I did everything I could to look for positives and found very little. Sitting through the first two episodes was rough to say the least. Im not really sure who this was made for as the BR franchise doesn't really have enough momentum to support a poor new entry based on franchise name alone. Off the bat the series is filled with design details from 2019 and 2049. We drive through an orange desert into the exact same city from 2019. Only... it's now 2032. Are you telling me we still have the same geisha ad playing everywhere? The same blimp? Everything is just a recreation of set pieces and environments from the 1982 movie. Every building contains elements from buildings from the film. Although all that is sort of lazy and nostalgia bait it is not my main issue. The character animation and movement is not good. It sort of reminds me of poorly rendered video game animation. And the dialogue and story is run of the mill. Because the animation is so distracting I don't think I can see this through to the end. The Blade Runner franchise is wonderful because of its innovation and thematic writing, but there is little of that here.
