Matthew Glenney

3.5 stars. The visuals and creativity of the world is very good. The world could have used some ground rules. I think audiences can take a lot of soft world building, but there needs to be a limit. Lots of magic deus ex machina plot hole solved solution. The characters are fair. A lot of them seem like the world would have killed them off in the first day. Many of the characters seem bent on reassuring everyone its ok, saying how they feel, and talking. In a survival situation there is a time for talk and a time for words. The talking parts would have been better served if kept much shorter and to moments when there is not impending doom. The reactions of the characters when they see another person is bad. Marooned on a foreign planet, alone, not seeing another soul for weeks. Finally see one and the reaction is. Oh, ok, I guess Ill go with you now. I'm also amazed that they continue to touch every random thing when it is well established that the slightest touch of anything can kill you. The male characters are all tragically flawed. The female characters are all tragically blessed. Somewhere there exists the place for a strong male lead and female characters that are their own person, not just female, but it is not here. I would say two examples of excellent female characters is Dorthy in the Wizard of Oz and K Pop Demon Hunters. They are all female, but they have a lot more to their character traits than that. The characters also seem confused on killing. Sometimes they need enough components to craft a magic item so they go around killing things like its nothing. Other times they don't want to disturb the balance of the ecosystem that is actively trying to kill them. The environment saves the characters from having to do any real killing and thus saves them from development. The end is not bad, but its not good. Sometimes levers take all of a persons strength to pull, other times they move with ease. Guns exist, but for some reason they don't exist in the escape pods. It is very visually stunning at times. The way the characters sometimes move reminds me of Aeon Flux. This is definitely style over substance. The more I think about it the more plot and flaws I see. Ill stop and try and remember the great art.

Worst adaptation I have ever seen, and I've seen the 80s Mario Bros movie when it came out in theaters. I know I'm late to the party on this one. I just finished reading all the Dark Tower books, including Wind Through The Keyhole. The screen and script writers obviously did not read a single book. Someone must have given them the gist of it. The Idea seems to be, let's take this cool cowboy story in a unique world, no apocalypse, just moving on, and make it a YA story about a boy named Jake. If Lord of the Rings is the best movie adaptation from a book, this is the worst.

Watched, and suffered through the first episode, will watch no more. Every character shouts and yells at each other. It is edited in such a way that you never get to see a shot for more than one second. One character pulls a gun on a crowd of people, shoots it into the air, and has zero consequences from it. I used to live in Chicago. These food places are all over. Sometimes a new owner comes in and changes things, and these places fail, and fail quickly. Why would you go to a place that used to make food to your liking, but now is different? Why would you go to a place that is no good when you can literally walk a block and find another? Why would you change the formula for a proven cash cow? The food might be better your way, but it's not leading to a successful business. The character seems to have the idea, I am a chef I know what better food tastes like. This may be true, but the existing food was fine and profitable. The swearing is a bit much and seems out of character. Not everyone who is poor and lives in Chicago is stupid and swears every other word. I worked in commercial kitchens for years and, yes, there is a good amount of swearing, but not this much. Yes, kitchens can be chaos, but not the way its shown. The plot with the video game was not good. "It's a fighter and a side scroller, it's too hard." These used to be called beat em ups. Double dragon, Simpsons Arcade, Ninja Turtles Arcade, X Men Arcade, Golden Axe, Alienstorm, etc. I get that the show didn't want to have to pay for a gaming name and likeness license, but try harder. Perhaps the writer of this story line is a new gamer that doesn't know what a hard game is really like. One that has always had 3D graphics, working controls, and the internet to help them when they get stuck. Make it a generic fighting game and call it, big fight or something simple. Too much effort went into this and I felt it did not pay off at all. The only thing I liked about the show was that you didn't see the sun once. This is true of Chicago. You never see the sun, and I will never see this show again.

Back in my day you could see your video games. This game is dark. Not in tone, but appearance. I have the brightness turned all the way up and I have trouble seeing where I'm supposed to do. Silent Hill 2 is a dark game too, but compared to this one it looks like a carnival. There is very little gameplay in this game. Most of the game is walking and watching a cut scene. The gameplay that does exist is very chaotic, in a bad way. Each encounter I run around and shoot things at random. Sometimes I win sometimes I don't. There is no strategy involved, no skill, just shooting and running around. Sometimes the game wants you to run away and will endlessly spawn enemies until you die, or figure out where to to. There is no way to determine if this is a long fight, or one in which you need to run away. The characters in the game do not stop talking. I would enjoy some banter between them but it never ends. I wish there was a dialogue option to turn this off. It becomes tired and annoying very quickly. The combat has options where you can give specific orders to your teammates. This is often useless, or ineffective. Your orders will either go ignored, or have no effect on the particular enemy. Your character can also do special moves. These happen at random because its activated by pushing down on the stick, never a good option for action combat. I also end up putting on my scanner all the time in a fight because of this poor control choice. The worst thing about the combat is that there is no difficulty to it, no learning curve. I literally run in circles every encounter. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. I can't tell what it is that makes me win or lose. You can add ability points to yourself and your team, but I have yet to see how that would help. An improvement would be to let the player upgrade their damage, armor, or other abilities. I have seen no increase in my characters power from the first fight until the end of the game. For a game with galaxy in its title it sure is linear. The levels seem to go from point a to b without any deviation. I found one area where you can explore and spend some of your money, but I didn't do any of that. I felt it was just padding for the game. An option to go to a store, or do some side quests for money would have been a welcome addition. This game is not really a game, there is far too little gameplay in it. It seems like square and marvel wanted to churn something out and make more money.

Stereotypical characters take their dogs to a dog show. The cinematography is very shaky and done in a fake documentary style. This made for an unpleasant viewing experience. The couples are clichéd stereotypes who are very unpleasant to see on screen. Everyone is mean and nasty to each other. I would rather watch a real documentary on dog shows. It would contain more honesty, a stable screen, and more humor.

I would call this show snooze patrol. I love all things DC, but I didn't like this. The characters are interesting and acted well enough. The show looks good enough. I just don't care about any of it. The plot takes way too long to unfold. I felt like they are always doing backstory without doing any development. There's a point in shows where I reach a, yea yea I get it already moment. After season 1 episode 2 the entire show was like this. If you are perpetually introducing the same characters you don't have a show, you have the worlds longest introduction title sequence.

The game is super grindy. The vehicle selection is outstanding. The worst part of the game is in the gameplay. Enemies can spot and shoot you without being seen. You can see an open runway and trucks at the end of the runway, but you can't see the tank sitting in the middle of the runway?!?! It takes forever to load in PvP or the higher PvE games. As such, you end up doing the same 5 missions ad nauseam. The biggest issue I have is the loading time. Not the game loading, bur how quick you can shoot rounds. I was on an M1A1 tank in the Army. To get out of tank school you need to load a round in under 4 seconds. This is an eternity. My record time was 1.9sec. To sit and wait for 10 seconds to shoot again is very frustrating. The developers took great care with so many details of the tank. Why did they not create realistic loading times? I also don't like how your commander and crew never Lv up. Their stat increases do nothing. There should be a single player campaign, or higher tier missions available with bots. This would save you from waiting for over a half hour for the game to start, only to be disconnected from the server.

Lots of tired military stereotypes and jokes. Lots of tired government bureaucracy jokes. Not funny. Didn't laugh, or even smirk once.