LogFAQs > #925284863

Beauty and the Beast continues to feel like an even worse version of Smallville. At times, it feels kinda like Smallville was mashed together with Grimm -- mostly in terms of the stupid goofiness of the random plot contrivances, changes in character motivation, etc. One of the things that randomly annoys me the most is the logical inconsistencies surrounding the time-frames. Kristin Kreuk was born in 1982. She was noted as graduating in 2003 (circa the reunion episode; which, by the way, would puts the actress's real age at 21 upon graduating -- not a big deal in theory, because shows always cast older for younger characters).

She had either started college or was getting ready to go to college at the beginning of the series, which is set prior to the show's modern day. If she graduated in 2003, then she'd likely be younger than 28 in the first episode (since Vincent was supposedly in hiding for over a decade and was likely in hiding when they first saw each other). Isn't that kinda young for a detective? I was under the impression that you had to work a certain number of years before you could take a promotion exam and homicide detectives should have more stringent requirements.

Then we have Vincent. He was already a doctor as September 11th. Even if he hadn't fully gone through his residency, etc, that would make him probably at least 25 at the time (and 10-12 years older than that when the show starts, meaning there's probably a substantial age difference between Vincent and Cat but nothing absolutely insane). Assuming that the show is set in 2012, the time line is *really* screwy. Even if he enlisted right after the attack, it would have taken time for him to get over there, go through the experiments, etc, and THEN go into hiding for over 10 years after that.

Granted, this is among the more inconsequential inconsistencies >_>

Currently watching s2, where the show has taken on more of a monster-of-the-week format as opposed to season 1 which, while it focused on cases, seemed to have more running plot threads. S2E1 was probably the worst episode so far.
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