Bree knows her astronomy and has a general interest in science, and she plays with stuffed animals, does silly skits and makes silly faces, and generally act endearingly dorky.
Spencer is incredibly nerdy and lovable, whether he's laughing about an old commercial then staring awkwardly at the camera, using overly complex scientific terms, geeking out about old video games, or waving a lightsaber around in his office.
Taylor is very smart, and also likes to make Stop Motion plays and geeks out over barcodes and beating video game levels.
"Warwalking" (from the season 1 episode of the same name) is a real thing, and it's exactly what Daniel describes: walking around an area to find an open wifi connection.
Angst? What Angst?: Daniel kills somebody with a knife in the Season 1 finale. This is mentioned rather neutrally one time and never again, and it doesn't seem to affect him much at all.
Anvilicious: Season 3 episode "It's The Doing That Matters" could be pretty accurately described as a poverty-awareness PSA that happens to feature a lonelygirl15 character.
Badass Decay: Shadows start out as pretty threatening, with the first one encountered by the TAAG easily abducting and drugging Bree, Daniel, and Jonas. Later, in "Proceed With Caution", Alex describes them as basically drug-augmented super soldiers. In Season 2, the first Shadow we see, Claire, is less impressive physically due to being emotionally-compromised when we see them in action. However, they do show off skill at manipulation, and are clearly still being a serious threat until Virgil shoots her in the head. By Season 3, though, we see a Shadow get killed by running in front of a car, and then in the Grand Finale, Jonas effortlessly kills two Shadows in a matter of seconds after we already saw him lose a fight earlier in the day and spending a big chunk of the day tied up, cementing their descent into Mooks.
Broken Base: A lot of fans stopped watching and swore off the series after Bree was killed off at the end of Season 1. Others stuck it out till the end.
Alex was in only around a dozen episodes and started out as a traitor, but a lot of fans wanted her to come back at some point thanks to having one of the better character arcs in the show and Elizabeth Tulloch providing one of the best performances of the show.
Spencer appeared in around twenty episodes, but managed to quickly become one of the most beloved characters, thanks largely to his sweet, Adorkable nature and how easily he got along with the other characters, especially Taylor.
Speaking of Taylor, she was also a fan-favorite despite appearing in a fairly low number of episodes, likely thanks to being smart, cute, and nice.
Bree's homeschooling includes a few topics that could support a crazy Cult's belief system. Roman cannibalism isn't something you'd teach in a normal high school curriculum.
Bree receives mysterious injections as part of her preparation for the Ceremony. Later, after she moves in with Jonas, Daniel discovers that the injections were of a drug called EPOGEN. EPOGEN increases red-blood cell counts and is normally used to treat anemia, which Bree doesn't have. The obvious explanation for this is that the Order wants her to have as much of that trait-positive blood flowing through her veins as possible for the Ceremony.
The "purity bond" Ceremony girls have to follow seems a little random at first, since the Ceremony is not a Virgin Sacrifice. The fact the Ceremony is really a blood transfusion, however, causes it to make more sense: the Elders want to avoid getting hit with a bloodborne STD from their victim.
There's some subtle evidence accumulated from "I hAtE tHeSe PeOpLe", "Bedside Manner", "Taking Advantage of Her" and "HOLY SH%T!!!" that Bree is faking her brainwashing before it's revealed in the season finale: Bree acts completely normal when she doesn't think she's being filmed. Daniel and Sarah film her in secret during the latter two videos, and Bree seems like she's just enjoying hanging out with Jonas in those videos.
Right up to the Grand Finale there were still people waiting for Bree to show up, not helped by the fact they didn't die in a violent, physically obvious way, but simply from blood loss in the Ceremony.
Some fans are convinced Gina didn't die, even though they got shot. This is based entirely on the questionable belief that Jonas is incapable of taking a pulse.
It Was His Sled: Anyone starting an Archive Binge today already knows that this is a scripted web series, as it was revealed by the creators a couple months in and the actors have given TV interviews. Early on, lots of people thought Bree was a real girl.
In "Aleister Crowley", Daniel explains his obvious exhaustion as the result of being up for... 14 hours straight. Less time than the average person is awake on a daily basis.
"Lucy!?!?!" should've been an appropriately dramatic Freeze-Frame BonusWham Episode, but it's ruined for some by the fact that Lucy is still wearing her sunglasses in the photo.
"Politics Gone Wild!":
The TAAG's infiltration idea is to pose as waitstaff, which would be a lot less comical if there weren't nearly as many of them as actual people attending the event.
At the ending, the TAAG have piled into their getaway car and are about to drive out of the parking garage when Lucy steps in front of the car. And instead of just running her over, they panic and back up. Lucy is right to be considered a major threat by default, but this particular instance is completely over-the-top with it. Made even worse by the fact that an earlier episode did have them use Car Fu on an Order member, so it wasn't like running someone down was crossing a moral line either.
Jules, due both to poor acting and her behaviour resulting in the capture of Bree. In fairness, the entire arc had to be hastily rewritten when the actress playing the original "new girl", Sam, dropped out at the last minute, and Jules' actress was brought in in a desperate attempt to salvage the arc.
Mallory also comes in for a fair bit of hatred, due to getting between Daniel and Sarah, as well as the popular (and wrong) fan theory that she was secretly working for the antagonists.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Grand Finale. It had great build-up: A Total Eclipse of the Plot, a mysterious prophecy, the prospect of an encounter with Lord Carruthers, somebody doing something called "The Ascension". Then, during the finale, Sarah calls Jonas "the one" and that the Order needs him to fulfill the prophecy somehow, and... absolutely none of this is paid off. The eclipse, the prophecy, and the Ascension are all barely mentioned, much less explained, Sarah never elaborates on Jonas' significance to any of it, Lord Carruthers remains The Unfought, the climactic action sequence takes about three seconds and has the weak payoff of Sarah and her dad yelling at each other a couple times, and then it all ends with everybody just going home. Many fans feel this completely wasted the great setup the episode had.
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