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Dune (2021)
Maybe a good preamble for a second part
The cinematics are spectacular and I like how Villeneuve takes time to develop this epic journey. However, the character development itself, usually Villeneuve's strength and sort of what makes the book a good story, never comes to live. Some scenes are almost comically clumsy, such as when Paul and his mother hide in a tent from a sandstorm. This moment is supposed to show the core conflict in Paul's character, but instead of letting it emerge it is battered into the viewer with such obviousness and force so as that not a single viewer shall miss it. As a result, the story feels static and the viewer disconnected from the people in it. This affects almost all characters in the film. In particular Jason Momoa's Duncan Idaho always feels too cartoonish to be real.
Either way, the stakes are clear at the end of this first part and one may hope that the second part delivers more of what Villeneuve and Dune are known for: characters.
7 for graphics, 6 for story.
Dark (2017)
Drawn out
The premises are clear at the beginning of the second season. The only new pieces of information come at the end of the third season. During the one and a half seasons in between, we see the characters struggle against their fate. A struggle that is ultimately futile since the characters do not have agency: we know since the beginning of the second season that everything is predestinated. Watching the characters fight with their inevitable fate becomes boring mid-second season, because we already know where it'll end. Some small twists are revealed, but fundamentally the story is standing still. This changes in the show's last episode, in which a loophole is introduced that allows the story (and its characters) to progress. The end makes sense and if fulfilling, but should've come earlier.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018)
Beautiful game with the storytelling of a 4-year old
Well-designed game, but the dialogues and story arc make you wish it was over sooner rather than later. Nothing is missed by skipping them.
Heroes: Chapter Ten '1961' (2009)
Vorläufiger Tiefpunkt
Mit dieser Folge ist der vorläufige Tiefpunkt der Serie erreicht.
Die Story, die in dieser Episode einen weiteren Nebenschauplatz vertieft, der alles in allem für das Ende doch so wichtig ist, wie der berühmte Reissack, also diese Story ist absoluter Hanebüchen, und so eine gute Zusammenfassung der Staffel bis dahin.
Plötzlich tauchen hier neue Charaktere auf, dort kommt noch ein dunkles Geheimnis dazu, jener Charakter wird böse-gut-böse-gut-böse-...-gut und am Ende ist doch alles wie gehabt.
Es ist unbegreiflich, wie Tim Kring das Potenzial der Serie seit der zweiten Staffel praktisch brach liegen lässt. Man möchte meinen, im Zuge des Autorenstreiks wurden damals die alten Autoren entlassen und anstelle derer, die Degeto engagiert (u.a. verantwortlich für so hervorragende "Schwiegermütterberuhigungsfilme: Die Welt ist doch gut" wie das Traumhotel).
Über weite Strecken bleibt die Handlung banal, ohne Tiefgang und komplett vorhersehbar. Ohne wesentliche Inhalte wegzulassen, käme die Staffel auch mit der Hälfte der Episoden aus.