Lazy writing and direction
I'm supposed to believe they didn't X-ray an animatronic doll before it was brought into the White House? I'm supposed to believe that top-notch forensics weren't performed on a body found at the White House? Newsflash: if a gun is found loosely placed in a blood-soaked hand, but the finger is not on the trigger, that would immediately tell everyone it wasn't suicide for two reasons: your hand doesn't change positions when you're dead, and there can't be blood on your palm under the gun if you were holding it! Pretty basic, people!
I've been a fan of the Child's Play series since the original, so I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and make room for a little bit of cheesiness... but this has been one of laziest, most implausible, and frankly poorly directed things on television. I've tried to overlook things over the seasons-from a body falling backwards out a window but then landing face down, to characters magically having phone numbers without explanation... the writers seem to type this stuff in a rush in the middle of the night and then quickly film it the next day without considering all the holes in the plot and/or direction. Everything is so very convenient and coincidental that it's pretty hard to swallow. Characters jump to conclusions which make no sense, and often times they're shoehorned into scenarios that wouldn't happen in reality, because in this world police don't follow protocols. Or doctors. Or teachers. Or any adult, really.
To make matters worse, I can't figure out who the target audience is. It's too unintelligent and juvenile to be for adults, but then it's way too violent for kids.
None of the original movies were this lazy. Even the more recent ones had minor flaws at best, but were still enjoyable without me feeling the need to skewer them. Jennifer Tilly has been the best thing about this series and to their credit, the only decent, sensible plot lines focused on her. It's as if they ran out of steam whenever they weren't writing her material. I expect the creative team to apply a little bit of common sense. What I'm witnessing is poor workmanship all around, and you can't pass it off as the genre.
I've been a fan of the Child's Play series since the original, so I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and make room for a little bit of cheesiness... but this has been one of laziest, most implausible, and frankly poorly directed things on television. I've tried to overlook things over the seasons-from a body falling backwards out a window but then landing face down, to characters magically having phone numbers without explanation... the writers seem to type this stuff in a rush in the middle of the night and then quickly film it the next day without considering all the holes in the plot and/or direction. Everything is so very convenient and coincidental that it's pretty hard to swallow. Characters jump to conclusions which make no sense, and often times they're shoehorned into scenarios that wouldn't happen in reality, because in this world police don't follow protocols. Or doctors. Or teachers. Or any adult, really.
To make matters worse, I can't figure out who the target audience is. It's too unintelligent and juvenile to be for adults, but then it's way too violent for kids.
None of the original movies were this lazy. Even the more recent ones had minor flaws at best, but were still enjoyable without me feeling the need to skewer them. Jennifer Tilly has been the best thing about this series and to their credit, the only decent, sensible plot lines focused on her. It's as if they ran out of steam whenever they weren't writing her material. I expect the creative team to apply a little bit of common sense. What I'm witnessing is poor workmanship all around, and you can't pass it off as the genre.
- jeffbabies
- Oct 9, 2023