It was ok, I guess. But the mediocre facial animations don't hold up in a story focused on character.
It is also incredible derivative. A common theme for these IP extensions, by new producers, is to take apart the originals and generate a set of nostalgia hits, when are then used, out of context, to try and hit that memory of a good product. It cheats, really, masking an inferior product in the haze of feelings of a better time.
This is no different. The story could stand on its own, far weaker, without the 'blade runner' branding. Each episode blatantly reproduces a moment from the seminal original and it is quite jarring. Same goes with the music.
The story itself? Pretty simple, laboured, and would fit into a 90 minute movie easily. Here it is dragged out over more than double that. Could have done with far better dialogue, too. The talking heads seem so thin / cardboard.
With a tighter script, better dialogue and more time spent on the faces, this could have made a good stand alone scifi. Wrapping it in the corpse of a far superior movie hurt it.
Not a series I would have reviewed it it had not been riffing off something that I love.
It is also incredible derivative. A common theme for these IP extensions, by new producers, is to take apart the originals and generate a set of nostalgia hits, when are then used, out of context, to try and hit that memory of a good product. It cheats, really, masking an inferior product in the haze of feelings of a better time.
This is no different. The story could stand on its own, far weaker, without the 'blade runner' branding. Each episode blatantly reproduces a moment from the seminal original and it is quite jarring. Same goes with the music.
The story itself? Pretty simple, laboured, and would fit into a 90 minute movie easily. Here it is dragged out over more than double that. Could have done with far better dialogue, too. The talking heads seem so thin / cardboard.
With a tighter script, better dialogue and more time spent on the faces, this could have made a good stand alone scifi. Wrapping it in the corpse of a far superior movie hurt it.
Not a series I would have reviewed it it had not been riffing off something that I love.