So I'm up to episode 3 and thank god for the fast forward button. I've been reading the reviews. They are a mix of "wow, this is boring" to "If you;re bored, you're just too stupid to understand how great this is."
I did find it a little odd that the reviewers that didn't like it didn't attack the people who did but a large percentage of the positive reviewers actually attacked the reviewers who didn't like it.
This is a good show not great but good. The acting is fine. The show looks good. I think the problem is the show is not really made for the scifi audience it's aimed at or the genre it's promoted to be. Maybe it's the people it picked to tell the story thru that is the issue. You got a family whose wife just found her husband is cheating, some school kids with the cliche bad guy bully picking on one kid who's in love with the pretty girl, A soldier wandering the desert who's split from his wife, A japanese lesbian who's in love with the top female astronaut and who has a mother that hates her being a lesbian, Sam Neil as a small toen sheriff who's retiring who feels he missed his big chance, and probably some other deep character build I'm forgetting. And the question is , why? Putting all these cliches into an alien attack doesn't make them fresher, different or interesting. It's like the writer said let's take all these overdone, seen a thousand times scenarios and dump them into a vague alien attacke and maybe it'll look like I'm a good writer.
And they all are forgettable, cliched and seen a hundred times before in other movies separately but here we get them all rolled into one big ball and, here's the issue, almost zero scifi.
There's some explosions, a japanese space shuttle gets destroyed, Someone gets killed by a giant ant lion, {ant lions are cool and really exist but there tiny}, A giant thing (spaceship, entity, creature?} that kills a bunch of shoulders with on blast, A spooky thing in a dust cloud that kills someone in the desert but all of this takes up a total of about 5 or 10 minutes. Out of the first 3 hours of the series.
It seems like we have two kinds of people reviewing this. Ones that are into all the little soap opera mini stories and there characters, who to like, who to hate etc etc. And those that wanted some scifi stuff focused on the aliens attacking.
I'm of the latter group. I started watching this because it was listed as scifi but it is and it isn't. For a soap opera drama, it's ok.
For a scifi show, it's awful. I also understand that even after an entire 1st season and most of the second there still isn;t a lot of scifi involved. So scifi fans be warned you're being trolled and soap opera drame fans, you'll eat it up.
This is a good show not great but good. The acting is fine. The show looks good. I think the problem is the show is not really made for the scifi audience it's aimed at or the genre it's promoted to be. Maybe it's the people it picked to tell the story thru that is the issue. You got a family whose wife just found her husband is cheating, some school kids with the cliche bad guy bully picking on one kid who's in love with the pretty girl, A soldier wandering the desert who's split from his wife, A japanese lesbian who's in love with the top female astronaut and who has a mother that hates her being a lesbian, Sam Neil as a small toen sheriff who's retiring who feels he missed his big chance, and probably some other deep character build I'm forgetting. And the question is , why? Putting all these cliches into an alien attack doesn't make them fresher, different or interesting. It's like the writer said let's take all these overdone, seen a thousand times scenarios and dump them into a vague alien attacke and maybe it'll look like I'm a good writer.
And they all are forgettable, cliched and seen a hundred times before in other movies separately but here we get them all rolled into one big ball and, here's the issue, almost zero scifi.
There's some explosions, a japanese space shuttle gets destroyed, Someone gets killed by a giant ant lion, {ant lions are cool and really exist but there tiny}, A giant thing (spaceship, entity, creature?} that kills a bunch of shoulders with on blast, A spooky thing in a dust cloud that kills someone in the desert but all of this takes up a total of about 5 or 10 minutes. Out of the first 3 hours of the series.
It seems like we have two kinds of people reviewing this. Ones that are into all the little soap opera mini stories and there characters, who to like, who to hate etc etc. And those that wanted some scifi stuff focused on the aliens attacking.
I'm of the latter group. I started watching this because it was listed as scifi but it is and it isn't. For a soap opera drama, it's ok.
For a scifi show, it's awful. I also understand that even after an entire 1st season and most of the second there still isn;t a lot of scifi involved. So scifi fans be warned you're being trolled and soap opera drame fans, you'll eat it up.
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