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Watched through episode 5 then called it quits.

I was super excited to watch this and unfortunately this show turned out to really miss the mark. I got sick of watching Malcom in a room arguing with a machine AI over human nature. I get that it's an important conversation but it became really monotonous after five episodes.

I'm a stickler for consistency so it's hard for me to watch Eiko get hit on the back multiple times by a terminator and grunt a little before pushing the terminator down an elevator shaft. Then a few scenes later a terminator crushes a skull with one hand. It's just lazy writing.

Misaki is not that interesting, even after the reveal, and just seems to gasp. The show can't seem to figure out if it's for PG children or R-rated adults.

Anyways, stories and characters are what make Terminator series and unfortunately this show falls flat on both.

I really don't get the 1/10 reviews on here complaining this isn't peak GoT quality. Sure, you're comparing it to one of the most impactful shows of the last two decades at its zenith, I'm not sure how that warrants a 1/10 for this in comparison to all shows on TV.

HotD is very good in Season 1 with solid pacing. It's been a couple years since I watched Season 1 but King Viserys, Daemond, Otto, and Aemond are standouts.

I'm not sure exactly what happened in Season 2 but the pacing is super slow and, while there are more dragons, battles are few and far between. Again, Daemon, Otto, and Aemond are the standouts (as well as Larys Strong), but we almost end the season where we started.

The stakes are low, with few character deaths - certainly ones we don't have much emotional attachment to. I was most disappointed in Alicent and Rhaenyra, the latter who seemed to make inconsistent strategic decisions and the former who was ineffective and unconvincing that she actually holds power.

I read that David Zaslav made cuts to Season 2 because of the actors strike so they cut it down from 10 episodes to 8 hence the awkward anticlimactic ending. I believe that.

Hopefully they get their act together for Season 3. I'd love it if there were more ruthless women in the show as well as more humor. Both are sorely lacking.

This started off okay, then it got bad, then something strange happened in the last 30-40 minutes and became unbearable, like I was watching a bizarre parody of bad action movies.

Knife skating on oil, waltzing to multi-colored tear gas, and bypassing top secret state secret encryption by...using the satellite link? It's like they gave up. The frustrating thing is this was a star-studded cast and the movie didn't start out terrible.

I feel like Apple and Universal should apologize for this film, the last half hour has got to be some of the worst cinema I've seen in the last five years. Pass on this one.

Lesbian witches renaming The Force and creating Force twins through a strange ritual on your Bingo card? Fear not, the Acolyte has it covered.

I figured we were in for a doozy after Andor, which is probably the best Star Wars live action production since Empire, was released. Balance had to be brought to Disney+.

I'm used to the bad dialogue, bad acting, and even a couple plot holes in Disney Star Wars but this was too much for even me to handle. Like why is a Jedi in meditation for ten years suddenly decide to take suicidal poison? It just isn't very Jedi-ish. Why was I tricked on ads that Carrie-Anne Moss would be in this when she has like a five minute cameo - and she's fantastic during her on-screen time which is even more annoying. Why can you escape from a bunch of Jedis now by just stirring up some dust?

It's just lazy writing and bad acting hidden behind some flashy CGI, par for the course with Disney Star Wars. I really wanted to like this and I'm super flexible on canon, I just want good storytelling. I'll admit Kathleen Kennedy has a couple wins with the first two seasons of Mando, Andor, and Rogue One but overall her track record is a train wreck. She needs to go (and I know Bob Iger is too scared to make that decision).

Two stars for Lee Jung-jae who I think has some solid Jedi presence and does the best he can with the toilet script.

Disclaimer this was only through episode 3 which is as far as I can handle. Hopefully it gets better but I'm not sticking around to find out.

Haven't seen the cartoons so coming fresh into this

So first, is it me or is Aang the laziest protagonist ever? I understood that he was supposed to be learning all the elements and in the entire first season he took exactly zero lessons on any element save air. It wasn't like he wasn't around any bending experts. Hard to root for the guy when he puts zero work into upping his avatar game.

Point being, there are so many logical inconsistencies here that it's hard to ignore. Why is Aang afraid of falling off cliffs or through the air when he is an airbender? Why can't waterbenders just make people explode (I'm sure there is a good reason for this beyond a PG rating but I was never told)?

The child acting is mostly poor and their script dialogue was left wanting. I get that this is a young adult show but at least give them a chance at dialogue that isn't overly wooden.

The fights and adventure are fun, the scenery is beautiful, and the concept is great. The show sputters after episode 3 or so and begins a downhill slide.

All that said, I got through the season and will likely give a second season a shot. Just a bummer because this could have been so much more!

First I'm glad the major networks are investing in SciFi which has been a backwater for the last couple decades. I also think this is the best SciFi television show since Westwood S1/Expanse S1,S2.

I loved the premise, especially the first few episodes. Unfortunately the show gets gummed up in the later half by spending too much time on the characters, odd priorities for the characters, and not spending enough time on backstory.

For example, why can't the San-Ti use their protons to start wiping out people they don't like instead of using half-baked assassins? They can control every television screen on the planet and impact machinery (I think), so why not start crashing planes of anyone they want dead. Why not start killing more scientists? There might be answers to these but the show does a super poor job of explaining the backstory.

I also had a hard time following character incentives and decisions, they were so moody and mopey for the fate of humankind to be on the line.

The show is at its best either when having action go down or getting into human nature. I loved the judgement day ship episode precisely because it was so uncomfortable and welded SciFi with painful morality decisions.

Finally, I wish D&D had written every episode instead of just half the show. If there is a season 2 they really need to keep their foot on the gas and not outsource any of the writing, this season felt disjointed at times and lacked a lot of backstory and hand-holding for SciFi.

Overall enjoyed it and hope more is coming.