I like WD and have watched every episode since day one. But why do another spin-off for what is essentially the same show and in any case, has already been done before ?
Not awful. In a very diminished way it helped me to understand where this conflict originated from. But therein lies the problem. This is more about the people than the actual thing. All those personal side stories really did nothing for me. It dragged everything down. I'd like to have deeper inside in the actual issues. Plus, I really didn't sympathize with any of the characters.
I think I can skip the follow up.
Although I am well aware of the level of quality the BBC/Attenborough docus present the footage never ceases to amaze me.
This is in many ways "Tool Time" re-imagined. The characters of Mike and Tim share some similarities and the general setup is very much alike. Ultimately Tim is the much more likeable character.
While I enjoyed the first season I have to say that with the second season it became tedious to watch because of all the politics that kept creaping in. And this is not an issue of whether I agree or not. I don't want it to be there in the first place.
I like nature docus very much especially coming from the BBC. You expect a certain level of quality. This doesn't come close to the Attenborough series. It covers too many topics in too little time. An addional couple episodes would have helped a lot.
Fair enough documentary about carrier operations that uses the usual American wordage and swagger. Comes with the territory so to say.
You know shows where the parts are sometimes better than the sum total ? This is one of those. I liked individual episodes but I already feared where this would lead.
After reading some comments towards the end of season 1, indicating what might happen moving forward (the main thing being the marriage between the lead characters which was obvious from episode one), I looked up the rest of what will happen because the show lost me then and there.
It's your typical conspiracy show where everything's got twisted and turned and layer after layer is build up until you reach the point where it becomes a jumbled mess.
I'm sure I would have dropped out eventually but I'm glad I didn't waste more time then necessarry.
Typical AHC stuff. Light on facts but heavy on loud rock music and testosterone driven commentary.
I think a rating around 60 % seems just about right. The individual episodes are too short to carry much information and I was really put off by those R2D2ish sounds they played every time a probe is on screen.
Technically this is as good as the other Anderson productions yet the premise of a nine year old boy becoming a "most special agent" through brain transfer knowledge is far fetched even for a puppet show. It seems to come out of the mind of a child rather then an adult.
The show itself has that certain nostalgic charme though.
"Ahsoka" managed to achieve something no other Star Wars show up to this point did - it made me stop caring. I even watched "Kenobi" to the end despite the fact I thought it's bad because I still cared for the characters and/or the universe in general. Not any more.
Those are not the characters I learned to love from "Rebels". Which I went onto a journey with, laughed and, yes, even cried, with. They bear the names but that's where the similarities stop.
It started well, I even gave high ratings, which I now think was my hope for what it might be. But it was painfully obvious this wasn't going to be what I expected. Yes, my fault, I know. It totally fell apart with episode five after which I planed to watch the final three episodes once they are released. I didn't picked it up again. Like I said - I don't care.
And that's worse than hating it.
The Time Tunnel was a show with big ambitions on a small budget. But the budget really wasn't a problem for me. Certainly not watching this as a kid with my parents, and still not watching it today. No, as long as the stories were interesting I don't care how it looks. But therein lies the problem. The quality of the scripts ranged from great to absolutely awful. Especially in the second half and towards the end Allen went nuts with Aliens, Magicians and fairy tales.
The better stories dealt with events and personalities of Earth past. Many people said they were far to casual dealing with the implications of their involvement in those historic events. Lets not forget we are in the mid to late 60s and those things were probably not high on the writers list. But you could also make the argument that their involvement is the reason why events unfolded like we know of them. Again, I don't think the writers were thinking about such things but it works both ways.
Well, for the most part the show is entertaining and fun. Unfortunately the bad episode are really bad and pull down the rating unnecessarily. My average rating based on the single episodes would come down to 6.1. I decided to give it a 7 nonetheless because the show is a classic and has cult status. And you could easily skip those awful episodes as there is litle to no fallout from that.
And I get a huge grin on my face knowing I grew up in a time where Tic-Toc was an imagined secret government project.
I'm mostly sceptical when it comes to US shows dealing with stuff like 911. You never now what you get when you begin, as some of them have a tendency to resolve the government of any fault. Not this one, though.
While they don't claim the story they present here as facts (only based upon but dramatized as said in the disclaimer) I think they are pointing the finger in the right direction. I could've done without all the personal stuff but I guess it is necessary to make the charaters appear more relatable for the viewer. After all, this isn't a documentary.
Top notch on the production side, cast is great, you see and feel a lot of work went into this show.
8.6 on average rounds up to 9
Well, on the rational side of thinking this hasn't aged well. The sound effects are annoying, the music is too 80ish even for the 80ies. And the constantly irritatingly laughing Zelda seems totally out of place in what is supposed to be a scifi show. Looks more like a whitch.
But I have a soft spot for those Anderson shows. There is a certain nostalgia involved but I like the way they made this shows.
Althought my guess is that by the end of 1983, when this aired, kids were more into computer games and animation shows. I know I was.
I'm a huge fan of rallying and the finnish drivers in particular for over 40 years now.
Not only is this the best docu about the Flying Finns I've ever watched, it is one of the best about rallying in general. Only wish it would have been longer.
If you want to win, hire a Finn.
Martina is very versatile but not everything is funny. Still, couple of good laughs each episode. Which is about what I was expecting. So, no regrets watching this. I like watching her.
This show is probably the definition of "Meh". It's not totally awfull, the idea is ok, but at the same time they made it so boring and uninteresting that you just don't care.
Informative but not very engaging. Another one of those documentaries where you just see footage to support an audio book style commentary.
So, I watched the first two episodes. The quality of the footage is OK although it's not real HD. I mean, the resolution might be there but just don't expect crisp and clear pictures.
I'm am however very much on the fence concerning this production. Like I said, footage is good, which is a main selling point. But I don't like the over dubbed sound or the narrative nature of it. Furthermore it jumps back and forth through time and events, there is no real chronology. And a lot of times I get the feeling they are using footage just to fit the narrative. The edditing is too fast - you barely have more then a couple of seconds before there is another cut.
Since it also only focusses on the American involvement in the war the title of the show itself becomes misleading. It should say "WWII (from America's pov) in (mostly grainy) HD"
Ultimately I'd rather have a real movie or a hard documentary instead of this in between style.
Hugely interesting topic. It shows the power of cinema. How it can be used for good but also to manipulate opinion. I've watched several of the movies they were talking about and it was always obvious to me what there purpose was. Nevertheless it was interesting to see the whole history of that era of movie making.
Don't be irritated by the low rating. This is a worthwhile documentary if you're interested in the topic. Being an older one this has the added benefit of eyewitness accounts from the pilots who flew those very airplanes.
I watched a couple of episodes of this show on its original run and remembered it as being a solid scifi show. So I thought it would be a good idea to watch the whole thing. Now, I know it's makes a difference at what age you watch a show but this took an effort to make it through.I was on the brink of quitting more then once.
There are two points I want to adress that I repeatedly read about this. The first being that this is Star Trek under water. Not from where I stand. Star Trek always took strong position on social issues whereas with Seaquest the scale always tipps for the entertainment angle instead of really adressing the issues.
The second thing is that the individual season are becoming worser. Again from where I stand I wouldn't agree. Both, S1 and S2 and amazingly stupid episodes as well as a couple of decent ones. My average episodes rating of those seasons only has a margin slightly above a half point. They are pretty much on par. Season three includes the highest rated episode and does on average better than one and two.
I won't go into much more detail as I've written comments about every individual episode. So here is my average rating for each season:
S1: 5,565
S2: 5,000
S3: 6,308
Overall: 5,624
That's barely a six overall. It's my personal opinion so please don't let this disuade you from watching it yourself.
More like a Star Trek look-alike than an actual Star Trek Fan Series. Due to copyright issues they couldn't use Trek lore so they build something close to it. But I like it nevertheless. Production quailty is great, story has depth and adding a bunch of known Trek actors certainly is a nice extra.
It's a reminder that there were, and still are, people out there that could to good Star Trek shows if they were alowed to.
Watched it twice already and while it isn't in the same league as The Mandalorian or Andor for sure its not the worst Star Wars show.
cough Kenobi cough
I actually liked it very much. It had great moments and quite frankly, if not for that teenie mod-gang and some extremly unfunny humor I might be tempted to rate it higher. The story isn't bad. In fact, seeing what happened to Fett after the Sarlac and how he ended up with the Tusken was amazing. So was having many, more or less surprising, guests being in this. It's important for the overall plot of those shows. But that is also where the main problem lies: the show's identity.
This is as much a series about Boba Fett and how he's changed as a person as it is an interlude leading into The Mandalorian season three. If you haven't watched this you might not understand certain things moving forward. Since that season only airs in a couple of days I can't be certain about that but I thinks it's a save bet.
Either you want to know how Boba Fett survived or what happened after the end of Mando season two - this is your show.
Now there's a blast from the past. And you know what ? It still works most of the time. Had some really good laughs and you really can't afford to blink as there are so much things going on in every scene. Great word play, too. But there is also a lot of repeating of the same jokes in every episode. At two and a half hours you can watch this on a leisurely afternoon.
Each episodes shows two different airplanes that have a significance in british aviation history. But sadly with just over 20 mins per episodes each plane gets just 10 mins. Which is too little time. That aside it's really good.
I enjoyed all the little anecdotes he was telling from his time making those films. But can you imagine having lived his life, seen what he's seen, and now witnessing how we are still flushing it down the toilette ?
If you like nature and wildlife docs you sure will find your share of great scenery and animal footage. Althought said footage is re-used in different episodes for different topics. And the commentary is rather dull, close to a lecture. It doesn't evoke excitement for the wonders of nature like the BBC docs do so well. But those are on a whole different level anyway.
When I started this show, I could never had imagined for a second, that I would reach a point where I actually lose all interest and drop out.
The first season was great in every regard. The second was slightly down. There were a couple of episodes I really didn't like. But I had no idea it was the beginning of a downward spiral. It became a different show with season three. Replacing the whole cast was a huge mistake. It took me right out of the show especially since there isn't a massive time gap in the story. But while I reached a point midway through the season where I could live with them, the focus shifted more and more away from historical and political facts to marriage proplems, relationships and love affairs. And that I cared little for.
With season four it was a full blown soap opera where the focus seemd to be only on Charles and Di where it was perfectly clear which side the writers were on. I made it to episode three of that season and decided this is no longer worth my time.
Sad, they had a gem here with a marvelous cast and decided to do a complete one-eighty.
My rating reflects the average of all the episodes I've seen. Which comes to 7,06 but I'm certain it would have gone down had I continued.
The informational content is OKish. If you're familiar with the topic it won't offer anything groundbreaking to you. The one thing I don't like is the dramatizing with guitar rock music and the re-enacted dogfights are terrible.
But I guess that's Military Channel style as I have seen this in other docus from their channel. Well, I got the DVD for under 5 $ and for that it's OK.
