I just watched an episode of a new (to me) show. I thought it was mediocre, for a few reasons. The show was a Netflix show (which aren't necessarily my first choice of viewing material - I'm just not really that interested in the stuff they put out) in the genre of sci fi, which I don't have strong positive or negative opinions about. The episodes are self contained so I picked one that seemed interesting (which... it wasn't, really) and watched it.
I don't think it's necessarily the sci fi aspect of the show that I didn't like. There are some older episodes of Doctor Who that are plenty sci-fi-y that I have enjoyed (10th Doctor era). One of the things I wasn't a fan of was the dialogue. There was something about it that I didn't like the way it was written. Something. I can't really say exactly what.
I also think it's possible that I wasn't hugely thrilled because of the characters and that I wasn't familiar with them. A show that you know the characters of (in my case, Law and Order) I would say is inherently more compelling because you care more about/want to see what happens regarding the main characters.
The third thing is that the episode seemed like an amalgamation of a variety of concepts with some sci fi thrown in, which the end result was actually fairly cheesy. I think the idea of the show was for it to be profound/avant-garde or something like that, but I didn't find it to be that way. A few of the concepts that made up this episode: Nazis/genocide, mind control, war - dehumanizing the enemy/the horror, the horror. I think the sci fi aspect mixed with those concepts had the end result of a cheesy episode. I'm not sure if any of the other episodes will be better. I may give it another chance of one episode, but if I don't like the next one I watch, I'm not going to waste more of my time.
In other matters, I rewatched Shutter Island today and that was fun. Mark Ruffalo had really short hair in that movie compared to other times and it was different. However, he has a hairier chest than Leonardo DiCaprio. I have actually watched a decent number of movies he's been in - Shutter Island, Reservation Road, Zodiac, Spotlight. Shutter Island is the only one of his movies that I found to be particularly good. The others were somewhere in the range of mediocre. I wonder if there are any other good movies he's been in. I wish Vincent had been in more movies that I think I would want to watch, but alas, I guess he was busy being in Law and Order for around 10 years which didn't leave him time to be in a lot of movies.
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