Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
(Post 11411211)
Update on my opinions of all three Shows.
Hannibal - Overall a fantastic Show, NBC should be proud of the first two Seasons, and three great Actors who play Hannibal, Will and Jack.
However I will say that I think Season 3 has been poor so far after watching just under half of the season.
My main issues with the Season are these two things.
1. The plot meandering with really boring scenes to try and look all artsy, or doing trippy psychological scenes that are essentially about nothing, but it makes it look like something is happening. And Will unfortunately in the first 5 episodes was left with a nonsensical character to interact with, which I will cover now.
2. The writing for Chiyoh (a new character that has been drafted into Season 3) feels kinda pointless to the story, and ultimately her writing makes no sense to me, and that's saying something when I'm understanding the writing for Alana more, and she's basically degrading as a character with each Season.:joker:
And to add, I do think that both Alana and Gillian Anderson's character have both faced rewrites this Season, they're both good Actresses (especially Gillian Anderson) but I do feel like the writers have gone from "character growth" to not even the same personality anymore with Alana. And Gillian Anderson's character has gone from believing Will's innocence and kind of being scared of Hannibal in Season 2, to now being more shady herself in Season 3.
And btw that's not to say that the Show still doesn't have it's moments, in particular Jack as a character and the second half of episode 5 have been strengths for the Season.
Black Lagoon - I've done the first 6 episodes of Season 2, and tbh I'm really enjoying it still, Revy is the perfect woman and a really entertaining character, Rock is an interesting character that's very different to everybody else on the Show, and Dutch and I think the blonde one's name is Benny? Are also really fun characters.
Plus I'm seeing more from certain side characters that were established in Season 1 which I like to see a world that's actually growing.
And I've got to say that the first three episodes of Season 2 has got to be my personal favourite arc of the Show so far, you know the villains are twisted when it's bothering Chang (who once threatened someone with "turning their balls into nuts") and even he was bothered by the villains at the start of Season 2, it was good stuff.
Overall a good start to Season 2 for Black Lagoon imo.
And I've done the first 15 episodes of Clannad, and again I'm really enjoying it in a very different way to how I'm enjoying Hannibal and Black Lagoon.
A warning to anyone that doesn't like Fantasy though, Clannad has very minor elements of Fantasy in the Anime.
Oh and on the Reality TV front I'm watching The Traitors UK Series 2 which has been highly entertaining imo, the best Reality Show at the moment on current form I personally feel. Although my favourite got murdered in the penultimate episode by the bastard Traitors.:fist::joker:
And The Masked Singer UK Series 5, which is okay, but I feel like it can't recreate the qualities of the first two Seasons I feel.
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