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Unhinged (I) (2020)

Illogical plot

[1/10 · 28 August 2023]

It is really hard for me to watch the movie when the plot is silly and illogical. The woman did everything exactly what she shouldn't have done. I consider this kind of plots make fun of audience's mind. It could have been a good thriller movie if it had been written painstakingly. I can't understand why producers keep on working this kind of medium writers. The writer's previous works are also not so shiny. There are many good writers in the industry. Or alternatively, they should seek for new authors with strong manuscript skills. Eventually, It was a silly movie for me by its illogical scenario.

The 100 (2014–2020)

Second review after finished the series

[6/10 · 28 November 2020]

I am writing my second review about this series. I had written my first review when I finished the second season. Now I am writing after the whole series finished. First of all, the 6-star I gave with my first review is still valid. Because the series has many cons but also has pros. From the beginning, I should state that this series should have made the finale with Season 5. Because the story that has progressed hard even up to that point, has become too boring, uninteresting and annoying in seasons six and seven. I will make a very detailed review starting from the very beginning. The problems of this series and its story can be counted as characterization, story-flow, and lack of scientific / technical knowledge. In terms of the production, although there are some annoying issues about the acting, the cast is not bad and the production is not bad either. First of all, I found the story original. The book and series get strength from this original theme. But the story flow fails. The only thing we see as we watch is constantly handover the wrong. The story of the series flows thanks to the sequence of mistakes that handover between the main characters. However, this preference made through the characters and obviously constrained, disrupts the naturalness of the event flow. For this reason, it grins that every stage in which events evolve is forced. The problem with writing story-line starts from the very beginning. The idea of sending 100 young people to the world to see if it is possible to survive in the world and to re-establish civilization if possible is good. But there are too many questions at the very beginning. We assume that while they have the technology to live in space, they cannot drill for radiation measurement in the world! The bigger problem is when sending 100 young people to the world, Arc administrators don't know about 12 clans in the world! They may not be able to communicate but have not seen any of their activities for 97 years?! Didn't the Arc administrators look for any human activity on earth?! Couldn't artificial intelligence (ALIE) spread among these tribes in 97 years until the Arc prisoners arrived?! It should be added that the 12 clans experience Stone Age religious rituals and use medieval weapons. I would like to remind you that the events take place within the borders of the USA and in the lands with the highest individual weapon reserves in the world; you prefer to wear swords and arrows! Unfortunately, the story is problematic from the beginning. While this is a science-fiction and fantasy genre, persuasiveness is not a quality that can be abandoned. The author expects us to ignore too much things from the very beginning. The author's/screenwriters' every illogicality and attempt to shake the audience is irrational, initially and afterwards, in the name of originality. The audience can accept that reality has been neglected up to a point. They do this for the sake of watching an original story. However, there is a limit for this. It should be a small part of your entire creation so it can be neglected. If you set aside that the audience's negligence of reality has a limit and if you abuse it, you fool them and the quality of your story drops. We are willing to break off reality at this particular point, as it has the existential basis for the story. However, in the flow of the story, the audience waits for reality. The plot must remain within the boundaries of logic as far as possible. Characterization also seems to have been sacrificed so that the story flows. Maybe characterization has never been achieved. Since each main character handover the wrong, he/she follows that wrong path blindly with a robotic dullness. For some reason, when characters take the wrong path, they become inaccessible with reason / logic. There is a situation that repeats itself continuously, albeit in a different way. We see the possibility of the last people we saw in Season 5 to be destroyed by a big war, also in the final episode of the series. In addition, the evil that enters a different identity each time becomes boring after a certain point. Sheidheda's resurrection in the last season was completely unnecessary and unconvincing. In this series, we have a story spiral that cannot come out of adolescent attitudinizes, whims, and characters mobbing at each other. The drama flows with scenes of crying, yelling, and hugging. The dialogues are shallow, the lines are the same such as if he/she dies, humanity will die; if we lose it everything will end; otherwise our species will end; we will find our humanity later, etc. A story that flows through them. What a pity. There were also pros. At the beginning of the features that make the series viewable, there is a big share of the curiosity about the next episode. The directors did a good job, and almost every episode was left at a summit that would make you want to watch the next. This provides fluency. This is an indicator of successful editing. I also liked some episodes and scenes. For example, the Season 5 finale was legendary. The series should have ended there. I also think that the series offers a rich content, not as much as GoT does, in terms of human nature and its inconsistencies, contradictions, adventurousness and combative temperament. I have already given 6 stars for such successful features. I would like to add that human combativeness is so troubling that -I find it realistic- as humanity has 1200 people left and is still in pursuit of war. We experienced the same scene in the final episode of the series. The presentation of the series here aroused deep doubts about us. I consider this a good presentation. Some scenes evoke the productions we know. For the sake of being a messy story and not ending the story. We even saw Raven seem as if in the Exorcist. I laughed on that scene. Technically and scientifically, there are too many problems that consider the audience to have child intelligence and knowledge and fool them. The range of radio signal is not a problem, the issue of blood type only happens once in all blood transfusion scenes, and we do not understand how the swallowed chip settles in the neck. And these chips entering through the mouth can be removed from the neck. Congratulations to the producers. They did not do a bad job at all. The scenes take us into that atmosphere. Of course, it could have been better in today's technology, but I think the channel tried to make the best of the production. I did not find the casting bad. I think the most successful actress was Marie Avgeropoulos (Octavia Blake). Dramatization was good. I think the Octavia-character she portrays reflects the spiritual change very successfully. I also liked Lindsey Morgan's performance. We also loved her character Raven Reyes. The worst performer was the star of the series, Eliza Taylor. She was a really lucky actress. It is a great success to take over the leading role in a popular series with such poor acting. The misfortune of the series. Despite the series' unsuccessful characterization, I liked some of the characters. I liked Raven the most. She was the only one of the main characters who protected her humanity to a great extent with one exception. Lincoln was also a consistent character and was among my favorites. Although I sometimes hate Octavia, I count her among my favorites by tolerating the thing she has transformed into because of the burden on her and the trauma she experienced. My other favorite characters were Monty, Indra, Echo, Emori, Murphy, and finally Lexa. I think Lexa was one of the most successful characters of the series appeared for a short time. I think the actress (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has a share in this. She was also the most spectacular beauty during the series. Her intimacy with Clarke felt sincere. I see this among the pros of the series.

The 100 (2014–2020)

A good idea, very bad story-line, bad characterization, contradictions, and lack of technical knowledge

[6/10 · 31 October 2020]

Sorry for long title, but it summarizes many things. Here you can find details. First of all, I have to mention that I didn't read the book. So I criticize the story-line of the serial. Initially, the idea is original. The problem starts at the second phase in short writing it. There are countless problem with the story-line. Characterization is very bad. I suppose the author did that. I deduced that because I assume the creators of the serial were loyal of the characters in the story and their behaviors. All characters act too unpredictable, and unstable. This is a very big problem in a literary sense. Characterization is one of the indicators of quality of a story. An author is firstly expected to succeed creating independent, distinctive individuals. While story flows characters are known better by reader/audience. Then reader/audience can follow his-her acts and easily forecast/guess reactions if the characterization is strong and stable. Of course author/creators can sacrifice this qualification to surprise the audience. The biggest problem in this story is that. The second biggest problem is there is no technical knowledge about the field story touch. For example policy, diplomacy, military, aerospace, rocket science, communication, and even natural sciences, and etc. Of course we cannot expect the author/creators master them, but we expect them avoid to make clear mistakes at least. For example even though their all diplomatic and political experience in the Arc, Dr Griffin, the president Jaha always do political and diplomatic mistakes. More specifically in the second season Dr Griffin handled diplomacy with Grounders for Finn's turn over so badly and totally wrong way. For another example, I didn't understand why they didn't blow up the mountain-men transmitter to cut their communication and turned back without doing something. There are many technical problems like this. Another biggest problem with the story is with dialogues. In the dialogues, an explanation/message/news/info is never said exactly where it should be said. Characters don't talk or act timely. There is more to say about it but there seems no end of defects.