Let's start this off the entire thing saying that the main character is supposed to be in high school. He looks like he's in his mid twenties, goes drinking quite often, has sex with multiple women one of which is significantly older than him, and then seems to never go to school, ever.
Then there seems to be the fact that no one can understand basic motivations of their leaders. Spoiler - but his 'dead' dad who was cryogenically frozen for the past decade shows back up, and the first thing that he does after coming back to life is he wants to spend a night with his family. For some reason there are people that are part of the group he's supposed to be leading that freak out and can't understand why anyone would ever do that. I'm not buying it. You're gone from your family for a decade, you finally get to see them, and instead of spending time with strangers, you want to be with your family? How dare you! The same thing happens throughout the entire season, people choose to do very logical things, but the telepaths that fill the show, instead of being able to read their minds and see the honest intentions of those people, freak out and try to make some serious mountains out of very small mole hills.
This isn't the only time that things get really, REALLY backwards within the entire series. It's one lazy writing bit after the next. First we learn that Tim (the AI computer) can block cell phone signals, but later in the season there's a bid deal about having to block out a cell phone signal from people who are right next to Tim. First we learn that if powers are shown in public that anyone who sees it gets killed - the main character shows off his powers during a basketball game at high school, no murders. What's even better is that a supporting character later comes into another basketball game and uses his powers even more - still no murdering.
The fun one is that things sometimes are forgotten. Major plot devices and twists seem to be overlooked. For example the mother for the first half of the season is a normal mom, then she miraculously turns out to be one of the supers . . . and then we never see much of anything super about her until the second to last episode of the season where she pulls a Mrs. Weasly and knocks some heads in to protect her son. My other favorite limbo of things that fade in and out of the story are the 'd-cells' that block out and negate powers. Sometimes they mute everything, sometimes they only subdue powers, they either work perfectly, or they work only when people aren't have severe panic attacks because if you're having a panic attack you can cut straight through them.
My personal favorite plot hole of doom is the fact that supers can't kill. . . but one of the main character's entire back story is about killing a boy who tried to rape her. They can't kill, but they can strap a bomb to their chest and go full fledged suicide bombing, because officially they're not the one calling the cell phone to trigger the explosion. They can't kill humans, but if they stop time THEN they can kill because chronologically frozen people are no longer humans. My personal favorite is that choking a person out triggers the anti-kill 6th sense, but they can torture, cut, bruise, and mangle a person to the brink of death without a touch of a headache, all within the same episode. It seems to wiggle and waggle around as much as they want, and is only there because the writers decided that you might as well throw some sort of mention into it.
It's an interesting idea, I like the concept, but how they handle the entire series is a mess of horrible writing. Instead of creating one giant cohesive story, they create a series of single episodes that feel like an author sat down and said, 'hey guys, you want to know what would be cool?'
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