Warning!!!! This post contains spoilers from the previous two seasons, and while general in nature and intent, there may be specifics thrown in. You have been warned!

You've read my other post on this right? Good. Just checking.

I'm going to start trying a new thing on here where I say my piece and leave it at that. Not necessarily a recap of every show, or a summary as I will continue to do with new shows, but if you see an update, that usually means I have a problem. 

And while I will try to stay away from spoilers, as I will continue to try and do, I can't help but air my grievances about the direction of this show. I have not seen the original series as this series is a remake of a popular show in the late 80s/early 90s. Okay, I didn't know that in my last post. Sue me.

But as with all remakes they start to develop their own lives and story lines and while that is all fine and dandy, I must say I have stopped believing in the relationships in this show. This is no reflection on the actors or their characters, but I am finding it harder and harder to actually believe them when they're going through this fictional world.

Stop reading now if you hate even general spoilers! Contains some specifics as well!

When this show first came out, I was rooting for Cat and Vincent. I thought, "Okay, I can buy her falling for him because she spent her whole life thinking she was crazy only to have the object of her obsession save her again and be this tortured, romantic hot guy". Yeah, I can completely buy that. And as it went on, I thought that the cop procedural story line was good. It was light, it wasn't really dark as CW is famous for balancing the light and the dark elements of story lines. I liked how Vincent was a savior not a villain. I liked how these seemingly harmless murders was just beast accidents. I did like that.

However, as the show went on, I found myself getting more and more disgusted with how they have handled the relationship between the two of them. The first season went off without a hitch. It came and went exactly how I thought it would. But as season two began to air, I found myself asking what exactly is going through these writers' minds as they're writing these episodes. It's like they have amnesia or something.

I get that no one wants to see a happy couple. Especially on a TV show where there's trouble around every corner. But the hurdles that these two go through! And while I'm all for throwing everything away for love, I just don't think this show does it very realistically. 

Cat started out as this slightly strange, hopeful thinker who's a smart, independent woman and she's a cop, and she's all for justice and just trying to live her life. Okay, I get that. But then Vincent shows up and all of a sudden, she's throwing EVERYTHING away to be with him. Do you know how many laws she has broken to protect him? A lot! As a cop, that should just turn her stomach, and yet she's perfectly fine with it. Every little thing that Vincent has done she has just forgiven without even batting an eyelash. 

He's killed people, whether accidentally or not. When he lost his memory and was killing for her real dad, he did it without a care in the world. He didn't care he was killing other beasts. And did she ever reprimand him for that? Or at least have a discussion about it? No, she chucked it off to him being a beast and her dad controlling him. Um, no. He did that all by his lonesome. He's broken a lot of laws too and Cat was just so okay with it, because you know, she loves him.

Then when they break up because he didn't remember her and because he did kill the beasts, she spent all this time worrying over every little thing he did. And oh look! Here comes Gabe! Oh wait, wasn't he a beast before? Didn't he try to kill her? Didn't he try and damn near succeeded in killing Vincent? But Cat decides to go on a date with him anyway? Really? And not only that, she started having sex with him. As if the past is the past and it didn't just happen like a few months ago! Then Vincent starts trying to win her back and she keeps getting sucked into his world despite trying to be happy without all that trouble and here comes Tory to further mess things up for these two.

Vincent came out of hiding for Tory! And while I get that she's a natural beast and Vincent felt some kind of weird attraction to her solely for her beast side, I find it a little strange that he so quickly fell over himself to be with her and her demanding ways. She always got so jealous whenever Cat came up which is understandable, but still. And while they were dating their respective people it was still so obvious that they wanted each other. But then there's the pesky mess of Vincent's moral compass being a little off center.

But as TV shows are so want to do, Cat and Gabe break up. Tory ends up dying and Cat and Vincent get back together because they're "stronger together than apart". Puh-leese! Then, Gabe develops this weird obsession with Cat. I mean, it's seriously borderline crazy. He needs to save Cat because Vincent is dangerous. Was it not that long ago that Gabe was doing the same thing and was ten times worse? Then of course, here comes Vincent to save the day. Since when did Cat need to be saved? She's a NY cop! She can more than handle herself, had even done so on plenty of occasions, but she suddenly needs a man to save her now? Really?

And now, Gabe has gone completely off the deep end, thinking that if he can get Vincent out of the picture, that suddenly Cat will want him back? What? And let's not forget all the things that Gabe had done recently. He kidnapped Cat's sister, he's fought Vincent on more than one occasion, and he's been killing folks left and right. But sure, let's take Cat out on a date because he loves her, needs to save her, and thinks that fancy cakes is going to make Cat swoon and leave Vincent. And then, Cat is back to cleaning up Vincent's messes when he goes to jail and she has to switch out his blood and in order to stop Gabe, she has to doctor evidence. All of this rule breaking! And let's not forget how willing she was to just disappear with Vincent. She has gotten her shield taken away, her photo plastered all over the news because she was helping the fugitive and she's okay with all of it? What has Vincent done to inspire such loyalty? All because their love is epic or their love is the kind that fairy tales get written about? I'm sorry, but fairy tale or not, this whole relationship is one sided. She's risked literally everything. Her career, her family, her friendship with Tess, and everything else because she's in love? What happened to the smart, independent woman we started out with?

And don't even get me started on Tess! WHY IN ALL THAT IS GOOD AND SACRED, is she with J.T.? In what world is this okay? I'm not saying there's something wrong with Tess. I'm not saying there's something wrong with J.T. However, them together just doesn't make any sense. I get that at the core of this show is love conquers all. I get that. And Tess has always complained about not having a man and I share her sentiments. Sometimes a dominant, independent woman ends up alone a lot of the time because some men are really intimidated by that. Some men think they want a dominant woman, but they really don't. 

But hooking her up with J.T. is a lazy writer ploy to not introduce new characters or have to deal with the obligatory discussion about how she doesn't want to lie to the object of her affection, but she also  doesn't want to include him into this crazy world. And while J.T. did have someone, she just suddenly disappeared and was never heard from again, but he suddenly likes Tess? I just don't see how that happens. Why put these two together? Why? Is this a way to keep both their characters busy while 90% of the show is Cat dodging bullets to make sure Vincent stays in NY with her?

Every time they kiss or have a silly discussion about how Tess doesn't show him enough affection, I cringe and have to avert my eyes. Again, these have nothing to do with the actors or their characters, but them together just doesn't make any sense.

While we're on the subject, can we discuss how Tess is suddenly okay with breaking all sorts of laws for Vincent now? At first she was completely against it. Not following the rules as a cop was tearing her up inside. The show goes on a small hiatus, and she's suddenly on board? She's okay with doctoring evidence and not putting the correct crook behind bars? Really? All because she's in lurve with J.T.? Yuck! Yes, she had a few times in the beginning of the summer airing where she was walking a thin line between working as a cop and making sure Cat has her boo. But now, she's breaking as many laws as anyone else on this show. And what did Cat do to inspire such loyalty? She's done nothing but lie and whine to Tess. And their friendship is nothing but Vincent and J.T.  When was the last time they had a conversation that wasn't about a man? A step back from feminism anyone?

While this whole tirade seems like I don't like the show, that's grossly incorrect. I think this is a strong show but they have completely deviated so far away from where this show started. I think the writers are starting to lose sight of where they're trying to go. First it was Muirfield that created the beasts. They were a couple of scientists experimenting on military personnel so that the military could have super soldiers. Okay. But when they closed that story line, suddenly, all of a sudden, beasts have actually been around for hundreds of years and coincidentally Cat has an ancestor that has gone through everything she's going through now with her very own beast. What's next? They're going to find out that aliens have actually abducted humans from the Stone Age and experimented with them and Vincent is just a by product of human curiosity from some scientist or government baddie who found old evidence? 

While the search for the origin story of Vincent will always renin a factor in this show, I think they need to stick to one story. They started with Muirfield, they should have stayed with it. They think they stopped, but they're still at it with their experiments. Maybe Vincent wasn't chosen because J.T. suggested it or because he signed up when like all his brothers died (how convenient right?), maybe he was chosen specifically. Maybe they're still after him because he's solved the riddle to keeping his beast together, thanks to Cat, but maybe his strain of the serum has somehow perfected itself. Maybe they want to kidnap him again. Maybe they want to kidnap Cat because somewhere in her blood, is a beast soother or something. Maybe his brothers aren't dead and they're beasts too. Maybe somewhere down in his lineage, an ancestor started Muirfield and his blood is the cure all for major diseases like cancer or Alzheimer's. 

While it looked like this season ended on a good note, and I'm excited for the next season, the CW took their sweet, precious time figuring out if they were going to pick this show up again because even they knew their writers were unsure where they were going. While I like Sendhil, AKA Gabe, (I think he's a brilliant actor and sooooo sexy), I just don't understand why they made him so crazy and obsessive over Cat. They had like three dates and slept together like once or twice. It really couldn't have been that great. They could have ended his storyline a long time ago by making him leave dejectedly, or giving him a stronger reason for wanting to kill Vincent other than he wants Cat. At first, it was because he wanted to live. I get that. But he was saved from that, sooooo, why all the craziness to get him off the show? Was it simply because they didn't have anything else to write or because it was so late in the show, that they wanted to give a complete closure to his story line, leaving no doubt in audiences' minds so they could start with a fresh new concept? 

While I adore this show, I find some of the elements a little hard to believe. I just don't believe in their relationship anymore. So much has been sacrificed in the name of love and we're just supposed to sit here and take it. Why? Because they tell us to? I'm still going to watch the show but I can't say that I'm happy about it going forward. As history has taught us with this show, this little happily ever after on a park bench as a normal couple isn't going to last very long. 

Hope you enjoyed my little tirade. Please, if you don't agree, feel free to leave comments below!