Much better than I was expecting (from the first episode). I have only yet watched through this 3rd episode, but so far my episode scores have escalated from 6 (ep. 1) to 8 (ep. 2) to now 10 (for ep. 3). 10 is a rarity.
Much better than I was expecting (from the first episode). I have only yet watched through the 3rd episode, but so far my episode scores have escalated from 6 (ep. 1) to 8 (ep. 2) to now 10 (for ep. 3). 10 is a rarity.
Unlike the impression left by the initial episode(s) of NZ version, this matches up to original and oftentimes it arguably even supersedes it. A really great cast (including the hosts) was netted for this season.
frustrating that, despite whatever rebuttal Merlin did deliver to Arthur in mild defense of the sorcerer's involvement, it's moot since Merlin does not also go so far as to correct Arthur's mischaracterization in which magic was stated as the CAUSE of Uther's death where in fact, UHH, HELL NO: the jester/dagger-entertainment-guy (because of Odin, because of Odin's son's death, because of Uther) is what CAUSED Uther's death; MAGIC, on the other hand, is what gave Arthur the only available HOPE/chance to perhaps AVOID that death that was caused by something ELSE :unamused:. annoying to hear misstatements of what happened go uncorrected, especially when their incorrectness makes all the difference in the world.
What an intentionally frustrating episode… ~_~
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A blend of: (A) Sweet Tooth; (B) a less intense, less epic Stranger Things; and (C), say, the good psychosocial and adventure elements of Mars (the very good recent/2016 science-fiction series that I believe had connections to Space X and National Geographic). Less consistently compelling to watch, and less consistently excellent and fantastic (as some of those referenced productions), but at times this can be great (with Mitsuki/Hinata) and, after the beginning, the show is good often enough to keep me watching. 7/10 overall, despite much variation above and below that.
Season 3 is setup to be quite a banger, given the lead-up that Season 2 gave, and I'm hoping it delivers (when it comes out)!
Thank goodness, within even just the first 7 mins it was clear that the lameness of the season's opening episode was over with. Now we're back to that enjoyable formula that worked in the first season!
Hmm, I loved the first season, but so far (after only watching the first episode):
1) there's ~900% more Maria Sten~/Neagley~, who's dull and unconvincing in this role, and being tasked with delivering the majority of the annoyingly received retellings of the plot points via strings of exposition that would just be redundant and even stranger (than it is here) in real life, and
2) they haven’t introduced any interesting characters (like the white lady cop and the black male cop of the first season, or even some of the recurring dirty/corrupt folks of that season) to take the load off of Reacher who isn't supposed to say much via words, and
3) the poorly incorporated and delivered info-dumps I mentioned above leading to just a bunch annoyingly bad acting taking up too much a percentage of the watching time and very little moments of seeming realness to attach to (heck, the first of surely not much more actual highlights of character development, acting, or mere coolness was a mere ~90 second scene of Reacher interacting with two ephemeral characters during a merely incidental, passing carjacking).
…So, I'm hoping some of the positive commenters have similar taste to me and thus that their positive comments on the season means it gets better in the following two released episodes.
I incorrectly prejudged this season, presuming it to be one of the least interesting ones before seeing any more than the poster and maybe just one other still image.
Thankfully I eventually gave it a try, because this was the best season premiere I've watched within the maybe 5 seasons I've watched: 9 or 10 pts out of 10!
Very lacking in allure to keep watching to the end (ie., quite boring most of the way through), but the magic of Moir— at the end, in combination with the revealed premise that one of those four shall eventually be critical to their age/aeon, got me in the end.
It's amazing how tremendously they've succeeded in grossing me out beyond anything I've seen before! …and to do so while also achieving laughter out of me, particularly at the end, with a certain, err, flatulent exit that gets made? Best episode so far! (Amazed to read opinions speaking the opposite here… What elements /do/ people like those commenters actually look for when watching? Amount of leaves displayed?? o_O)
One of the best episodes I've seen so far. Top tier (out of the maybe 4 or 5 seasons of episodes that I've watched).
Wow. Surprisingly great (fun, cast, tasks, organization), considering that it's the very first season. Why've I been jumping around through all the other, later seasons looking/winnowing for more gold when it seems that the show had whinnied out the barn, first season, at full gallop!
Wow. Surprisingly great (episode, cast, tasks, organization), considering that it's the very first season. Why've I been jumping around through all the other, later seasons looking/winnowing for more gold when it seems that the show had whinnied out the barn, first season, at full gallop!
Wow. Surprisingly great (episode, cast, tasks, organization), considering that it's the very first season. Why've I been jumping around through all the other, later seasons looking/winnowing for more gold when it seems that the show had whinnied out the barn, first season, at full gallop!
Lesser than the British, Benedict Cumberbatch–led series ‘Sherlock’, of which each episode was movie-worthy, of course, but this is a great reservoir for one's regular roster of viewing entertainment, and is quite surprisingly good for such a high-volume production.
Note: the episodes start getting progressively more complex starting somewhere around season 4–5.
A ‘Westworld’ replacement with elements of ‘Ready Player One’, the ‘Reacher’ TV show season 1, and the ‘Tenet’ movie.
Greatly aligns with reality (i.e., the various technological ideas, dilemmas, and conclusions I've cognized/conceived/realized over the last decade or so) and is also somehow infinitely more finely visually rendered than blockbuster releases (e.g., the The Last Of Us HBO Max TV show season 1) that I assumed would have had an advantage of more capital investment (i.e., more money to work with). Beautiful, depressingly reflective/realist, and yet not conclusively depressing as, overall, it allows for hope. (It yet again must be said that this film confusingly, greatly outperforms big-budget productions in its rich, finely rendered, realistic visual components).
Where is this available? (Not on Netflix…)
I finally at least read the blurb/premise-description for this movie and from that I then instantly envisioned a genre-standard/cliche scene as a part of this movie (i.e., a scene where the spy-hero's female love interest finally betrayingly turns a gun on the male protagonist and reveals the secret half of the story that the protagonist has thus-far been acting incognizant of), and I became preemptively jaded and became somewhat annoyed that this might be boring and not be a good candidate for me in spite of my wanting to see some more Thandie Newton.
…So, without explicitly stating whether my presumption regarding the plot pattern was right: from what I've shared, do you think I should avoid spending time watching this?
Does it get good again? (Season 1 was great; season 2 was crap. Does it get better again?)
(BTW: There are no spoiler stuff here. Not unless you consider show quality changes to be spoilers.)
I finally committed time to trying the show. After having watched the first season, boy was I glad I did. I'd give that season an 8/10.
Then comes the second season.. where, amid some intermittent enjoyable elements (like some of the scenes with the lady Grail agent playing incognito roles, even those before we know of Grail; or, IIRC, the recruitment trials for Grail might have been amusing), it was very plainly a sludge (forced watching) forward to presumably-- hopefully-- get back to a part of the show that's worth watching. I figured that with a good first season under its belt, the runners of the show must have let some less included writers have a chance to guide a real TV show (resulting in a mish-mash of alternatively colored cow dung; not necessarily because the writers were objectively bad, but because they weren't melding their influences with what was already strong & expected from the show by way of its existing season)... But does whatever it is that went wrong with season 2 get undone in the seasons after?
I finally made it to the end of this bad season (2). There are two more available, meaning the show managed to stay on the air. Are they any better? Is it worth watching more, or did this show really only have one good season (1)?
Does it get good again? (Season 1 was great; season 2 was crap. Does it get better again?)
(BTW: There are no spoiler stuff here. Not unless you consider show quality changes to be spoilers.)
I finally committed time to trying the show. After having watched the first season, boy was I glad I did. I'd give that season an 8/10.
Then comes the second season.. where, amid some intermittent enjoyable elements (like some of the scenes with the lady Grail agent playing incognito roles, even those before we know of Grail; or, IIRC, the recruitment trials for Grail might have been amusing), it was very plainly a sludge (forced watching) forward to presumably-- hopefully-- get back to a part of the show that's worth watching. I figured that with a good first season under its belt, the runners of the show must have let some less included writers have a chance to guide a real TV show (resulting in a mish-mash of alternatively colored cow dung; not necessarily because the writers were objectively bad, but because they weren't melding their influences with what was already strong & expected from the show by way of its existing season)... But does whatever it is that went wrong with season 2 get undone in the seasons after?
I finally made it to the end of this bad season (2). There are two more available, meaning the show managed to stay on the air. Are they any better? Is it worth watching more, or did this show really only have one good season (1)?
Now we're back on track...
— with only 4 episodes left.
But maybe that isn't so measly an amount as I was thinking last week. Yet then again, on the probably more likely path, this season was intentionally nerfed, for the benefit of HBO and/or HBO Max's future, and at the end this will feel like it did a disservice to the IP by being a less as wonderful season than it could have been. We'll see; but the recent trajectory has been a joy. Very good episode.
This show is asking for a lot of patience..
If you want to have the liberty to not strongly advance the understanding with each episode—well, I guess it did in this episode, but it doesn't feel that way—and want people to still think this is going to be worth it by the end, when there's only a scant total of 9 episodes in the production and you're already halfway through, having to wait 1 week in between each lump of non-progress is not ideal. (At the least, the episodes should come every two days, if you absolutely certain the show requires the pace your excreting it at.)
Note: I do indeed think that cool stuff are happening on the screen. I also think the above, though.
I liked the introduction of this Lady Trieu (sp?).
(Not actually a spoiling statement at all, BTW, so feel free to unmask it, but I'm pedantic.)
Har har. So he does like that meta-joke.
Timespace fun!
Hmm. I had had an after-worry that that great first episode of the season might start a path downhill for some reasons... But, at least these episodes aren't so far as being bad...
You have some episodes left. Prove my worry to have only been partially well-grounded, Damon, and I'll gift ya an autographed brick in return.
I was not prepared for this show to likely become the thing I'm most psyched about in this surrounding two years; and yet here I am, witnessing all signs pointing to the rest of the season living up to that honor.
This was soo much better than the poor trailer for it originally had me expecting. Yes, I later learned more information — that Damon Lindelof, of LOST and The Leftovers, was behind it — eventually getting me more interested; but I certainly wasn't confident, given the trailer.
This has me remembering how good the movie actually was... I kind of lost track of my memories of how intense it was and how involved it's last act was...
Anywho, on to the real reason I had to post something.. Timepoint 59 mins and 59 seconds in the episode is what finally gave me what I was truly waiting to validate: that there was no way that the soundtrack could be so NIN without actually being NIN / Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross.
I was not prepared for this show to likely become the thing I'm most psyched about in this surrounding two years; and yet here I am, witnessing all signs pointing to the rest of the season living up to that honor.
This was soo much better than the poor trailer for it originally had me expecting. Yes, I later learned more information — that Damon Lindelof, of LOST and The Leftovers, was behind it — eventually getting me more interested; but I certainly wasn't confident, given the trailer.
This has me remembering how good the movie actually was... I kind of lost track of my memories of how intense it was and how involved it's last act was...
Anywho, on to the real reason I had to post something.. Timepoint 59 mins and 59 seconds in the episode is what finally gave me what I was truly waiting to validate: that there was no way that the soundtrack could be so NIN without actually being NIN / Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross.
10/10.
Well-- I suppose that's one way to do a cameo.
(I thought this episode was going complete Bandersnatch on me for quite a while...)
Perfect episode. :ok_hand:
(Of special note in this episode: Such great camera direction & the actual execution of those maneuvers with that camera work, flawless.)
So, it's Wednesday and episodes air on Mondays, so when I gleefully realize I haven't watched the latest episode yet, I excitedly just went looking for the new episode, episode #9 to watch. Then: hmm. Wait— what? The season (which I already know to be the final season) concluded in the last episode I watched (#8), without me even noticing that it was the finale a week after having already watched it?
This is only an 8 episode season? Ayayay... I need to watch that last episode all over again now. This is a favorite show of mine and I don't even remember how it ended!
