10 Things About October Faction That Make Absolutely No Sense
5. Dante/Seth Might As Well Not Be Season One At All
In what is by now the show's trademark swiss cheese storytelling, we’re told that Samuel’s faked death and kidnapping by Presidio was all because they discovered his mad scientist leanings and experimentation -yet Samuel’s mad scientist tendencies aren't even hinted at until late in the season, when we see him experimenting on repentant serial killer Dante in flashback.
We eventually see that Allen the elder's objective was to duplicate the warlock ritual to have spirits cross over, so as to place his dead son Seth’s spirit in Dante’s receptive body. Of course, we’re never shown how Sam duplicates their magic with technology, or how it is that his machines can find Seth’s spirit after all these years.
Finally, we’re supposed to accept, as Viv does, that the seemingly gentle, protective Dante/Seth cyborg is a good person worth saving, despite the fact that at first he's a scary-looking stranger, and later he's discovered to have the spirit of a sociopathic killer in the body of a schizophrenic murderer.
It seems redundant at this point to complain that it makes no sense, because so little of this show does. How did Dante get away from the mansion or escape Presidio? What’s with the disco-lighting in his cyborg eye? Why does the story introduce him this way if he’s not going to actually do anything of consequence in the entire season?
These are all questions that Damian Kindler has no interest in asking or answering.