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Reply #361. May 20 19, 4:40 PM |
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I agree with this assessment. Rushed and badly written. Very unfortunate. Both seasons 7 and 8 suffered this problem and you’re right that it’s not necessarily because they had gotten past Martin’s book ‘A Dance with Dragons’. Much of the content in season 6 and some of season 5 was set after that book and I enjoyed those two seasons (6 more than 5) as much as the ones that went before. I almost wish I hadn’t watched seasons 7 and 8 now because up to the end of season 5 I had read the content from the books prior to watching and enjoying them greatly. That is assuming Martin ever gets around to finishing the last two books of course... Reply #362. May 21 19, 7:04 AM |
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Change of show...............anyone watched both seasons of Star Trek Discovery? If so.........like?, dislike?..........what you make of them ? Reply #363. May 21 19, 2:53 PM |
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Reply #364. May 21 19, 3:29 PM |
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I have watched Discovery because it just so happened to be shown by Netflix here in the U.K. and I happen to subscribe to Netflix.... unlike the new Captain Picard series that is going to be shown by Amazon Prime here in the U.K.... suffice to say I'm not paying for another streaming service! Discovery looks absolutely amazing. The design and effects are spectacular. It feels movie standard in that department. Unfortunately the writing is terrible. The characters are not developed or consistant. The scenes are often difficult to follow with nonsense technical jargon to explain scenes and situations instead of focusing on how scenes and situations affect characters. It has violence for the sake of violence, it has swearing seemingly just 'because they want to be different' (a totally random and inappropriate F-Bomb dropped into one season one episode being the example). And finally, they felt the need to drop original series characters into the mix in season two, presumably to try to keep fans interested. It improved quite a bit for season two, but the underlying problems are still there. It improved enough, though, to make me think that perhaps there is the possibility of a good show underneath there especially with the ending of the season, that of course I will not spoil here, lending itself to perhaps more interesting possibilities in season three. There is not enough sci-fi concept stuff being explored, so you would think the show would become reliant instead on character driven stories... except it writes its characters so badly... hmm... I'm currently rewatching DS9 at a rate of one or two episodes per week and honestly, watching that concurrently with season two of discovery made it look very weak indeed. Reply #365. May 21 19, 3:54 PM |
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I just thought of a way to explain what Discovery does so badly... One of my favourite episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation is called The Inner Light. In this episode a probe scans the Enterprise and scans the ship knocking Picard unconscious during which time he lives a lifetime on the planet from where the probe originated. It works well because it explores the concept of this species sending the probe as a way to pass on the information about their society to somebody and the idea of how a person copes with being placed into somebody else's life with no choice but to live it. It works because the episode focuses almost exclusively on Picard and tracks him through years of life on the planet. It shows him have a family, have grandchildren, function amongst this society, come to love his friends and family and accept his place in that society. If Discovery made that episode they would probably split the screen time between Picard's new life and on board the ship 50:50. The crew trying to revive Picard would be spouting long sequences of jargon, technical sounding dialogue at each other as one responds to the other working toward sone solution to the problem that the viewer cares nothing about because he or she has no idea what they are saying!!! Whilst this is going on they would no doubt have some crisis external to the ship threatening to collide or otherwise destroy the ship whilst the story goes along, probably with some sort of countdown ("we have 18 minutes until the hull breeches"). Because we'd have spent so long on the long boring scenes on board ship there isn't enough time with Picard on the planet to flesh out the story and allow the viewer to really care about Picard and his family, his new home or his conflict of emotion. So instead, at the climax of the story on the planet you get an overly emotional scene where the characters explain exactly how they are feeling against a backdrop of stirring music so that the audience knows they should be feeling sadness at this point. Oh and they'd throw in some random cliffhanger at the end to lead into the next episode. Reply #366. May 21 19, 4:49 PM |
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Reply #367. May 21 19, 5:29 PM |
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I have read lots of commentary from people talking about 'Mary Sue's' recently and I reject it totally. Gender has nothing to do with it because if it were a male character written like that you wouldn't be commenting on the gender, just that they were badly written. Or even worse it might be more accepted that a male character could be written that way. So it's more a reflection on the people writing the commentaries I feel. Equality on screen is here to stay, thankfully, it's not Mary Sue anymore than it was Johnny Sue when this type of show was filled to the brim with male characters. Ripley was a great character and I've read her brought up for comparison when complaints are made about Mary Sue's. It's a great character, in a great film with a great performance... is that the only circumstance where a female lead is allowed in that genre without commenting on their gender? Reply #368. May 22 19, 12:36 AM |
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Reply #370. May 22 19, 12:22 PM |
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Game of Thrones season 8 was a dumpster fire. I was going to watch the entire series with my sister, who hasn't seen it. We're not doing that now. Why make it just six episodes? What was Bran doing while all of these people were dying for him? What happened to Arya's horse at the beginning of the finale? Why send Jon to the Wall? Why even have a Night's Watch? I get they need to send "bad guys" somewhere, but they're guarding nothing now. I don't even care about the coffee cup or water bottle. They messed up these characters. It's still fresh in my mind and it has left a bitter taste in my mouth. Obviously, Dany was my favorite character. Nuff said. Reply #371. May 24 19, 11:36 AM |
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Reply #378. Jul 19 19, 11:45 AM |
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I'd like to revisit and revise a post that I had made earlier. It was Post #196, and I was talking about comic books being a lower form of literature. I just recently finished a class titled "20th Century Graphic Novels." I learned a lot and had a great time. I now have newfound respect for the form. If you would like to continue this discussion, I would be more than happy to share the novels that we read and studied. Reply #379. Jul 21 19, 12:25 AM |
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