This show is a constant pendulum swing of compelling/half-interesting (with uneven acting and dialogue), to abject travesty of logic and the source material. I thought I was going to like it more than the last few until the ridiculous and trumped up CW mean girls emo Spanish language drama bullshit they pulled with Gaal and Harry. But the visuals for that portion—including both Gaal and Harry's wardrobe continue to be great—and it just makes it that much more conflicting. Lou looks so cute in that jumpsuit. I don't know what they have in store for Gaal (and Harry), but they're not doing right by their best girl, and though the bulk of the show is stupid, I hope they at least give Llobel something close to the story her talent deserves.
The brother dawn part continued to be passable.
But then there's the Terminus sections, and the talent mismatch with the Day sections. What is it with progressive pop culture writers (okay, inexperienced, mediocre, and moronic writers) making the underdog/resistance faction characters almost wholly obnoxious, moronic, and just flat out lame, while making "the man" look so fucking sexy and awesome? If not the latter, then it's at least always the former. {The Disney "resistance", Wolfenstein Youngblood—I hated almost everyone in those resistance cells, because they were all obnoxious and boring, though neither of those examples were able to come up with a compelling villain, either.} It was a bad joke to put the actress they got for the petulant, trash-talking Zephyr next to Lee Pace's Cleon, and then try to make it look like he got whipped in the conversation, just so they could show his response. It kind of worked in a meta sense, in that Pace showed the difference between natural, impactful delivery, as opposed to forced delivery. They both seemed arrogant and manipulative, but only one of them was effectively charming. I wonder if the writers even know what they're trying to say, or if it's just "Okay, we need to have a character that's an impediment and have her criticize the genetic dynasty, so we can make Cleon prove himself." I mean, I could write a treatise on why a gerontocracy is terrible for humanity, but I was just waiting for Day to be pushed to the point of repeating the previous Day's error of nuking... I forget the name. [sarcasm] I don't know how I could forget, as the barbarian terrorist remnants from that planet are so coherently written and sympathetic! [/sarcasm]
As for the Day section, it was at least somewhat cathartic to have Cleon pick apart Dumberzel's bullshit excuses, but, again, it's a character assassination of the highest order, and if they ever intent to follow the story to its end, it's now entirely necessary to completely ret-con her entire character and place in the story. It's a hamfist sandwich with extra knuckles and mayonnaise.
Review by LNeroBlockedParent2023-11-24T05:40:43Z
This show is a constant pendulum swing of compelling/half-interesting (with uneven acting and dialogue), to abject travesty of logic and the source material. I thought I was going to like it more than the last few until the ridiculous and trumped up CW mean girls emo Spanish language drama bullshit they pulled with Gaal and Harry. But the visuals for that portion—including both Gaal and Harry's wardrobe continue to be great—and it just makes it that much more conflicting. Lou looks so cute in that jumpsuit. I don't know what they have in store for Gaal (and Harry), but they're not doing right by their best girl, and though the bulk of the show is stupid, I hope they at least give Llobel something close to the story her talent deserves.
The brother dawn part continued to be passable.
But then there's the Terminus sections, and the talent mismatch with the Day sections. What is it with progressive pop culture writers (okay, inexperienced, mediocre, and moronic writers) making the underdog/resistance faction characters almost wholly obnoxious, moronic, and just flat out lame, while making "the man" look so fucking sexy and awesome? If not the latter, then it's at least always the former. {The Disney "resistance", Wolfenstein Youngblood—I hated almost everyone in those resistance cells, because they were all obnoxious and boring, though neither of those examples were able to come up with a compelling villain, either.} It was a bad joke to put the actress they got for the petulant, trash-talking Zephyr next to Lee Pace's Cleon, and then try to make it look like he got whipped in the conversation, just so they could show his response. It kind of worked in a meta sense, in that Pace showed the difference between natural, impactful delivery, as opposed to forced delivery. They both seemed arrogant and manipulative, but only one of them was effectively charming. I wonder if the writers even know what they're trying to say, or if it's just "Okay, we need to have a character that's an impediment and have her criticize the genetic dynasty, so we can make Cleon prove himself." I mean, I could write a treatise on why a gerontocracy is terrible for humanity, but I was just waiting for Day to be pushed to the point of repeating the previous Day's error of nuking... I forget the name. [sarcasm] I don't know how I could forget, as the barbarian terrorist remnants from that planet are so coherently written and sympathetic! [/sarcasm]
As for the Day section, it was at least somewhat cathartic to have Cleon pick apart Dumberzel's bullshit excuses, but, again, it's a character assassination of the highest order, and if they ever intent to follow the story to its end, it's now entirely necessary to completely ret-con her entire character and place in the story. It's a hamfist sandwich with extra knuckles and mayonnaise.