Another Life - Netflix sci-fi series
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Starry Wisdom
i really wanted to enjoy this. but i found the acting uncompelling. i watched it with mrs model, who made it clear that if i want to watch a second episode i'll be doing it without her.
tbh i might just get the book.
tbh i might just get the book.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I finished the series. It is pretty bad to begin with. I eventually came to like the characters, and to care about their fate, but I can’t in all honesty say “you must stick with it”. But in the slim chance they make a season 2, I’ll watch it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Oh look, its Starbuck from BSG.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
no it wasn't
^ that's starbuck from battlestar galactica
Original BSG, Buck Rogers and Space 1999. All slightly before my time but I saw them sporadically as a kid anyway. New BSG is the truest version now though.
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Starry Wisdom
we'll have to agree to disagree then
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well done, I only got about 15 minutes in before calling it quits. Utter toss.
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Starry Wisdom
do you mean utter toss shit plot or utter toss crap script or utter toss shit acting? or all three?
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I'll go along.
This was absolutely terrible and everyone should give it the thumbs down.
Took me a day and a half to watch the first episode, was unimpressed with the bits of the second I watched.
I learned to skip through the following episodess just looking for major scene thumbnails in the fastforward, got the whole story.
Unacceptable. I would never have gone to that much trouble if it hadn't been Starbuck.
This was absolutely terrible and everyone should give it the thumbs down.
Took me a day and a half to watch the first episode, was unimpressed with the bits of the second I watched.
I learned to skip through the following episodess just looking for major scene thumbnails in the fastforward, got the whole story.
Unacceptable. I would never have gone to that much trouble if it hadn't been Starbuck.
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hiraethified
And that's shit too. But not as bad as this. Without giving the 'plot' away, this series involves a set of humans blasting off on what is supposed to be the most important mission in the history of humankind. And you couldn't have picked a more unstable/weird/unhinged set of characters if you'd enrolled them at 6am after an all night druggy rave.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Definitely bad acting (that hit straight away) and a badly scripted and paced. The plot didn't really get time to take off before I did, but what seemed engaging on paper lost me on screen in record time.
Then it went all Beverly hills 90210 in the spaceship with a very weak reasoning for making the crew a bunch of teenagers (why not the older leads?). I saw a red letter media review that says the kids keep getting killed with an endless supply of new cast members to be unfrozen and take their place, but the massive lack of character development makes their deaths completely empty and meaningless.
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hiraethified
Like space itself.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My mate called it Hollyoaks In Space. Is he right?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well I said Beverly Hills 90210 because they were all US posh pretty kids. . . . but to be honest I don't think I haven't really ever watched it. Haven't seen hollyoaks since Alvin Stardust left the pub.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
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hiraethified
I thought it was pretty awful, and lost interest half way through. I posted that on the thread here at the time.
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hiraethified
Well earned. That said. I may be bored enough to find out what happened with the wildly improbable ending from episode 2.6% approval rating on Rotten TomatoesI have never seen a rating as low as that.
Supine
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’ve never seen Hollyoaks. But I’d say it’s more like reading a Dan Brown. There are clunky, obvious cliffhangers. You know they’re there just to manipulate you, but a kind of masochistic curiosity makes you keep going to see what obvious technique will be thrown at you next. It’s like there’s a template the writers are following. And obviously in bold at the top of every page it says “There must be character conflict”.
And then, there’s the thing they think they have to do because they’ve watched
Game of Thones. Which is to introduce a character, get you used to them being a major player, then kill them off suddenly. Which they can do because there’s a never-ending supply of replacements in stasis tubes.
Honestly. Don’t watch it.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
It’s terrible. I love it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Expanse is some of the best screen sci fi out at the moment. I encourage everyone (except editor who has already binned it) to catch it
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hiraethified
The way they nonchalantly discovered the first ever alien life form on a ridiculous planet (oh, we somehow missed its Moon), and then staged an entire rip off of Alien before finding a cure and killing it off within one episode was quite special.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
They incorporate huge chunks of that. The subplot with the husband (he was the drug dealer boyfriend from Orphan Black if you’re wondering where you’ve seen him before) is basically an Arrival rip off.
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