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Intergalactic (2021)
Best way to view is with remote in your hand
Fast forward through the dull sections. Tried 2 episodes. Wont bother with a third. Low budget, unconvincing acting, sets ok but graphics and modelling poor. Have to admit though, actors have energy if not talent.
Marionette (2020)
Slow but I knew the locations
Slow movie. Gothic thriller that didn't work for me. Ending is interesting but too long getting there. Extra point as I work in Aberdeen and had a great time guessing the locations (got most of them right). Segments stitched together all over the place eg you don't go up Deeside to get to Portsoy from Aberdeen but hey, that's movie magic. "Wet and gloomy" is near the mark though, ha ha.
The Shannara Chronicles (2016)
Just need to set your expectations
I've not read the Terry Brooks novels as my local library never had issue 1 available and I won't start from issue 2., but I've literally read hundreds of others (pun!). No surprise that tv series doesn't closely follow the books. I've waited for many a series to be put on the the screen with the same intensity as the books but most producers are not interested. Lord of rings movie is the only one that's been roughly faithful. Game of thrones made a half decent fist of it for 2/3 books but at least kept true to the sense of the books beyond that.This tv series is pretty much like Goodkinds one..similar core story but heavily manipulated for tv to the point where it loses its essence. It's just a fact that teens, twenties drive the on line ratings these days so no point getting worked up about that. Eventually I'll go back and read the books and this series will be forgotten. That said, it's watchable but half way through series 2 I'm getting bored now and using the fast forward button a lot. Just goes to show that there's still a lot of mileage in the written word.