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Reviews
Travelers: 17 Minutes (2017)
It requires a great deal of suspense of disbelief but it's fun anyway
I'll be a minority here, but I'll tell that it's a fun episode in spite of objective logic and time rules holes. And I'll try to write it without spoilers for people who looks for a reason to watch it.
Despite of what other people wrote here before, I don't see big contradictions to rules of prior episodes. Time in Travelers is quite flexible. It's not unchangeable, but it doesn't change drastically like in Butterfly Effect. Even big changes in the past do little change in the future and it seems that somehow in future, the Director has ability to react to potential changes and do changes of its own. Otherwise it wouldn't exist even after minor change from the 001, Faction, or just mistakes of agents. I don't want to think about physics of these rules because it doesn't make sense, but it works for this show.
What I liked here, is how they used a rule they added at the beginning of season 2 - if action of a traveler cause an unexpected death of a person, this person's death becomes a TELL and can be used to replace him. So remember this and enjoy the episode.
The Dark Tower (2017)
Not THE dark tower, entertaining nontheless
This is NOT the dark tower that you'd expect if you read the books. Not even remotely. All the bad reviews here are written by the people who tried to find the original book series content in this movie and failed. The name "The Dark Tower" is just to pull people to watch it, which is a shame, because it seemed to just angry the fans.
Thankfully I read the books 15 years ago and didn't remember anything besides the fact that there was a Gunslinger and the tower he tried to reach, so I expected nothing and could enjoy this movie for what it is - a nice entertaining urban fantasy action movie with magic, portals and a really good villain.
The one thing that I do remember from the books is that it's very heavy emotionally, as it is usually with King's books, and I had to stop reading a couple of times and get back to it later just to rest from this pressure. Nothing of this sort is in this movie.
It's not the best fantasy but it's not the worst too. So forget that it's supposed to be based on the book, assume it's a different tower and a different gunslinger and enjoy the action.
House of the Dragon: The Rogue Prince (2022)
King's motives are not explained well
Everybody's motives in this episode are clear except for the King. He's weak and indecisive, that we already know. But then he decides the worst decision he could, without any reasonable explanation. Of course we've seen it coming, but still the writing was supposed to give it a compeling reason, to keep the suspense of disbelief quiet and it didn't happen. Politics, passion, anything would work if it just would be shows, instead the writers made us guess and invent it ourselves.
If not this I'd give this episode much higher rating. Rhyneris shines and shows everybody that she should be accounted for, even though nobody seem to react to that.
Raising Dion: ISSUE #203: Monster Problem (2022)
Too unrealistic to handle
Yes the whole series is unrealistic. But this episode is just over the top.
There's a huge sinkhole of some mystic nature near a school, related to sume strange power surges, probably dangerous. Byona takes ownership over the investigation, and:
1. No actual guard, only a few scientists, who are always looking at screens, anyone is free to come over and fall down.
2. No cameras inside. They're there for a few days learning it and somehow they have no clue that there are strange mystical glowing flowers that... and a half dead guard who's slowly becoming a monster. They even missed Dion being there.
3. Even after Pat told that it's sentient and dangerous, they still didn't put gards or cameras.
4. No explanation why Suzanne call Nicole at night to help check this sinkhole. Nocole is not power expert and can't it wait till morning?
5. Why music class teacher talkes to 10y/o kids like adults who try to get to luxury music school? Even that episode with spotlight to the face is stupid and unnecessary, blinding singers doesn't help the performance. They could film a kid being shy just because of the audience.
This is 40 minutes of wtf 😔
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach (2022)
Weak ethical dilemma
I wonder what Spock would say, because in Chis' actions are obvious emotions over reason case.
If he would save thay kid, just to bring the destruction of the planet and death and suffering of billions other kids would he say "I did the right thing"?
This classic dilemma appeared on TV and books so many times that it's just irritating to see it again. Yes, wellbeing of billions definitely worth one child's life, especially if this child would probably suffer anyway without this sucrifice.
The Wheel of Time: Blood Calls Blood (2021)
Too much changed
Why cut Caemlyn? It's important! Meeting the queen of Andor, Elaida Sedai (with prophecy power) and especially Elayne. How can you skip this and just fast-forward to Tar Valon?
And why focus so much on the idea that maybe Mat is channeling instead of focusing on the dagger and paranoidal effects that it causes like the book did.
At this point I told my wife I can't spoil her the story cos' it's a totally different story.
And Perrin arc... when he and Egwein met Tinkers in the previous episodes I thought they going to skip the whitecloackers episode entirely, but no, they just changed the whole cause and effect of Perrin, and they got it quite lame. In the book there's justification to why they were caught and why Children of Light would hate Perrin but here it's just forced.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Same plot, more wasted time
I don't understand people that give this extended version so much higher score than previous one. It's not awful, there are good fighting scenes, the effects are good, same as the previous one. But the final score for me is still 6.
The characters are better explained, there are more flashbacks and emotions but at the same time there's more time wasted on absolutely unnecessary things and the plot in general stays the same and is quite stupid.
There are also really irritating moments. For example every time wonder woman enters the view there's a couple of slow-motion seconds with her hair moved by the wind and the music changes to amazon theme. Literally every time, even if she's there for a second, even if there was no wind and the music was totally unrelated.
Second the usage of Flash. He's really badly used. Some other reviewers call it a goofball - I totally agree, but it's more. There's no single flash fighting scene with. And we know from X-Men movies how good can speedster scenes be done. But not here, here's his just a battery (not more explanations without spoiling), there are a ton of scenes where his speed could have been used beautifully, I even imagined it happening in the next second, but no, I guess Zack really hates flash and it was more important to make fun of him.
To Summarize, if you loved the previous one, definitely see this one as it will give more insight into characters and you'll love it even more. But if you hated the previous one, save 4 hours of your life for something better.
Ragnarok (2020)
Calling the villains "Giants" is not enough to make it a Fantasy
I love fantasy TV Shows. Unfortunately this is not one of them.
This is a good thriller drama about a small Norwegian town fully dependent on a local factory that causes environmental issues but nobody cares except 2 school children that try to prove it without adults' support and fight the oligarch that owns the factory against all odds, risking their lives.
Fantasy elements here, like the fact that some of the characters are called "giants" and some "gods" are secondary and don't affect the plot at all. Moreover it creates some expectation for a greater goal, some epic problems that would require a "god" character intervention, but it just doesn't happen.
I will probably still watch the next season, just in case they will use the character for something bigger.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 3: The Sin (2019)
Visuals are great but characters are dumb
The visuals are cool, true, but it matters less when the story is so full of holes.
Hero that teaches simple people how to defend against armed gang with sticks and traps in a 3 days is a cliche, but they did it here OK and enjoyable, even in spite of the weird fact that he suddenly had a few crates of guns out of nowhere, you know, just in case he'll meet a full village of people who needs it.
The main problem there was the walking robot. It was both the main problem for the people in the movie and the first big hole in the story line.
So we get the base fact: "the robot is impenetrable". So they plan him to step into a very deep trap, so that he'll fall. At first I thought that the idea is to bury the robot deep in the lake, because it can't be destroyed, but no, at the end, when it falls down, we see that the goal was to attach a small mine on its head, that blows it to pieces. So it IS penetrable by that small mine, so instead of this whole mess they could just silently (and we were shown they can do it) walk into the gang camp and attach the same mine on the robot, or maybe just throw it well enough, or climb the robot and attach it - plenty of options, but then there wouldn't be a enough of a story for the full episode... And besides, where did this gang of orcs get fully working imperial AT-ST Walker?
Second hole was the end. So the Mandalorian decides to leave the baby Yoda in the village. At this point he's sure that there's no tracker on him, his ship or the boy, otherwise he wouldn't decide that, right? Then out of nowhere some bounty hunter with the tracker appears. So instead of trying to understand what emits the tracking signal our smart and super experienced hero crashes the device, which means that they will continue to track him anywhere in the galaxy. Great move. But then, if he would be smart, there wouldn't be a story for the next episode.
I hate stories that are based on the main character stupid decisions and that episode is one if them.