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TV Review: Witchblade (Spoilers)

Just for the heck of it, I'll include the spoilers in the "extended" entry. But the summary is: I watched all the episodes, and feel pretty ripped off at this point. Probably not worth your time, unless you are a huge Yancy Butler fan. Does that apply to anyone?

So, 12 hours of this show, and they hit the repeat button. Or the repeat power, or whatever. What the hell? Are they going to replay the whole first season, but slightly differently? Are we really supposed to believe that this can only be used once? That there aren't other amazing powers that will conveniently appear later? Do we have to sit through a terrible pseudo-philosophical periculum episode again? Ugh. And here I was going to give them credit for killing off characters, and they couldn't hold through with it. I think the lack of clear definition of the witchblade powers really hurt the mystical aspect of the show, and the mediocre production quality of the show hurt the police drama aspect. I liked the Gabriel character, and some of the White Bull investigation seemed ok. I bought the FBI agent twist to the McCarty character, which I hadn't seen, but the Captain Dante character was overdone. I didn't quite follow the Ian character, and Irons was kind of stupid. The Irish singer guy did grow on me, as did the original partner. But a lot of the episodes were stupid, and I feel like they dug themselves a huge hole with this season finale. Ugh. And I never really bought into the Pez character. The show seemed much better at building up to something than delivering the payoff. Here's hoping I don't waste any more time with this.