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House of the Dragon (2022)
A Good Opportunity - blown....
Like a lot of GOT viewers i felt cheated with the poor quality of seasons 6-8. When i heard they were making HOD i am sure i was not alone in thinking that here is a chance to put thing right. New brooms sweep clean. And i really wanted to like this show.
So far i have watched up to Episode 6. In fact i have actually seen Episode's 1-5 twice as i wanted to be sure what i felt was right and that i wasn't missing something that made this as good as some people think it is.
It is gruelling to watch it twice. No, it's gruelling to watch it once. After the first episode I was cautiously optimistic but after that it just lost me. The characters are lacking any form of depth. The actors are just walking through it as if they are asleep. No wonder - the script has no vigour no flourish and worse the whole thing is utterly utterly humourless. And the jerky time setting just seals what i can only call a disaster. To be able to carry that kind of storyline this needs to have real plot depth, be really plot heavy. But it isn't. It's plot thin. It can't carry the time spacing because the storyline is heavily dependent on just one premise - the succession. It's lazy storytelling. It is like instead of making amends for the paucity of details in the original GOT seasons 6-8, these have been grasped upon and magnified. Everything that made the later seasons of GOT bad is amplified here. We can't root for any of the characters, they have no depth, we don't KNOW these people. Subsequently it's hard to care what happens to them. And the quality of the acting is poor. Unlike others who have complained about the use of black actors to fulfil some characters, i wouldn't normally have a problem with inclusivity but this feels like tokenism. The actors themselves deserve better. A time jump of ten years have replaced the mincingly speaking Queen Alicent to an adult along with other characters who have aged accordingly but for some reason Sir Cristan remains the same still mooching around like a toddler who has had his teddy stolen. The King is irritating. Daemon looks like he is having difficulty not bursting out laughing. I can only imagine the enormous sum of $200 million has been spent on the ridiculously over dressed sets and costumes but while they were at it could Hairdressing have had some of the budget as the wigs look exactly what they are - wigs - at best unconvincing at worst actually laughable. The CGI is nothing to write home about either - especially the hunting scene with the stag. Filming in a sepia tone leaves everything drab and dull. This is supposed to be a world of colour. Subsequently it is hard to tell when characters switch locations because everywhere looks exactly the same.
This is a tv series where HBO have slapped the Game of Thrones label on and attempted to sell it to people who fell in love with the original series. In a word it is exploitative. We've been duped. Apparently a second season has been commissioned but without one of the prime movers and shakers Miguel Sapochnik who has got out. But i don't think anything can save this from being the drab disaster that it is.
Maybe the series which is allegedly being made by Kit Harrington (working title SNOW) will gave us GOT fans what we want? I am skeptical. Time HBO spent money elsewhere instead of trying to capitalise on something long gone. Some of it was beautiful when it lasted. Leave us with those memories please.
Friends: The One with the Sharks (2002)
Overall i liked this episode but..
There's one thing that drives me crazy every time see it. It is a really big continuity error. When Ross visits Phoebe in her apartment she is wearing a necklace with a black pendant. And in between their lines the pendant moves. First it's on the left then the right left again then middle and keeps swapping left and right more times. It is a small thing i know but now i've seen it i can't un-see it. A lot of people have mentioned the napkin/corn dog but the necklace gets me every time.
Lucifer (2016)
How much longer is this going on for?
I staggered through Season One at the beginning because my childish curiosity got the better of me. Then i realised it was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and realised this was yet another police drama albeit one with a twist. A British (of course we're popular as Bad Guys in Hollywood at the moment and have been for a tiresome while) Devil happens to land in the City of Angels and apart from offing a few people and making a few largely sexist quips is basically a cops and robbers show. And we know they'll get together at the end. What horrified me was when i realised that there wasnt jusr one series, there are at least two. Jesus i though Pan American tv had got quality with The Boys and HBOs unbeatable Game of Thrones. But apparently not. Just back to the usual Cops and Robbers, with a silly twist