bloopville
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It's all so unengaging. There is no real dialog. It's most just portentous pronouncements.
The generic fantasy film music swells as if every scene is important, but nothing moves forward. I lose interest about halfway through every scene and hope the next one is better, but it repeats the pattern of an accumulation of trifles leading nowhere.
Finally, in the 3rd episode of the second season, a character that I can connect with appears. It's Berek the Horse. So far, he is the breakout character.
Why is this show so flat and uninteresting? Nobody seems to be able to put a finger on it, but it seems to be a common consensus.
The generic fantasy film music swells as if every scene is important, but nothing moves forward. I lose interest about halfway through every scene and hope the next one is better, but it repeats the pattern of an accumulation of trifles leading nowhere.
Finally, in the 3rd episode of the second season, a character that I can connect with appears. It's Berek the Horse. So far, he is the breakout character.
Why is this show so flat and uninteresting? Nobody seems to be able to put a finger on it, but it seems to be a common consensus.
There are two ways to review this movie. One is to watch it without knowledge of the original TV show and the other is to compare them characters to the originals.
Every kid my age watched this show, so I can only view it with the original show in mind. In the original show, Solo was charming, erudite and generally moral, except that he had a 60s style weakness for women.
In this show, he is an arrogant ex-criminal with a persona that would be unfamiliar to anybody who actually grew up in the 50s and 60s. He is mostly omniscient and omnipotent. Impossible events fall exactly and chronologically in place, and, like most post 1980s action heroes, he always has an appropriate quip available when he should actually be out of breath.
Ilya, the more compelling character in the original show, is transfigured from competent, but shy and bookish, to a trope Soviet style man/machine.
Every character is impossibly impassive, unaffected by the violence and tension around them, including characters engaging in their first-time movie espionage exploits.
The script is full of tropes, plot armor and all the other failures of modern action cinema.
In the original, Mr. Waverly was generally avuncular and collegial. Of course, in the modern version, Jared Harris has to be an antagonist, creating the "angry police chief" trope.
I'll be honest. I gave up at 23:04.
Every kid my age watched this show, so I can only view it with the original show in mind. In the original show, Solo was charming, erudite and generally moral, except that he had a 60s style weakness for women.
In this show, he is an arrogant ex-criminal with a persona that would be unfamiliar to anybody who actually grew up in the 50s and 60s. He is mostly omniscient and omnipotent. Impossible events fall exactly and chronologically in place, and, like most post 1980s action heroes, he always has an appropriate quip available when he should actually be out of breath.
Ilya, the more compelling character in the original show, is transfigured from competent, but shy and bookish, to a trope Soviet style man/machine.
Every character is impossibly impassive, unaffected by the violence and tension around them, including characters engaging in their first-time movie espionage exploits.
The script is full of tropes, plot armor and all the other failures of modern action cinema.
In the original, Mr. Waverly was generally avuncular and collegial. Of course, in the modern version, Jared Harris has to be an antagonist, creating the "angry police chief" trope.
I'll be honest. I gave up at 23:04.
It starts out as a lightly humorous homage to the Scotty Bowers story, but ends up a dull and preachy borefest. The last two episodes are nearly unwatchable, as the show tries to boil the ocean of almost every social ill.
The premise is that, if only Rock Hudson had come out as gay in the 44s, and a hit movie had an interracial couple while crediting a gay and black writer, then the nearly 80 years of hate and prejudice we have actually experienced would have fallen like so many poorly balanced dominoes.
The flick of the pen of a couple of hard-headed but generally socially conscious study execs could have saved the world from all the work and death of the black activists of the 60s and the gay activists of the 70s and 80s, who sometimes unglamorously dirtied their hands with work and planning, while sometimes dying in the process.
Hooray for Hollywood.
The premise is that, if only Rock Hudson had come out as gay in the 44s, and a hit movie had an interracial couple while crediting a gay and black writer, then the nearly 80 years of hate and prejudice we have actually experienced would have fallen like so many poorly balanced dominoes.
The flick of the pen of a couple of hard-headed but generally socially conscious study execs could have saved the world from all the work and death of the black activists of the 60s and the gay activists of the 70s and 80s, who sometimes unglamorously dirtied their hands with work and planning, while sometimes dying in the process.
Hooray for Hollywood.