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Ragnarok (2020)
Juvenile
Juvenile writing at best. Characters develop amnesia of major events only to spend the next episodes obsessing over chocolate or mopeds. Reactions to key events are downplayed whilst others are exaggerated. Everyone is too busy eating breakfast or visiting each others houses when not at home only for the residents to miraculously appear for some unexplained not to mention convenient reason as a segue to violent encounter. Powers are either underused or ridiculous. There's no follow up after major events. Someone gets killed, rather than seeking revenge there's more ice cream eating or learning how to plan a business meeting. Injections of godly blood infusions seem pointless. Rivals at your friendly take away exchange nervous teen romance and seem to forget when a family member was previously attacked.
Avoid.
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Repetitive; amateurish and cliche
Whilst S1 was fun, quirky and builds to an exciting climax, the beginning of S2 is an utter rip-off of HEROES (2006-2010) by resetting everything back to the start complete with convenient and unoriginal memory-losses. HEROES did it badly then so why repeat the mistake?
Amateurish writing at its best.
Titans (2018)
Generally good though can be repetitive
Starts off quite well with quite a few mysteries and interesting characters that make you want to come back for more. Though after watching the show a bit you notice a repetitive formula of the characters grouping-up, then separating, getting captured, grouping-up then going their separate ways again. So most of the time you only see 2 or 3 of the characters in one scene at one time. It's all very annoying.
Also, they don't know how to write in new characters. We see someone for the first time and go "Who's that?". Then we get some flashback to explain things. Would have worked better impact to know who the person was at least ahead of time. Using flashbacks all the time doesn't make us care for the character.
Kill Switch (2017)
A more suitable title would be....
(SPOILER) . . . . . . . . . . ........Concussion (2017).
Honestly the writers repeat the same formula of action; protagonist gets knocked unconscious; flashback; that it got monotonous quick smart. It's a repetitive two step forwards one step back that is the height of poor writing. Urgent seek-medical-attention messages appear in a video game-like HUD whenever the protagonist is hurt only to be miraculously-cured after the next flash-back.
V (2009)
Terrible script, miniscule cast
The creators of this contemporary cut of V seem to have missed the critical elements of the 1983 original, that being character development, a large cast portraying many interesting interleaved plot threads (think any 1970s disaster flic – Airport, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure et al), likable characters (who could ever forget Jane Badler as Diana? or the highly charismatic Willie played by Robert Englund ?)
Morena Baccarin as Anna seems to be be doing a soap commercial in every scene we see of her. I swear she has the same expression in every scene. Also, why does she walk like a Kaminoan?
The script is the worst part, talk about inconstant writing style that even manages to surpass Star Trek Next Generation in this department.
Though it may look prettier, special effect fans will be disappointed because even though the 1983 original may look a bit dated, it still possesses vastly more special effect shots of shuttle crafts and motherships.
So if a sci-fi show has neither a good story or decent special effects, what good is it?
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* Father Jack Landry is so terrified in the first two episodes as a priest when he witnesses something dreadful, but then I believe in episode 4 when he just happens to know how to remove a bullet from a wound that we learn that he served twice during the Iraq war. What? So he never saw anything violent during his two tours of duty? come on!
* Tyler Evans the teenager who defies and lies to his mother about staying away from the V's, gets the guilt's and tries ONCE to talk to his mum but because she's busy he in a huff, goes to see a therapist saying "
I can't talk to my mother anymore
". What a hypocrite, and since when would a rebel archetype such as Tyler go all touchy feely and decide to lookup a shrink? I think not.
* The V's have superior technology and fly into and invade the US airspace unhindered but laughing still require a Travel Visa to move around the USA! What arrogance.
* V's superior medical technology can supposedly make people see again, cure cancel, cure scars, can reverse engineer your entire medical history and yet fail to determine that a human is pregnant with a V and is allowed to return to home after the scan. I think not.