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Pariah: Nexus Ep 1
(lemmy.world)
It seems like this was dropped on WHTV rather unceremoniously. I didn't realize it was out until I saw a YouTube thumbnail about it. Anyways has anyone else watched it? What did you think? I was pretty disappointed in it. I thought the writing and acting was pretty terrible and it felt incredibly stilted with the constant breaks throughout to announce a new chapter of a 22 minute episode. What were there, like six? That felt ridiculous and pretentious.
Anyways what did you think?
I agree with your points. The pacing felt slow as a glacier and mildly masturbatory in how pretentious it was. The dialog between the female guardsmen and the Sister of Battle, god damn it, it was soooo halting, and paced so awkwardly! Other little things were just weird as hell, like the Space Marine landing vehicle (thunder hawk?) spinning horizontally like that as it was crashing completely ignores wind resistance, and straight up wouldn't happen that way.
I did very much like how the 4 legged Necron lord was portray ed though, his movements, and voice were very well done and will get me to watch episode two. The Deathmark was very interesting too, but holy shit, this thing felt like it was made by a 1st year college student.
@Geek_King @antaymonkey I think the pacing problems come from the structure of small chapters; it doesn’t seem quite sure whether it wants to be a single, overarching narative or a collection of little vignettes, and it ends up being the worst of both worlds. Agree about Szeras though, he was by far the most interesting bit so I do hope he ends up actually doing something.
Also like 80% sure the Guardswoman is imaginary and the Sister’s actually alone, Tyler Durden-style
The sister makes some noises about her parents being guardsmen before she was orphaned. My money is on that being her mum. The infected guardsmen completely ignored her, so almost definitely a hallucination.