shugineer

The movie was entertaining because I like sci-fi. However, the plot could have been better because the show was a cross between "Flight of the Navigator" and "Gravity" minus the acting and writing skills, so why make it focus mainly on the one person? The dialogue, not funny. I maybe laughed once or twice, but it was trying hard to be funny. Maybe the writing? Maybe the delivery? And one more huge problem, the actors were one-dimensional stock characters. Again one person is designed to carry the movie and doesn't deliver. And the cool secondary characters die off early. And the bad guy is all bad. Well as a viewer I'm thinking "shrug" don't care about any of them. I liked the movie, but I feel talents were wasted. Just because there's a huge singer star who produced the movie, doesn't mean they dont have to share the spotlight. This is no Gravity or Flight of the Navigator or Short Circuit. Build a team and it would have succeeded. To have them die at the beginning? Whack.

I really can't stand when shows try to reinvent the wheel, so hard. I know this village is not keen to the outside world like horse riding, but planting crops? It's was repetitive and boring. I watched first 4 episodes, and then fast forward through 10. Then just skipped to the end. Biggest issue is the main character was boring. He couldn't fight or anything and he was supposed to be as strong as those creatures at the beginning? I kept thinking when is he going to learn? Going to get a mentor to teach him to fight? Nothing. He sucked. I lost patience. Couldnt stand it anymore. And he didn't have much victory throughout. Too many losses leads to dissatisfaction. That's why I jumped to the end, hoping that payoff would be good. Still nothing.

I would say they could have left the boy out of the story because Taragon alone carried that story. Because the boy did nothing with his special abilities. Yeah the save my village storyline would be lost but then we wouldn't have to meet the villagers who can't plant crops and who I couldn't stand to reinvent the wheel. Awful to sit through hours of that.

The main character has special powers and she uses it for stupid stuff like get bullies off her in the village. But when she ventures out into the real world she doesn't use it. She's weak and annoying. Relying on a sword to sword fight? She doesn't even need the sword. The best part was the end when Merlin wielded the sword. But Merlin was annoying as a drunk, just weak. The supporting characters were awesome, especial her village friend that was on a ship. However, the 2 main characters were just awful and boring and slow.

So much unnecessary killing was also annoying. Word of advice, use her powers, make her more interesting, and speed up the story. I binged watch up to episode 7, fast forwarding through the slow scenes, and then jumped to episode 10 because I could no longer handle it. Unfortunately her falling in the water was like 🤷‍♀️ good riddance. But Merlin wielding that sword, speechless. I want more of that. I see there no more episodes. Yeah wonder why? 🤷‍♀️ 😴