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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody (2023)
The writers on strike? I'd rather no show than this!!
A disease has taken hold in TV land to think it's acceptable to turn TV shows of any genre into Broadway Musicals. Sorry but I am not watching science fiction because I actually want a musical. First a cartoon and now this?!? No wonder why Star Trek series continually have had difficulty with every series! It's the writing! You need real Sci-Fi writers. Poll your fans!!! Do they want this? I bet you they don't! I'm done with the show - I am not watching this episode - turned it off immediately after seeing that start. Will only watch if this gets turned around without any more issues! Right now this is complete lunacy!
Imawa no Kuni no Arisu (2020)
Wow! Make sure to FINISH the second season! MIND BLOWING!
This show really takes you for a ride... I had no idea just how fantastic the ending would be! Phenomenal! Production, Acting, and Story all wind up knocking it right out of the park!
This is the kind of story that you need to suspend your disbelief. And it keeps you guessing and guessing. Thankfully it all made sense by the end. Few works really make me feel so overwhelmed after watching. This felt like a extended worthwhile 10/10 movie.
I guess the only detraction for some people might be how violent and gory it was. But I guess that's the bitterness of the medicine. Hope this work is recognized highly!
Westworld: Fidelity (2022)
This whole season is abysmal...
I have no idea what others consider quality. The production is fine, but the story is completely uninteresting! I can barely watch anymore. Seasons 1-3 are great, so it's not like I didn't make it this far.
Devs (2020)
Slow but worth it in the end....
The only flaw is how slow it goes... but some of it is mood building which is ok. In the end I really liked it. Thought provoking and quality production and acting!
Riverdale: Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mr. Cypher (2021)
Someone please save this show from these loser writers!
No need for spoilers - the show is already spoiled! I feel sorry for the amazing cast. This show used to be really good. What in the world happened?????
Riverdale: Chapter Ninety-Six: Welcome to Rivervale (2021)
Just when you thought the show couldn't get any worse!
Honestly what's the point in watching this drivel! First the mockery by turning what was a fantasy thriller into a part-time freaking musical that nobody wanted or asked for. And now this????
Loki: Journey Into Mystery (2021)
Fanboys will apparently eat up any garbage thrown to them... Humor Fail!
Cannot stand infantile humor. The alligator and the insane unrealistic behavior of these extra characters... This is where the series makes a hard turn from cool and humorous to adolescent incoherent nonsense. This is where the series loses me... keep whomever wrote this script away from the rest of the series or I'm out for good!
Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Ruined show by bad plot devices...
Such a shame - this show has great acting and some great historical aspects, but is ruined because the writers have plot parts driven by the ridiculous actions of the characters. It was an incredibly frustrating show to watch, with constant let downs.
Lupin (2021)
1st 3 Episodes good, then writers lose all sense of reality!
This is a show that pulls you in for the first three episodes, and then starting in Ep. 4 the plot holes become blatant and unforgivable. It's such a shame because many aspects are done well and the acting is also good too. If you want to know more of what I mean see my review for season 1 episode 4 where I provide the details.
Lupin: Chapter 4 (2021)
Unforgivable Plot Hole of EPIC Proportions!!!
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
Step 1) You make a copy of critical evidence
Step 2) You digitize It
Step 3) You place it out for mass consumption on the web
You don't give away your only copy. Lupin is not an amateur, yet any idiot would have made a copy and then placed the full incriminating video all over the web.
This plot hole is so unbelievably glaring it's unforgivable. Stories that rely on uncharacteristic unrealistic idiot moves by the characters in order to create the problems in the plot is entirely unacceptable.
On top of that he finds her there hanging and doesn't even pull her down and check immediately if she by chance is still alive.
Horrible writing, horrible direction.
1/10
Star Trek: Discovery: Terra Firma, Part 1 (2020)
Circus writers got a hold of the wheel :-(
The show has been really great up to but NOT including this episode.... Don't let writers who crave performing arts suddenly take over your show in a fake larger than life way! This was a completely unrealistic genre switch that shouldn't have happened. And that ridiculous guy by the door is more Monty Python/Twilight Zone than what Star Trek is supposed to be about.
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Exactly like everyone is reporting - Great Start but 6-7 eps in DEGRADES!
Such a shame that "story/tv writers" ruin so many stories. With so many great science fiction books available... they should sci-fi series instead from successful BOOKS (so horrible drivel like this doesn't suck you in and bamboozle you.) I couldn't watch any further after ep 8 or 9 or season 1. And it started so well and novel - and with great acting and production! Such a shame... the plot became more and more incoherent with more and more ridiculous and unanswered constructs piling on. And then the slow waste of time sets in and sorry you lose your audience. What the hell happened to this show?
The Punisher: The Dark Hearts of Men (2019)
A question to anyone who rated this episode highly.....
This IS the episode where the show just started to nosedive. How can ANYONE justify Frank getting torn apart (in a contrived avant-garde arsty style no less) literally sliced up and beaten to pulp, and then without any superpowers then just gets up and takes on the whole entourage as if he HADNT been beaten to a pulp?!?! That completely RUINED the realism of the show. His body shouldnt have been able to function even if adrenaline had kicked in. Then more completely unrealistic nonsense: Curtis in the middle of a mission mind you, while his friend is utter peril, decides to completely abandon him, and decides to instead take loads of time patching up a stray member of Russo's team. I understand he wants to help others but I think it doesnt make sense that he would abandon and risk Frank's life for this. There is a pecking order to good deeds - first you ensure the safety of your OWN team. Was liking the show up to this point but this episode really went down hill. Of course based on the ridiculous high scoring of this episode it appears everyone just love's it blindly because of their addiction to action and when things start to move in the plot, but fail to recognize the big hit to realism. I hope things turn around a lot in this area, but I just lost a lot of faith for sustained quality for the rest of the episodes... probably going to be a mediocre end result.
The Orville: Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes (2019)
Ok episode... but still not going to make bank
If you want to re-live some of TNG's slower episodes this certainly feels like that vain. I just watched ST Discovery and things actually HAPPEN in that show... many things happen in just one episode... This episode is so linear and so derivative of other material that what's the point. Its an OK episode... but I really want a whole lot more... TV is not TNG anymore... the bar has been raised by countless other shows now.
The Orville: Home (2019)
Ok episode but still very disappointing!
Here! Get to know and become closer to this character through more detailed character development!.. Ok like her even more now???... Good! Ok now we are taking her away!!! Hah!! That's kind of what this felt like. Not a cool thing to do to viewers. So disappointing - Alara was one of the best characters in this show!
I also have my suspicions over how the gravity variance effect would occur scientifically - Alara likely should have similarly also felt negative pressure effects in an earth-like atmosphere, similar to why people might explode in space with no surrounding pressure.
The violence also bordered on a horror type that's not necessary. Sick home-invasion torture scene violence?!?
And The new security chief is awful... and I highly question whether survival evolution would create a second esophagus rather than just make one larger, or more importantly why it would be external to the body like that?! It's absurd. Attempt at comedy over science-fiction. I hope he is removed instantly.
The Orville: Primal Urges (2019)
Snoreville! Simply using futuristic settings to further non-interesting plots
Battling a porn addiction is not SciFi, and rescuing people from a natural disaster is not a compelling plot ( it's been done ad-nauseum a million times.) Both of these plots might as well have just been modern day scenarios yet placed in a futuristic setting. That by itself is insufficient. It's a complete lack of imagination. And a complete failure at engaging SciFi. Once again the attempt at comedy was juvenile and failed. And the SciFi using a VR simulation, and cosmic phenomena leading to a rescue mission was just using futuristic settings to further non-interesting plots. Things need to turn around very dramatically for this show. Such a waste because the production capability is great. They just need producers who understand that good scripts need to always come first. These producers can't seem to differentiate what makes for a compelling script. You'll be better off just employing real sci fi writers. One more episode like this and I'm done.
The Orville: Ja'loja (2018)
Weak both on comedy and sci-fi!
I have liked past episodes but this one made me write in with only 3 stars. I only laughed twice, and also found all the sci-fi elements rather adornments to an otherwise banal set of script backdrops. There was nothing interesting going on here except typical soap opera drama, and the event at the end also was a non-event. Nothing thought provoking. Keep this up and I'll stop watching for sure.
Into the Badlands: Chapter XIII: Black Heart, White Mountain (2017)
The Turning Point to Stop Watching The Show
The writing here was awful. Having to endure practically an entire episode of a cliché and mostly irrelevant dream world of emotional turmoil is a complete waste of time. This could have been done in a 2 min sequence and been done with. Instead they chew up valuable time that doesn't move the main plot forward. Not only that but it was such cliché writing with rather meaningless overdone and over-dramatic childish dialogue. This type of sequence has been done a zillion times. Good series move the main plot forward. Keep this up and you'll most certainly lose viewership! Any more episodes with such a lack of writing quality and I'm out.
The 100: Blood Must Have Blood: Part 2 (2015)
I love show BUT writers fail Character Development 101 in the most staggering breach ever in this episode!
After getting very hooked on this show, I was utterly flabbergasted when the writers sanctioned complete treason to the ENTIRE founding character development of the tribal grounders. The grounders were terrorized, captured, chemically poisoned by fog, and turned into monsters by the mountain men for long stretches of time.. and the grounders finally had them on a silver platter - the front door open, their defenses all down. The grounder's ENTIRE mantra is BLOOD for BLOOD, having restitution - there must be restitution - at all costs! Its a consistent built-in founding element of their culture! In fact its even the EXACT TITLE of the episode!! So finally in that situation they just say to the mountain men 'hey yeah... just give us our tortured men back and we'll just be on our way'?? Not only this but in doing that they 1) violate and betray their alliance with the sky people! 2) and even more important: risk the mountain men possibly returning back to power to threaten them in the future! The grounders are all about bravery and instead this was the exact opposite - the most cowardly thing they could have possibly done... make a deal and screw their friends and themselves. Would the writer who sanctioned this please be fired immediately! And even as a some kind of poorly-conceived plot-driving mechanism it fails - because the mountain men die anyway - they should have died by the tribal grounders! If you violate character development to this extent it seriously hurts the show because it destroys believability and meaningful anticipated continuity - without realism you might as well have the characters all sprout wings! I barely bought letting the village get destroyed by the missile - hundreds died so they could just have a mere chance to get back their wounded caged men in the mountain (and apparently without even retribution no less?). And now Clarke running off to who knows where also seems off as well - she has shown herself much stronger than that! My message to production: As your show professes, please weed out your weak writers - make your writing team stronger and remove any writers who show the need to place the consistency of the characters second to plot-driving. It will seriously save your show from deteriorating!