Watched the 90 min season finale last night on-demand (X1) because it looks a lot better than Comcast's HBO broadcast, for some reason.
While there were a few things they might have left open, (I might take that back if I re-watched) they actually made sense of almost every plot-thread that had everybody so confused early on. I had a really good idea what was going on with the man in black a few episodes ago, which meant of course, this is a different timeline... Then you realize there are two completely different host awakenings, over quite a big time gap... Maeve inevitably must be Delores 2.0, and so on.
It all really makes sense, and not a much like "Lost", but more like "Pulp Fiction"! You only are confused because the timeline is out of sync in the narrative. In fact, if someone edited this show in chronological order (and I'm sure someone will), I would bet that it would be pretty slow moving and probably not very confusing at all. I don't want to say boring, but probably tedious.
I may have known some key points of what was going on by the finale, but I thought it was still very well put together, and was highly enjoyable. I probably won't watch the whole season over, but I may watch some early episodes over, since they will be seen in a totally different light. One cool thing is that the first season completely stands on its own, as an entire story. I'm glad that they did that. I heard that season 2 only got picked up a few weeks ago, so it makes sense to have a contained story for at least the first season, even if they left the obvious setups for beyond that.
Thank you! If I hadn't seen that yesterday, I probably would have have stopped at the credits, since I watched on-demand. There were some interesting things going on there.
Is it out of chronological order? Seemed to me as though everything happened as it did, the only exception would be the man in black story, and even the ending to that story should have been evident very early on to those paying attention.
I enjoyed the show though. Have seen a lot of people putting it down but I found it interesting and didn't get bored once. The casting was perfect. The performances were all on point. The constant wavering of evil and good for both sides was clever in the greater context of the story.
I could easily and gladly binge watch the entire series again....and am looking forward to seeing season 2.