May contain spoilers. This show has the quality look of a Hollywood movie. It's well lit, there's nice camera movement, shot composition, excellent special effects and CGI, etc., everything that is needed to tell a story through moving images. It doesn't have the look of a student film or under budgeted independent film, the creators really know how to work with digital technology that is becoming more and more available for ambitious filmmakers.
What it doesn't have is a great story. I feel that I've seen this before in other movies (unfortunately made for TV Disney movies), the loser teen who is bullied in school but will eventually overcome everything and get the girl at the end. I already see it coming, he's going to win some big tournament or defeat the bully character or a combination of both or something. What I'm wondering is why the bully character is such a jerk? He doesn't have anything better to do? It's antagonists like this that make me not care about the hero's journey, there's no purpose to their behavior. I mean, the excuse for this is that the hero got lucky and defeated the bully in a video game. Really? That's the antagonists purpose, to prove that his defeat was a fluke? In a video game? Can't the bully character and hero just have a talk like adults, or the bully confront the hero in a non duchy way and ask for a rematch? I recently started watching TVshows and have just come to realize that the writing and overall quality of TV far exceeds film. They create characters that the audience lives with for 10 years or so, their journeys are unpredictable from season to season, and each episode has a unique story. They are fresh, original, and throw out formulas that seem to plague the film industry. Unfortunately this is a show that seems to be following the formula of a feature length film.
The whole idea of a video game high school is something that not even my 10 year old brother would buy, and he plays video games. It's a cute idea though, and I can't help but feel that the creators had fun coming up with this. I can't help but feel that, there's good chemistry between the actors and the people behind the camera which is why it gets as good a score as it does.
What it doesn't have is a great story. I feel that I've seen this before in other movies (unfortunately made for TV Disney movies), the loser teen who is bullied in school but will eventually overcome everything and get the girl at the end. I already see it coming, he's going to win some big tournament or defeat the bully character or a combination of both or something. What I'm wondering is why the bully character is such a jerk? He doesn't have anything better to do? It's antagonists like this that make me not care about the hero's journey, there's no purpose to their behavior. I mean, the excuse for this is that the hero got lucky and defeated the bully in a video game. Really? That's the antagonists purpose, to prove that his defeat was a fluke? In a video game? Can't the bully character and hero just have a talk like adults, or the bully confront the hero in a non duchy way and ask for a rematch? I recently started watching TVshows and have just come to realize that the writing and overall quality of TV far exceeds film. They create characters that the audience lives with for 10 years or so, their journeys are unpredictable from season to season, and each episode has a unique story. They are fresh, original, and throw out formulas that seem to plague the film industry. Unfortunately this is a show that seems to be following the formula of a feature length film.
The whole idea of a video game high school is something that not even my 10 year old brother would buy, and he plays video games. It's a cute idea though, and I can't help but feel that the creators had fun coming up with this. I can't help but feel that, there's good chemistry between the actors and the people behind the camera which is why it gets as good a score as it does.