Here I am on episode 4, and finally things are moving.
The first proper trip takes two characters to an apocalyptic aftermath world at the precise moment when all the buildings in the city start to collapse from neglect. -Which seems overly convenient for the story, but I can explain it (as a favor to the writers) by assuming that the subconscious element involved in the Box's operation might drop somebody into the most attention-grabbing moment in a given world.
Okay, sure. But then...
They're inside the Box and pull out a GPS handset and determine their relative position.
"The satellites must still be working."
-Er.., except it was painstakingly explained that the Box only works at all because it was specifically built to block out all energy from the outside world which might disturb the quantum state of the subjects within. You don't have to be a science major to wince at how silly it is to think that a GPS unit would be of any use inside. -Everybody knows you can't use a cell phone when the signal is blocked. This is the same, but infinitely more so.
That's one of those painfully ignorant writing moments which should have immediately been spotted in the script and fixed. And yet nobody on the creative team spotted the issue, from the director to the actors. That's a bad sign. -Such an oversight should never have made it into the script in the first place, let alone into an active production! -It makes me wonder how many dumb people have decision-making power in this show.
If you're going to make a fundamental error like that, then chances are you're going to make errors in lots of other areas as well, -and not just ones related to science.
Which would explain the thought-lite quality this show struggles with. -Why the behavior and dialogue frequently becomes naive and two-dimensional whenever the script strays beyond the narrow comfort zone occupied by the average hyper-sheltered member of an upper middle class (who doesn't read).
The JK Simmons show was better informed and interesting, making insightful observations at every turn, from the character behavior to the speculative mechanics involved in the phenomenon at the heart of the story. Dark Matter isn't there yet.
-And without a stricter bit of vetting of the writing staff, of getting on top of things, some flashes of insight and growth in the self-awareness department, this show will struggle to reach that bar. But one can hope.
Hey.., it's a possible reality out there.
Maybe if I think about it really hard when I 'observe' the next episode, the superposition will collapse into something worthy of a higher rating.
The first proper trip takes two characters to an apocalyptic aftermath world at the precise moment when all the buildings in the city start to collapse from neglect. -Which seems overly convenient for the story, but I can explain it (as a favor to the writers) by assuming that the subconscious element involved in the Box's operation might drop somebody into the most attention-grabbing moment in a given world.
Okay, sure. But then...
They're inside the Box and pull out a GPS handset and determine their relative position.
"The satellites must still be working."
-Er.., except it was painstakingly explained that the Box only works at all because it was specifically built to block out all energy from the outside world which might disturb the quantum state of the subjects within. You don't have to be a science major to wince at how silly it is to think that a GPS unit would be of any use inside. -Everybody knows you can't use a cell phone when the signal is blocked. This is the same, but infinitely more so.
That's one of those painfully ignorant writing moments which should have immediately been spotted in the script and fixed. And yet nobody on the creative team spotted the issue, from the director to the actors. That's a bad sign. -Such an oversight should never have made it into the script in the first place, let alone into an active production! -It makes me wonder how many dumb people have decision-making power in this show.
If you're going to make a fundamental error like that, then chances are you're going to make errors in lots of other areas as well, -and not just ones related to science.
Which would explain the thought-lite quality this show struggles with. -Why the behavior and dialogue frequently becomes naive and two-dimensional whenever the script strays beyond the narrow comfort zone occupied by the average hyper-sheltered member of an upper middle class (who doesn't read).
The JK Simmons show was better informed and interesting, making insightful observations at every turn, from the character behavior to the speculative mechanics involved in the phenomenon at the heart of the story. Dark Matter isn't there yet.
-And without a stricter bit of vetting of the writing staff, of getting on top of things, some flashes of insight and growth in the self-awareness department, this show will struggle to reach that bar. But one can hope.
Hey.., it's a possible reality out there.
Maybe if I think about it really hard when I 'observe' the next episode, the superposition will collapse into something worthy of a higher rating.
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