Terrible! I was enjoying the show until the season 1 finale. I don't get why so many people are liking this... don't you people get it why the "multiverse" is a terrible ideia? just look at the comics and the various "reset the universe" sagas. let me explain: now, marvel can do whatever it want without any consequence:
- let's brutally kill spider man!
- nooo, we lose one of the best heroes and the screenwriters have to be creative to continue the history...
- don't worry, we kill him, people are gonna invets their emotions and give us ticket money, and them.... we tell that the spider man that was killed was from another time line and we can milk another spidet man for money... and another... and another...
If this multiverse was a good thing, marvel and dc wouldn't need to create stories to erase all the multiverses and start over. Multiverse = No consequences + confusion
get it? marvel can now create histories that IF the audience doesn't like it, it is just a matter of "oh well... this happened on a multiverse that has no connection with the canonical universe" and all your investments (emotional and financial) are worthless if marvel decides.
Now, if they want, even the events on every other movie (the blip, iron man's death, the scrifice of black widow...) can be escuse as "other universe" and this is cheating!
BUT... hopefully... Dr. Strange 2 can fix this, so this multiverse BULLSHIT can be erased without any bad repercussions
Season 2 felt like a bad rehash of season 1. It's not identical, and in many ways, it's a kinder, gentler (and weaker) version of the first season...but a lot of the motifs were the same. Which season does this describe?-- The siblings are uncomfortably estranged from each other while Five struggles to get them to come together in the face of an impending apocalypse, but they're all too preoccupied with their own lives (Allison, her family by marriage and career; Vanya, a romance of discovery, Klaus manic pixie hoboing around; Diego with an even dumber hero complex; attempted murder by the Commission; Reginald is a distant, mysterious, and malevolent figure...), coming together around the time that their stupid projects start to converge to create the predicted apocalypse. There's a fight scene to an unexpected, peppy song. There's a sibling-cutesy scene with dancing to another fun old song. Hmm.
At least we got to see more Ben, who did have some nice scenes. On the other hand, prolonged fart joke as a plot point. The choice of music was strong, but not as fun and varied as the previous season (obviously that's like a double-subjective opinion). Good enough to watch, but underwhelming and made me just want to go back and enjoy season 1 again instead
For me, Pacific Rim was a huge disappointment: I mainly bought the BluRay because the flick was directed by Guillermo del Toro (I really liked his first Hellboy movie) and because it had good ratings across all review sites (e.g. currently 74% at Trakt). However, my excited anticipation vanished in no time: I THINK del Toro wanted the Kaiju to be seen as evil monsters that inspire fear and rage in the audience and therefore their slaughter by the Jaegers to be seen as just and noble. However, I never had mercy with mankind being attacked by the Kaiju and therefore never could identify with the glorified pilots of the Jaegers as the saviors of mankind. Additionally, after 15-30 minutes one knows exactly how the flick will end (the world is saved by a odd combination of two pilots in an old and decommissioned Jaeger based on a discovery by "Kaiju hippie" scientist). The sometimes laughable dialogs do not help either.
All in all this makes Pacific Rim an uninspired action flick I cannot recommend to anyone, even though the special effects are decent and their is a quite some action to be had. Why this movie is getting such good reviews I cannot understand: a German magazine wrote that Pacific Rim is an "exiting mixture of Transformers, Godzilla and Inception". And while the references are not altogether wrong, it lacks in many ways because Transformers and Inception are both out of league for Pacific Rim and the word "exiting" is just wrong when talking about this flick!
