The Peripheral - On Prime

The womans fake accent is more annoying each episode...
I don't get the point to her having a fake accent when she's american anyway.


The shows a snoozefest
 
Finished it as well last week. On the whole I really enjoyed it. I need to reach the last 2 episodes again to figure out exactly what the secret Flynn got and its relevance. It all got a bit techno babble in the last episode but I'm sure the plot will make sense on a second viewing.


rp2000
 
I enjoyed it but I got totally lost in which factions in the future were exactly who and which one chloe was fighting against, which were on her side etc. I think 3 or 4 different factions were mentioned.

But thought the premis was different from the usual, a mash up of Matrix/Ready Play One/Westworld etc.
 
tangey said:
I enjoyed it but I got totally lost in which factions in the future were exactly who and which one chloe was fighting against, which were on her side etc. I think 3 or 4 different factions were mentioned.

But thought the premis was different from the usual, a mash up of Matrix/Ready Play One/Westworld etc.
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Just to mention again the book was written by William Gibson, the godfather of Cyberpunk, and all of the movies/TV shows you mention crib heavily from Gibson's earlier books.
 
I plan to rewatch the series at some point as the faction stuff was a bit confusing for me as well, 1st time round. It didn't stop my enjoyment of the series anyway and visually it was very striking and different to other recent sci fi I've watched.

Fingers crossed it comes out in October.


rp2000
 
Didn't really like this.
Felt there was a bazillion plot holes/time travel mistakes etc.
Don't really understand the factions, struggled to understand what felt like important dialogue due to accents and talking quickly.

Didn't get how past seems to run at same time as the future. Ie they'd "upload" an hour later and both times had moved an hour.
Didn't understand how they didn't have control of the people in past jumping forward. If they could just call random people and put Bounties on the family, couldn't they just do this over and over with some actually competent people rather than a few old men and one swat team?
Surely if they can send plans for fancy stun guns they could send back advanced tech to kill off.

Just too confusing for me really.

Is it just a premise in this world that time in stubs progresses at the same time in the future (prime world)?
 
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413x said:
Didn't really like this.
Felt there was a bazillion plot holes/time travel mistakes etc.
Don't really understand the factions, struggled to understand what felt like important dialogue due to accents and talking quickly.

Didn't get how past seems to run at same time as the future. Ie they'd "upload" an hour later and both times had moved an hour.
Didn't understand how they didn't have control of the people in past jumping forward. If they could just call random people and put Bounties on the family, couldn't they just do this over and over with some actually competent people rather than a few old men and one swat team?
Surely if they can send plans for fancy stun guns they could send back advanced tech to kill off.

Just too confusing for me really.

Is it just a premise in this world that time in stubs progresses at the same time in the future (prime world)?
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It was the past in another dimension. Hence why they gave 0 *****s about doing horrific world ending stuff there.

But agree it was science fiction written by somebody with kindergarten level appreciation of time travel.
 
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Bug One said:
It was the past in another dimension. Hence why they gave 0 *****s about doing horrific world ending stuff there.

But agree it was science fiction written by somebody with kindergarten level appreciation of time travel.
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Messed me up. Because I couldn't decide if it was really pathetic.. Or I was missing something.

Kept asking myself... Can't they just go back further and basically kill em off before they know any of this?
Was a long time before I accepted "time an hour in past must be an hour in prime world"


But I still don't get after a team of assassins fail.. Bribe am old dude.
Or just go back and print a bomb and drop it by drone on thier house. Many ways of sorting it

Too many time travel fails for me to enjoy I think.



One of the few good time travel attempts I think was in farscape.
Star trek is pretty bad for it
 
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Normally they do time travel episodes just to fill the season in most sci-fi shows. Some are well thought out but most have huge gaps in the theory, explanation and execution
 
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