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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Gone (2024)
A bit too contrived for emotional impact
Matthew Jeffers did a great job in his role, but it felt like some of the lazy writing used in the past with the Walking Dead and it's spinoffs. Introduce characters for one episode and kill them off.
So the caravan has been safe all this time but a minor offshoot gets targeted by the copters? Why exactly?
Who happens to be in the first copter they run across after the attack? Oh it's Rick.
This might make sense if the show was ending in the next episode. But since it's not, I don't see what the rush was.
You just can't really get people to care about people making stupid decisions either.
Ahsoka: Part Five: Shadow Warrior (2023)
Fan service for cartoons I don't care about
This episode exemplifies the problem I have with this show. It's just designed for fans of the cartoons and not constructed well as a stand alone show.
This means they haven't earned the character moments for non cartoon fans.
Everything feels so cliche, with the bad acting little boy, the quirky robot(s), the do good general, the CGI anakin training ahsoka, leadership wanting to punish the do good general.
The scores people are giving this episode are simply absurd. The only thing I really liked was the portrayal of young Ahsoka.
Maybe these types of generic stories work in cartoon form, but man they just don't work in this show.
Westworld: Zhuangzi (2022)
The pacing and storytelling is pretty slow and dull given the reveals
This season so far has been pretty mediocre, at least in comparison to the first season. It's like they forgot how to write. The plot is pretty good byt the pacing is just a mess.
The Wheel of Time: Blood Calls Blood (2021)
cartoon villain, bad pacing and some plotlines given too much time
That was a terrible episode imo and after what I thought was their best one. The actor playing Valda is great but his scenes are just so over the top and cartoony. The show is really going to need to give explanation as to why the Aes Sedai and especially their warders have left him alone.
Anyway, it's obvious that Perrin's situation with his wife was just about this scene. And well, it wasn't worth it imo. They could have reached the same conclusion, namely Perrin going wolf mode without it. And to top it all off, of course Valda is going to escape alive and well. But those types of escapes ALWAYS happen on TV shows and it just cheapens it.
Loial was much better than I expected based on screenshots. He's really only an issue when you see his Herman Munster lift shoes. With limited screen time we got a good idea of how he ticks(basically entish in his pace and oblivious to so much).
I really do think that they spent WAAAAY too much time on the warder bond when you consider how much other great stuff gets cut.
In the end the pacing was weird, the filming/dialogue felt a bit CW(which I didn't really feel before) and the evil villain escaping with his life was too cliche.
I can only score it a 6/10 after last weeks strong 8.5/10. Bring on the next one I guess. It has to get better again after this one.