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The Silent Sea (2021)
The lack of scientific consistency broke it for me.
Gravity anyone? If they could just produce "artificial gravity" on a stationary base on moon, the whole starting and landing of spacecrafts would we one hell of a different story. It just doesn't make sence that they are technologicial pretty much in the 21st century, but can influence gravity like that, which would be a technoligical gamechanger in so many ways. This mixture of seriosity and wanting to look like hard sci-fi and then treating basic laws of nature if they wouldn't exist without any explanation is just the worst in my opinion. Just couldn't bare to watch it anymore.
If moons gravity is too hard to simulate for you, don't make a show that takes place on the moon.
Wonder Woman (2017)
What's wrong with the reviews here?
There are the same bad reviews (the same few texts, that read like the same 12 year old had written them all) listed over and over. This feels like an organized act to vote this movie down. Never seen it like that on imdb though. Must have something to do with the strong female lead, it's really hard to explain this irrational behavour any other way. The movie is good, even if you don't like the actors or the premise, you should be able to admit that acting, action and story were solid, especially for a superhero film. No major plot holes, no stupid kung-fu fights, no inconsistend logic or powers. In many of these bad reviews there's a lot of complaining about the writing, but none of them explains how the writing is bad. I've seen the movie twice and I really couldn't tell you either. There are a few flaws in this film (like the formulaic structure), and if anyone doesn't like it because of them, i get that. But if you are male and don't really have logical reasons for hating on that movie, I guess you should check if it isn't your own insecurity that's responsible for that. Because it feels like there are some really frightened boys writing rewiews here, when they really should be dealing with their fears.
In my oppinion Wonder Woman is on the same level as the better offerings of Marvel. Highly recommended.
Impulse (2018)
Even better than Jessica Jones.
Just a good show overall. This atypical "gifted individual" story is another conclusive example of the evolution of the genre. Almost completely refuses superhero cliches and the usual kitsch. The action is convincing for the most part. No unrealistic fight scenes like in some other shows to take the credibility away. The emphasis is clearly on the coming of age drama part though. The development of the powers of the main character serves as an analogy to the drives and emotions that can be almost uncontrolable for young people. The sexual abuse angle makes it touching (wording, i know) and unique. This show will (hopefully) make some people think about this particular problem, as it exhibits the incident and it's aftermath from the perspectives of victim, attacker and their families. Unsurprisingly sexual assault is life shattering and destructive for everyone involved, so thinking more about it could actually do our society some good. Packing such a story in a "superhero" series will probably reach a broader audience than it would usually. Aside from the upsetting rape scene there's some mild teenage sexuality and strong language, which will at best trigger some americans, and some drug abuse. I liked the cast, solid acting. Especially the lead and her stepsister, as well as all the villains were pretty compelling. The "superhero" part of the series unravels with a slow pace and does follow the usual scheme to some extent, while not following through on it. There may be some lenghts, but all in all I was hooked after the first ten minutes and watched the whole season in two days. Definately looking forward to more!
Lost in Space (2018)
Good visuals, everything else sucks in my opinion.
By the way, why would water be freezing like it does in the first episode? If it would be that cold on the planet, no one would be able to survive without their helmets on and the ship would not have sunk in the first place, because the wather would have been frozen solid to the ground. It's idiotic carelessness about logic like that, wich annoys me most about modern "sci"-fi. Just stupid. Well, most Americans probably don't even notice stuff like that anymore. People are getting way dumber, how else to explain that shows like timeless or the flash are still running? They suit the "intellect" of the masses. Then again, mainstream taste has always been the worst and people always were idiots.
Timeless (2016)
Sadly it's logically flawed. Very flawed.
A soldier, a historian and a technician are sent back in time to prevent a terrorist from changing history. When they are going back to the day of the Hindenburg catastrophe in the first episode, history is changed.
When they get back to the present, only the three time travellers remember what originally had happened to the Hindenburg. The historians mother now isn't sick anymore and she herself is engaged to somebody, in exchange her sister doesn't exist.
In this changed present, she was a different person, lived a different life and had different memories. What does this mean if we think about it for a second? This different person nonetheless, still got sent back by the same people as in the original timeline (as we can see when they are debriefed by the same government agents and scientists after arriving back in the present) to catch the same guy.
Let's think about it a little further: In this new, changed present, the terrorist now goes back to change the Hindenburg event, which he himself had influenced already. By the laws of time travel established in the first episode, this should be impossible. Furthermore, this must mean that the historian, soldier and technician that existed in the changed timeline who also got sent back, will probably also change this already changed version of the Hindenburg crash and then come back to a third timeline, which again would be a little different from this second timeline "our" protagonists arrived at. This happens over and over infinitely or at least as long as the changes to the past to not inhibit the invention of the time machine in one of the new timelines.
The most important outcome of logic applied to the concept of this series is however, that when the protagonists are coming back to a timeline (which is also changed itself again by their versions of this reality and so on) in the first episode, it is proved that each timeline exists simultaneously, and that the sending back and changing has no influence on the timeline from which it originates.
This of course, should have been clear from the very beginning, because if changes to the past would have affected the original timeline, those changes would have come to effect immediately when the antagonist stole the time machine. I mean why should there be a waiting period till changes of the past affect the present? From the moment the time machine was activated, the present would be changed, because the changes would have happened already in the past. This is really not so hard to realize.
This means that if they would have just stayed at home, nothing would have changed for them, because nothing changes for the timeline they live in. The terrorist would merely create a new timeline, to which he could come back to. His actions are irrelevant to our protagonists and everyone else in the old timeline. All this time travelling is totally unnecessary, the show is pointless really.
That none of the characters are able to grasp that, is a dealbreaker for me. Seemingly no one working on producing this show did think of this, or even worse, care about it. I stopped watching after ep. 1 and hope that the other time travel shows of this season will be more consistent.
The Colbert Report (2005)
The end of The Colbert Report is the end of Television.
If you don't know The Colbert Report, it's fair to say: you know nothing. I can forgive ignorance, but obliviousness to the greatest comedy show ever to be seen, I simply won't forgive. Don't even start with any show, comedian or host you think is good or cool or funny. If you have missed out on the brilliance, that is The Colbert Report, you don't even possess the scale to measure what is good or bad. All this late-shows and hosts out there pale in comparison to the borderline insane genius, who made his alter ego a piece of art.
The show is an almost perfect mixture of entertainment and education. Stephen Colbert will sensitize you like no one else, for the role of the media and emotion-driven, fear-generating pundits in special, in Americas shift to the right in the last four decades, when democracy was replaced by money, sanity by greed and doing the right thing by doing the thing that gets you rich, because he is a crazy rich, right-wing-crazy TV-pundit. While his ironic portrait of that self-righteous, Bill o'Reillyesk quasi-fascist Stephen Colbert (with a silent t), provides you with lots of arguments to uncover and understand right-wing propaganda, he surprisingly manages at the same moment to give his market-totalitarian character a likable core, a soul if you want. Partly this gives us an idea of the motivations and feelings of the rich and powerful, partly it shows, that every monster is essentially an emotionally crippled human being.
What else is there to say? Stephen Colbert sings like no other late-night host, and he is by far, and I really mean that, the best interviewer I have ever seen. A legend. For me, he represents America. His persona stands for the U.S. that is, his person for the country it could be.
The show will end November 2014, a few weeks from now. If you have missed it, you have missed the most significant TV-event of the first one and a half decades of this millennium.
I will miss you a lot, Stephen!