Warning: This post contains spoilers, strong language, and general criticism of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys.
The first thing I was ever asked to write for the ZADF was a review of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys. It took me a while, but I finally got around to writing. . .well okay, so this isn’t actually a review so much as is a list of things about the show that really piss me off. Look I want to like 12 Monkeys, I really do. And I’m not even going to get into the peculiarities and paradoxes of time travel, the whole fate vs. freewill thing, or any of that jazz. No, my issues with this show are pretty specific, and they pretty much all have to do with scenes and stories that take place after the plague. It may seem like knit-picking, but there are just some things about this show that make me want to shout obscenities at my television. Starting with the fact that the future seems to be very cold and bleak place.
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