After reading plenty of unhappy ep1 reviews I've decided to give this show benefit of the doubt and be as clear minded and even optimistic as I could.
The first episode was a warmup of sorts, but second one showed some issues.
First thing: I like how Oscar isaac portrays 2 characters. His accents switch and he sounds and acts like 2 different persons. That's some nice stuff.
Now the problems. Writing/script of the show is horrendous. There's hardly any dialogue that makes sense. You know how sometimes in the movies there's a problem that could be solved with BASIC, most ordinary talk? How the problem is nonexistant if you just TALK? And you just roll your eyes. This show uses that gimmick like a crutch. All for the sake of having some mystery.
Steven (the supposedly body-owner, inb4 plot twist) - doesn't talk like a human being. He's like stutter dispenser. Might have been okay when he was under stress, BUT THAT'S HIS WHOLE PERFORMANCE in this show. I understand director had to show him as a weak guy, but he just overdid it.
Marc on the other hand holds all the cards of knowing the plot and just keeps them for himself only for his silence backfiring in his (or Steves) face. Because dialog is hard.
The main villain is your "calm and benevolent-looking professor/priest" type. Pretty cliche, but that's fine. His motivation is weak "lets make world peace by killing most of humanity yaaay" with a sprinkle of "i will kill my underlings because.... yaaay!" Sigh.
Problem here is: how the villain and hero meet. Within first 30 minutes villain learns every detail of our main character. Who he is, where he works and then he meets him at his job.. and then.. leaves? And then captures him in his apartment.. and.. It's a mess. You can't do it like that.
Villain suddenly has a well developed (main?) branch of his "lets kill everybody" organisation in the city our hero lives? What is the chance. Lemme tell you the math formula: 'None' times 'hack script' times "bad director' = 100%.
About CGI. It was very sparse but on a solid level i'd say. I don't mind not having CGI-fest in my movie/shows, so i can live with that.
Fight choreography.. someone got paid for that. He should give those money back.
Finally: I don't know for certain, but extrapolating of what we have seen so far: Steven will stutter and ask questions, Marc will be brooding, keeping information for himself. Fight for steering wheel over the body. Stuff will happen. Explosions. Meeting the bad guy. Big Revelations. Plot twist (who's the real owner of the body! We have 50% chance to gue... It's Marc). Beating bad villain. Hint of a movie/second season.
It's just meh. A dud.
The first episode was a warmup of sorts, but second one showed some issues.
First thing: I like how Oscar isaac portrays 2 characters. His accents switch and he sounds and acts like 2 different persons. That's some nice stuff.
Now the problems. Writing/script of the show is horrendous. There's hardly any dialogue that makes sense. You know how sometimes in the movies there's a problem that could be solved with BASIC, most ordinary talk? How the problem is nonexistant if you just TALK? And you just roll your eyes. This show uses that gimmick like a crutch. All for the sake of having some mystery.
Steven (the supposedly body-owner, inb4 plot twist) - doesn't talk like a human being. He's like stutter dispenser. Might have been okay when he was under stress, BUT THAT'S HIS WHOLE PERFORMANCE in this show. I understand director had to show him as a weak guy, but he just overdid it.
Marc on the other hand holds all the cards of knowing the plot and just keeps them for himself only for his silence backfiring in his (or Steves) face. Because dialog is hard.
The main villain is your "calm and benevolent-looking professor/priest" type. Pretty cliche, but that's fine. His motivation is weak "lets make world peace by killing most of humanity yaaay" with a sprinkle of "i will kill my underlings because.... yaaay!" Sigh.
Problem here is: how the villain and hero meet. Within first 30 minutes villain learns every detail of our main character. Who he is, where he works and then he meets him at his job.. and then.. leaves? And then captures him in his apartment.. and.. It's a mess. You can't do it like that.
Villain suddenly has a well developed (main?) branch of his "lets kill everybody" organisation in the city our hero lives? What is the chance. Lemme tell you the math formula: 'None' times 'hack script' times "bad director' = 100%.
About CGI. It was very sparse but on a solid level i'd say. I don't mind not having CGI-fest in my movie/shows, so i can live with that.
Fight choreography.. someone got paid for that. He should give those money back.
Finally: I don't know for certain, but extrapolating of what we have seen so far: Steven will stutter and ask questions, Marc will be brooding, keeping information for himself. Fight for steering wheel over the body. Stuff will happen. Explosions. Meeting the bad guy. Big Revelations. Plot twist (who's the real owner of the body! We have 50% chance to gue... It's Marc). Beating bad villain. Hint of a movie/second season.
It's just meh. A dud.