It's hard to comment on this drama, but it's really boring

Chris 2022-03-18 08:01:01

Speaking of aliens, I have to mention the famous series "The X-Files" in the history of American TV shows. Let's see how the first seasons of Ep1 and Ep2 were filmed: Scully joined X-files, and Mulder investigated the death of high school students, and then Investigating the mysterious disappearance of the officer's insanity, Ufo and aliens did not appear in the two episodes, but the plot and atmosphere make people believe that aliens exist, just need evidence to prove it.

In the first episode of this show, UFOs and aliens were released, but there was not enough imaginative plot to continue this sci-fi feeling. Every time it came to a critical moment, the camera turned to the next boring plot, such as the woman. When the flying saucer crashed, metal wreckage was found at the scene, and there were aliens hidden in the tree. Before we could see what was special about the metal, the camera turned to the woman to find the male protagonist to tell what happened, but the man refused many times. What's the point of filming such a boring plot? Another example is that the grandfather and grandson discovered the flying saucer, the male protagonist climbed into the flying saucer and climbed out, and then there was no follow-up. If it is "Alien", at this time the male protagonist has already discovered the shocking spaceship cab. The special effects of the aliens are still so fake, far less realistic than the aliens in the X-Files, and at first glance they are made by the computer. There are also a lot of bloody love scenes in the back, which is disgusting. How should I put it, I saw aliens, I saw being abducted, but I couldn't see where the suspense was, and where was the main line of the story. There is a movie with a low score, but I like it very much. It is called "Contact of the Fourth Kind". The movie starts with the kidnappers seeing a psychiatrist, and the answer is revealed step by step. It's better than this TV series that leaked the bottom line and didn't have a main line. Too much. The later episodes began to fast-forward and found that many plots were similar to "X-Files", but the plot concept, editing, actors, shots, atmosphere and X-Files were completely incomparable. X-Files attracted me to see the ninth season, and this The show made me fast forward. So it took me about 2 hours to watch the nearly 900 minutes of 10 episodes. Then I gradually understood that this drama wants to follow the path of warm science fiction, with warmth in the front and science fiction in the back, and then the finished film we see is the overall warm tone, with elements of horror, suspense, fantasy, etc. in the middle, so I I will think why its editing is so strange, why the BGM is so inconsistent, why its plot is not compact enough, why the lines and monologues are so young, because when it comes to warmth, many directors will shoot relatively naive things. This kind of childishness that runs through the whole drama makes the alien theme into a theme that is not weird or mysterious at all. Of course, not all science fiction themes have to be weird and mysterious, but as far as this drama is concerned, it is mixed with too much The plots that can be completely discarded, these plots are called "water injection plots" in today's words.

Except that this drama is produced by Steven Spielberg, the director has nothing to do with him. I searched Baidu and found that there are quite a few websites that put him in the director. Is this an endorsement with such a high rating?

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Taken quotes

  • Allison Clarke: People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told, we rebel against the world our parents worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing of is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think that's why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all.

  • Dr. Chet Wakeman: [to Mary, after his death] There's something I wanted to share with you. We're all so desperate for meaning, aren't we? All of us. You too, Mary, even if you think you're not. You want answers, and in that way, I think the aliens are gonna disappoint you. Here's the stone truth of it: They're still asking the same questions we are. No one is God here. We're all in the same boat.

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