„Mr Cavill, how did you personally like the first episode of season 3?“
„Hmm.“
This whole season has been a confusion of bad script writing and a personal lack of detachment to the characters – something that Strange New Worlds has succeeded in with lightness.
But: I do like the idea of first contact with the Ten-C through a concept based on Lincos for cosmic communication very much.
You get a feeling of the camaraderie of all the people on this set and a tiny insight into this unbelievable effort of creating that show logistically and technically.
"The Dark Net with Jonathan Frakes" Epic!
Well, this could have been a good episode. But: When you see David Harbour and David Costabile in the cast, you immediately know that both have to be the bad guys. Why else would you choose those excellent actors? That gave it away for me very early in the episode.
Librarian: What we do not understand can be frightening.
Nobusuke Tagomi: Yes it can be, but when one is troubled by the reality of this world, it can be comforting to consider other possibilities, even if those possibilities disturb us. So strong is the desire to escape the tyranny of consciousness and the narrow boundary's of our perceptions, to unlock the prisons of thought in which we trap ourselves all in the hope that a better world or a better version of ourselves perhaps may lie on the other side of the door.
All cinematographic aspects of what makes a good picture are constantly present in this TV series. Also, as shown here, the writing ist just excellent – especially when it comes to dialogues. There is hardly any word too much, every line has been meticulously crafted.
This was totally enjoyable. Humor was not over-the-top. Pace, character set-up and dialogues are referentially making a curtsy to STTNG. I really enjoyed Discovery, but somehow Orville feels even closer to classic Star Trek.
Always nice to surprisingly have Gerald McRaney appear in an unsurprisingly reiteration of the kind of character he's been playing for the past few decades.
"Who's this Simon?" "It was a show. It doesn't matter." Enjoyed the self-ironic reference here.
"Why is it so tiny?" "People were a lot smaller back then."
I like the cross-references to other works which are interwoven into the, well, "narrative" of this series. I still can't make sense of where this is going, but I can get truly lost on the way, thereby following the steps of the two protagonists. It's kind of clever when I think about it.
Although it comes a bit surprising to embed this piece of storytelling into a season of eight episodes, it is a beautiful emotional narrative.
I'm so glad that I've finally encountered an episode that feels more like the vibe of what TWD used to bring in the early seasons. This is also mainly contributed by the character of Rick who reiterates some of the straits he used to incorporate.
Good scene with Carol, the rest of the episode is only okay-ish. But: Great distorted ending with the early 1966 Bee Gees song spicks and specks; that made the conflict of the group vs this parallel world more real than costumes and other stuff.
The visuals with its set design are beautiful and worth more my two points. And I know it is difficult to translate the book into a movie. But what made it a huge disappointment for me was the lack of a convincing character development in its course. The actors are great, their guidance though seems to have been misleading.
I do not know the book on which this series is based, but it all reminds me very much of Lem's Solaris – or George Clooney's film adaption thereof. There are a variety of predecessors of the sci-fi theme exploring the question of faith in a scientifically oriented world. This mystery pilot opens up a lot of questions on the coming course of the plot without providing a whole lot of them. Nevertheless, I love the genre and found it highly entertaining. The only "really" disturbing thing was the closeness of the music to Hans Zimmer's Interstellar or Cliff Martinez' Solaris.
GOT for teenagers, I'd say. Which I'm not, anymore. But nevertheless it appears to be a decent crossover narrative of its own. And the visuals are quite impressive for a show with that kind of targeted audience. I'll hang on to it a bit more.
This is some crazy plot! Mesmerizing, no time to breathe, it keeps your head spinning. What a start to something that I can hardly imagine how it could evolve. What a fresh new infusion of the superhero universe.
