All those series about corrupted leaders and revolutions ... now even in a spinoff of a fantasy classic. I wonder if future antropologists will look back at our time and see a population deeply unhappy with the status quo.
All those series about corrupted leaders and revolutions ... now even in a spinoff of a fantasy classic. I wonder if future antropologists will look back at our time and see a population deeply unhappy with the status quo.
All those series about corrupted leaders and revolutions ... now even in a spinoff of a fantasy classic. I wonder if future antropologists will look back at our time and see a population deeply unhappy with the status quo.
It happens from time to time, just look back at the prime time of the 70s with the oil crisis: "I am legend", "The Omega man", "Logan's run", "Colossus: the Forbin project", the original planet of the apes series, "The China syndrome" - the cinemas back then were full of such movies.
I binged the whole 10 episodes over Memorial Day weekend.
I liked it. I wasn't bowled over by much, except maybe the set designs. And improvements in puppetry Henson's crew shows since the original film. And a lot of the camera work. And how a lot of the voice work was dead-on perfect.
I'll say the world and myth building and much of the plot mechanics benefit greatly from the expanded time they had to tell the story. However, and this is a big one for me, it suffers from something I find a lot of Henson efforts do. One moment, you have a major character give an eye-rolling "That's what friends do," straight out of some G-rated script. The next, you're watching a handful of other characters - ones we've spent time with and might have built some emotional attachment to - having their life sucked out of them until they literally explode to death. There's just a lot of these odd shifts of storytelling where they don't seem to know who they're telling the story to.
Beyond that, I felt it was well worth a watching. The Skeksis are given some dimension as a species and as characters. They even find a way of drawing out the Chamberlain with a lot of clever, and a few sympathetic, edges. Again, they make good use of all that extra time vs the film.
Just rewatched the original movie and then the first episode. I do appreciate the time to build characters and flesh out the world. And once again, the technical work is excellent. I am prepared for a lot of carnage, knowing that we start the movie with two surviving Gelflings. Helps to build a sense of detachment.