Reviews

I'm convinced that writers often hate their characters. They really did Dexter dirty didn't they?

I hated that Dexter abandoned his son from the previous series. I really do not believe that he would have done that and was hesitant to watch New Blood as I was unhappy with that ending. However, Michael did a fantastic job and I found myself pulled in again.

Unfortunately this again ended in another cliche "killing off the main character" tripe *yawn* with a bit of a U-turn/out of character to get to that conclusion (overdone in nearly every film and series now).

Frustrating and infuriating, and I have intense dislike for whoever agreed to that ending. It wasn't edgy. It wasn't original. It wasn't clever. It wasn't liked.

Unfortunately I cannot give a low rating for the whole series because it was good overall, but that last episode was a 1 for me.

Absolutley hooked on the first episode and then it was all down hill from there.

So after disappearing for over five years I was intrigued as to what possible explanation would be given for this mystery. Wormhole... time travel... other dimension... aliens... and we got God. Or at least that appears to be where it is heading, I cannot bring myself to continue watching. I've forced myself nearly to the end of Season 2 and can continue no more.

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OK.... So a friend told me to give it a chance as it got better. Originally I had rated this at 1 star because season 2 was pretty awful. However, it did get slightly better, still some questionable acting and direction, but it did get better.... a little.

It was a terrible conclusion, not only to the sequels but to the whole Star Wars story.

This trilogy is not the Star Wars that was created by George Lucas, Star Wars for me is the story and growth of Luke Skywalker and the rebuilding of the Jedi. The originals set the stage for a new Jedi Order and these sequels literally undid everything. Like literally what was the point of the first six movies?

They killed off Han. They killed off Luke (the hero). They undid the victory of Anakin Skywalker revealing that he didn't actually kill Emperor Palpatine. Luke didn't save the galaxy as the First Order apparently rose again the next day *eye roll*. The victory and story written in the original trilogy is meaningless. The heroes all ended up alone and then dead.

I mean Luke, who is Luke? That grumpy recluse is not the hopeful and compassionate Luke Skywalker from the originals. Why did they ruin his character? What to make way for Mary Sue Rey? Like who is she? Are we supposed to believe that with no training she is all-powerful and able to have control over the force? No battle training and she knocks a Jedi master on his backside and bests Ben who is trained by the Sith?

Even Mark Hamill and George Lucas continuously expressed doubt and concern over how they portrayed Luke's character.

The only new addition I liked was Adam Driver as Ben Solo/Kylo Ren.

On recently seeing George Lucas' plan for episode 7,8 and 9 I am even more appalled at what Disney did to Star Wars. As Mark Hamill said "in Hollywood it's not important if it's high quality, only if it makes money". I certainly won't be putting my money up for any future films.

The story overall did hold potential, the first 2 or 3 episodes were good, I believe that it could have been a lot a better, more intelligent and gripping.

I recognised that it had to be some kind of experiment from the start, taking people back to their base level instinct to observe their actions and whether they were good or bad (nature/nurture). Although correct so much more could have been done with this, instead it came across as an afterthought, with the series storyline focusing on the prison and the lady who woke up (zzzzzz).

I feel like the big reveal of the prison could have been the end of series one, with the series focusing more on the psychology of people suddenly thrust into their situation and the choices they make. Instead it came across as rushed, oversimplified and cartoonish.

A real wasted opportunity that lacked depth.

Three manchildren looking for attention tell a story of a government conspiracy so unbelievable it's unbelievable. I think the final nail in the coffin for me is where the film "documentary" actually turns into a movie script, in which these guys alone stood against both government and extraterrestrial and brought the whole project crashing down *eyeroll*.

I do believe that insane experiments did and do take place and I think these guys (two being stereotypical conspiracy nuts) are cashing in on that attention.

I'm just pretending the last ten minutes never happened, made up my own ending too...

Edit: On reflection, I would also like to add, that I am glad Klaus and Elijah went out together. One thing that drew me in on this series, was the brotherly bond between the pair.

I really struggled with how to rate this, so firstly lets concentrate on this "true" story, for the first part I was like "wow, this is actually quiet amazing, however the more it went on, the more skeptical I became. My skeptical brain was asking why? Why for example would aliens move his knee brace outside and leave it strewn across the garden?

Then at nineteen minutes is where it lost all credibility for me... C'mon a peeping Tom alien, if aliens came into the house no problems, abduct people from their beds, can send light orbs in to look around then why would it need to pop up at the window and peep through? And the way it dropped down... And then the other "alien visit" where he was stood filming it in his kitchen as it unnaturally leaned around a corner (almost like someone was holding a puppet), apparently they can float too because the way it moved back around the corner. The biggest deciding factor on those two incidents being fakery rubbish is the guys reactions, lordy there is better acting at a second grade drama club.

Aliens are obviously in on the selfie craze too, as reportedly he found a camera with extraterrestrial selfies on. *eyeroll* Yet somehow other photos magically erased.

This guy is just someone who feels very unspecial and has created this imaginary life of being special, alien visits, alien children, mystery phone-calls calling him Starseed.

I am a believer in UFO's and extraterrestrials but this was just fake, I'm not saying I don't 100% not believe this guy was abducted or experienced something, I just think when you use fakery to back up claims that's when you lose credibility.

The documentary was well done though, which is why I struggle with how to rate it, I want to give it a BS rating but feel it's unfair to the documentary makers as it was a well done and difficult topic. I would have liked to see some objective psychology experts views on this, I felt the one they used, who based his evaluation off how calm he was was amateur at best.