War Of The Worlds on Epix
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Friday, March 13, 2020 20:58
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And yes, firefly was one of the more accurate science-fiction shows to date. Odd that you would ask about that , here of all places.
Riiiight, because flying a gazillion miles to get heist jobs pays so well and space fuel is so cheap. And just River is pretty tetchy "science." Besides "silence in space" I'm sure there are plenty of holes.
You failed to capitalize "Firefly" btw - science!
I said ' more accurate ', not absolutely and totally … even The Martian took liberties.
I can't say what the economic situation is or how much 'space fuel ' cost in the Firefly 'verse. See, there are 2 parts to the genre of science FICTION.
Please make a note of it.
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Episode 2 was not very good, unless you like hearing the F-word a lot. Pretty disappointing.
Yep, it was pretty sad. A bit tedius, things that were so forced and a bit too cliche (black dude with a gun in a convenience store gets caught by the white owner - cue the racial tension). If you can stay in an empty hotel why not the penthouse? Military personal that don't know enough to take cover when being shot at (especially by an amazing shot). And what the eff were they doing away from their barracks? Shopping? The scientist and the little girl run INTO the building that the aliens are on top of... my god. Even the music and sound score - which I thought were good at first - starting getting a bit much.
The only thing that saved it was the last scene where the Boston Dynamics 'bot chased that human down - that was pretty cool and "we're so screwed" kind of way.
All good points and I agree, but I'm not ready to give up on the show just yet.
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
And yes, firefly was one of the more accurate science-fiction shows to date. Odd that you would ask about that , here of all places.
Riiiight, because flying a gazillion miles to get heist jobs pays so well and space fuel is so cheap. And just River is pretty tetchy "science." Besides "silence in space" I'm sure there are plenty of holes.
You failed to capitalize "Firefly" btw - science!
I said ' more accurate ', not absolutely and totally … even The Martian took liberties.
I can't say what the economic situation is or how much 'space fuel ' cost in the Firefly 'verse. See, there are 2 parts to the genre of science FICTION.
Please make a note of it.
Space fuel costs vary from place to place, anywhere between the cost of a large Mudder's Milk and a half hour with a space whore.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
And yes, firefly was one of the more accurate science-fiction shows to date. Odd that you would ask about that , here of all places.
Riiiight, because flying a gazillion miles to get heist jobs pays so well and space fuel is so cheap. And just River is pretty tetchy "science." Besides "silence in space" I'm sure there are plenty of holes.
You failed to capitalize "Firefly" btw - science!
I said ' more accurate ', not absolutely and totally … even The Martian took liberties.
I can't say what the economic situation is or how much 'space fuel ' cost in the Firefly 'verse. See, there are 2 parts to the genre of science FICTION.
Please make a note of it.
Space fuel costs vary from place to place, anywhere between the cost of a large Mudder's Milk and a half hour with a space whore.
Thinking it might depend on the space wh... nm
So, War of the Worlds... sheesh. Just saw episode # 3. Just when I thought it couldn't possibly get worse or slooooowwwwwer. I was wrong. Laughably bad in places. "I'm going to have a smoke break on the roof and look out at all the dead bodies - be a dear and keep an eye on the Apocolypse for me, thx." So many really dumb things. And the alien robot dogs have 'nads, because of course they do. If you want to convince the audience they are bio-mechanical you have to show dog 'nads, and then poke the 'nads with a screw driver.
I'm thinking one more episode. If I don't have to see McGovern's permanent sad face or hear a great Irish actor call out, "Helen! Helen?" 30 times in 30 minutes I'll probably live longer, get back some of the time I spent on this dog.
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As bad as it's looking for this series, I know I'll keep watching. It's like rubbernecking a flipped-over car on other side of the highway; you shouldn't look, but you always do.
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As bad as it's looking for this series, I know I'll keep watching. It's like rubbernecking a flipped-over car on other side of the highway; you shouldn't look, but you always do.
Ep #4 has come and gone. I'm out - can't take all the nothing. I know what you mean about sticking with something - I watched way too many episodes - frack, seasons - of Walking Dead. But an alien invasion show without aliens (only their robot dogs) I can't do it. I'm going to switch my time to watching Pandemic
and Devs. Devs is on Hulu with Nick Offerman - only seen 1 episode - pretty good.
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