It's not bad, I like some of the gadgets and futuristic stuff they've come up with. His police car makes me laugh though - so cops will be driving '07 mondeos in 2048?! Also the scenes where hes driving it with ridiculous dubstep music in the background is pretty annoying.
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I've found this pretty boring unfortunately. I reminds me of something I would have thought was cool in the 90s. The buddy robot is not robotic enough, and it's pretty lame how they've thrown in that lush female cop just to be the "will they, won't they" ongoing love interest.
I would have preferred something more along the lines of Ghost In The Shell.
I would have preferred something more along the lines of Ghost In The Shell.
Fox... I said it before, tv series are doomed to 1 series when they're given to Fox. Them airing it out of sync is just borderline insanity and it's bound to hit ratings although seeing as it's fox it's pretty expected, they're about as good with sci-fi as the sy-fi channel lol.
Hopefully it won't be killed off as the current ideas being brought up are pretty relevant to the current ai/robotic devices we're currently designing. Questions about how human should a robot be, does a robot think about love/death, human interaction with robots. To me the 'action/cop' elements are actually secondary to the main 'relationships' of the characters.
It's an interesting approach to take in my opinion and is in my opinion better suited to tv than the ghost in the shell (yes I've seen this too) approach.
Hopefully it won't be killed off as the current ideas being brought up are pretty relevant to the current ai/robotic devices we're currently designing. Questions about how human should a robot be, does a robot think about love/death, human interaction with robots. To me the 'action/cop' elements are actually secondary to the main 'relationships' of the characters.
It's an interesting approach to take in my opinion and is in my opinion better suited to tv than the ghost in the shell (yes I've seen this too) approach.
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Those themes were covered in GITS:Stand Alone Complex (TV series), so maybe that's why I'm bored of them.
I think I'll agree with this.
The love interest which has been shoe-horned in, is terrible. I mean that lady does nothing of any significance.
If this show didnt have Karl Urban in it, I doubt I'd have watched a single episode.
I've seen the first 3 episodes and if it doesnt pick up, I shall abandon it.
One thing I do like is the futuristic city which has been created. The CGI must've been very expensive. I dont think I have ever seen a TV show with such slick visuals.
Those who like CGI SFX will love this.
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Cost of CGI is coming down, better tools and less waiting for rendering but the biggest thing is time. 20+ eps and 1-2 weeks apart doesn't leave a lot of time to get CGI done. We've already seen some pretty stuff for the first ep, stuff they can get done without actors, city scapes, some close ups of buildings. That is where you'd see the CGI in something like fringe, the far out shots with zeppelin's flying around or changed city's. Up close was a different matter. WE're already seeing significantly less new cgi, outside of glowing bits on faces which they do all together to often and have completely failed to explain why it happens, there isn't much.
I really want a proper sci-fy show, maybe on HBO or netflix, big budget, 10-13 eps a year, 18 months between series, give the CGI guys time to really do it right. Star trek done today with great CGI would be awesome. DS9/Voyager/Enterprise and the we can only do one huge space battle a series due to cost, so we have to have loads of filler eps thing could be a thing of the past if done right.
So much awfulness in the episode, a "cook" does NOT have to be a chemist, it's a list of instructions to follow, you don't have to know why the chemicals interact, or how chemicals are made up to put X amount of chemical A into chemical B. I always hate that in tv land, as was the "we haven't been able to get Bishop for a decade, yet the first guy I ask can get a face to face meet instantly" thing.
I was actually irked by the intro... we're losing the fight on crime, so we made synthetics..... yeah, sure great, but in what way do synthetics help? Not explained... super tough? Well they get shot and go down, so they aren't made to be soldiers.. yet criminals robots are made that strong? Also when they go into a battle, they still send humans, who still die.. So if the idea was sending in robots to keep humans safe was the thing of it, they've failed to do that entirely. There as yet has been no explanation for the need for synthetics which is just about the most glaring oversight in the history of show making. Premise lets say we have robots with human cops because............ you forgot half of the premise guys.
The first ep was the best, maybe the second. 3rd and 4th as aired were abysmal. Unless it picks up quickly I won't be watching much longer. Unfortunately it's so often that all the work goes into the pilot, then they rush half the other episodes with only one or two good ones through the rest of the season.
I can now fully understand Fox airing out of order, the last two eps I guess are really eps 2 and 3, and were both abysmal, you put either as the second episode and you'd lose half the audience immediately. By airing one more good ep they've given the audience, like me, a reason to believe there might be some more good episodes worth watching.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
There was an incredible likeness.
They were also referring a lot to percentages during the show, which is something which Breaking Bad's Walt, was famed for (ie he was able to produce the highest quality drug, ever produced).
There was an incredible likeness.
They were also referring a lot to percentages during the show, which is something which Breaking Bad's Walt, was famed for (ie he was able to produce the highest quality drug, ever produced).