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The Rig is a new 6 episode show on Amazon Prime starring The basic premise is that a weird fogbank comes out of nowhere and cuts off all communication with the outside world. As of Ep1 the feel is like a mixture of Alien and, well, The Fog. I’m quite enjoying it if only for the claustrophobia and the sense of impending doom, and of course Iain Glen’s dulcet tones.
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Jan 10, 2023 08:17
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I did not like The Rig. There just wasn't enough to the premise for a 6 episode series. Also, the explanation behind the mystery of the show was kind of dumb.
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Jan 10, 2023 18:37
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I felt it started off strong, and seemed to be imitating The Thing. However, whenever anything was explained it just got intensely stupid. The explanations were halfassed 6th grader ‘wow I read an article on Wikipedia and now I know the word Ordovician’ explanations with no logical coherency. It felt like someone filling out a madlibs and just inserting random words to explain away events. The more it explained the dumber it got, it felt like a head writer quit after writing the setup and a bunch of amateurs scrambled to come up with dumb explanations. The big bad monster is… a giant progress bar? The ‘hive mind bacteria’ was so vaguely motivated it felt ridiculous. The theme can be written well, such as in Isaac Asimov’s ‘Nemesis’ (a book about a bacterial hivemind), but instead it just seemed like a hacky Lindelof-esque ‘make up spooky poo poo at random’. The ‘petrochemical company is bad’ came across so cheesy it felt like a eco-terrorist fanfic.
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Jan 11, 2023 01:20
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I thought it was okay until episode 5. The entirety of episode 5 is one ridiculous thing after another with a huge amount of experienced people acting incredibly stupid and completely against their character until that point. It completely destroyed any goodwill I had for the show Had also hoped it was potentially a Chuthulu imprisoned scenario, or something along those lines, but the writers are cowards.
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Jan 11, 2023 02:29
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the only rig i care about is my ryzen 5 3600 16gb ram gtx 3060ti. show bad.
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Jan 11, 2023 03:34
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Yeah ultimately a disappointing half-assed mystery box. Almost any other ending would have been better.
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Jan 13, 2023 04:12
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so the rig was a rag i was about to watch that but with so many excellent and good movies coming out on a daily basis, i just don't have time to waste on jorah being the best part of a bogus series.
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Jan 13, 2023 05:53
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The show does seem to suffer from trying to over-explain itself, when keeping things in broad terms or even just outright leaning into the fantastical would probably have been better. It might well have worked better if they'd just gone with this is just Literally Gaia From Mythology coming to gently caress humanity up using magic. Going on and on about bacteria and chorals and whatever else just just wasted a lot of time on things that ultimately didn't matter. Also they really needed to find a better way to light the greenscreened outdoor scenes, almost none of them looked convincing.
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Jan 13, 2023 12:59
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Goreld posted:
What;'s this mean? I'm not watching this but I love stupid poo poo
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Jan 13, 2023 13:17
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Milo and POTUS posted:What;'s this mean? I'm not watching this but I love stupid poo poo Basically, the threat is a sort of hive mind bacterial colony. It grows in glowing concentric circles along the sea floor, eating away at the bedrock near a cliff as it completes each circle. During the last episodes, the big threat is that if it were to complete the most recent, outermost circle, it would lead to an underwater rockslide which would in turn cause a tsunami that would ravage the British coast. Perestroika fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Jan 13, 2023 13:39
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Okay so what's the downside
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Jan 14, 2023 12:13
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Sounds like the kind of thing that would have been a three- or four-part BBC miniseries like The Nightmare Man back in the 80s (or a four-part Doctor Who story), but they padded it out to six hours because Prestige Drama.
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Jan 14, 2023 20:00
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I had a bad feeling about this 20 min in and checked the thread. Glad I skipped.
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Jan 15, 2023 01:37
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oh it's bad, nevermind then.
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Jan 15, 2023 04:40
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I enjoyed seeing King Robert, first of his name, again along with Jorah and that annoying dude from the Night's Watch.
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Jan 16, 2023 09:46
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Payndz posted:Sounds like the kind of thing that would have been a three- or four-part BBC miniseries like The Nightmare Man back in the 80s (or a four-part Doctor Who story), but they padded it out to six hours because Prestige Drama. It's funny you say this because it absolutely felt like the Tardis was going to land at any minute and Matt Smith was going to show up to solve everything. It felt like something from 2007-era BBC if that makes sense (and yeah, I know Smith wasn't the doctor until after that). But yeah, it absolutely is a mix of The Thing (down to someone proposing the blood test) and The Fog with The Kraken Wakes (which they have a character reading and commenting on).
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Jan 16, 2023 17:32
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Why the hell didn't they just adapt The Kraken Wakes then? If you want horror rising from beneath the sea around Britain, that's your book.
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Jan 19, 2023 00:01
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Chairman Capone posted:It's funny you say this because it absolutely felt like the Tardis was going to land at any minute and Matt Smith was going to show up to solve everything. It felt like something from 2007-era BBC if that makes sense (and yeah, I know Smith wasn't the doctor until after that). The Rig's got a lot in common with Fury From The Deep, a super old Doctor Who serial from the 60's.
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