I’ve watched the show and movie multiple times over the last fifteen years now. I have a little Swordfish pin I wear daily. I’m saying, I like the show a lot.
But I was showing it to my wife for the first time, and she enjoyed it, but I had to agree with her that, yeah, the Julia plot basically comes out of nowhere. We hear little things about her, Vicious and the Syndicate, but we only ever get fragments, drip fed to us, and then it all suddenly comes to a head in the last couple episodes.
Julia dies and… I’ve honestly never felt anything about it, because I don’t know her. Spike kills Vicious but I don’t feel any catharsis as if he’s just killed the big bad guy, because he’s basically





