The Outpost doesn’t pause for breath – before moving on to yet another unlikely scenario, that is…

This instalment of my least favourite genre show is just as bad as the opener, lurching from one laughable plot point to the next

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  1. Seems like you’ve slaved through nearly 50 episodes of The Outpost. You’re better off handing the reins of reviewing the show to someone more enthusiastic who can deconstruct the show’s episodes the way other reviewers in other sites have done and offer a more substance-filled critique.

    • Thanks for the comment, feedback is always more than welcome :)

      Honestly I try not to read other people’s reviews of stuff I am covering, lest I find myself unconsciously influenced on any one point one way or the other, so I can’t speak in any detail on the response/analysis the show is getting elsewhere but I do have a vague sense that it’s getting more positive coverage elsewhere and I am aware it has a fanbase. Indeed, I have acknowleged as much in my reviews several times, I believe.

      I also try to always remember the old adage that nobody ever sets out to make something badly. I have in the past given praise to the show when I have felt that it does things right. Unfortunately, those times tend to be outweighed by the ones where I can see it doing a lot wrong (in my opinion).

      As far as substance, I will freely acknowledge that I may have become a little jaded towards the show and started having some fun with my reviews of late, but I’d also argue I have supplied plentiful critique of narrative, character development and plotting when it has been possible/appropriate to do so, always mindful of not providing spoilers. The final episode of Season 3, for example, had a terrific climactic battle scene involving Talon that was an excellent example of camera and stunt work. Unfortunately it then rather spoiled that by having a less than stellar ending to the whole thing.

      I can’t in good conscience argue I have enthusiasm for the show, but in my defence I don’t feel from my own perspective that it’s earned any from me. That said, I am happy to acnowledge that not everyone can like everything, and that people can and will have wildly differing opinions from my own. For my part, there are plenty of genre shows the last few years I have felt incredibly enthused for and by, which have then been cancelled. So whereas the continued renewal of The Outpost might not do anything for me, I’m happy for its fans that they get to keep seeing the show they love continue and develop, even if I don’t share their opinions of it.

      I’ll carry on reviewing it though – I’d be lying if I didn’t say that this is at least partly because I don’t think anyone else at SFB would be interested in doing so, but also I do have a strange affection for the thing, for all that it’s mostly (in my opinion) terrible – it is at least not offensively bad, more the sort of mundane nonsense that one can get accustomed to over time.

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