Andy Mattson

I really wanted to like this more, but I just couldn't. The setting, the idea, the overall plot all have tons of potential. The actors are engaging and very easy on the eyes, as well. But the "hero"..... I get wanting him to be human and flawed, but he's got the emotional maturity of a two-year old, and he's as dumb as a bag of hammers. Everyone seems very petulant and prone to snap judgments, on all sides, as well. He's the last hope to protect against the last Immortal (well, the last one until he blunders and undoes millennia of previous Protector efforts), but his legion of loyal supporters all comment that he's just like his father and grandfather, which begs the question...... how did humanity survive this long? He blunders ahead, with no plan or notion, with catastrophic results, losing his closest friends and loved ones, and then does exactly the same thing the next time a situation arises. And while the Immortals have fiendishly brilliant schemes to destroy Istanbul and all of humanity, with high-tech plans, execution and strategy, he constantly foils them with just dumb luck, it seems, which leaves on almost rooting for the bad guys. Maybe seasons 3 and 4 will be better. This would be great if the hero learned from his colossal screw-ups and the intelligence ante were upped as the series went along.