03-10-2020, 03:09 PM
(03-10-2020, 05:56 AM)Samulis Wrote: I also should contribute, I recently watched the second season of Lost in Space. It was imho not quite as good as Season 1. I think the main weakness is pacing/script. I'm normally pretty good about not skipping ahead in movies/TV shows, but sometimes when watching it was just so utterly boring that I couldn't help myself. That was a weakness with season one, but season two was worse in that regard. Also, a heck of a lot of 'jumping the shark' as they call it on TV Tropes. Not that I have anything against shows where the characters are immortal rubber bullet sponges (I freakin' love old sci-fi channel dramedies like Eureka), but sometimes it just felt like there weren't really stakes after a while, especially since so many other shows are perfectly happy to kill off characters left and right these days. Character motivations seem non-existent, with characters jumping around morally seemingly just to satisfy the needs of the story at any given time. Even the music seems not as well written. :/
I actually watched LiS S02 too, now that you mention it! Totally agree on all points. It was so boring and unengaging that I forgot I had watched it.
(03-10-2020, 05:56 AM)Samulis Wrote: I'm not sure if it was brought up, but I was re-watching Starship Troopers the other day in HD and blown away by how amazing some of the ship exterior shots looked. For how campy and goofy the film is at times, there are some shots which still to this day look better imho than anything I've seen come out of modern CGI-laden productions.
Yeah, it's an amazing-looking movie. I think it's from a sort of a golden era in film making that peaked with the LotR movies, where models and miniatures and practical effects were still being used to a large degree, while tastefully enhanced and added upon with CG. These movies tend to look a lot better than stuff made entirely with CG.
(03-10-2020, 05:56 AM)Samulis Wrote: Anyway, going back to Netflix, I honestly agree a lot. I gave a hard pass on their 'Another Life', another space sci-fi show of theirs, after looking at reviews. They seem to be just doing scatter-shot in every direction with lots of seemingly cheap, honestly poorly written shows. It's a shame, they had some really excellent original content for some time but I'm just not seeing that as much anymore. Hulu isn't doing that much better, and on many cases I tend to end up watching things on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, but "The First" was much better than I expected, and some of their other shows like "The Looming Tower" are remarkably good... not to mention The Orville is slated to officially move over to Hulu this fall. However, it seems, as we have discussed here before, that they don't seem terribly interested making their platform/content accessible outside of the US.
Another Life was indeed terrible and you didn't miss anything. I got myself an Amazon Prime Video subscription some week ago, partly to support the continued development of the Expanse, and partly because they seem to have a lot of cool content. Watching American Gods right now, and it's good. Weird, but good. I read the novel years ago and the show is pretty faithful to it, though a bit more stretched out with more added details.
