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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 235291" data-attributes="member: 27">[/rubs temples with fingertips]Those two episodes last night would have been easier if I had kept paper and a pencil in hand.&nbsp; In addition to the eight or nine regulars, the six to eight heavily recurring characters, and the ten or twelve new faces introduced last night, the size of the cast resembled a daily, daytime soap.&nbsp; Does TP genuinely expect viewers to keep track of all those new characters, or even learn their names all at once? I was struggling with all the names/faces at the end of last season, and now he&#039;s almost doubled the cast of characters.&nbsp; Maybe if they&#039;d worn name tags?Obviously some of them will be cannon fodder--can&#039;t keep shooting or blowing up the contract players!--but there were already recurring characters I did not like (Charles, Landon, most of the Malones), and rather than cutting their screen time, TP is expanding their roles by giving them more characters to interact with--so the second-stringers now have their own third-stringers.&nbsp; The principal cast was already rarely seen (some were getting one scene per episode), and it looks as if we&#039;ll be seeing even less of them as they service all these third-stringers that no one even knows.&nbsp; There were so many newbies being introduced that they did not even get around to showing several of the characters from the previous season.&nbsp; They could easily drop the three &quot;R&quot; guys at the hotel, since their purpose (conning Kathryn out of some of her millions) has been taken up by several new characters (two of whom I hereby christen &quot;The Ambiguously Gay Accountants&quot;).&nbsp; There are also two cons out to take Veronica&#039;s millions (with help from suddenly-scummy Derrick).&nbsp; Justin was visited by a never-mentioned brother (actually they mentioned several brothers), and Extra-Crispy Erica&#039;s extra-slutty friend from their &#039;ho days took off all her clothes and cavorted in the fountain in front of Dazed (and Confused) David&#039;s house.&nbsp; &nbsp; They&#039;ve taken this whole &quot;President Elect&quot; Charles sub-plot to absurdly uninteresting proportions, since Landon&#039;s office-nemesis (name?) is now hiring ambiguously gay PIs to tail Candace (why?) and buying drugs (???) as he talks about how his father (who?) plans to run for President someday.&nbsp; I thought that was the low-point of the night...at least until we were forced to sit through scenes where Jim and Celine&#039;s illegitimate son decided to visit both Jim and Wyatt in their hospital rooms.&nbsp; At least we had known about the kid beforehand.&nbsp; But how would we have known he would be played by such a terrible actor?&nbsp; He makes Amanda (RIP) look like Meryl Streep.But hey, at least we got Tipsy!Jeffery and Sexy!Madison having tipsy sexytimes without anything exploding or Justin showing up to set the place on fire.&nbsp; Believe me, I was watching the scenes waiting for something similar, since TP seems to have a writing directive not to allow any character one moment of happiness.&nbsp; But if the dialogue is any indication, Jeffery had three such moments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 235291, member: 27"] [/rubs temples with fingertips] Those two episodes last night would have been easier if I had kept paper and a pencil in hand. In addition to the eight or nine regulars, the six to eight heavily recurring characters, and the ten or twelve new faces introduced last night, the size of the cast resembled a daily, daytime soap. Does TP genuinely expect viewers to keep track of all those new characters, or even learn their [I]names [/I]all at once? I was struggling with all the names/faces at the end of last season, and now he's almost doubled the cast of characters. Maybe if they'd worn name tags? Obviously some of them will be cannon fodder--can't keep shooting or blowing up the [I]contract[/I] players!--but there were already recurring characters I did not like (Charles, Landon, most of the Malones), and rather than cutting their screen time, TP is expanding their roles by giving them more characters to interact with--so the second-stringers now have their own third-stringers. The principal cast was already rarely seen (some were getting one scene per episode), and it looks as if we'll be seeing even less of them as they service all these third-stringers that no one even knows. There were so many newbies being introduced that they did not even get around to showing several of the characters from the previous season. They could easily drop the three "R" guys at the hotel, since their purpose (conning Kathryn out of some of her millions) has been taken up by several new characters (two of whom I hereby christen "The Ambiguously Gay Accountants"). There are also two cons out to take Veronica's millions (with help from suddenly-scummy Derrick). Justin was visited by a never-mentioned brother (actually they mentioned several brothers), and Extra-Crispy Erica's extra-slutty friend from their 'ho days took off all her clothes and cavorted in the fountain in front of Dazed (and Confused) David's house. They've taken this whole "President Elect" Charles sub-plot to absurdly uninteresting proportions, since Landon's office-nemesis (name?) is now hiring ambiguously gay PIs to tail Candace (why?) and buying drugs (???) as he talks about how his father (who?) plans to run for President someday. I thought that was the low-point of the night...at least until we were forced to sit through scenes where Jim and Celine's illegitimate son decided to visit both Jim and Wyatt in their hospital rooms. At least we had known about the kid beforehand. But how would we have known he would be played by such a terrible actor? He makes Amanda (RIP) look like Meryl Streep. But hey, at least we got Tipsy!Jeffery and Sexy!Madison having tipsy sexytimes without anything exploding or Justin showing up to set the place on fire. Believe me, I was watching the scenes waiting for something similar, since TP seems to have a writing directive not to allow any character one moment of happiness. But if the dialogue is any indication, Jeffery had [I]three[/I] such moments. [/QUOTE]

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