New season, Same shit.
Time to end it, maybe?
This whole season is a great bit "meh". I hate to say it but I think the current resurgence of Doctor Who has come to and end and is slowly fizzling out. Oh sure, it'll retain its niche popularity, as it has when his happened before (post Tom Baker, for example), but the magic is gone.
I felt like this season was all over the place, Niska wanting to be treated like a human, Leo looking for the few awaken synths, Mattie fixing the blond cute just for him to be insignificant to the long story, Tobis girlfriend and lets not even start and the little girls synth behaviour supposed "problem" that came and went just like that. They were trying to do a lot of things in just 8 episodes i couldnt feel a connection between each storyline. And the fact that they went global just at the snap of a finger didn't help and that what happens to a lot of shows, you can't go global just like that, it's a process...
In the end they made it come to an end, yes it all came together but I don't think this ending can justify the fail that was this season.
I loved the first season, i watched it twice, and was really excited for this second season, but it ended up being a sad and bland disappointment :(
The season is over, and it was amazing, really. But I have a thing to say. I feel it won't be as interesting for binge-watchers as it was to those who followed it live. Part of the fun (for me of course) was guessing, reading theories on reddit and twitter for a week, and then seeing them unfold in the new episode. That's something binge-watchers will not have the luxury of. On the other hand, they won't have to wait for a week either…
That's not to say the show has nothing to offer besides theorising. The cast is terrific (Anthony Hopkins obviously stands out and he is amazing), the setting is perfect, the storyline is engaging, and no Chekhov's guns are left hanging.
This show is a must.
A whole lot of nothingburger from a show that has very little to say about indentured servitude, corporate slavery, grief, empathy etc.
The amateurish Mystery-Box writing reminded me more of the inept season 1 of Lost than the masterfully done season 1 of Westworld.
I can see why this series was canceled. This last season was not good at all. Turning Lightman into more of a curmudgeon and making him unlikable really did not help the show at all. There were quite a few episodes where they recycled ideas from previous seasons. The only thing I would have liked to have seen was what they would have done with Michael B. Jordan's character. It almost seemed like they were getting that character ready for a larger role in the next season.
3 great episodes, 9 ranging from utter shit to acceptable. Easily the worst season since the reboot. the plots were incredibly predictable this time around. This is the first time a season of Doctor Who really felt like a kids' show to me, the writing was just so weak and generic, this season only manages to impress if you're familiar with a...limited amount of other media.
What a mess of a season. Getting rid of 60% of the characters was a bad choice imo. I absolutely cannot get into the relationship between Sabrina and Aaron. It feels so forced and he looks like he's old enough to be her father. Almost nothing about this season even feels like it goes with the rest of the show. It's great background noise though, I guess.
The last season remains now. Till now the show is very circular. There are problems and same people slowly end up resolving it, either by luck or something similar.
I wanted the series to dig a bit deeper into the technology world, but it remains at the border of business and tech. The first season talked about setting up the compression technology. Which was fantastic. The idea of a new internet is really groundbreaking. Mastodon and others are trying that, but this particular idea of using devices to distribute the internet is really mind-blowing.
The issues they get are very in context. At the end of S5, they had an issue of 51% people controlling their internet. That is really thought about, which I liked.
Richard's character needs to evolve though. He is a bit egoistic, but a very skilled developer. He has been so since season 1, but his journey to CEO really didn't change his character a lot. That would have been interesting to see.
Nothing melts my cold, cynical heart more than seeing people better themselves.
I didn't really like Season 1, so it was a pleasant suprise of how much I enjoyed the second one. I guess this one's just been more up to my taste.
The cancellation of this show feels like a crime. It stunningly poignant and made me actually laugh out loud. I'm not East Asian, but as an Asian-American woman myself, I found myself connecting with this adorable family in ways I normally am unable to with most American TV. Netflix/Canadian TV has lost something special, and the ["overwhelmingly white"] producers are to blame.
This season was pretty underwhelming compared to the previous ones.
So basically when we are facing dead end into the plot we pop up flash... i can't say i enjoyed this cross over...
At this point, it's settled into the Schur syndrome of all fluff and no bite, all happy endings and no conflicts. But with a cast this talented and characters so endearing, it's fine for a half hour every week.
This 1st season of Buffy is only mediocre, but still there are already some good episodes and it lays the groundwork for the seasons to come...
So don't give up on it, it get's better and you won't regret sticking with it!!!
Everyone complains about season 4, but this season is only just a step above. I found the quality of the storylines varied a lot and dwindled in the last three episodes. There are some really stand-out episodes (Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Geothermal Escapism, Basic Intergluteal Numismatics) and the show is always good, but season 2 and 3 proved it can be great.
Have already seen the series, but going through it again now... it's a bit alarming when you get to season 4 how it feels like she show basically lost it's soul.
amazing season, such an amazing improvement from the last 2 (and those were fantastic)
Not sure why the only comments on this season are so negative. I think this was one of the strongest seasons of the entire series. It delves into the madcap and goofy even more than the previous two seasons, but that's not a bad thing in my book.
I adored the first season and eagerly binge watched the entirety in a day but with this season it's taken me over a week to get 5 episodes in. I'm not 100% sure why but this season just feels a little off and it's really quite dull.
Yes, there's a large number of unspectacular episodes that surround some of the fan favourite X-Files episodes but it doesn't change the fact, at least for me, that this is an excellent opening season. Scully and Mulder are already well defined and compelling leads but when put together, the result is something of a rare and pure kind of magic. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have a uniquely palpable onscreen chemistry that makes this season, even at its lowest points, fun to watch.
My absolute favourite episodes of the season were Squeeze, Beyond the Sea, Tooms, The Erlenmeyer Flask as well as the two opening episodes.
Certainly not very good and doesn't hold up at all really compared to the modern state of television. But it is what it is. Much like the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this inaugural season to one of the great and influential television shows does not really do it justice at all. And with only a mere five episodes, it's hard to fault creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld too much. It isn't exactly a big confidence boost.
But what this first season does is show where Seinfeld started (that's obvious) and in doing so, really helps put into perspective how the show's rise to television and pop culture phenomenon is something extraordinary. Certainly not a good season at all and first time viewers really should not let it be the 'be all and end all' when it comes to watching the show.
I, and seemingly many others, are stunned at how NBC felt the show, based on this first season, was worthy of renewal but thank god it was.
I'm not particularly keen on this woman's acting. Pun intended.