• "Tracker", 19-Oct-2025. Misc minor spoilers.

    From danny burstein@3:633/10 to All on Mon Oct 20 02:20:30 2025
    First, they've definitely had budget cuts.
    Just about all the supporting cast members
    are gone. Renee is still there and he's
    got a computer geek on speed dial, butthe
    others have disappeared.

    New character (or rather, upgraded previous one).
    His brother... joins him in today's mis-adventure.

    Plot: A dad hires him because his ex-wife and their
    shared daughter didn't show to a custody handover.

    spoiler: mom had run off because Really Bad People
    had kidnapped daughter and forced her to do ugly stuff.

    ninety percent of the script was predictable.

    Warning: there's some sort of Evil Group in
    charge and it looks like this will be a
    continuing arc. Ugggggggh.

    I'll probably watch next week but I've got
    a bad feeling about this.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Mon Oct 20 02:33:58 2025
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

    First, they've definitely had budget cuts.
    Just about all the supporting cast members
    are gone. Renee is still there and he's
    got a computer geek on speed dial, butthe
    others have disappeared.

    New character (or rather, upgraded previous one).
    His brother... joins him in today's mis-adventure.

    Plot: A dad hires him because his ex-wife and their
    shared daughter didn't show to a custody handover.

    spoiler: mom had run off because Really Bad People
    had kidnapped daughter and forced her to do ugly stuff.

    ninety percent of the script was predictable.

    Warning: there's some sort of Evil Group in
    charge and it looks like this will be a
    continuing arc. Ugggggggh.

    I'll probably watch next week but I've got
    a bad feeling about this.

    And in the continuing continuing story arc, we still have no explanation
    for all of the lies in the mother's story in the backstory, now that the brother's backstory has been retconned. Again, why was it necessary to
    let Tracker believe that his brother murdered their father? Some evil
    men months earlier explains nothing.

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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Tue Oct 21 00:13:52 2025
    On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:33:58 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

    First, they've definitely had budget cuts.
    Just about all the supporting cast members
    are gone. Renee is still there and he's
    got a computer geek on speed dial, butthe
    others have disappeared.

    The woman that was working with Renee didn't seem to serve
    much purpose last season other than to make it seem like
    Renee wasn't running a one woman shop. Even though she was.

    New character (or rather, upgraded previous one).
    His brother... joins him in today's mis-adventure.

    Plot: A dad hires him because his ex-wife and their
    shared daughter didn't show to a custody handover.

    spoiler: mom had run off because Really Bad People
    had kidnapped daughter and forced her to do ugly stuff.

    ninety percent of the script was predictable.

    True.

    Warning: there's some sort of Evil Group in
    charge and it looks like this will be a
    continuing arc. Ugggggggh.

    Yeah, I'm not happy about it, but it was obvious they were going to
    continue the story once they introduced this "Process" idea.

    I'll probably watch next week but I've got
    a bad feeling about this.

    And in the continuing continuing story arc, we still have no explanation
    for all of the lies in the mother's story in the backstory, now that the >brother's backstory has been retconned. Again, why was it necessary to
    let Tracker believe that his brother murdered their father? Some evil
    men months earlier explains nothing.

    They will drag that out till the final season, and then probably not
    have enough time left to develop the story.

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