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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
Still wildly uneven
This second season is giant leaps above the first season, but still suffers from dull and uneven direction. Characters doing dumb things for no reason but to justify plot points, and too many coincidences show the lazy writing on many an episode.
These (mostly) were supposed to be the best and brightest hand picked agents but often don't act like it. Some of the characters and actors have a good rapport but it's more often than not squandered with bad dialog. The writers have a wealth of Marvel lore to use but chose to drag out artifacts ala Warehouse 13 and powered individuals of the week ala X-Files. The show needs better writing and stronger direction. The action scenes are sometimes well done, but are often too short, suffering from the look of choreography from a bad wire martial arts movie.
Star Trek (2009)
I like lens flare
So many bad decisions. So bad a plot. J.J. Abrams is the new M. Night Shyamalan. A film with decent actors, but a giant mess of a plot. Swiping from old episodes as well as Captain Ahab sized obsessions, this film looks like a high budget student film. The redesign of Applespace is bad enough, but directorial wise, Abrams falls back on old standards from everything previous that he's done. Lots of shots of people running to give a false feeling of excitement, check. Count downs and one dimensional villains, check. Bad technology advancement (when does this take place again?) check. Pop references and modern music being listened to in a bar check. Messed up time lines that have no real point? Check. Macguffin device that will be only used once in the film and never again? Check. Save yourself two hours and watch something else.
Almost Human: Disrupt (2014)
Thumb drive 2.0 standard
2048 and hi skilled hackers still use good old standard 2.0 thumb drives. Face palm. I've seen fans post this is a very realistic world. Hardly. No, if anything it's more fiction than science. More 1960's fiction than science. The show continues to try to be a procedural detective story and fails due to glaring inconsistencies. Have the show authors even read any science fiction? Between the banter and plots, I felt I was watching Holmes & Yo-Yo circa 1976. While the art direction is okay things like Rudy using a touch pad and a monitor (because touch pads of the future have no monitor capability???) and the aforementioned thumb drive gaff makes this show in dire need of a replacement of the writing staff.
Disrupt is almost a rehash of the previous week's plot line and formula. Side note, website doesn't understand u s b and flags the word.
Almost Human: You Are Here (2014)
Bad world design
Every episode has huge sloppy problems. Lazy writing. This episode is a prime example with lifting ideas from Runaway, Minority Report, and oh, social media... wow... a bullet that could be defeated by putting a bag on your head and leaving one area (a room) into another. From Kennix's 1980 cop persona shooting expensive droids every episode, Richard, a jerk cop nemesis also circa 1980s who's character design is thinner than paper, and DRN using touch screens when he really wouldn't need to as he could access all the data with his own internal systems. The show is just really disappointing. Other episodes including the psychic (wow science of the future!) which is clearly a plot device we'll never see again (thankfully) continues to demonstrate how badly the show is written). If the show was created in the 1980's it would be entertaining. Now it's just foolish.