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What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with? (piefed.social)
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was super amped for this one, but started getting weird vibes around episode 3 or 4. There are a hundred ways that you could have things go wrong bringing hostile alien species to earth, but the show just relied on people constantly treating them with less care than they would a pet iguana.

Slogged through the rest just in case, but it just felt like Jurassic Park with infinitely sloppier writing.

[–] Batmancer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was very excited too. My love for Alien universe content carried me through the series.

The actors having to portray child geniuses that were sheltered children with deadly diseases now being in super android adult like bodies led to some weird acting choices I think. I rolled with it though because I thought how the fuck should I know how that kid would’ve acted right there.

Loved the aliens, androids, cyborgs, and retro-future tech. They will bring me back to watch season 2 probably.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, it wasn’t even the children in adult bodies that were the problem. Kids are dumb, so their choices and the way they reacted to events could be given a pass. It’s how dumb the supposedly smart adults were that was the problem.

[–] degen@midwest.social 1 points 16 hours ago

The vibes are definitely different from Alien as a whole, but I liked the kids' roles in how the synths are portrayed, and really how the show develops the factions of immortality, murky ethicality, beings as superweapons, and psychology of the self, all with a more relatable setting of earth and (corporate) society.

I get the qualms about it, but at the same time it seemed perfect to me in adding to the universe.