400 Boys was decent, I chuckled at Close Encounters and I did quite enjoy How Zeke Got Religion despite the whole WW2 bombers thing being pretty tired as a trope. The rest of them were pretty unmemorable, alas.
I was especially disappointed at Spider Rose? I don’t know how that story didn’t hit harder since Sterling is one of my favorite authors.
I think it’s because you could see the twist coming from a mile away. It also didn’t help that the story was unfocused, there was just too much going on.
It’s a bit funny. The short story is only 20 pages, and they allocated 17 minutes to the episode. Most of these short stories are within the 20 page mark with around 17 minutes an episode, but they run into this plot length problem all the time.
Beyond the Aquila Rift was also kind of all over the place with a rather dissonant ending, despite being my favorite episode of the season. The Very Pulse of the Machine cut out some important details. Swarm cut out the factions, but it was a Shaper-focused story, and the core story was still told well enough. Zima Blue actually managed to tell most of the short story in 10 minutes, though.
Don’t get me wrong. I really liked these episodes. But, it still boggles the mind that it’s so hard to cover a mere 20 pages in 15ish minutes. Some of these are dense concepts to express on a video medium, though.
I just thought that was the story, oh it has the genetic code of previous forms. It’s gonna eat her at some point. There was a small moment that I thought it it was going to become her deceased partner, and thought that was a good route.
400 Boys was decent, I chuckled at Close Encounters and I did quite enjoy How Zeke Got Religion despite the whole WW2 bombers thing being pretty tired as a trope. The rest of them were pretty unmemorable, alas.
I was especially disappointed at Spider Rose? I don’t know how that story didn’t hit harder since Sterling is one of my favorite authors.
I think it’s because you could see the twist coming from a mile away. It also didn’t help that the story was unfocused, there was just too much going on.
It’s a bit funny. The short story is only 20 pages, and they allocated 17 minutes to the episode. Most of these short stories are within the 20 page mark with around 17 minutes an episode, but they run into this plot length problem all the time.
Beyond the Aquila Rift was also kind of all over the place with a rather dissonant ending, despite being my favorite episode of the season. The Very Pulse of the Machine cut out some important details. Swarm cut out the factions, but it was a Shaper-focused story, and the core story was still told well enough. Zima Blue actually managed to tell most of the short story in 10 minutes, though.
Don’t get me wrong. I really liked these episodes. But, it still boggles the mind that it’s so hard to cover a mere 20 pages in 15ish minutes. Some of these are dense concepts to express on a video medium, though.
I just thought that was the story, oh it has the genetic code of previous forms. It’s gonna eat her at some point. There was a small moment that I thought it it was going to become her deceased partner, and thought that was a good route.
Agreed, imagine her willingly getting eaten by the creature disguised as her deceased partner. That would’ve disturbed me.