I agree with much of the above: I like it less because no Nick, Giles and Rowan and too much Lawrie; and because it happens over the space of just a few days.
I also just found the plot too contrived, and there were too many compromises made with the characters' behaviour to make the plot fit. There's the whole weird Lawrie episode, as mentioned above. And I didn't find it convincing that Patrick alone would be able to speak the lingo from overhearing a couple of conversations while sitting in a cafe. I don't see Patrick as the cafe loungeing type at ALL, in fact. And then there's the issue of where were their parents during all this commotion: surely Patrick if not the other two would have had the basic sense to get another adult involved when things started going pear shaped?
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Date: 2006-03-03 12:14 pm (UTC)I also just found the plot too contrived, and there were too many compromises made with the characters' behaviour to make the plot fit. There's the whole weird Lawrie episode, as mentioned above. And I didn't find it convincing that Patrick alone would be able to speak the lingo from overhearing a couple of conversations while sitting in a cafe. I don't see Patrick as the cafe loungeing type at ALL, in fact. And then there's the issue of where were their parents during all this commotion: surely Patrick if not the other two would have had the basic sense to get another adult involved when things started going pear shaped?