Axe Cop has more mature writing...
4 Episodes in; I suggest you better skip this one. I won't, but I have a problem.
Mostly this just makes me miss Ugly Americans...
How did this get a second season? Shoulda been shot and dropped in the same ditch as Hoops.
The show might be boring, but you gotta admire Netflix's sheer hubris to releasing this while they are tanking.
Great action with a solid story. Especially the final episode was intense. The only thing that bothered me was the egregious overuse of the theme song throughout almost every scene.
Not really sure why so many would recommend this to kids. They dissect children seemingly while they are fully lucid, literally burn people alive and put a bear trap over a man’s head. Y’all desensitized…
Really not sure who’s the target audience here but definitely not children.
For the most part it was pretty great, but interrupting the big fight of your final (season 1) episode for a 10 minute bad-guy-speech exposition dump is pretty unforgivable. Just make more episodes...
There's just too much wrong with this to really enjoy it. It would be far better as a stand-alone than a spinoff.
To me, Pacific Rim is about huge lumbering steel giants punching huge lumbering meat giants. The best part about the fights in the first movie was the sense of scale and most importantly weight. All this is immediately lost when you fight mostly in the desert and your main mech routinely tumbles along the floor after getting punched, when he should drop like a sack of flour. That only gets worst with the confusing biomech that does literal backflips.
The omission (mostly) of weapons also highlights this, because fights get turned into a MMA brawl with kicks and grapples and everything.
Characters were mostly OK, with the exception of Shane. He was just evil for evils sake. Why not have the kids pilot and just put two soldiers with guns to their heads into the cockpit with them? Instead he fries the brains of the only guy who can repair and maintain yaegers in the apocalypse. Why shoot rockets at the "only yaeger in the black", AFTER he has basically killed said engineer? Just wait for the power-cell to run out or the kids to get supplies. Why have the kids killed after they leave exactly? The list is goes on, but the point is he's a cartoonishly evil, poor excuse for an antagonist. Shoulda gotten stomped.
The inclusion of the small Kaiju somehow made the big Kaijus way less terrifying, as the complete helplessness the characters had against them meant that any sense of danger was gone as soon as they got into the mech.
I won't even go into the whole "boy" situation. At best I'd call the character obsolete.
Finally focusing on kids is always a mistake. I didn't even want to see kid-protagonist when I was a child. Funnily enough, the only cool fight in the show is the one with their parents in EP1. At that point I didn't mind the fast mech movement too much though. At least it looked cool.
This show has quite possibly the blandest character-design I've seen in a long time.
This was pretty solid. It will probably be a bit too straight forward for most viewers, but this is an adaption of a video game.
I cannot judge this on its own merits, simply because it is one of the best "adaptions" I can think off. To me most of the fun came from seeing the all the random open world story-telling of a game accurately structured in a show.
I'll explain a basic example in spoilers:
The monsters that show up in the episodes actually show up in the order you encounter (or kill in case of the hydra) them when naturally progressing through the game. They also look EXACTLY like the game models. Combined this is like a highly pleasant nostalgia sledgehammer.
The first episode had some promise. Then the show just got dumber and dumber. Don’t waste your time. It’s just one half baked plotpoint after another with ridiculous character motivations.
Holy Shit. Finished the first season and I am floored. I can whole heartedly recommend this show.
