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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 9718874" data-attributes="member: 57112">Just binged this show while my wife was out of town and... I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how I feel about it. I mean, it definitely has some of those wild swings in quality that we've come to expect to from the makes of Game of Thrones. The pacing is all over the place and the writing is sometimes really weak but the acting is almost always top-notch. Augie was the weak link for me, personally; on the other hand Benedict Wong steals every scene he's in, which is hardly surprising. Some thoughts:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The "my lord" stuff is really troubling and the fact that the San Ti had absolutely no problems rolling with that framing the entire time I think speaks to their perspective before the whole "you scare us". In general the whole fairy tale thing (despite the nice callback with Will and Jin later in the series) being a lie and that's the thing that tips the scale is probably my biggest issue with the show. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In general, there's a lot "dark forest" theory going on here. The San Ti were already very clearly a warlike species (as evidenced by Ye's first response coming from a "pacifist" who is warning her to stay silent for the sake of her planet); the idea that any other intelligent life in the universe automatically is an existential threat seems to have been driving them from the start. That it is not until they learn we can lie, 50 years after first contact, is what triggers them to be scared of us, seems disingenuous.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I was surprised at how much I found myself caring about these five idiot geniuses. They're dumb geniuses, but they're my dumb genuises, you know?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Man does Raj suck though.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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