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Loved this also, don't really know why there is so much hate for this show, its so good and dark. Cant wait for episode 2.
Loved this also, don't really know why there is so much hate for this show, its so good and dark. Cant wait for episode 2.
This is how I feel. Season one was excellent, they got it absolutely right, season 2 however was post Weinstein 'era' over-compensating with 'Strong Female Characters' bashing well set up male characters whose personalty completely changed from S1 to S2. Ed Harris's character in S1 was excellent, and absolutely ruined in S2(He got killed by his daughter in S2 on fathers day in the US if memory serves), James Marsden was turned into a brain-dead love sick puppy - and S2's 'jumping around in time' was much more confusing and seemed more contrived than natural in S1.Season 1 was indeed a masterpiece. But the more they moved away from the Westworld park, the worse it got. You can no longer sympathise with the characters, they are now just killing machines with no personality. Season 2 was a let down and from what I've seen from season 3 so far, it's only going to get worse. And I'm getting really fed up with strong female characters kicking the asses of weak evil male characters, it's getting boring now. A real shame.
This is how I feel. Season one was excellent, they got it absolutely right, season 2 however was post Weinstein 'era' over-compensating with 'Strong Female Characters' bashing well set up male characters whose personalty completely changed from S1 to S2. Ed Harris's character in S1 was excellent, and absolutely ruined in S2(He got killed by his daughter in S2 on fathers day in the US if memory serves), James Marsden was turned into a brain-dead love sick puppy - and S2's 'jumping around in time' was much more confusing and seemed more contrived than natural in S1.
Jessy looks to be playing another 'Jessy' type character. S3, so far, seems like a soft reset, we now have a 'mysterious' AI whose architect is equally 'mysterious'. Dolores got badly injured, which is more than ever happened to her in either S1 and S2, but luckily got found by 'Jessy'. She's still a killing machine, watching a man drown while unconscious because he was a 'domestic abuser' was a 'nice touch' - just to make it clear to everyone that this is still a 'female empowerment' show.
I will still watch it for now, but I can see myself dipping out if the theme continues to ruin what was, S1 at least, one of the best seasons of TV I have ever watched - S1 really was that good. You can have 'strong female characters', no issue there, but it always seems to come with putting the, previously well written, male characters down. It's really starting to Pee me of that this 'trend' has turned TV in to, it really is what I said (over compensating in a post 'Weinstein' era) - and I'm getting sick of it.
IIRC Brotherhood is better in that it was done after the manga finished so it follows the story more closely than the original series after a certain point, but the original series covers some of the early bits in more depth (basically until it caught up with the manga) whilst 'Brotherhood runs through them.I had heard that Brotherhood is the better of the two as it sticks pretty much word for word to the comic and that the original diverted from the comic?
SnapThe Mandalorian on Disney+, only the first episode, very good set up so looking forward to more.