PurpleTentacle

Haven't read the books but I read through the synopses, because by episode 3 I was already completely over the mystery. Now I can just enjoy the show for what it is. Is it just me or is it pretty obvious that this wasn't conceived as a series, but was added onto piecemeal? There is a bunch of useless back and forth in there. "The earth is poisoned. No it isn't people who go out to clean actually see a lush eden. No it is, that is just screens in their helmets, to make them clean (which makes no sense). No it isn't afterall, there are just some nanobots destroying all life around the silos, but that isn't actually what kills people. That are the nanobots in the disinfectent, the people who go out are sprayed with, but those only eat through defective suits and kill people, not the good suits though, because they are shitty nanobots, I guess. Also they won't kling to you and kill you when you enter another silo and take your helmet off." All these useless uses of nanobots, even though the whole point of the silos was to irradicate them from the planet. How about just have the outside be lush and beautiful and have the feed on the camera be altered, like Allison suspected. Then have some slow acting poison in their air tanks to kill them. Done. Same result without the convoluted mess and the use of deus-ex-nanobots in a bunch of instances. Maybe they'll change some of that for the show, I don't know yet, as I'm only on episode 4. But it doesn't seem like it, since there were no bodies when the Sheriff was out there and looking through his helmet, but when the helmit was off, he craweld to the body of his wife.

"The founders were smart. They knew they couldn't control how the steam behaves so they built in a safety. [..] the containment chamber." If they actually had been smart, they would have built a bypass pipe, that vents steam to the outside, not just a small buffer chamber. They should have known that a generator can't run for hudnreds of years without maintenance. What were they doing with those angle grinders on the bladees? The sparks look pretty, but how would you straighten turbine blades that way? Also where is all the steam? Why don't we see it when the turbine is spinning and the walls are off? The romance between the mayor and the deputy was sweet. Sad that it ended the way it did. I assume she's most sicnerely dead, having just signed the paper work to appoint the new sheriff.

Why in the hell would anybody, especially the Sheriff clean? "They gotta see". Bollocks. You know they won't see what you see. Why would you want to make the image you "know" to be fake clearer for them? Let the sensors accumulate dirt and give them a break from the "false" image. I use quotation marks, since he crawled to his wife after he took the helmet off making it pretty clear that the image he saw, while the helmet was on, was the fake one, since there were no bodies in the green landscape. So why are there no elevators? Why does eveerybody have to take the stairs, which takes days? I could see not having elevators accessable to the public, to keep the levels more seperated. But there isn't even one the mayor can use? Seems weird.

This was intriguing. Not sure how long I'll stick with this show. It seems pretty well acted. Other than that it seems to ride entirely on the mystery and I've been burned enough by other shows that only rely on that aspect to keep a show afloat...

The ending was kinda meh. Nothing really got tied up. A ton of threads dangeling. Seems very much like they are angeling for a second season on something that probably should have been a movie in the first place.

I have a hard time reading the scene in the restaurant. Is Remy supposed to be jealous of Mike and imagining that he could live that life or is he supposed to be into him? That song sounds kinda romantic...

Sure, but they don't joke about Alice having full grown woman face. For a joke to work something has to be contrary to expectation (in this case at least, there are other kinds of jokes). "Look, that man has a man's face!" is not a joke, it's just a statement.

I'm considering just coming back for the final two episode next season. The "previously on" should give me most of the plot of the season, since there is so little and any real developments are in the two final episodes anyway. Future daughter already tried to prevent it from happening and failed.

I think Brian just burst in. Jimmy said something about not getting paid because he had to cut a session with an actual client short. So I think it was just informal advice, but in his office. Probably because the actor is 26. Don't know, the joke falls kinda flat, when the guy with a full grown dude face is just a full grown dude.

I'm losing hope that Nandor will realise who is the right person for him in time for the finale. Somebody he doesn't need to conquor because he had already freely given himself... I never watched that movie, but still liked the episode a lot. I assume you are right though and it would be even better if I got the references. You know I thought it was him but then I was like "nah, that's not him". I don't know, he looks kinda weird around the eyes? Like there used to be more face there? I think he's just extremely thin right now. They pretty much have to be, since they'd work mostly during the day. Also yeah, perfect job for them. That is the conceit of the show, yes.

Whenever I see that car Jimmy drives, I think, if your wife died in a car accident, wouldn't you want to drive something other than that death trap? It's just we saw the car a lot this episode and even had a long scene set in it, so I had to think about that a lot. He didn't even have a seat belt on when he drove up. Guess he wants his daughter to be an orphan.

Since season 1 was a 1:1 copy of a belgian show, I doubt it.

Tbh, I fast forewarded through a lot of this. It's kinda atmospheric till he sees that flashing sign, but after that point, yeah we get it. Get on with it already. I don't think this is the show for me. Nothing much happening and just atmosphere and "deep" conversations can be fun for a 90 minute movie, but it can't sustain a whole season of a TV show. Also he is taking the elevator? Is he crazy? You don't know for how long that power is going to stay on.

But ignoring all that. Did nobody else think it was strange how they changed Glinda seemingly trying to come with Elphaba at the end of the movie, even though it goes against what they just sang about? Namely wishing each other luck and happyness on their respective, seperate journeys?

So is Jared Leto. 🤷‍♂️ Which is fitting, since they seem to have similar personalities. Edit: Sorry, my bad, Leto is an Academy Award winner, not just nominee. Ariana Grande made different choices than I'd expect when she sang the wizard and I. It was still good. Erivo tanked that song. Acting, again good in some scenes, really bad in others. It's true that I don't like her after she went off on a fan who dared to improve their shitty poster. Doesn't change the fact that she screwed up that song with her "increadible singing voice".

I'm sure there wasn't. You'd think a Tony award winner wouldn't completely tank a song, but yet it happened. Maybe that award was the reason for the bad casting afterall, I don't know. I just know the casting was bad.

Ariana is very much annorexic to a concerning degree, which has nothing to do with this movie. If anything she has lost more weight since filming this. Yet she says "she's the healthiest she's ever been", which makes me question how sick she must have been her entire life... Cynthia seems very thin, but not dangerously, like Ariana.

I was pleasently surprised by Ariana Grande. I think she nailed Glinda and her singing was great. Cynthia Erivo on the other hand... The acting was very uneven. In some scenes it was actually really good, in others pretty bad. I could totally forgive the acting though, but the singing, oh my god. They couldn't even autotune her to where she needed to be. How in the hell did she get cast in this part? I know there were some requirements, that were let's say the opposite of colourblind casting, but there have to be better black actresses / singers out there. Weirdly, "defying gravity" was much better than "the wizard and I". Even though defying gravity is the more difficult song. Granted, both songs require different skills, but I still think an army of sound engineers must have slaved over defying gravity for weeks, to get it sounding good, since it's the big showstopper. I was not spoiled on the fact that Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel would have a cameo. So that was a very pleasent surprise. Though that new part of "one short day" hardly showed off their talents. A weird choice, at the end of defying gravity, when the guards break through the door, Elphaba and Glinda run out the broken window hand in hand. This makes it seem like they did decide to run away together, which is very much not what was happening in the musical or what the part of the song, they had just sung, was about. That was the breakup part, where they wish each other good luck. I'm not sure if the writers of this movie didn't understand it or why this weird choice was made. To make it fit Elphaba should have run outside by herself and Glinda should have stayed behind. But overall, great and creative sets, fun cinematagrophy, mostly really good singing (with one exception). If only the casting for one particular character was better, this would be a fantastic adaptation. I was really not expecting it to be this good. I'm also not as miffed about them splitting the story into two movies anymore. It didn't feel like there was a bunch of obvious filler in this movie. But I still think the decision was bad. The second part of the musical is just much, much weaker and building a whole movie on that is going to be rough. So not really looking foreward to part two.

I think you are too generous with the 6 episodes. I really think it could be like 3. I don't even think this is how real people are. Yes, people can make dumb decisions, fall for obvious scams from demonic entities, etc. Sure, I don't have a problem with that part (although when it happens too often it's still annoying). But people constantly not communicating, running away mid sentence, not explaining themselves, not sharing information, that isn't believable to me. They don't even have TV. What are they doing all the time? Realistic would be them all sitting together a good part of the day and swapping stories. Instead there is basically no communication at all. I remember Lost having a similar problem, but at least there they were on a bigass island and often didn't see each other for a while. Here everybody is stuck in a small town. And with Lost the problem wasn't even as bad as it is here...

Well, this season had about enough story for 2 to 3 episodes, stretched to 10, just like the last one. I'm glad that I waited till all episodes were out. Otherwise this would have been infuriating. But even with that I'm not sure if I should bother next season. Am I totally misremembering or weren't there a bunch of far away trees? Now we are saying there is only the one? Seems like a bullshit retcon. So I wasn't too far off with the chosen ones being psychically connected and making the bracelet over and over. Only the chosen one is the same person reborn again and again and "chosen one" is a bit of a misnomer. I had a feeling that the baby would be a replacement for the monster that died. Just didn't know that it would be the same monster. So did they sacrifice those children in like the 60s and that's why the town looks like this and the monsters are dressed like this? If so that's time for what, 2 rebirths, including the current one? Seems a bit lame. But it would fit with the boy in white having tried to tell them what to do only once before. So we are really only in cycle two of this stuff happening? Doesn't really fit with that old camp with the weird totems around it or the stone ruins. I have my doubt there will be a satisfying conclusion at the end, that ties everything together. So we got answers to a question we didn't even know we had (that Tabitha and Jade are reborn townsfolk). Other than that, absolutely nothing, yet again. We don't know what the evil entity is, what its nature is, why the town is there, how the town is there, why its weird (hotel sign with pool but no hotel), who the boy in white is or why he seems to be friendly, still don't even know who the old man was or what the worms were and where they came from. I guess we know that some child sacrificing ritual was involved in the creation of the place. Ladida. And of course on the other hand they piled on new mysteries, like who the guy was who killed Jim. Speaking of, Julie in that scene was clearly from the future, short hair and all. Seems like she didn't listen, that she can't change things. Well at least Jim is dead. He was annoying the hell out of me. Bad season of a bad show, that only keeps me coming back out of curiostiy for the mysteries. But even that curiosity is wearing off.

Charitable interpretation: That stone building seems to exist in the past, as there are only ruins now. So I guess you could be transported to different times of its existence. Of course the truth is, that the writers have no plan and this was a massive retcon.

The rope is such a retcon after they read the critique on the internet about it.

"There is nowhere else to look" What do you mean?! You barely looked at her uterus, nowhere else. Never heard of an ectopic pregnancy? Worst doctors ever. In the meta of the show it's obvious that Fatima isn't pregnant but instead infected with mysterious plot, but it shouldn't be that obvious for the characters and would it really hurt them to act half-way believable for once?

Because english is gibberish to him, since he doesn't speak the language. He would have still heard only english. There is no way for a brain chip to relay messages. It can somewhat read your thoughts, that is technology that exists, but there is no way to send thoughts. So if they were going for that, that was some major BS. As I said, that could have been fixed if they had given him a screen with a translation program, that tranlated what the doctors were saying to russian, or an ear piece that had AI voice and translation capabilities. Automatic translation to russian is still a bit rough, but it should be good enough and given the conceit, that they were imagining talking to him directly, I think that would have been fine. Well they were trying to tell a story where the persons autonomy was respected and to show that that respect was important, even or especially when it's a big decision like life or death. The only other way they could have accomplished that is if they had all of the doctors out to kill him but he would have insisted that he wants to live. I get why the writers didn't want to do that. It would have made all the doctors monsters that I wouldn't want to watch on a week by week basis anymore. Instead all the doctors were adamant that his life was worth living and that is in character from how we've seen them in all the other episodes. Trying to do what's best for their patients (which is btw. a nice change from most other medical shows where it's just about fixing the problem of the week). I get what you are saying in principle. The "bury your gays" trope used to be a big problem. Though I don't think it has been for a while. But was that really ever a problem with disabled people? I don't think a disproportionate amount of disabled people are/were killed in fiction?

That's why I only watch once the entire season is done now. Throughout the season at least a little bit happens. It's slightly less frustrating than watching them tread the same ground week by week.