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Mr.Robot - The plot sounds great on the Wikipedia summary and I like it conceptually but it drags so hard in S2 and S3 it's unreal.
Same goes for Better Call Saul with it dragging on and on.
Man in The High Castle falls off a cliff in Season 3, I couldn't follow anything and everything has a weird brown(?) filter on it and i gave up when there was a scene with the nazi son guy in like a hotel or something and it was literally impossible to see what was going on. I didn't think that's what was meant by the show being dark ba-dum-tss
Every Nu-Trek (Discovery onwards) is not even entertaining enough to be so-bad-its-funny most of the time.
Hard disagree on better call Saul. It's one of my all-time favorites. Such a good character study into corruption, deceit and redemption.
Watching Mr. Robot right now. Oh shit. Just began S2 and you say S3 gonna be also boring? Also, I still cant accept that Elliots father is an imagination but his friends are not. Elliots whole plot is not to be trusted after numerous "HAHAHA THAT WAS A DREAM/IMAGINATION, AND YOU BELIEVED! FU VIEWER!!1!!111!" moments.
At this point I am just watching cause of inertia + I can just watch videos while working.
I agree with the OP you're responding to, but I still love the show. The middle seasons felt a little out of place and slow moving while I was watching the show, I almost didn't make it to season 3. But they actually wrap it all up really well into a great ending IMO, and then the middle seasons kind of make sense.
I loved the show and will probably watch it again someday to pick up on things I didn't notice the first time!
Can you explain me something?
I see the show s 8.5 on imdb, and 90something on rottentomatoes. I am at S2E10 right now and I am really fucking tired of the "That was all imagination" shtick. Is this somehow enjoyable? Will it stop in future?
Like the first half of S2 was "Hey, I am trying to get rid of my father in my head, got myself a friend, doing stuff on schedule, being harrassed by couple of people here and there" Then it switches to "Oh, these people are not good actually", then it switches "Remember these people? - They are actually real people/workers of the jail I been all that time in." Like, okay, I get it. Elliot is mentally unstable. But why does it have to be "Haha, we got you again. This is not real!" all the time?
Even Strange New Worlds?
Discovery was sooo boring, Picard was... rocky. I'm behind a season on SNW, but I think it's fun!
Yeah. The writing is just as shit, it's just served by being more episodic. I don't care about Pike or Kirk or Spock or Picard.
I just want good sci-fi with well written and clever stories with attention to detail, produced and made well by people who care.
That's why I liked Star Trek, it's the depth and the fact you can engage with it actively by thinking about the stories and the characters and the premise and the message, not because it was specifically star trek or because they say certain catchphrases or because it has a ship called enterprise in it or whatever else.
I enjoyed TOS when it was clever, and not so much when it wasn't, much the same as I enjoyed many episodes of the original Twilight Zone or some episodes of the X-Files.
Nu-Trek is dumb on every level, not just the obvious utterly nonsensical stories and the plot or the confused tone and messaging, it is dumb on every level - from the graphic design of all the ship controls on each and every panel to the ship designs themselves all the way up to the internal lore and logic of the world it's portraying.
Stargate SG-1 (haven't finished it yet so no spoilers), Firefly, BSG 2005, The Expanse and For All Mankind are all a lot more like Star Trek than anything with the label on it these days, heck two of those involve lots of TNG/DS9 era people behind them from Ron D. Moore to Joe Menosky to the wonderful Michael & Denise Okuda.
Bad Robot, JJ, and Alex Kurtzman and CBS/Paramount/whatever-the-fuck do not give a flying fuck, they are peak Hollywood nepo babies and if I were a conspiratorial type i'd honestly say them running Star Trek into the ground was done on purpose to crush the spirit of the people so they don't get too uppity when our incoming corpo dystopia is fully formed.
But I will always remember.
Ironically I felt discovery was better after it went to a timeline where it fit in more. Still dropped it after second season I think. Maybe it was third.
Yeah, I dropped mid Season 2, I think. It was a really interesting premise that felt like it was getting stretched, carried by just a few characters.
Yeah.
If you're a fan of strategy games and like the premise and alt. history in general, definitely check out the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. It's a similar premise sans the films and...
spoiler for MITHC
Interdimensional travel.
(God when will Lemmy Devs make inline spoilers possible this is ridiculous.)...done in a super detailed fashion, even if not a gamer, I'd read the TVtropes page on it just because of how wild the mod is.
Ohhh. I've been into Stellaris, but never touched HOI IV yet. I like the more 'cold war' premise of this.
Definitelty going into my queue, thanks.
finished mr. robot but not breaking bad and did not even start better call saul. not that they are bad but just not availalable and not motivated enough to buy really anything anymore.
Just pirate it?
nah. most stuff is not worth me even getting into it. I mean sure breaking bad but I just have not been watching media anyone wants to keep gated.