to make a duplicate.
This is exemplified when the kid says, paraphrased, "She is different, but she is still my mommy."
No kid, she is not -- she is the thing that KILLED your mother -- that drowned her in the water, gobbled up her DNA, and then tried to take her place in a new body.
I think the show took a major wrong turn early on when it did clearly show the real Mariel’s body, and tried to get us to empathize with the "new Mariel." At first, she was a nice-acting ‘woman’ who was confused at the ‘changes’ in her body… but it then became clear that she was in fact the thing that killed the character with whom we were supposed to be identifying.
Clearly, the way the hybrids worked was thought out before the show was in production [at least I hope it was] ---
-- but during the first few episodes I was under the impression that post-hurricane, we were seeing actual humans *who were changing* in ways they did not understand -- and that Sheriff Tom was just the guy who understood and liked what had changed in him.
I thought the "invasion" was of each character’s body -- and THAT could have been some cool drama, as real people we could empathize with went through changes they could not control -- slowly, over the course of a season… all the while finding out more about Tom and how happy he was at his own change.
Instead, it was simply "body snatchers in the swamp" -- and no one changed: they were simply killed and replaced.
[And that is why I could not sympathize with Sheriff Tom: he knowingly killed his wife; then he knowingly killed his deputy. The fact that his victims were replaced with identical ‘hybrid’ clones does not alleviate his crimes.]
I would still like to see a show that dealt with what I thought this one had set up: new life forms that are changing our characters -- not killing and replacing them.
Maybe *I* will write that one...
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