The reason Big bang isn't interesting anymore is because none of the writers want the characters to grow. Sheldon who once used to come in the ranks of House, Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark is now lowered down to a blabbering buffoon. In fact every character had become a stereotype of themselves. Howard and Bernadette are dealing with parenting and most of the so called "jokes" come from her bossing him. Raj spends half the season failing in his attempts to get a girl and the rest is about his bromance with Howard. God knows why Amy is still with Sheldon when she spends 90% of the time bickering and complaining about him. And 90% of the time the episode ends with him saying something sweet to her and she forgives him. (If that is not calling a character shallow then what is?). Penny and Leonard's stories have exhausted. Penny is only left with jokes which include her making fun of geeky terms.
The characters descriptions sound so single-dimensional because they are single-dimensional. No idea what part do people find funny. Clearly they are watching a different show than me.
This show really helped kick off a much larger interest in anime for myself than I had before. The biggest detractor is when it evidently splits from the manga (the series was unfinished at the time) and leads to an abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying ending, but overall remains one of my favorites. The characters are a lot of fun, and the setting itself with how the world works is quite unique. A lot of the visual settings are interesting with some excellent animation and fight scenes. I also enjoyed the themes involved and explored (friendship, forgiveness, acceptance, willpower, etc.). I highly recommend it!
I liked most of these episodes, I just wished they focused more on the sci-fi aspects instead of the drama.
My most to least favorite:
1) Human Is (I liked the world of this episode and can see it having its own series)
2) Real Life (I wrote a paper about how do we know the reality we live in, isn't a complexed simulation)
3) Safe and Sound
4) The Impossible Planet
5) Kill All Others
6) The Commuter
7) Autofac
8) The Father Thing
9) Hood Maker
10) Crazy Diamon
I honestly thought this was going to fail, but it is entertaining as hell. Angela Bassett as a badass cop is just pure gold.
Terrible. Seen reality shows better scripted than this piece of garbage
edited after episode 7:
I think that the connection to the Superman franchise is pulling the show down. If this was a generic Sci Fi show I would give it passing grade.
Syfy where all good ideas go to die.
###Am I missing something huge?
It feels like there should be a point or something, but all I see are plain stories with some poor attempt to make deep meanings.
I'm on episode 7 of the first season, and if this is it, I'm done with this series.
I do enjoy the acting very much as it's really good and the score is very unique and interesting. However, it's far from enough to get me through any more episodes.
I think this is the most boring series I've ever watched. Due to it's popularity, I'm convinced I'm missing the point. It's progressing painfully slow, and barely anything happened the first three episodes.
Will it get better? Am I missing the point? Anyone?
I didn't rate this because I only watched the first 7 episodes
I'll score whatever I watched though.
###Acting: 9/10
Yes. The acting is great. I stayed a bit for the acting. I left due to everything else.
Main storyline quality: 1/10
Originality: ?/10
Side storylines quality: 1/10
Progression of main story line: 1/10
Story development: 1/10
Characters: 1/10
Intensity (cliffhangers, edge of seat and the like): -9/10 (yes. negative 9)
I'm not sure this REVERIE will be remembered which is disappointing. It hired a strong cast, but as much as I enjoy Sarah Shahi in everything I've seen her in, there was a disconnect with her character from the very beginning. If I didn't know her to be a good actor I would have said her acting was poor, but I think it was just a miscast situation with a weak premise. Dennis Haysbert, Sendhil Ramamurthy were strong in supporting roles, as expected, and Jesica Lu, a newcomer for me, was solid, as well. The story telling, however, was a fail - it was predictable and uninspiring, which was ironic because this imaginary company was selling it's computer program as the answer to our dreams. Indeed the whole idea of marketing virtual realities just wasn't convincingly sold, nor was the need for an intervention professional. Talent, yes. Concept, flawed. Creative direction, a fail. I'll be surprised if this is renewed for a second season. I'd love to see this cast in another project. I give the series a 6 (flawed) out of 10. [SciFi Fantasy Drama]
This show is really good. Defiantly worth a watch.
i love it its like the live action version of an episodic slice of life. great for just turning off your brain for a while and enjoying something simple.
Started off brilliantly, but they had about 7 episodes' worth of story stretched out into 13 episodes.
Too much filler. It's programming like this (taking a great concept, then diluting it by creating endless open-ended stories and contrived cliffhangers) that will cause the eventual demise of television based on comics.
Not bad... but can't see how they can drag this concept out over 10 or more episodes before it gets REALLY old. Three episodes in and I'm already losing interest. 5/10
I have been watching the big bang Theory ever since it first aired. Being an IT student at the time, the uncomfortable social situations and nerdy jokes spoke to me. However, much has changed throughout the seasons, more about that later.
We start out with our four nerdy main characters. There is the recognizable fact of the three people with higher degrees (PHD holding Sheldon, Leonard and Raj) who make fun and feel themselves better than "simple" engineer Howard. There is the desperate search for love coming from both Howard and Raj, and the differentiation between the confident yet single Howard and the timid, uncertain just-as-single Raj. Sheldon is the one who has no sense of what's going on around him, and is only interested in his own world. Leonard is the humble cute guy who manages to get a date from time to time, an inspiration to Howard and Raj, although his on/off fling with Leslie gives us the impression that he isn't really that successful after all.
Then we have the obvious babe, Penny, the complete opposite of our four nerds. She makes something stir in all three of them, but follows the cliché of going out with the "wrong" men, being dumb, and ignoring their advances.
Even though these are all cliche’s, the inside jokes and the disarming clumsiness of the four guys made the first seasons well worth watching. Gradually however, as the show became more popular, the writers started to abandon what once made it so.
With the introduction of Bernadette and Amy the female characters are drastically expanded, but they don't add any real value to the show. Bernadette is the caricature of Howards mother, where as Amy is an attempt to make Sheldon look more human. At the same time, we go from a show with it's own flair to a one-in-a-dozen sitcom. The laughing tape went from being an accessory to being the main engine of the show. The characters became aware they were going to make a pun and started smiling like idiots before they said it, and laughing like people high on weed after someone made it. The longer this series continues, the more painful it becomes to watch. The lines that are supposed to be jokes are simply not funny. The acting and stereotyping are more bearable in a highschool play. And, as stated in another review made before this one, the show changes from laughing with the characters to laughing at the characters. From a nerdy show to a show about nerds.
Conclusion: if you're looking for some nerdy fun, watch the first three or four seasons. After that, it gets the same illness so many American shows suffer from, namely that it becomes a cash cow for the producers and starts a long, painfully slow, continuously prolonged process of dying a silent dead.They never seem to know when to end something great instead of going on to make it something mediocre.
This show used to be funny and it's also used to be one of my favorite TV shows (hence I initially rated this show a 10 on trakt). But starting from Season 7 the show has becoming redundant and it's going nowhere with its forgettable plots. This seems like the show is now more on the money rather on the quality.
I am so sad to say this but I won't continue watching this show.
First episode was good. I did have an issue with a couple scenes having bad CGI, but nothing major (I still like to call it out when I see it). Although I enjoyed the history lesson on the characters, It should've been a 2 hour premiere instead an hour, you know, just to give people some more action scenes.
I can't comment on the entire season because it hasn't aired yet, but when I do, I'll update this post.
Both excited and terrified about this.. Let's hope it doesn't turn out like The Runaways
edit: Thankfully, it did not turn out like the Runaways and even though it has some differences from the comics, i love it.
This show has nothing exceptional about it at all. It's pretty lame and cookie cutter. Disappointing.
Awesome show.
Just too much ecchi/fanservice thrown in to be an enjoyable zombie series for my tastes. Kind of ruins the whole atmosphere every time.
total bullshit for a drugged up high audience. Superficiality masked as 'being deep and artistic'
I tried like hell. I made it to episode seven of season two and this show absolutely sucks out loud!!!Please don’t watch it ,don’t try to watch it. It is about a mental patient and it’s for mental patients.
I think this show meanders way too much. When something is actually happening plot-wise it's really good and interesting, but it overall feels like 3-4 episodes worth of plot were stretched out over 8, padded out with artsy cinematography and the same scenes/flashbacks repeating multiple times. And some just bizzare and out of place things, like the dance scene in ep 6. It intentionally tries to be confusing and mysterious, but it gets annoying when the plot is moving at a snail's pace. I don't find the characters particularly relatable either (I mean Syd's a rapist apparently?? David at least has the excuse of having someone messing with his mind, but her? You can't brush off her actions against her mother's boyfriend with "who teaches you to be normal when you have powers".). David is the most interesting one, Lenny is tons of fun when she is on screen; the others are just sort of there. I hope they will get better developed as the series progresses.
Boring show with a boring ending. Skip this crap.
Boohoo. Why did they cancel this show??? Stupid Fox executives.
I watched the whole thing and now I wish I had stoped after the first episode.
For anyone who started this and wants to give up (like I honestly almost did), at least either get to episode 3 (or skip episode 2 entirely just to get to 3 quicker) because that's when it finally starts to go somewhere.
I watch A LOT of TV, and if I almost gave up ... so people with way less time would dump this show in an instant. Dunno what they were thinking, but those two first episodes should have been crunched down to 30 minutes (max), and then they could use the last 10 min of that first episode to start where episode 3 started ... otherwise it's just too damn slow.
Anyway, will update when finished watching.
Love that the stories are led by the experiences of astronauts, including the first African American woman, Mae Jemison. Love that its directed by Darren Aronofsky, as his signature editing style makes the imagery that much more compelling. But I hate that it's narrated (on blinding white screen background!) by Will Smith. Honestly. Whhhhhyyyyy??
Just when I think the unbelievable stupidity of the writers and suspension of reality had already reached rock-bottom silliness, this show blasts its way even lower... I predict in season three we get JLH taking calls in a bikini top while firing a machine gun at terrorists, counter-hacking black hats and solving cold-cases which of course are all common tasks of 911 operators in this universe. Also a Sharknado at Santa Monica Pier seems plausible the way this show is headed. Oh and I’ll still be watching for some unknown reason!
what a fucking boring rape awareness Show with teleporting as a side Story. dropped.
