It was certainly draggy. In S1 we had a few story streams to follow, that was just about right. You don’t want to confuse the viewer do you, you just want to engage them enough to get them to turn on/in for the next episode.
S2 was complicated. The writers went too far down the multi channel storytelling that the viewer lost track of what timeline and character they were following.
Bernards multiple streams became conflicting, yes to some degree that’s what makes a humans conscience up. But watching following scenes flick from beach to glass box then wandering around with Ford to then have him return into the park somewhere just edged out the “what next, eh? what’s going on?l” and became a replay button press for me just so I could follow.
The only “ohhh” was watching William shoot his daughter and then wonder if she was a human or not, and also the sequence of scenes where he was digging around in his arm for one of those isdn leads to see if he was human or a droid…. then to see a copy of William in a glass box just sitting like he was actually a droid…. which made me think was he human or just another droid all along…
But it was a complex series. I felt less for Delores and her quest this time around. Teddy and her story just became too dragged out and overplayed. In nearly every scene of theirs they pretty much constantly looked at each other and uttered the same words/narrative to punch home once more thier ultimate quest… and we all knew what that was from the opening scene in S2.
Not enough was made out of those two guys that used to fix up the droids, where was the moral conflict or intellectual questioning ? All they seemed to do was give in to the droids and follow them like sheep.. no fighting back, nothing.
Annnnd, yes so finally the storyline had to turn back to humans finding the key to the code and have the ability to change the droids narrative.. but that was too easy….
S3? Yes I’ll watch it. But I hope like a second album from an artist first massive success that the third becomes more mature and challenging.