scotty-37
Joined Mar 2001
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This show drags on and on earnestly hoping to involve us in the internal turmoil of the characters when the husband/father disappears at the very first of the series. It wants to create suspense about why he disappeared or what the secrets of his life were, but it's just not very compelling.
Most audience members will probably consider some possibilities for what is going on by episode 3 that the script avoids until episode 5 or 6. The 7 episodes need to be cut to 2 or 3, which would be more appropriate for the actual amount of interesting material they have.
The writing is very one dimensional and of a quality you might expect from a Lifetime Original, Hallmark Channel or after school special. They find a couple traits for each character and hammer them into the ground. Hannah is strong willed, concerned for Bailey and confused; Bailey shows her unsettled teen confusion and rebellion by being petulant and rude; Owen is mysterious and concerned for his daughter. You'll get the tropes in one or two episodes and no characters get much deeper from there.
It doesn't help much that about half of each episode is told through excessive numbers of flashback scenes that drain momentum and spend long stretches tediously reinforcing whatever point the lead-in to the flashback scene was clearly going to make to start with. You will be bludgeoned with time-wasting flashbacks that you already know the point of before they've begun.
The writers also heavily overuse the trope of Bailey remembering one random detail after another when she's exposed to people and places she knew in her childhood at 2 or 3 years old. She's never sure of any of the memories right away, but they're predictably significant and the plot device gets reused over and over again as another example of the show's lazy and uninteresting writing as though the writers couldn't think of other ways to drop in more hints.
The actors try to make things interesting, but the script is so repetitive, bland, tedious and uninteresting that they just repeat the same expressions and emotions repeatedly and there isn't any real range of emotions. The characters also do some dumb things that I don't think most people of average intelligence would do in their situation and it makes them unbelievable and unrelatable. The last episode finally has some more interesting situations and choices for Hannah to make, but it's too little and too late to save the show.
I can't believe I wasted my time on seven episodes of this thoroughly mediocre show. The slight improvement in quality at the end of the series isn't enough to go through all the painful boredom of sitting through the first 5 episodes. I would've turned it off a lot earlier, but was watching with someone who seemed like they wanted to finish.
Most audience members will probably consider some possibilities for what is going on by episode 3 that the script avoids until episode 5 or 6. The 7 episodes need to be cut to 2 or 3, which would be more appropriate for the actual amount of interesting material they have.
The writing is very one dimensional and of a quality you might expect from a Lifetime Original, Hallmark Channel or after school special. They find a couple traits for each character and hammer them into the ground. Hannah is strong willed, concerned for Bailey and confused; Bailey shows her unsettled teen confusion and rebellion by being petulant and rude; Owen is mysterious and concerned for his daughter. You'll get the tropes in one or two episodes and no characters get much deeper from there.
It doesn't help much that about half of each episode is told through excessive numbers of flashback scenes that drain momentum and spend long stretches tediously reinforcing whatever point the lead-in to the flashback scene was clearly going to make to start with. You will be bludgeoned with time-wasting flashbacks that you already know the point of before they've begun.
The writers also heavily overuse the trope of Bailey remembering one random detail after another when she's exposed to people and places she knew in her childhood at 2 or 3 years old. She's never sure of any of the memories right away, but they're predictably significant and the plot device gets reused over and over again as another example of the show's lazy and uninteresting writing as though the writers couldn't think of other ways to drop in more hints.
The actors try to make things interesting, but the script is so repetitive, bland, tedious and uninteresting that they just repeat the same expressions and emotions repeatedly and there isn't any real range of emotions. The characters also do some dumb things that I don't think most people of average intelligence would do in their situation and it makes them unbelievable and unrelatable. The last episode finally has some more interesting situations and choices for Hannah to make, but it's too little and too late to save the show.
I can't believe I wasted my time on seven episodes of this thoroughly mediocre show. The slight improvement in quality at the end of the series isn't enough to go through all the painful boredom of sitting through the first 5 episodes. I would've turned it off a lot earlier, but was watching with someone who seemed like they wanted to finish.
I went into this without much in the way of expectations. While the director Luc Besson has made some good movies, he's also made some clunkers (his Joan of Arc movie for example, where the main feature was lots of screaming). I wasn't sure which this would be and it turned out to be a combination of very separate good elements and bad ones. If you care about all elements of the movie being well executed and working together you might be disappointed, but if you go in only expecting visuals and the world to be interesting, you might enjoy the movie.
I'm not going to give much background because you probably know already or can look up things such as the source material.
The world building and creature creation are beautiful and interesting. The opening montage set to an edited version of David Bowie's Space Oddity works well. The bazaar is a fun concept and interesting to watch along with most of the settings and creatures in the movie.
Unfortunately, the male lead seems to have taken lessons from the Keanu Reeves School of Acting, the female lead seems wooden and the chemistry between the two is non-existent even though the movie makes a major thing out of it.
The plotting is thin, the dialog weak, the bad guys more predictable than any movie in recent history.
Overall, I was struck by just how juvenile many elements seemed, as though they'd asked a fully average 7 to 10 year old to write the dialog and script. Pixar Studios and others have raised the bar on kids movies because they give everyone something more to enjoy from a movie, even when aimed at kids. This was more like a kids serial pumped out in the early half of the 20th century as far as plot and predictability. Oh, PS, if the characters ever get in trouble, they just fall through a hole to get out of it (as a Besson version of deus ex machina).
Even with all the problems it was OK to watch because of the world--not exactly a waste of time, but not something I really want to see again, either. It's too bad Besson couldn't have just given us a tour of the world and just dropped the pretense around having a functioning plot or decent casting, acting or chemistry between the leads.
I'm not going to give much background because you probably know already or can look up things such as the source material.
The world building and creature creation are beautiful and interesting. The opening montage set to an edited version of David Bowie's Space Oddity works well. The bazaar is a fun concept and interesting to watch along with most of the settings and creatures in the movie.
Unfortunately, the male lead seems to have taken lessons from the Keanu Reeves School of Acting, the female lead seems wooden and the chemistry between the two is non-existent even though the movie makes a major thing out of it.
The plotting is thin, the dialog weak, the bad guys more predictable than any movie in recent history.
Overall, I was struck by just how juvenile many elements seemed, as though they'd asked a fully average 7 to 10 year old to write the dialog and script. Pixar Studios and others have raised the bar on kids movies because they give everyone something more to enjoy from a movie, even when aimed at kids. This was more like a kids serial pumped out in the early half of the 20th century as far as plot and predictability. Oh, PS, if the characters ever get in trouble, they just fall through a hole to get out of it (as a Besson version of deus ex machina).
Even with all the problems it was OK to watch because of the world--not exactly a waste of time, but not something I really want to see again, either. It's too bad Besson couldn't have just given us a tour of the world and just dropped the pretense around having a functioning plot or decent casting, acting or chemistry between the leads.
