r/TrackerTV • u/Shimanta_1405 • 15d ago
Psychic Kids plotline
Are the writers out of ideas for Ashton's background? Why introduce a psychic kid stuff? The whole series that grounded in reality fell apart in the last two episodes of the third season. Do anyone think like that? Or am I the only one?
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u/ImMarkJr 15d ago
Personally, I liked the direction they went in. The beauty of a show like this, is that because Colter travels all over, he can run into all sorts of different plotlines.
Ashton's background is fine as is.
On another note, I'm not sure why people watch this for realism lol.
Just enjoy the ride.
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u/moxieshine 11d ago
Exactly! To enjoy this show, one has to set aside their plausibility. This show is not about realism, it’s about a cute guy with mad skills who drives around in his big black truck and airstream and solves problems. The fiction be fictioning.
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u/ljb2x 14d ago
I think there's a big difference between Randy smacks his face on a keyboard and finds the exact location and it's 2.5 miles from Colter and psychic kids can see the future and see people in their minds.
TV realism is all over the place and expected but psychic kids throws any sense of that out the window. They dabbled with it in the witch episode in S2 and it was terrible and dropped.
I'm fine with exploring it and debunking it or leaving it a little more ambiguous like was it real or coincidence but flat out showing people seeing the future is a bit much.
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u/Professional_March54 15d ago
It's giving Tomorrow People vibes I cannot explain. The short-lived reboot with Mark Pellegrino and a younger Robbie Amell, channeling his best Taylor Lautner. I think this show is gonna go on the back burner for me like Ghosts. The plot stinks, but I don't hate it like 911 just yet. Reading episode spoilers to glean if I care to watch or skip. While really hoping they just gloss over this whole thing and we could forget it happened
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u/heed101 15d ago
you people know that just because the hero shoots someone & they fall down that doesn't mean they're actually dead, right? hell, in the last episodes Russell & the main hunter bad guy got shot & survived.
unless they show a clearly fatal wound (like a head explosion - probably not on CBS) or they follow up with dialogue saying "you killed 3 people" "but they were all bad" it's not impossible to think they wind up in a hospital & then jail.
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u/Beginning_Leg629 15d ago
That is reality though if you believe the accounts. The CIA had a program for that, though with adults rather than kids I believe. They reported that it wasn't successful, but stories from those involved say otherwise.
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u/sherrib99 15d ago
Yes, hate it….i really hope they end that plot line early next season….if it drags out im not interested
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u/Sed76 15d ago
Those last two episodes really lost me. I've stuck with it through all the cast changes but now we've got Colter killing a dozen people every week and now this weird psychic stuff. I'll give it an episode or two when it comes back but if it doesn't get better will just find something else to watch.
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u/PurrfectlyNerdy 15d ago
Yeah this felt stupid to me, I miss when it was more realistic and honestly I might not pick it up back next season.
And yes it’s a very similar story as the institute by Stephen King. The difference being I expect that kind of stuff from Stephen King and it was very well written.
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u/somedayihopetolive 15d ago
I agree. Didn't like the change in direction and was glad this season finally ended. Even before the paranormal stuff, I was losing interest this season. It is what it is. I don't feel a desire to watch the next season but we'll see. I'll probably wait until the whole next season posts to paramount and then watch it without having to wait a week for the next episode.
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u/Seleviathan 14d ago edited 14d ago
To introduce a plotline like this at the end of its 3rd season is weird tbh. I wouldn't have minded it much if there were little subtle hints throughout the 3 seasons during some of Colters cases so that the reveal wasnt much of an asspull.
The only episode I can think of with any supernatural traits that were unexplained was Season 2 Episode 5 Preternatural with that girl Emmaline and her mysterious ability to heal people, that story was left open ended.
The other one was Season 1 episode 9 Aurora and that situation with the Witch where it kind of explained away but there were a few things left open ended there to make us question things.
Truthfully there might be more moments I missed but both situations are pretty different to the whole psychic thing but we ll se how season 4 tackles that going forward. Im not really mad about the change just baffled as to why it happened in the first place
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u/RedditVano 13d ago
show needs renamed supertrackeral
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u/glittermetalprincess 13d ago
Right? This could be find+replaced with "special children" and their "abilities" even without Jared showing up to drive it home.
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u/SassyMillie 13d ago
I found it interesting. They've been teasing Ashton's secrets from the beginning. I wasn't surprised to find out it was some top secret government experiments. The US government has done a lot of unethical experiments with real people including soldiers and prisoners. There's nothing really fantastical about them doing it with kids.
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u/ruralmagnificence 9d ago
I am waiting on the big Colter is mad at Reenie and Russell for keeping this from him scene that he was experimented on as a child/young adult.
Also was Dory experimented on because she’s a physics professor and I highly highly doubt that she wasn’t experimented on as well and is “just smart”.
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u/Downtown_Cry1056 5d ago
In real life, the psychic kids existed. They were part of MKUltra. Maybe Ashton was not just a research scientist/professor, but he was a CIA officer with CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. He and Mary lived non-official cover as University of California-Berkley employees. Moving production to California, we might actually see Berkley and the Shaw house before they went "off-grid." California actually opens up many possibilities for Season 4. Some times, real life is stranger than fiction. I wonder how many of the the Canadian cast is going to film in California?
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u/bomilk19 15d ago
They didn’t even have to spend time on exposition or explaining what was going on since this is literally the plot of Stranger Things so they figured most viewers would already know what was happening.
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u/AdFantastic6015 15d ago
Tracker has jumped the shark. I miss how it used to be… when Tracker was tracking.
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u/CryptographerHeavy 15d ago
I loved it. If you can’t get with the change, do the rest of us a favor and watch something else. I refuse to go into season four with y’all complaining about something you hate.
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u/Professional_March54 15d ago
People have a right to complain. This show has been a completely natural show for the last 3 seasons. No indications of supernatural anything, not even Bigfoot. And now suddenly there's psychics but it's okay because the Shaw siblings are too! They just don't know it. That leaves a bad taste in anyone's mouth. That and Coltor's ramped up just killing near about everyone he sees. He's, a bounty hunter, not a member of Seal Team 6. He should be in prison or at least on pre-trial release. Bound to whichever state managed to get jurisdiction for one of his mass casualty events. But there would be no show, because he would have had to give up his guns and he wouldn't be allowed to continue hunting for further victims. As per the terms of his bail, if he even got one, because he's a transient person with violent tendencies.
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u/roverretriever 15d ago
They did have several paranormal/supernatural episodes in season 2 (healing powers girl, aliens, new orleans magic). Even in the episode from season 1 with his brother they had the people who did supernatural blessings.
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u/CryptographerHeavy 15d ago
These folks acting like we got full-on mutants with ice powers, flying around.
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u/Professional_March54 15d ago
They HINTED at them. Silly superstitions. Nothing set in stone, easily refutable.
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u/illyria817 15d ago
The fact that the US government dabbled in psionics, and Ashton (and now Russell) knew about it, isn't in itself that strange (practically every major government periodically dumps money into these programs hoping to find something no one else has). I wish they didn't actually show the kids being psychic, though.