I'm really tired off the first bloody directive...and silly Tilly. Also, it looks like this series is reverting to the dull, no real action, that has plagued a lot of previous Star Trek shows and episodes.
Double airlocks in every outside access door are needed. Bad design.
In the opening scenes the viewer is expected to believe a couple things right off the bat; first being that after surviving 100 years following the apocalypse on a space station, beauty care product synthesization has been perfected, and there is apparently plenty of electricity for blow dryers and curling irons -- not to mention lots of water for hair washing and conditioning. On the other side of the scale: overuse of medical supplies is punishable by death.
Take scene 1 for example: teen aged girl, blond highlights & dark roots, lots of mascara and eye shadow -- and she's in space-station-prison. Dressed in teen-Gap spacewear, she must have traded her exercise time for peroxide and hair foil, because after 100 years, there's plenty of that stuff onboard.
No shortage of hair product -- plenty of gel and mousse for all the men and women of the 100 year old space station. And speaking of the men, apparently there's an abundance of shaving stuff as well, making it possible to maintain a shave-every-day standard in space. Amazingly, even the young men sent to earth who are struggling through a radiated danger-filled jungle just to find the food locker manage to remain cleanshaven. Similarly, all the girls keep perfectly arranged hair, and manage to change their eyeshadow colors in that same jungle. Clever way to convey the passage of time, change eyeshadow colors. All this without carrying a single supply box, bag, or container of any sort off the ship they landed in.
The genre of SciFi should be offended, but then again, it's CW ;-)
The ratings for this episode are so high and I don't understand why.
It's okai/good, but it has so many flaws that nobody seem to mention and it annoyed me so much.
That bank was so unsafe, they opened the bank safe in no time without any problems.
Where are the camera's? Not even a camera inside the safe!
The professor didn't give a sign or what so ever, why did she run outside?
They had their masks off most of the time, why? Why take any risk?
I know the hostages were blindfolded, but more could have gone wrong.
I probably take everything way too serious...
UPDATE 30-11-2018
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Boy oh boy... what was I wrong when I wrote this comment.
This serie is a must watch! It will blow your mind.
I rate the entire serie a 9! It's that great.
The cynical side of me wants to call this Everything, everywhere all at once for consoomers.
The optimistic side of me sees Kevin Feige finally pushing the boundaries of his own franchise.
I guess it’s a little bit of both in the end.
Undoubtedly, the best thing the movie has going for it is the Sam Raiminess of it all. His fingerprints are all over it; you’re getting the weird camera angles, camp, his sense of horror, etc. It definitely has more style than some other Marvel movies, though there's also still some of the usual blandness.
Elizabeth Olsen and Benedict Cumberbatch are giving some of their best performances as these characters to date, and the music’s really well done.
But ultimately the film’s Achilles heel is its own script, which is complete junk. The story is thin, messy, nonsensical, and at times flat out embarrassing. The set-up in the first act is very rushed, while the second and third act feel like they’re written by a Reddit fanpage (you just know for a fact that Marvel only went in this direction because of the 2 Batmen that have been announced for The Flash). It’s Marvel at its most ‘producty’, and it’s going to trick a lot of people into thinking the film is better than it is. Regardless, I hope Patrick Stewart got a big paycheck for ruining his own perfect send-off in Logan at the very least. A lot of the story beats don’t make sense either, with most of the characters arcs feeling rushed and nonsensical, even despite the copious amounts of exposition that are desperately trying to tie everything together. The choices made with Wanda in the third act are baffling, and I still don’t know what the takeaway is supposed to be by the end of the film. Her motivation is problematic in general, and I don’t like the use of the [insert plot device] corrupts the mind of the villain trope, which is becoming very overused in the MCU (Ant-Man, Winter Soldier) and just a lazy way of forcing a conflict where the villain stays redeemable. The new character (America Chavez) is a boring, underdeveloped plot device. Some of the dialogue is also shockingly cheesy. There’s a big speech in the third act, which is one of the cringiest moments of the MCU to date. It doesn’t help either that the pacing of this film is so haphazard that none of the writing choices are allowed to breathe. A lot happens, but very little leaves an actual impression. I’m not sure what happened, but I get the impression that a significant portion of this film was reworked and rewritten during post production.
The action didn’t impress me whatsoever, but that’s been a case with these films for a while now (some of the stuff in Shang-Chi excluded). Most of the movie looks tacky and unfinished, the action’s a bunch of people shooting flashing lights at each other, shots don’t linger enough, people move like animated characters, it’s all the usual bs (and this is coming from someone who thinks the action and effects in the first one are still underappreciated to this day). Inbetween the first film and the sequel, Marvel has become a machine that’s now collapsing under its own pressure. If Disney would allow it, they really should go back to making 2-3 properties a year. The consistent mediocrity of their current output is killing their own longevity.
4/10
Oh, and your kids will be fine watching this. I’ve seen some uproar about the ‘horror’ and violence of the film, and it’s honestly not that shocking. There’s way more creepy stuff in some of the Harry Potter and Indiana Jones films (or just your average 80’s kids film in general), so this is unlikely to emotionally scar the average kid. I mean, all parents should judge for themselves if their own kid is emotionally mature enough, but wow, some people are very oversensitive.
I'm always amazed that the anti woke people don't realise The Boys is making fun of them
I see people complaining this show is too “woke.” I think it is great. I’m liking even more than The Boys.
Absolutely hilarious people griping about "woke themes" - you know The Boys is also extremely woke, right??? It's a nonstop critique of fascism, U.S. imperialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and every other power structure that exists. So...yeah.
Anyway...Gen V fucking rocks and I am so excited to see what's next and where they go with everything. It's everything I would have wanted from a spin-off with a younger cast. I'm obsessed with this universe!
10/10
All Gold
Well that was
Frickin Awesome,
the visual fx were
Outstanding, and the
Performances were amazing.
I'm a massive fan of
The Boys I own all seasons
On Blu, so I was very
nervous whether this
show would live up to
It's Parent show.
Holly shit fcuk it did
and then some,
the powers were
Awesome and dangerous
and funny, the gore was
fantastic (more of
that please) and the shock
Value was off the charts.
one of the strongest
Pilots I have seen in
a very very long time
Everything was
"Fcuking Diabolical"
and I loved every single
shocking second of it
and I'm Super excited to
see more, much much
More.
This shit was Great
This shit was
Batshit crazy,
Let's Go
Hella Yeah
(The Madness
Has Begun).
