The Official, Long Awaited, TV Shows Thread

WhiningKhan said:
I was actually referring to the Halo discussion, there is not much wrong with Moon Knight IMO. I find it refreshingly weird.
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Halo has less of an excuse, there are different directors and writers but they are seemingly less random, e.g.

Halo Episode 1: Director: Otto Bathurst, Writers: Kyle Killen and Steven Kane
Halo Episode 2: Director: Roel Reiné, Writers: Kyle Killen and Steven Kane
Halo Episode 3: Director: Otto Bathurst, Writers: Kyle Killen and Steven Kane
Halo Episode 4: Director: Otto Bathurst, Writers: Justine Juel Gillmer, Steven Kane and Kyle Killen

It's just all over the place. I've not seen episodes 4 and 5 yet.
 
Oof "the writing is so bad it makes Halo seem like a masterpiece" -AngryJoe :LOL:
(Picard s2e8 review)

As Trekyards points out, the classic TNG episodes have an A plot & 2-3 B plots, Picard is all B plots & they are all the bad/boring ones.
 
orangpelupa said:
the need to "take off the helmet" all the bloody time is also weird.

The expanse did it muuuuuch better. They took off the helmet when it made sense.
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That makes me think of something someone said about Halo episode 4. Or more accurately pantomiming when asked how Halo episode 4 was. They basically just sat there and acted like they were constantly taking their helmet off, putting it back on, taking it off, putting it back on, taking it off, yada yada yada.

I feel sad that the writers and director have decided that Master Chief is autistic or something. That said, I have no clue how accurate it is since I'm still struggling to get up the motivation to watch episode 3.

I have heard that at the end of episode 5 there's finally another good fight scene. So, splice that together with the first fight scene in episode 1 and you almost have an episode that at least is interesting even if it would have no interesting story tied to it. Then again, it's not like the current non-action content has an interesting story anyway. :p Ah, I shouldn't be too overly cynical until I actually attempt to watch 3, 4 and 5.

Regards,
SB
 
I don't know that I'd characterise it as a good fight scene.
Some of it was good but the effects quality was pretty mixed eg its all obviously just in a quarry, the gatling gun barrels don't rotate, some of the CG is really not good.
It has really dumb stuff like the MC standing up in the front of a warthog while the marine in back was wildly slewing it around & firing, I'm not a gun guy but even I know not to stand up infront of a firing muzzle.

Edit: screenshot (actually the barrels are rotating in this shot & some others but they definitely aren't in a bunch of shots)
https://imgur.com/gHZ5olc
Going through to grab this the gun is slewed to the side a bit more than I thought first time but its still slewing around.
Part of the problem that annyoyed me is they broke the windshield earlier on which made the warthog look too much like a normal jeep/hummer because of the near vertical frame & while grabbing this I realised they did that to enable MC to do this standing up bit
 
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hoom said:
I don't know that I'd characterise it as a good fight scene.
Some of it was good but the effects quality was pretty mixed eg its all obviously just in a quarry, the gatling gun barrels don't rotate, some of the CG is really not good.
It has really dumb stuff like the MC standing up in the front of a warthog while the marine in back was wildly slewing it around & firing, I'm not a gun guy but even I know not to stand up infront of a firing muzzle.

Edit: screenshot (actually the barrels are rotating in this shot & some others but they definitely aren't in a bunch of shots)
https://imgur.com/gHZ5olc
Going through to grab this the gun is slewed to the side a bit more than I thought first time but its still slewing around.
Part of the problem that annyoyed me is they broke the windshield earlier on which made the warthog look too much like a normal jeep/hummer because of the near vertical frame & while grabbing this I realised they did that to enable MC to do this standing up bit
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The gatling gun also missing proper LFE.

Maybe this series was made with shoestring budget and/or schedule?
 
speaking of interesting premises (premii ?), it's reasonably rare these days for an entirely new premise to pop up, so for me severance is immediately watchable just because of the concept that it portrays and how well its been fleshed out.
Having said that there is one issue that annoys me
The 'outies' have no daytime life at all, they just all exist before and after the full 8hr or whatever workday, which seems pretty crap for a concept that is suppose to be designed to provide them with a much more ideal life. No colleagues to engage with, no socialising with them, no sense of achievement, and comparatively little daytime/daylight in their lives.

I'm guessing the series is based on a book, and that is all rounded out in the book.

Loving slow horses

And call me a trekie-scooper-upper but I'm liking Picard
 
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