XTheXXTruthX
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You know, a TV show can be slow and also be good.
This is not that. I think to enjoy this you need to be lacking a few brain cells. It's repetitive. The dialogue is inane. The cast are mostly bland as hell.
To pull of a slow burn you need a writer who can pull together an interesting script. Especially if your plot points are so thinly spread that you need to pad out 6 episodes. This is pretty much 95% padding.
You also need a cast who have some form of magnetism. Something naturally watchable or endearing about them. Some screen presence, some charm, something going on behind the eyes that suggests they know something the viewer does not.
This is a collection of actors who are going through the motions of reading lines with no real acting ability.
The problem with TV now is it's just seen as content, rather than art. Rather than having a burning desire to tell a story. As there is so much demand for 'content' across multiple platforms far too many shows are hiring weak writers and actors. People who look like they won a competition to appear on a show.
An IP this big deserves better. This is garbage and todays audiences it appear will just lap up any old tripe.
This is not that. I think to enjoy this you need to be lacking a few brain cells. It's repetitive. The dialogue is inane. The cast are mostly bland as hell.
To pull of a slow burn you need a writer who can pull together an interesting script. Especially if your plot points are so thinly spread that you need to pad out 6 episodes. This is pretty much 95% padding.
You also need a cast who have some form of magnetism. Something naturally watchable or endearing about them. Some screen presence, some charm, something going on behind the eyes that suggests they know something the viewer does not.
This is a collection of actors who are going through the motions of reading lines with no real acting ability.
The problem with TV now is it's just seen as content, rather than art. Rather than having a burning desire to tell a story. As there is so much demand for 'content' across multiple platforms far too many shows are hiring weak writers and actors. People who look like they won a competition to appear on a show.
An IP this big deserves better. This is garbage and todays audiences it appear will just lap up any old tripe.
They only had 6 episodes to write and still it's decompressed padding for the vast majority of the running time of this season.
Is this really the best they can come up with?
Was it really worth making?
The producers are to blame ultimately, as they should have sat on this until they received a pitch that was worth making a show out of.
Where they continue to find these writers who are incapable of a few lines of interesting dialogue or any idea of pacing, building tension, drama, relationships and pay off - I have no idea.
6 episodes of fan favourite Rick being sidelined for 3 girl bosses and some of the most boring episodes of The Walking Dead to date.
Please do better.
Is this really the best they can come up with?
Was it really worth making?
The producers are to blame ultimately, as they should have sat on this until they received a pitch that was worth making a show out of.
Where they continue to find these writers who are incapable of a few lines of interesting dialogue or any idea of pacing, building tension, drama, relationships and pay off - I have no idea.
6 episodes of fan favourite Rick being sidelined for 3 girl bosses and some of the most boring episodes of The Walking Dead to date.
Please do better.
Underrated episode on IMBD, presumably by attention deficit viewers who came on board for Discovery; a show that can be watched while playing with your phone.
A vehicle to give Miles and Bashir's relationship plenty of air time, further develop Nog and Jake's relationship, and the relationship with their fathers.
This is something DS6 has always done well, particularly this first season, which has less action and bolder plot driven epsiodes, but more than makes up for it with character development.
Kira, Odo, Quark, Dax, Sisko, Jake, Nog, O'Brien, Bashir and their families, as well as the extended cast are all fully fleshed out by this point - which is a quite a remarkable feat.
Especially given Discovery and Strange New Worlds are still floundering to add some meat to the bones of their barely formed crews, who all seem to have the same voice, mostly narky or overly emotional, 5 seasons and 2 seasons in respectively.
Their failed writers could learn a thing or two by watching this episode and this season of DS9 in general.
A vehicle to give Miles and Bashir's relationship plenty of air time, further develop Nog and Jake's relationship, and the relationship with their fathers.
This is something DS6 has always done well, particularly this first season, which has less action and bolder plot driven epsiodes, but more than makes up for it with character development.
Kira, Odo, Quark, Dax, Sisko, Jake, Nog, O'Brien, Bashir and their families, as well as the extended cast are all fully fleshed out by this point - which is a quite a remarkable feat.
Especially given Discovery and Strange New Worlds are still floundering to add some meat to the bones of their barely formed crews, who all seem to have the same voice, mostly narky or overly emotional, 5 seasons and 2 seasons in respectively.
Their failed writers could learn a thing or two by watching this episode and this season of DS9 in general.