From May 1:
Rather then just watch the status bar on the RO download slowly tick across the screen, I may as well post.
I saw Space's new show Charlie Jade today for the first, and probably last time. From what I heard previously about it, it's got a pretty decent premise, original plot, and is supposedly heavily influenced by Blade Runner. Somehow, it fell flat.
Right off the bat, the opening theme is terrible. Visually, it was just a collage of techy, grungy shots plastered with lame effects. It's been done. The music was pretty uninspiring - a monotonous sludge of a piece. With the show described as 'gritty', you'd think there'd be some real instruments, some elec guitar at the least. But no, it's largely synthesized, and completely unremarkable in every possible way.
Moving past the first minute, things don't improve. I've only watched the one episode, the second one of the season I think, so it might not be fair to pass judgement yet but...holy crap was it slow. One word comes to mind when thinking of it: Prozac. Not a great deal of action, long periods of nothingness, forgettable dialogue. Nothing at all endearing. Thank sod I have a dart board.
Last, the thing that really got to me, production. To start, they use a 'shaky cam', quite like Battlestar. I don't actually mind that, it gives a good documentary feel and adds some reality. If they had just left it at that... On top of the shaky cam, they add the whole load of 'artsy' bullsh!t effects. You've got the lopsided camera, mirror image effects, grainy crap, swirly blurry crap etc. etc. After a few minutes of that, sickness sets it. Just because some jackass felt the need to add 'dynamics'.
That show aint gonna last long.
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