I ended up watching this second season and it was pretty good. The ending was not something I was expecting but then when thinking about the season and some of the plot points it made sense. It will be interesting to see how season 3 unfolds or if Netflix will kill the show off as it is probably one of their more expensive shows to make.
The first ep was bad IMO, so predictable and full of Hollywood tricks it was painful to watch. If it wasn't for the cliffhanger at the end I wouldn't even bother to continue. That almost constant music is pissing me off
I finshed it and it was fun. There's barely any scifi to watch, so expectations are low. It's extremely by the books though, that's the terrible part. The personal interactions, the supposedly exciting events, the music, all 100% Hollywood in action. I don't see this show surviving for long.
It is sci-fi, but not of the "blast everything" type. It uses logic rather than brute force/violence to overcome obstacles.
It doesn't have a lot of drama, but the one has, is actually meaningful. There are no useless love triangles and bs jealousy drama.
I also enjoy the fact, that is really 1 continues story and not "episode by episode" or "1 main story ep and 2 filler eps". No, it's all part of 1 continues story.
Love it.
Oh, and I also like, that it doesn't stay in one place for too long.
If it was walking dead, every episode was almost worth a season of locations...
I felt like season 2 had an unnecessarily slow first half focusing on the family and nothing else really, when not even the first season did it to this extent. But apart from that I absolutely loved it and it made everything up in the second half. This show is really fucking cool! I want more!
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I really like season 2. Yeah, it's slow at times (I've got ep. 8-9-10 left) and a bit too family-oriented at times (well, it's a family show to begin with and with that in mind this is really good, I'm just not feeling the teen-growing-up-stuff like I might've when I was in my late teens myself).
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Those space-raptors in episode 7 made me cringe, it just felt silly and plastered on to the show in order to borrow some action from the Jurassic franchise.. but it's just a minor gripe and nothing that ruined it for me. Oh, one thing that DID annoy me was in episode 2 when the mum and daughter Penny fell 130 feet in that alien-made waterfall with a metallic bottom without as much as a scratch or explanation.
The sci-fi aspect of it is just perfect for the kind of show it is. It's not hard sci-fi, it's not ridiculous/cheesy sci-fi, it's mostly functional and believable adventure sci-fi.
(I still dream of the day someone makes a REALLY good Isaac Asimov-based movie with proper hard sci-fi whether it's the Robot series (Caves of Steel etc.) or the Foundation series with the amazing world building he did back in the 40'ies ffs. To me Asimov is the Tolkien of Science Fiction. I would also LOVE great adaptations of Rendezvous with Rama (and sequels) by Arthur C Clarke and Eon (and sequels) by Greg Bear. That kind of hard sci-fi is my absolute fave genre of all time).
Btw, am I the only one that feel Will Robinsons' robot is reminiscent to Legion, the good Geth you get as a crew member in Mass Effect 2?
Aren't you guys bothered by the Hollywood music at the most cringeworthy moments, characters being predictable, the "everything that can go wrong does go wrong" moments with main characters in peril (while you know they'll just get out of it) etc etc. It's written by a team of dummies going through the motions IMO. I won't claim I'm some briliant viewer seeing things from miles away, but with season 2 it was just too predictable
Well, End of Season 2 sure opened up a hell of a lot of new opportunities ^^
Anyway, I like it, because it IS so easy going. But also, because it has no teen drama, it has no jealousy angle etc and it's neither woke or anti woke, it just "is".
Aren't you guys bothered by the Hollywood music at the most cringeworthy moments, characters being predictable, the "everything that can go wrong does go wrong" moments with main characters in peril (while you know they'll just get out of it) etc etc. It's written by a team of dummies going through the motions IMO. I won't claim I'm some briliant viewer seeing things from miles away, but with season 2 it was just too predictable
If I'd spend time analyzing it I would most likely reach a similar conclusion. Thing is, I know what to expect and I'm the kind of viewer that have the ability to turn off my inner critic and just go with the flow which is what this kind of show was made for.
And like Sin317 wrote, there's no wokeness or forced political crap going on. Stronk women? Yeah. Does it feel forced and ideological? Nope.
The problem is I barely analyze it. It's a rare scifi so I like it, but the predictability of it really bothered me this season. Enjoyable show though, but they could tone down the Hollywood a bit.
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