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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Disappointed
As a Kevin Costner and Yellowstone fan, I was really looking forward to this epic western. However after 3hrs I left disappointed. Too many characters, with little development and very poor editing. Things seem to happen very quickly, and it feels like you've missed an hour of the story. One minute Kevin Costner and Abbey Lee's characters are running away and camping on a hillside together, then next scene she seems to be in a tent with another guy we've not seen before, treating him like a boyfriend. Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington's characters have 2 scene together and suddenly are falling in love after she only just lost her husband and son. Then her daughter Georgia MacPhail is watching union soldiers go to war while crying, and they are all swooning over her (she's a 12-14yo girl and they are grown men by the way), as if they've all shared months together and had a deep and meaningful relationship, yet we never even see her talking to the men she's crying for. Just feels like huge chunks were cut out, which lost character and relationship development and nothing to tell us if days, weeks or months have passed. Probably won't be seeing part 2 at the cinema. Will wait for it to hit a streaming service.
Foundation (2021)
Not the Asimov Foundation in any way
If they hadn't called this series Foundation, it wouldn't be a bad standalone Sci-fi series. However, calling it Foundation means there are certain expectations with the story, the plot, the characters.
This series barely follows the story of the books, the characters have been changed, the entire premise is flipped. In the books Psychohistory is about predicting the patterns of a society, no individual matters, but in the series only the individuals actions matter. In the books Harry Seldon dies fairly early on, after making his predictions and setting up the Foundation, but in the series he's in every episode, after becoming an AI, then being miraculously resurrected.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody (2023)
Please fire Alex Kurtzman
This episode was awful! Star Trek is not the place for a musical, it's meant to be semi-realistic, to a certain extent, people don't just break into song & dance in real life. However Alex Kurtzman has been hell bent on doing a musical episode for years, I think he wanted to do a Discovery musical episode initially (should have done that instead of Strange New Worlds as it's garbage anyway). Gene Roddenberry would be turning in his grave! I hope they do away with the stupid gimmicks, get rid of Kurtzman, bring in a decent show runner, like Terry Matalas and go back to proper sci-fi, and stories with action, character development, social commentary and moral messages.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Whose Show Is This? (2022)
All over the place & too much 4th wall breaking
I really wanted to like She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany is a great actress and She-Hulk is an interesting character. However, every episode seems too short & nothing really happens. Just as you think something is about to happen, the episode ends.
The final episode is no exception. The finale is all over the place, it doesn't really seem they had a plan to end it, so threw in some uber 4th wall breaking and a deus ex machina - She-Hulk breaking out of the show, into the Disney+ screen, then going into Marvel Studios: Assembled, so she can argue with the show writers and eventually KEVIN (The AI the produces all Marvel shows apparently - a joke on Kevin Feige). It's just stupid! Ruins the whole show, and even the MCU, if she can just come into the 'real' world and re-write the show as she wants. Where's the suspense? What's stopping future She-Hulk or any series from just using the same idea "Oh Thanos snapped everyone, not to worry, She-Hulk's going to have a word with the writers and change the ending!". Just lazy writing!