4x02 Witch Hunt

A huge letdown from the season premiere. I love this show when it's being stupid in a goofy and charming way, but this one was stupid in all of the wrong and annoying ways. Rather than pile on, I'll just mention two obvious things. One, how many times and in how many different ways are Our Heroes going to have to be told that they can't change time and history? This week, it's Z's turn to need a reminder because...why? And two, while I can almost forgive that and what she does next since a little defiance can be a good thing once in a while, it's going to take some time to get over how stupid AND incompetent she was in allowing herself to get caught AND to lose her totem in the process when it all could have been so easily avoided since escape would have been easy. And those are just two of the more blatant examples of the overarching problem in this one. In short, someone in the writers' room must not like Z and must have decided that it was time to do some damage to the character in stupid ways -- the wrong kind of stupid ways. Hopefully this was a one-off and the writer responsible will be doing nothing more than copy editing work in the future.