That Great Big Hill of Hope

CBS | Air Date: September 15, 2015

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cylunJan 21, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's very disappointing how the writers proceeded in this episode. They cut off their previous story arc and start a new one - in the last episode. There are so many logic gaps. First, they try to tell the reader that Jamie oversleeps months of what happens after the plane crash. By any coincidence, she is rescued by a fisher while all others are rescued somehow else. We don't get to see it. Based on this plot armor, they build up their new arc. This doesn't feel convincing since they didn't complete their previous arc, they didn't make a point, but most importantly, they didn't follow through with the character arcs, with the relationships. If you want to make such a cut, you can build up towards it, by foreshadowing it, by creating conflict among the characters. This plot twist wasn't subverted properly. It was just comfortable to start over because it seems they ran out of ideas. The piece that is missing in the story is massive. This isn't a zombie movie where the viewer already expects the typical progress towards anarchy. The viewer doesn't have a good idea of how an animal uprising looks in its most important phase. This is the missing piece of making sense what is shown in this episode and on forward. It's not only missing in the imagination of the viewer. It's also missing in the mind of the writers. This makes any future story arc arbitrary and fantasy-fictional, but not alternate-universe realistical such as what has been shown until episode 12. It's a genre shift nobody asked for. That the writers don't have any good idea of how this new reality looks can be seen in the details. Questions that nobody needed to ask. Small animals could easily survive human hunting in a city. But a hippo? Where is a hippo supposed to hide after escaping from the zoo? Aren't there any border patrols at the city gates, assuming it survived outside the city? Nobody needs to answer such a question because this part has been taken out. A hippo looks impressive in this scene, of course, but it's completely out of context and doesn't appear authentic. Same story for the whole African animal population on the streets in the final scene - ridiculous and inauthentic how they appeared to get there out of nowhere and unnoticed. The viewer doesn't feel emotionally attached to the main protagonists anymore since they are completely different and their previous arcs were not completed. We didn't get to see who they are and now we're shown what they have become. How can you understand what someone has become when you don't understand from where they came? One example for this is the relationship between Chloe and Jackson. What defines their new relationship? That they survived together in the first episodes? This is sufficient for a friendship but not for a romance. The viewer has no picture in their mind that really defines their compassion. Well, not that we get to see compassion now either. They act like an old couple after just a few months. The next example is the relationship between Jackson and Abraham. "What have you learned?" "Not much really" - I couldn't say it better. Why did they separate? What message does it imply? It was just plot armor so that they can reunite because the writers wanted to show us that the characters reunited. But not how and why it happened. All of this just for the magical call from Jamie. She's alive and has the cure. It is a powerful and emotional moment thanks to their acting. But they sacrificed their plot, their arcs, the viewer's emotional attachment, logic, the sense of realism, authenticity. Considering how powerful the moment is, it's even more disappointing that they don't show us more scenes on how the good news spread among the protagonists. This would have been a chance to show us how they really feel and what defines their relationships. But they only show us a plain reunition. Things had to happen because something spectacular had to be shown - not out of a natural imperative though. This last episode really ruins the whole season and the potential for an alternative realistic story in the following seasons.… Expand

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