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You watch this, and you can't figure out whats wrong with it. Other than the terrible script.

What's wrong with it is that it is almost completely CGI. Soulless, computerized goo. It looks great, but somethings off. The actors reactions don't seem to fit, they don't seem to be looking at anything, even though an enormous dinosaur is right in front of them.

This is the problem with movie making today. Set designers have turned into useless boobs who think that throwing up a green screen and fixing it in post can solve all their problems.

Thats why you can watch this hundred million dollar plus movie and be left wanting, and then you can watch something made by a director like Tarantino and know that you're watching a fabulous piece of filmmaking. Tarantino has real sets built. These clowns just fix everything in post. The actors never even see where they're supposed to have been.

But the script is really, really terrible. What kind of highly skilled mercenary doesn't notice a ten tonne dinosaur right behind them until it sinks its teeth into them. I'm pretty sure they farmed the writing out to a bunch of toddlers.

Bad script writing, bad acting, bad sets, over used premise. This ones got it all.

Stephen King may have written the book, but it has clearly been 'created' by a bunch of mediocre also rans who probably can't believe they landed a real Hollywood job. He has had nothing to do with it other than allowing his name to be put on it and collecting a cheque.

Your first sign that you're in trouble is the ubiquitous Josh Whedon=esque dialogue. Lots of snappy one liners and needless hostility. Next, the 'Institute' is clearly a high school, replete with dirty radiators. His bedroom doesn't have a window, but there are all sorts of them as soon as he walks out the door. Five minutes after waking up in the institute, he's apparently ready to meet its leader. It just goes on and on.

I could get past most of the problems with this show, but the bad writing is really the big deal breaker.

But it needed time to develop. Sorry though, its on Prime, so it gets cancelled before it has a chance to go anywhere.

I see no point in getting invested in any Prime shows seeing as they cancel all of the half decent ones and then keep crap like the wheel of time going on forever.

Most streamers have this problem, but especially Prime. These 'studios' if you can call them that, only care about subscriptions and have no interest in the art of any given project beyond its capability to garner more subscriptions. Its a soulless excersize that gives you a top ten of programming that makes you want to turn the tv off.