[Locke]

Well I'm only four episodes in but as this is the first bunch of episodes, before my first filler skip, I can honestly say the way the characters were handled in these initial episodes was so so.

As much as I like a red who earns their colour, which is a surprisingly rare thing, I find King borderline obnoxious and a bit of a one man team, which distracted a little bit from the fact his entire motivations during these episodes is getting the team together.

Ami, like most pinks, is a casualty of war. The like one scene of focus she had promised something interesting but then every moment since has just involved the cameras creepy infatuation with her and nothing more.

Souji is the straight man, and a total badass, but I do admit outside of Ami and her utter lack of any characterisation at all he is probably the most bland in terms of character since his only purpose seems to be, being cool. I think he's cool enough to pull it off but he isn't the strongest of characters.

Ian is just really really annoying, I hate unnecessarily antagonistic characters like him. I get that he softened at the end of episode four, but then all we were left with was love bullets and engrish and I just found it a bit awful.

Nobu had really fantastic set up, with a clear goal to fight for and an emotional hook for the audience and so on but after that was finished with all he's been is comic relief and it feels like a giant waste.