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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2596419" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>Ouch.</p><p></p><p>Have watched the first 20 minutes on my fake Canadian-Tivo-like-box.</p><p></p><p>Ouch, ouch, ouch.</p><p></p><p>It just depresses me sometimes to see a show with a budget that huge and writing that bad. They quite obviously pulled out all the stops -- filmed on location, evidently, non-stock footage of several ships, good CG as far as I can tell -- and yet they let dialogue like that make it past the first draft.</p><p></p><p>The old scientist guy? Annoying and needlessly cryptic. The kid? While he himself was no more objectionable than any Will Robinson-esque kid-meeting-alien, I wanted to have sea monsters flay the skin from just about everyone else in his scenes. Sassy diver-mom who threatens to cut the ear off her child's stuffed animal so she can go off and do her dive? I know I'm supposed to find her cute and loony, but I hope dad gets custody, and I was wishing that the sea monster could have eaten her craft, not just bumped it around a bit while doing the Star Trek IV whale-song-that-shorts-out-electronics shtick.</p><p></p><p>I'm giving it until the end of the current episode, but that's likely as far as I'll go.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I know that this is a Lost-ripoff, but come on! It's like they decided to rip off Lost after hearing about it but not watching it. The biggest attraction of Lost is the <strong>writing</strong> -- there are all kinds of cool things in the show that don't involve wacky monsters at all, yet are still cool because of complex and well-realized characters. This show... well, if there's any justice, it'll go all <strong>Earth 2</strong> on us in a hurry.</p><p></p><p>EDIT EDIT: Since I know that some folks here enjoyed the show, and would take hoping for its cancellation as a personal affront, I'd like to modify my opinion to "Hope it gets radically better writing, or, failing that, that it does quite well for itself without me ever having to watch it again and without its presence resulting in the cancellation of shows that I like."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 2596419, member: 5171"] Ouch. Have watched the first 20 minutes on my fake Canadian-Tivo-like-box. Ouch, ouch, ouch. It just depresses me sometimes to see a show with a budget that huge and writing that bad. They quite obviously pulled out all the stops -- filmed on location, evidently, non-stock footage of several ships, good CG as far as I can tell -- and yet they let dialogue like that make it past the first draft. The old scientist guy? Annoying and needlessly cryptic. The kid? While he himself was no more objectionable than any Will Robinson-esque kid-meeting-alien, I wanted to have sea monsters flay the skin from just about everyone else in his scenes. Sassy diver-mom who threatens to cut the ear off her child's stuffed animal so she can go off and do her dive? I know I'm supposed to find her cute and loony, but I hope dad gets custody, and I was wishing that the sea monster could have eaten her craft, not just bumped it around a bit while doing the Star Trek IV whale-song-that-shorts-out-electronics shtick. I'm giving it until the end of the current episode, but that's likely as far as I'll go. EDIT: I know that this is a Lost-ripoff, but come on! It's like they decided to rip off Lost after hearing about it but not watching it. The biggest attraction of Lost is the [b]writing[/b] -- there are all kinds of cool things in the show that don't involve wacky monsters at all, yet are still cool because of complex and well-realized characters. This show... well, if there's any justice, it'll go all [b]Earth 2[/b] on us in a hurry. EDIT EDIT: Since I know that some folks here enjoyed the show, and would take hoping for its cancellation as a personal affront, I'd like to modify my opinion to "Hope it gets radically better writing, or, failing that, that it does quite well for itself without me ever having to watch it again and without its presence resulting in the cancellation of shows that I like." [/QUOTE]
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