Strong opening for the inheritor of the Percy Jackson curse.
I don't even know if there's a curse or anything but yeah solid solid work. Great adventure vibes and most importantly it manages to stand up on it's own distinct from the previous adaption. I do feel like Percy's mom is getting undersold but the two episode premiere give great confidence that this will be another successful adaption.
An interesting pilot. Not to attack it but most pilots go for flashing and attention grabbing. This is much more methodically paced. A criminally underused Idris I hope gets more personable later. There's some iffy blocking in some places but it mostly works. It doesn't break credulity or anything.
Wait why would you drive so wrecklessly when you can't leave the car. Of course it would lead to road rage.
That hospital scene is a very different emotional dynamic. Very compelling simply because we never seen this. Our hero cops have to persuade someone to kill a narrative and the citizens are refusing because they understand the social dynamics and effective consequences. In any other cop show this would be focused on cops trying to take them down in spite of their status.
Another great interaction when the copper figures out the sting shouldn't go through and no one listens to him. It felt not full on The American.
An utterly nonsense opening but otherwise a great investigatory episode. Our protagonist Jack finds himself in genuine moral quagmires and makes difficult decisions. I'm honestly just impressed in the end. This show feels like it's "going there" in a way that procedures and fantasy shows just don't often do. Now this is dark. Making me care for someone and then watched them get destroyed. For no reason. No benefit. No cost analysis. Just because. A slow opening to a swiftly paced and compelling conclusion. Honestly this episode more than the previously is going to sell me on what's going on.
You know for what started as a simple crime procedural. This is spiraling again into some really ethically dark situations. I'm officially calling the pilot bad. It's just a bad episode because these are just fascinating stories.
The concepts aren't 100% original ( I watched an animated film called Luck a while ago, had a lot of similar concepts - not saying it's the same, but still. There are other examples as well.)
However, I enjoyed this. Would I watch it again? Maybe not. Is it incredible... No. It's got a good cast, a fun story, and the effects aren't egregiously bad. In fact, I thought they were fairly good, which is not too surprising coming from Jim Henson Co.
The main co-stars were cute together. I enjoyed the little budding romance they shared.
Overall, it was a nice, chill movie to watch that didn't make me upset about anything after I woke up, and allowed me to distract from my crippling physical pain, as much as media can do that. That's always a plus for me in this world.
Remake of 2004 movie cellular .
Dope soundtrack with a a cool concept. I really loved the world building g in this film and it was fun seeing g a completely new world. The soundtrack was really cool too. It felt like the composer just experiment with everything and I thought that was really cool. I liked seeing a very DIFFERENT story for a superhero and I really liked that. This is 5/8 in my marvel movie binge.
Really good episode. I am excited to see more. Its an interesting take on racism. Music is really good too.
I was not prepared for this show to likely become the thing I'm most psyched about in this surrounding two years; and yet here I am, witnessing all signs pointing to the rest of the season living up to that honor.
This was soo much better than the poor trailer for it originally had me expecting. Yes, I later learned more information — that Damon Lindelof, of LOST and The Leftovers, was behind it — eventually getting me more interested; but I certainly wasn't confident, given the trailer.
This has me remembering how good the movie actually was... I kind of lost track of my memories of how intense it was and how involved it's last act was...
Anywho, on to the real reason I had to post something.. Timepoint 59 mins and 59 seconds in the episode is what finally gave me what I was truly waiting to validate: that there was no way that the soundtrack could be so NIN without actually being NIN / Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross.
For a cliff hanger episode it felt rather satisfying. One of the most surprising things about The Orville, a sci fi show form Seth MacFarlane is how episodes feel full and meaty. Cliffhanger episodes can often feel like cheating. They cut right when everything gets good. I'm happy to say though that doesn't happen here.
There's a plot point that involves a child leaving the ship and it does feel weird that he left and no one knew what was going on. It feels even more weird that the child was able to elude the planet natives using none of his special skills. But big changes are coming to The Orville this episode when Isaac falls unresponsive and the ship has to go to the mysterious homeplanet Kaylon to get him fixed.
I was genuinely surprised they turned him off without any sort of formal announcement. i think it would have made more sense for the Kaylons to use him to send a goodbye message or shut off message like French Stewart in 3rd Rock from the Sun. They also hint at the fact that save the intercession from The Orville Isaac would have been recycled but they don't indicate why. Is it because he was an inferior model for diplomacy only? Is it because he's corrupted with feelings? It's unclear.
This episode is actually "The Flash & The Furious" and not "Spin Out".
