connorundrumme
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While understanding the draw for the actors involved to indulge in these types projects, the few opportunities there probably are out there to do something of any quality, and considering how well they did with good dialogue (though little else), it's a shame that it's just another production with decent looks and sound, but a formulaic effort, story-wise.
If only totally unnecessary animal murder, mutilation, and imperilment weren't some of the most prominent horrors. (Not discussing the consuming of animals, or working them, just about the useless and malevolent abuse and disregard for life where it's meant to cause emotional outrage on purpose.)
When women are put forefront into westerns, it's always a barrel of old tropes, including domestic abuse, regular threats and insults, unequal physical assaults/fight scenes, rape, repeated challenges to any leadership, authority and 'motherhood', property theft, etc. At least there wasn't a load of nudity, an over-emphasis on sex workers, or the usual portraits of domestic drudgery-bliss, though.
As usual, if a woman is tough or shrewd, she also has to be portrayed as some form of evil and morally corrupt in her scheming and deviousness, up to and past the murder of multiple men. (Only men and animals that I saw, however I'm assuming the abortion topic will somehow come up, only being halfway through the series.)
If only totally unnecessary animal murder, mutilation, and imperilment weren't some of the most prominent horrors. (Not discussing the consuming of animals, or working them, just about the useless and malevolent abuse and disregard for life where it's meant to cause emotional outrage on purpose.)
When women are put forefront into westerns, it's always a barrel of old tropes, including domestic abuse, regular threats and insults, unequal physical assaults/fight scenes, rape, repeated challenges to any leadership, authority and 'motherhood', property theft, etc. At least there wasn't a load of nudity, an over-emphasis on sex workers, or the usual portraits of domestic drudgery-bliss, though.
As usual, if a woman is tough or shrewd, she also has to be portrayed as some form of evil and morally corrupt in her scheming and deviousness, up to and past the murder of multiple men. (Only men and animals that I saw, however I'm assuming the abortion topic will somehow come up, only being halfway through the series.)
Wanted to like this, but it was immediately difficult because the character of Conall is basically a jerk. (An angry, unattractive bully.)
The journo-podcaster is two-dimensional and superficially outlined as well.
Being confronting, aggressive, nasty and smug is no way to persuade someone to share anything at all, or to get them on side. Again, it's just overdone to the point of being intolerable. The personalities come off as Jekyl and Hyde caricatures within a few short sentences and scenes.
There is no one to like, or to sympathize with, much less to root for. It seems not to stick to a lane, but to weave back and forth somewhat pointlessly, like a cantankerous, diabetic old hotel, casino, and golf-course mogul.
The murder investigation 'colleagues' are scripted and directed to overreact in attempting to hold their boundaries and follow the rules. It's ridiculous.
It has some bad acting, some silly casting and action scenes, as well as the usual time-wasting scenery-chewing, which while not ugly doesn't drive a story in any way.
There's some inappropriately placed soundtrack music while nothing much is happening. (It's always a hallmark of a production not knowing what the tone should be, or of knowing that the pace isn't great, so it needs some audio slapped on it!)
And, how dumb is it to still have a room/house full of unprocessed evidence at the (occupied) home of a missing person?!? They're going to search it 15 years later? ILLOGICAL!
The kicker that made me stop watching? Bad medicine!
UTIs don't cause blood pressure plummets and coma/respiratory issues.
Ketamine doesn't commonly cause big ol' personality changes, as idiotically suggested.
Being confronting, aggressive, nasty and smug is no way to persuade someone to share anything at all, or to get them on side. Again, it's just overdone to the point of being intolerable. The personalities come off as Jekyl and Hyde caricatures within a few short sentences and scenes.
There is no one to like, or to sympathize with, much less to root for. It seems not to stick to a lane, but to weave back and forth somewhat pointlessly, like a cantankerous, diabetic old hotel, casino, and golf-course mogul.
The murder investigation 'colleagues' are scripted and directed to overreact in attempting to hold their boundaries and follow the rules. It's ridiculous.
It has some bad acting, some silly casting and action scenes, as well as the usual time-wasting scenery-chewing, which while not ugly doesn't drive a story in any way.
There's some inappropriately placed soundtrack music while nothing much is happening. (It's always a hallmark of a production not knowing what the tone should be, or of knowing that the pace isn't great, so it needs some audio slapped on it!)
And, how dumb is it to still have a room/house full of unprocessed evidence at the (occupied) home of a missing person?!? They're going to search it 15 years later? ILLOGICAL!
The kicker that made me stop watching? Bad medicine!
UTIs don't cause blood pressure plummets and coma/respiratory issues.
Ketamine doesn't commonly cause big ol' personality changes, as idiotically suggested.
It couldn't go without noticing that the future has no blonds, though it's unclear why that circumstance would come to be. Did they get used up in other tv productions, until they became extinct? (sarcasm)
Anyway, in the pilot it was totally dumb that they're conflating an (unsafe) Armed Response with Search and Rescue. There was no early warning of a un-piloted vessel hurtling towards a planet, and next there are no exploratory probes, no assessment of structural stability after an enormous crash, there's no tactical planning whatsoever, it's just marching straight into currently active and evolving dangers with almost zero precautions. SO STUPID, it defies even teenaged logic.
And then, the utterly mish-mashed tone in the writing and acting employed for 'children in adult bodies' - it's all over the place, one second adult-sounding and philosophical, the next, immature and infantile. And there's no point to sending child-borgs to 'rescue' anyone or anything, except to what - to drag the mostly mindless into a rebirthed fantasy-horror franchise extension?
Meanwhile, the audience has children's entertainment nostalgia, à la, anything from the Dis-Nay catalog, inflicted upon them, repeatedly.
Of all the slavering, dollar-mongering self promotions, this is really, really annoying - worse than the product placement promotions of old (ciggies, alcohol, soft drinks, etc.), and just as obvious of a distraction.
The dialogue includes continuity problems, as well. A ship can't be described as having "touched down" when in fact, it slammed into multiple buildings and crash-landed.
Also, tacking an angsty old rock song onto the end of every episode to lend seriousness and gravity is just that - tacky!
Amusing to see Adrian Edmondson has a role in this, although he's been acting throughout the years since playing the psychotic Vyvyan in The Young Ones (UK, early 1980s).
Anyway, in the pilot it was totally dumb that they're conflating an (unsafe) Armed Response with Search and Rescue. There was no early warning of a un-piloted vessel hurtling towards a planet, and next there are no exploratory probes, no assessment of structural stability after an enormous crash, there's no tactical planning whatsoever, it's just marching straight into currently active and evolving dangers with almost zero precautions. SO STUPID, it defies even teenaged logic.
And then, the utterly mish-mashed tone in the writing and acting employed for 'children in adult bodies' - it's all over the place, one second adult-sounding and philosophical, the next, immature and infantile. And there's no point to sending child-borgs to 'rescue' anyone or anything, except to what - to drag the mostly mindless into a rebirthed fantasy-horror franchise extension?
Meanwhile, the audience has children's entertainment nostalgia, à la, anything from the Dis-Nay catalog, inflicted upon them, repeatedly.
Of all the slavering, dollar-mongering self promotions, this is really, really annoying - worse than the product placement promotions of old (ciggies, alcohol, soft drinks, etc.), and just as obvious of a distraction.
The dialogue includes continuity problems, as well. A ship can't be described as having "touched down" when in fact, it slammed into multiple buildings and crash-landed.
Also, tacking an angsty old rock song onto the end of every episode to lend seriousness and gravity is just that - tacky!
Amusing to see Adrian Edmondson has a role in this, although he's been acting throughout the years since playing the psychotic Vyvyan in The Young Ones (UK, early 1980s).