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3 Body Problem (2024)
Not Good. Unlikeable characters and typical uninteresting melodrama filler.
So, I had hopes. I am a sci-fi fan and I am very good at suspending disbelief. I binged the entire series.
The premise of the series is believable and sound.
What is ridiculous are the characters and the never ending drama between the 4 main millennials, especially pouty and obnoxious Auggie. Terrible character.
Given the cool premise about a pending alien invasion and a group of humans that is facilitating that invasion, why is the viewer subjected to literally a couple hours of relationship drama and relationship conflict? I don't care. No one cares. The characters are unlikeable and annoying.
There were a couple episodes that I fast forwarded probably 50% of the episode because it was trite and contrived, irrelevant, uninteresting drama and conflict between people that are supposed to be the world's lead scientists?????? Please.
It is a typical cheap, money saving, US film industry nonsense ploy to include the drama. The same type of dialogue and drama that destroys things like Star Trek Discovery, the Monarch Godzilla show, and many others being mass produced.
When there is so much interesting going on with the premise of the show, why are we subjected to watching cheesy predictable relationship issues. The Game of Thrones people totally missed the mark on this one. Get back to dragons and white walkers instead. This was a disappointing bore.
Halo: Visegrad (2024)
Very Poor
Absolutely terrible in so many ways.
Stiff and rigid dialogue. Cheesy effects when there is action (which is seldom).
The storyline is cliche'. Cardboard cutout antagonist. Protaganist that knows what's really up but no one believes him.. Oh my...will he be proven right in the end???? I could never guess.
Side stories with uninteresting trajectories and poorly developed form-molded characters.
I had some hopes for Halo after the first season.
It had its faults, but the "bones" of a good show were there.
This season dashed all of those hopes.
It is truly terrible in all ways.
The characters are almost all unlikeable. Even masterchief is so hamstrung by poor dialogue and a weak plot that he is a bore.
Just avoid the whole thing if you don't want to, yet again, witness a wasted possibility.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)
A terrible waste of potential
This is a terrible show. It is a mirror copy of countless other American series. In a 45 minute show, 40 minutes, at least, is about some melodrama cheese that no one cares about. The characters are simplistic and unlikeable. The side stories are banal.
This is the thing. Apple (and other producers) want to maximize profits. They hire yesteryear actors and unknowns. So much time is spent on unengaging sidestory, that it makes me very happy I have a fast forward button. I use it a lot.
The only semi-redeeming quality of this show is the occasional monster, but that is so limited that you could skip it altogether and watch some old 70s Japanese monster movie and feel more satisfied.
It seems like the same AI bot that wrote "Invasion" wrote this compost bin entertainment.
If you waste your time on this show, do it knowingly.
Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice of Blood (2023)
An insult to all things sci-fi
Seriously. I'd read the reviews and decided the peanut-gallery of opinion might be biased.
I watched it. I understood. Oh my gosh!
It was actually terrible. I can't even to begin to explain the lameness of the plot. It is like all other plots from all other sci-fi shows merged into one uninteresting mess.
I mean, they take things from Aliens, Empire Strikes Back, Avatar, and more. But, this show succeeds at nothing. It has on soul.
It is a wannabe of Netflix.
I saw that someone had written, "was this written by AI?"
I laughed at first, but i get it, it may have been actually.
Everything about this show was terrible.
Acting, writing, screenplay. Plot, green-screen nonsense.
Any actual sci-fi fan is an eternal hopeful. This one will challenge those hopes a bit more.
Seriously, if you choose to watch this, keep a beverage and you fast-forward button nearby.