Station Eleven rewards patience, but that's a big ask for the cellphone / social media generation. Story progression within an episode is sluggish and it requires an alert mind to notice the important little things you'll probably miss if you're feeling bored. Throw Lost and The Leftovers in a blender, add a very mild hallucinogen, mix well, and pour out a nice glass of Station Eleven. Enjoy, but drink slowly. The taste is subtle, but the kick will be stronger than you think.
By season 4, Star Trek: Wokevery is a completely unrecognizable Star Trek show.
Such a happy little optimistic, positive and life-affirming little story! Honest.
The godawful fake snow is getting on my nerves.
The Wokelyte. Disney has well and truly decided to sink themselves into this crap. It's just unfathomable.
Every episode with the character of Henry in it is shit. He's the most pointless character in any show for quite a while. The level of his cluelessness and stupidity just destroys any suspension of disbelief. They should have locked him up permanently a long time ago. How are we supposed to believe he's a survivor when he should be spending his time sucking his mom's tit? What a pain in the ass, a complete baby, his epic naivete just can't be taken seriously. What the hell were the writers thinking??
The worst season of the entire series so far. The writing is just horrible. Not one plot development, piece of dialogue, scene or character makes any sense. The entire season is spent trying to achieve something that never happens. There's just nothing memorable and nothing to really care about. One word summarizes it all: bland. Lukewarm. The Walking Dead has lost its way. Maybe it's time to quit.
How to write a script and look like a f***ing idiot? Easy:
Have characters shove loaded guns in each others faces in one scene, then make them kiss and make up in the next. Repeat. Repeat even more, and then once more for good measure!
Children and teens. And more kids and teens. As a 80's kid, I know I should be all excited, but I gave up after two episodes. I didn't find anything even mildly interesting; rather, I was bored to tears. Moving on.
For the love of God, someone strangle that kid! I'm now totally allergic to the word 'mummy'.
The worst, most boring episode of all the Star Trek shows ever made. One hour of pure, never-ending agony. An hour of endlessly repeating "PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP". Won't remember anything of it the next day. If I had to choose between watching this episode again or spending the hour watching paint dry, I'd choose the second option without hesitation.
Jesus. How many episodes is it going to take to resolve one battle - between two ships??
Every episode is now worse than the previous one. The story is going nowhere and all kinds of pointless directions at the same time. There are way too many characters who all seem to be just wondering around with little purpose. The drama feels forced and downright boring. The action scenes are almost retarded. It's little better than your average action movie. Very disappointing.
After the maddeningly slow start of the show, I'm pleased with where the second season seems to be going.
Endless scenes of dialogue, the characters just talkin and talking about nothing interesting. This whole season barely contains a coherent story, all the main characters each in their own unmemorable place. Talking about their feels with minor characters, and then talking some more. This is soap opera more than anything else.
The writing is not great when characters, apparently explaining each other things they're already supposed to know, are in reality explaining things to the viewing audience.
On the other hand, I like the last act of the pilot episode and how the themes of escape and evasion mix things up and set up future episodes. I'm still in.
We're at season 15 now and this is the most miserable and even depressing episode so far (even though challenge wise, it's a partial success). A little bit hard to watch. Even so, you got to admit that is what survival at its core must be.
Just too amateurish. Suspension of disbelief doesn’t hold together at any point. Subpar. Worth watching once, but just barely.
I was this close to quitting this show after the horrible previous episode. In contrast, this one, despite being only of average Star Trek quality, is infinitely better. It speaks volumes when you care much more about a random, single appearance character in an average episode than any of the primary characters in an awful one. If I never see a Adira and Gray scene again, it will be way too soon.
Space whales... Space Combat Whales. What exactly were the writers smoking??
This episode really stirred my emotions, or rather, my sense of right and wrong and justice. That doesn't happen often. Gotta tip my hat for that.
This show is some kind of a bizarre psychology experiment. How many times can they write in one of
before the audience kill themselves?
This was supposed to be scifi, but in reality it's endless and boring family drama. What little scifi there is, it's only there to create more tension for the drama. I don't care about any of the family members and every scene with them is too long. All around lazy writing.
I hate it when the writers assume their audience can't even read and have their characters read the text the camera is pointing at.
Okay, so movies like this are still occasionally made. Good, sometimes it's easy to lose faith.
This is what you can get when you don't have Hollywood money and you don't have to follow the standard Hollywood procedure and end up with a standard Hollywood product. I wouldn't want to take anything away from Hollywood: they have made many unforgettable experiences, but I don't see a way out of the too big to fail standard Hollywood mold.
Vesper shows what you can get when unrestricted, unchained, pure talent takes the center stage. There are no compromises and there is no holding back. Just someone's, or many someones', unfiltered vision, poured out on film. All I want to know is: when is their next project coming out?
It is difficult to think about Logan as a Marvel movie, because it is so much greater than the rest, even the best of them.
It probably wouldn't win the award of the happiest, most optimistic life-affirming story, though.
Okay. At this rate, before the season is over, lead characters will be getting confused about their genders and building safe spaces to protect them from white people (even if there aren't any around), who are all racists. Gray will be promoted to captain and Discovery's mission will be changed to preach the joy of wokeness while all the crew ever do is talk about their emotions.
In a way, Doctor Sleep is a typical Stephen King movie - or in this case, a typical Stephen King book. Good ideas here and there, but also very dumb, and too bloated as a whole. On the other hand, I was left strangely satisfied after it was all done. I think it was mostly thanks to a couple of scenes where Abra gave Rose the Hat her Medicine! ;-)
After the first episode, I have very high hopes for Star Trek: Picard. Star Trek: Discovery certainly has its place, but thankfully the two shows would not seem to be similar at all.
This episode is a cure for insomnia. Without Samantha Morton, I would score it 1/10.
Are you wondering if you should watch ”The Rain”? If so, you have to really ask yourself, what is most important to you?
I’m a real sucker for apocalyptic stories and themes. If the atmosphere and the ambience are where they need to be, I can forgive a lot when it comes to bad plots. And The Rain is all about the atmosphere.
There are actors and actresses who have some actual talent. The scenery is enjoyable, there are no outlandish Hollywood action scenes, all the teenage characters somehow are not super annoying, and the apocalyptic feel is mostly achieved in just the right ways. But the plot. The godawful holes, inconsistencies and omissions are hard to swallow, even for me, especially in the first episodes.
It gets better the further you get. You really should watch at least half of them before giving up. All the characters involve backstories or backflashes and somehow they made me care. Somehow I ended up identifying most with the ones who are least like me – or like the person I usually think I am. The apocalypse in The Rain is very important, for sure, but I could see how many in the audience would think of it as a character study.
In conclusion, the script is super… simple, really. There is only so much stuff you can put in eight shortish episodes. The characters aren’t the most complicated ones in fictional history, and there have been some better apocalypses on the TV screen. But when, after watching the conclusion, I ask myself if I cared, if I had feelings for it, and if I liked it… I have to answer Yes. Yes, I did. Maybe you will, too.
