McOilers97
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What show are you watching?
Dolores was not straightforward with Caleb. She concealed her identity from him for a while, and even after he became aware of her nature, she concealed that she has specifically selected him. Both Caleb and the viewers were led to believe that Dolores encountered Caleb through a chance encounter, and that he was a proxy for an every man. But in reality, he had already been deeply connected to the plot of the show AND, in fact, had met Dolores before. It was a crummy twist that eroded the attempted themes of the season.
Not to mention the dozen other needless twists and turns along the way. Hale is really Dolores, surprise! Don't look now, Stubbs is a host too! (And how lazy of a writing device was that?) Oh my lord, Rehoboam is controlling Serac! Caleb is the one who shot his dead friend, woah! Etc etc etc
There was a thousand shallow attempts to keep the show exciting and mysterious, but they felt more like they were written by an 8th grader than anything meaningful.
This kind of thing pisses me off so much. How the actual f*** could Dolores have planned to meet Caleb, under the circumstances in which she had been badly wounded like that? The show introduces Caleb and Dolores to each other in a way that actually feels more impactful, like, "Caleb is a good person, he's helping someone in need", and they make you think for the entire season that it is the case, and then in the finale "nope, Dolores planned it all along". It really dulls the impact of the show when anything that happens can't be taken at face value, because any event could just be the result of a secret plan/manipulation.
Like, Caleb on balance is a good person, so that is cool and all, but it would be nice if that could just stand as part of the story, and Dolores could understand mankind's ability to be compassionate organically, not because she planned to string this guy along.