Bloodivores

Time Prisoners had the potential to be interesting; the setting and the plot suggested it could have been, but the execution and the logic let it down. It has a mysterious narrative concerning vampires: there are secrets concerning the vampires themselves, their origins, abilities, and usefulness - it all sounds very good to start with. There is quite a bit of action, too, backed up by all sorts of special powers and abilities. In terms of the animation, it is pretty good. So much for the positive aspects. The rest of it, however, is horrible. Some of the main protagonists' dialogues, the behavior of the main characters, some of the shifts in the plot, and sometimes the movement during the action and the way nothing makes much sense, in general, are pretty tragic. I was left wondering about what was going on a lot of the time. (SPOILER For example, where did all the people go when someone was shooting at a detective in a normal town? There were tall houses all around, cars on the road, although nobody was there except the detective, his colleague and the few people who came to kill them SPOILER END). In the end, it makes for a strange and not very logical survival show about vampires, and I do not understand what anyone is really up to and what those involved are trying to do either at the moment, although mostly in the long term. Furthermore, I did not care for the characters with one minor exception, which is probably also very bad. Oh, and the conclusion of the first season was also pretty random, with the resulting cliffhanger being shocking again in that "WTF" way I was experiencing throughout the season. Time Prisoners was a very weird and, in some aspects, very bad show that raised a lot of questions and many things that I am still wondering about now, even though there are no answers. I think it is worth 4/10, albeit with the caveat that if this ever gets a second season, I probably want to see it because I still believe it must all make sense! (09/10/2016)