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I can understand you disliking the photography but I wouldn't say that the storytelling hewed "very closely to the expectations". I'm trying to avoid spoiling

I can understand you disliking the photography but I wouldn't say that the storytelling hewed "very closely to the expectations". I'm trying to avoid spoiling things for those who haven't seen it, but almost every character became more multi-dimensional and the story progressed in unexpected ways. It took the worn-out tropes and flipped them over. Even your singular use of the word "genre" confuses me. Was there only one genre? It started out as a horror movie and then evolved into some sci-fi secret experiment narrative.

arielweisberg 10y ago
Certainly it blends multiple genres, but to me it's the "X-files" genre. My complaint is not that it doesn't get better it's that it shouldn't have to get better. That's a pacing issue and when a show has enough solid material in it I theorize most pacing issues can be solved with editing and usually by removing extraneous material. I think the impact that editing can have on how you perceive a story is profound.