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wasn't much of a fan of season 1. It just seems like the convoluted story lines papered over the cracks of a poorly written show.
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Why do people think this show is poorly written? I never had any particular big gripes with it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm watching the same stuff as the rest of you.
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Orpheus wrote:Why do people think this show is poorly written? I never had any particular big gripes with it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm watching the same stuff as the rest of you.
There seem to be major plot holes.
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Such as? Although I should say I am typically not really bothered by plot holes, especially in fantasy/sci-fi. Unless they're egregious, I'm watching the show to be wowed and told a story, not to have a airtight flowchart of plot that moves exactly from A to B to C with no errors. But I seem to be in the minority on that.
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Orpheus wrote:Such as? Although I should say I am typically not really bothered by plot holes, especially in fantasy/sci-fi. Unless they're egregious, I'm watching the show to be wowed and told a story, not to have a airtight flowchart of plot that moves exactly from A to B to C with no errors. But I seem to be in the minority on that.
I haven't rewatched it, but for me it was the whole concept of the control room. It seemed like sometimes they had granular control over everything and sometimes they were asleep at the wheel. Tesla has better monitoring over it's cars than they did over their robots.
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I think the main reason the writing is bad is because the show is inefficient and doesn’t explore anything interesting. Comparing it to Crichton’s movie makes this immediately clear, IMO. He accomplishes so much more and in far less time.
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jwfocker wrote:wasn't much of a fan of season 1. It just seems like the convoluted story lines papered over the cracks of a poorly written show.
That's about where my opinion netted out too. I'll still watch this though.
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I think the re-shoots during season 1 help explain the poor writing too. It sounded like they were substantial.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:I think the main reason the writing is bad is because the show is inefficient and doesn’t explore anything interesting. Comparing it to Crichton’s movie makes this immediately clear, IMO. He accomplishes so much more and in far less time.
I find it very interesting, but AI-AI relationships and the increasing depictions of them fascinate me. One of the reasons I enjoyed the new Blade Runner as well.
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Orpheus wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I think the main reason the writing is bad is because the show is inefficient and doesn’t explore anything interesting. Comparing it to Crichton’s movie makes this immediately clear, IMO. He accomplishes so much more and in far less time.
I find it very interesting, but AI-AI relationships and the increasing depictions of them fascinate me. One of the reasons I enjoyed the new Blade Runner as well.
I could not be less interested in the way Westworld and BR2049 “explored” this.
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I know how you feel about it. I really am surprised to read people bagging on this show so much though. I thought it was pretty damn good.
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Orpheus wrote:I know how you feel about it. I really am surprised to read people bagging on this show so much though. I thought it was pretty damn good.
I didn't dislike it. I just found myself totally apathetic to the characters.
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Orpheus wrote:I know how you feel about it. I really am surprised to read people bagging on this show so much though. I thought it was pretty damn good.
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Watched the first episode, finally. Really dug it. interested to see where it goes.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Watched the first episode, finally. Really dug it. interested to see where it goes.
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