spiderwing

An interesting little webseries which starts with a standard RPG premise. The protagonist awakes from cold sleep with no memory in an uncertain environment. It's a good play off the familiar elements, bearing in mind that the budget is low and the plot development is slow. There's plenty of paranoia fuel, and a rather confusing ending, but since the story is broken into five minute chunks some confusion is almost guaranteed.

Worth a watch.

It's wonderfully creepy and atmospheric, but very slow indeed. I'm not sure if there's any real substance to it, and the three hour first season could have been fit into a single episode without losing any story. Worth watching if you like mood pieces.

It's yet another iteration of the artifact of the week storyline, but it's fun. They almost, but didn't quite, manage to maintain a strong platonic relationship with the two main characters until the very end.

I haven't read the comic book, but it certainly does feel as though the characters are Gaiman derived. Lucifer is a rebellious teenager in this take, who is neglecting his infernal duty to take a vacation on Earth. I'm curious to see where it will go, but don't expect too much out of it.

First episode review.

I'm not an old school X-files fan, I would catch an occasional episode and not worry about it too much, so the three star rating doesn't mean I think it's lost it's way. I didn't love the show 'back in the day' and I don't love it now, but it's fun. The plot is convoluted and confusing. The two main characters are MUCH better apart than they are together. Their chemistry is fine - conflicted, complicated but engaging. No, the problem is that once you put them together these two intelligent and interesting characters suddenly get a massive case of 'the dumbs'. I'm not even saying that's not realistic (given the complicated and conflicted thing) but it's not very interesting to watch.

Other than that, it looks like it will be fun enough.

Ridiculously dark, as befits the source material. I can't imagine I'd be up for an open ended series, but this is beautiful and atmospheric. I love the role reversal (Luke Cage is definitely there for romantic interest, the strongest characters are all female, even Kilgrave is basically a damaged child...) Plenty of eye candy there too, of both sexes. Plenty of on screen sex too (all consensual - the mind control sex is all off screen). As a David Tennant fan I have to say he was really believable and creepy.

It's a bit on the gimicky, wish fulfillment side but it's fun. The protagonist is not exactly an anti-establishment type, but he is sort of kind of portrayed that way. The antagonist, who is also supposedly mentally charged, makes some really stupid decisions apparently just so that he can be easily pegged as the villain of the piece. There are several times when the supposed genius hero makes some incredibly silly choices when dealing with the villain...

So yeah, for a show about someone who is allegedly about super-smart people, this is a show which you shouldn't overthink. It is fun, though.

This is very much an updated version of the Muppet show. It's set in a late night talk show rather than a variety show, but the premise is very much the same as the original Muppet show. The humor is a little bit raunchier than the original, but it's hardly shocking or offensive. All the old characters and relationships are there, and essentially unchanged.

I enjoyed it, but did not love it. At this point I prefer the original, but that's probably as much due to nostalgia as to any particular virtue of the show. I'll keep watching, as there were definitely a few laughs in the premier. Like it, don't love it, but it could grow on me...

First episode review.

Great concept! Probably one of the best Dick has ever come up with. The script for the pilot is terrible, however. Slick special effects which could be implemented worse (they don't really get in the way) and likely soak up the budget.

The characters are neither hateful nor delightful. They might grow on me given time, but I don't expect them to get a full season of development.

I'd never heard of the series before and, to be honest I tuned in because, well, Aiden Turner, costume drama, loss of shirt,how can it go wrong?

It did not go wrong.

Very good BBC drama, lovely characterizations, beautiful scenery (of all sorts). Both the protagonists and antagonists are multidimensional characters with motivations.

It's not my period, so I have no sense of historical accuracy except that I know it was written in the 1940's - 1970's, and I expect that the mores of those times will be reflected in the work. Nothing jumps out as incredibly stupid or socially anachronistic - the worst example being Poldark's egalitarian ideas are explained, within the work, as coming from his sympathy with the American cause.

I'm really glad I ran across this one.