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Shining Girls (2022)
Some theories for the time travel concept
I saw some of the comments saying the show left too many unanswered questions, and I'd like to share some of my understanding of the show.
The question about how Harper chooses the women as it seems Harper has been watching Kirby since she's a child. - one of the biggest concept of the show is, Harper can go to any day he wants, as much times as he wants. Harper first met Kirby when he took Klara to the bar young Kirby worked at. Klara shown interest to Kirby, while Harper was trying to impress and owe Klara. Harper is a little man and easily hurt, Kirby didn't take his crap when he tried to approach her, so he took offense from Kirby. Kirby didn't please him the way he wanted. So he tried to owe her as well. He goes to different time and watch Kirby grow up, just to take everything from her when he is near success. Harper learnt the pressure of such dominance, and he has unlimited time in his hand. He goes to places across time to watch and select his victims, he puts items inside of the victims to mark them as his. Like small pp short men issues, they'll try to obtain power from anywhere they can, and when they get a taste of any sort of power, they abuse it as much as possible and show their pretentious self.
How he take the photos of the victims - as Harper explained himself, he likes to go back to the same days over and over, and could have taken those photos from each time he visit that day. I'm imagining him goes to the house, take a photo of a moment, the girls sees him, he runs, and he go back to the same day, place the photo and do it again and again, so he has pictures of different scenarios. I'm not sure what exactly was the creators' idea of the timeline or multiverse works in the show, but I kinda imagined the "time is a straight line " concept here. Every time Harper goes back and interact with the victims, he cut in the line, and everything happened after when he cut in could change, like butterfly effect. Harper and Kirby are time variances, when Harper start to think of going back to do something, the butterfly effects already happens. That's why when there's a more dramatic interact with Kirby, reality start to become chaotic, those interactions created uncertainty in Harper's mind, as he is uncertain/the universe is uncertain of what time he needs to go back and what he needs to do, the present changes due to all the possible futures of him changing the past. The same goes with Kirby interacting with Jin, they were never supposed to meet in the straight time line, it created chaos, thus reality changes. It also explains why towards the end when Harper goes to kill people and the two women's reality keep changing, it could just be butterfly effects. Imagine someone Harper killed was the mom of Jin's favorite professor, the professor never existed, Jin never had interest in her field and doesn't finish uni.
About the house, I can't really think of anything, and for me, it's smart for the show to not be able to explain why it's there. Maybe it's just a house that somehow falls into a time black hole or whatever, it's just there, the story of the house is already lost in time, the time is not a straight line there anymore. And I feel like no matter how the show explains why the house is there some audience won't like it. If the show thrown a lot sci-fi words to explain the time travel and the house, it would kinda ruins its focus on the emotions and sensations, and we have enough time travel sci-fi shows that talks about science.
3 Body Problem (2024)
Started as Cixin Liu's SanTi, Dropped Real Fast Into Netflix's "Trending-Topics" Checklist
Had the original books for over 8 years but have been procrastinating to read it forever, the show made me finally started to read the books, because the adopted story is 0 award winning material...
"God" worshipping cult, check. (Also doesn't make sense for a top scientist that holds her scientific beliefs over her life, given up on humanity as she's disappointed in her own species, end up building this "God" worshipping cult. Having "Our Lord" in her mouth so many times just doesn't fit the character)
Confess love before dying and the other person realize they love the dead person the whole time and it's too late for them to be together, check. (Slowing down the whole pace of the show to add a clichest unnecessarily love story just to have more romance lines make perfect sense)
Sudden diagnosis of incurable cancer and rich friend shouting they have all the money in the world to save the person, check. (Netflix just can't have one show without showing rich lifestyles in the most superficial way possible)
Das Signal (2024)
Amazing overarching concept, but poor storytelling
The 4 episodes mini series would fit a lot better in a 90 mins movie.
The pace of the main mystery solving is unnecessarily slow, with extremely clear clues provided early on. Once the audience grasps the nature of the mystery, the final answer becomes predictable, yet the characters take an excessively long time to reach the conclusion.
The characters building seem very forced and not consecutive. The female astronaut was initially depicted as a confident and independent woman in the flashbacks (occasionally give cringe and "I'm not like other girls" vibe), but her behavior in space reveals constant self-doubt and reliance on the older Black Orphan for decision-making. She's been described as the smartest by all other characters, but even the ultimate "outsmarting" "two steps ahead" came across as mere attempts to rectify previous mistakes.
The portrayal of the father's inability to cope with grief, resulting in neglect of the child's feelings, the child in denial of mother's death, the father's outburst, the "I wish you were the one died", so overly cliché even an AI could handle this emotional line better.
On the good side, the final concept and the message it sends is magnificent, and Mini Mr. Robot's performance was outstanding!