I watched
Resident Evil. It was shite.
Why is writing a main character that makes sensible decisions apparently so difficult? I mean, any character really, but it was most egregious with the protagonist in this.
So many inconsistencies (at the end of one episode, the sister of the protagonist brings up something she’s anxious about and is reassured by the protagonist, at the start of the next episode the protagonist is the one worried about it and being reassured by her sister) and so many utterly bizarre decisions made by so many characters that just don’t make sense. It’s hugely frustrating.
like late in the season, episode 5 and 6 I think, you discover The University that Jade has been staying with is based on a boat. She discovers a zombie that can apparently communicate and “control” other zombies, so she works with a colleague on this boat to figure out how that works. Pheromones, apparently. A green one that attracts the virus, and a red one that apparently repels it.
To test this theory, The University apparently have some zombies chained up underwater, which I assume they test things on. She decides to bring one of those back to the boat in secret (she drugs it) and test it on there instead of like… literally anywhere else that isn’t effectively impossible to escape from.
So she’s getting ready to test it in her lab when her 10 year old daughter rocks up with a coffee while she’s strapping it to a pole or something with shitty fabric straps, and elects to test this thing that she has no idea will work while her daughter is in the room.
Zombie inevitably escapes and chases her girl, who runs into the friend the main character was working with, who gets killed by the zombie just before the zombie gets killed by some sort of security guard.
The guy in charge of the boat seems to be quite unfazed by this and listens to her advice later on in regards to releasing a big beastie.
There are a handful of other either shitty decisions she makes around this, or utterly predictable things she somehow misses, all apparently in an effort to manufacture drama to pad the runtime.
