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I really wanted to love this show. I thought the lead characters, centering around Chloe (Skyler Samuels), Amy (Gracie Gillam), Paul (Ki Hong Lee) and Jasmine (Alyssa Diaz) were outstanding and played their roles well. In particular, Gracie Gillam had tremendous range. Ki Hong Lee was just perfect as the supportive wannabe "sidekick" geek.
The series started off well with great potential. Where did it fail? The conspiracy simply got out of control, where every close contact was an enemy out to destroy the Mai or Chloe herself.
For a group of beings with cat-like powers, under attack by adversaries who played their hand early... this ancient group of (presumably) warriors did little to nothing to defend themselves.
They did not investigate Chloe's boyfriend, which would have begun to clue them in. They did not followup on Jasmine's boyfriend - simply accepting this very weird looking character at face value. They did not share knowledge - preferring to remain clueless. They insisted on creating an awkward love triangle where one of the main protectors was essentially a stalker - disinterested in piecing together the larger picture.
The leader of the Mai in that region also surrounded herself with children and also did little to share knowledge or even acquire it. She did this despite that fact that Chloe herself was under constant attack. While the enemies were tenacious, the "good guys" were oblivious.
While I enjoyed the first 3/4s of the series, by the last few episodes I was spent and frustrated. Many of the central characters just got dumber and dumber.
Rating this a 6 because of the characters, story concept and because it did start off well before self-destructing by series end.
I really wanted to love this show. I thought the lead characters, centering around Chloe (Skyler Samuels), Amy (Gracie Gillam), Paul (Ki Hong Lee) and Jasmine (Alyssa Diaz) were outstanding and played their roles well. In particular, Gracie Gillam had tremendous range. Ki Hong Lee was just perfect as the supportive wannabe "sidekick" geek.
The series started off well with great potential. Where did it fail? The conspiracy simply got out of control, where every close contact was an enemy out to destroy the Mai or Chloe herself.
For a group of beings with cat-like powers, under attack by adversaries who played their hand early... this ancient group of (presumably) warriors did little to nothing to defend themselves.
They did not investigate Chloe's boyfriend, which would have begun to clue them in. They did not followup on Jasmine's boyfriend - simply accepting this very weird looking character at face value. They did not share knowledge - preferring to remain clueless. They insisted on creating an awkward love triangle where one of the main protectors was essentially a stalker - disinterested in piecing together the larger picture.
The leader of the Mai in that region also surrounded herself with children and also did little to share knowledge or even acquire it. She did this despite that fact that Chloe herself was under constant attack. While the enemies were tenacious, the "good guys" were oblivious.
While I enjoyed the first 3/4s of the series, by the last few episodes I was spent and frustrated. Many of the central characters just got dumber and dumber.
Rating this a 6 because of the characters, story concept and because it did start off well before self-destructing by series end.