by NebulaJack Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:38 pm
Wow, I missed a buncha stuff lately. Here's my catch up thoughts:
Patch, the key to Breaking Bad is that most of the sympathetic characters are the secondary ones getting their lives destroyed by Wally White, like his wife and son. If you're ver up for trying to get into it, watch the show for Jesse Pinkman's character arc. He goes from being a naive young man who gets in over his head, to someone trying his damnedest to redeem himself while being surrounded by people who want him to keep doing horrible things. his growth is far more satisfying than Walter's.
Mr. Robot sounds like the least interesting element of Fight Club mixed with that crapfest of a game called Watch_Dogs that Ubisoft released in a half finished form a few years back.
Arkay, the Christian Slater show you're thinking of is probably the one where he's an undercover agent who's part of a program where agents are given a second personality that is unaware of the truth, so that the can blend completely into the cover. He starts to catch on, and is basically having a battle of wits with himself. It was kinda cool, but died within a season or so.
On the whole Star Wars thing, I loved Episode III when I first saw it (except for that "NOOOO" bullshit at the end) and it's still the only one I cite as good upon further viewing. Eps I and II had their moments, but they don't come anywhere near VII, which while not being as good as the OG trilogy, is a damned good successor none the less.
Damn, if Gallen thought Interstellar was antievolution, he must really be stretching. It has a poor understanding of how evolution works, but
seems pretty pro evo to me.
Gonzo, Sleverin, if you guys want to settle this like gentlemen, go grab some paint ball guns, some condoms and a jar of mayonaise to fill them with then meet on the field of honor.
The notion that Rey is a Kenobi would be even weaker sauce than her being a Skywalker. That would basically require shoe horning in a retconned wife or lover for Obi, and that would be really shitty.
Patch, Abrams had little to do with the latter seasons of Lost, or pretty much any show he's brought to TV. his standard MO is to start up a show, groom one or two writers to take over the reigns and then move onto the next thing.... which come to think of it, is his same MO with movies lately.
Lost was a spectacular failure of story telling that has some great performances and character beats. It's ultimate failing, is that after years of the show runners insisting that everything would have a scientific answer, for the final season they gave up and said "fuck it, it's all magic" and walked away. I loved the show, and was satisfied with the ending, but it still failed in their own stated goals. I feel like it should be essential viewing in classes for writing serialized fiction as it shows a great way to make the audience care about people and a lot of pit falls to avoid. The biggest lesson is "don't change course in order to give the fans what they claim they want." which is what happened when they introduced two minor characters in season 3 that fulfilled the fan outcry for seeing more of the 3rd stringer nobodies that survived the crash but never did anything. The audience hated them and were glad to see them die.
I haven't watched the remake of Battle Star Galactica, but I'll get around to it one of these days just because opinion are so split on the ending. Sopranos had the same thing, and I loved the finale.
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