Pope was one of my chief complaints with the show. Largely because he kept doing the same story arc. He started as a jerk loner who hated everybody and worked against the team, and then learned to love, and then reset every off season back to jerk mode. I was actually pleasantly surprised when season 5 started and he wasn’t a jerk... then they killed his girlfriend in ep 3 and he goes SUPER jerk. Then we get that dumb plot line with him kidnapping the Mason kid, then he disappears and we run into him again and he’s turned into some half-assed Governor hosting gladiator contest. Then he gets half a building dumped on him. Some how survives that, crawls out without anybody in the 2nd Mass noticing, stumbles his way to the exact spot where Tom meets the Dornia, and dies. Every bad story telling habit they had went through Pope.
Then of course there’s the space marital aid the Dornia gave Tom to kill the queen (it even squirts virus out of one end, DUDE). That was hilarious. And he infects the queen and she blows up?! Yet still somehow infect all the other Espheni who also blow up?! Oh and it turns out the Espheni are getting revenge for their failed invasion 15 thousand years ago. So I guess we didn’t need the marital aid, Tom just needed to stab the queen with a pointy stick.
I could do hours on this show. It’s comedy gold.
I agree with all of that, LOL.
My friend who turned me onto the show five years ago-—just wouldn’t shut up until I watched-—was so disgusted by the end of the series that she was just, “All I need is for this show to be over.”
About Pope-—yeah, the showrunners never seemed to know what direction to take him in. It was back and forth, like you said. I’ll be honest, I got tired of his endless harping, and there are some jerk/villainous characters I absolutely love (Simcoe from TURN being a current one). Pope, though, had no redeeming features for me, no humor...he was just a PITA. Then they just made him cartoonishly evil.
And what was up with Anthony going along with Pope....just because Weaver took his gun away? What?
My husband was going on about the primitives killing the queen’s daughter with spears, apparently with no problem, and it took modern day Americans five years to get a grip.
Too bad Mystery Science Theater isn’t still around.