“Lost” with chevrons. “Universe” was “Lost” with Chevrons. Especially the way it spent 5 episodes layering mystery upon mystery, almost instantly abandoning the solution to about 60% of them. Then it spent 2 episodes answering the remaining 40% in a weird and completely unpredictable way so trying to solve them yourself becomes utterly pointless, killing all engagement.
And the original movie that spawned all the shows we’re talking about could be poorly described as a spacey twist on dances with wolves.
As I said, lack of direction that was present in the previous shows.
Of course the biggest difference is they had experience enough to try and do new things for the series, but didn’t apply their experience from the past shows in the “clear direction” aspect. I feel like once you’ve got two shows of the same header under your belt, you should be able to hit the ground running coughstartrekcough
I’m absolutely open to a variation of the set formula. A third, almost identical show would’ve been boring as hell. Yet, I did not enjoy “Lost” at all and “Universe” failed to grab me for the same reasons ;)
“Lost” with chevrons. “Universe” was “Lost” with Chevrons. Especially the way it spent 5 episodes layering mystery upon mystery, almost instantly abandoning the solution to about 60% of them. Then it spent 2 episodes answering the remaining 40% in a weird and completely unpredictable way so trying to solve them yourself becomes utterly pointless, killing all engagement.
And the original movie that spawned all the shows we’re talking about could be poorly described as a spacey twist on dances with wolves.
As I said, lack of direction that was present in the previous shows.
Of course the biggest difference is they had experience enough to try and do new things for the series, but didn’t apply their experience from the past shows in the “clear direction” aspect. I feel like once you’ve got two shows of the same header under your belt, you should be able to hit the ground running coughstartrekcough
I’m absolutely open to a variation of the set formula. A third, almost identical show would’ve been boring as hell. Yet, I did not enjoy “Lost” at all and “Universe” failed to grab me for the same reasons ;)