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DallasEast said:
Gotten through the first three episodes of Lost In Space final season. I will be sad when I reach the end. The show is infinitely better than the original 1960's series and much improved over the 1990's movie remake too. Each episode format has been multiple dangers faced by each family member with "improbable" solutions conceived and executed plus everyday interactive commonplace HUMAN friction and love. And I extend that last part to Robot and Smith as well. Just a good, all-around family science fiction drama with the right mix of very good satire thrown in.

The young actor had a HUGE growth spurt. Not sure how tall Parker Posey is but she is looking slightly up into his eyes now, lol.
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Yeah, she even commented on him being "annoyingly taller" than her, or something like that. :muttley:[spoiler/]
 
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John813 said:
Enjoying Hawkeye but I find the girl to be a little odd at times.
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The first time I saw Hailee Steinfeld was in True Grit remake but I became a fan of her career when she played in Ender's Game. Her Hawkeye character is a bit eccentric, more so than her character's mother in my opinion, but I think it is as pronounced as much as it is to show her character is not a younger clone of Jeremy Renner's character.
 
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DallasEast said:
The first time I saw Hailee Steinfeld was in True Grit remake but I became a fan of her career when she played in Ender's Game. Her Hawkeye character is a bit eccentric, more so than her character's mother in my opinion, but I think it is as pronounced as much as it is to show her character is not a younger clone of Jeremy Renner's character.
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I didn't even realize that was the girl from True Grit. She's got some range! (I have to admit, I'm a little lost by your use of the word "pronounced".)
 
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John813 said:
Enjoying Hawkeye but I find the girl to be a little odd at times.
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One issue I have is that her wit is actually too quick. By that I mean that she already supposedly has a great retort almost before the other character has finished speaking. This makes it clear that it’s witty dialogue from a writer overly impressed with themselves, and it shows. It feels forced and not organic and it stands out.
 
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One issue I have is that her wit is actually too quick. By that I mean that she already supposedly has a great retort almost before the other character has finished speaking. This makes it clear that it’s witty dialogue from a writer overly impressed with themselves, and it shows. It feels forced and not organic and it stands out.
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Aaron Sorkin, "The West Wing", had that same problem and I finally gave up. Can't have everyone in the cast a smart*** with a hair trigger quip. There were no spaces between dialogues. That is unnatural.

Part of that also has to do with the director's sense of pacing and timing. Good comedy directors learned from Neil Simon and Blake Edwards about the importance of pacing and delivery. The best example I've seen of this is Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue". It is a template for pacing and timing for impact and Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft could not be better in those roles.
 
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Aaron Sorkin, "The West Wing", had that same problem and I finally gave up. Can't have everyone in the cast a smart*** with a hair trigger quip. There were no spaces between dialogues. That is unnatural.
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Unnatural is the perfect word. When it happens so quickly, any illusion of spontaneity is lost. That’s when it feels like someone wrote it. I know they did, but it needs to feel natural.

Part of that also has to do with the director's sense of pacing and timing. Good comedy directors learned from Neil Simon and Blake Edwards about the importance of pacing and delivery. The best example I've seen of this is Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue". It is a template for pacing and timing for impact and Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft could not be better in those roles.
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That’s a great point, maybe the directing is doing a disservice to the writing here?
 
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BrAinPaiNt said:
New and Last season of Lost in Space - If you enjoyed the first two season, you will enjoy this one.
And I think it was good that they ended it with the last season written to be the last season.
By that I mean they did not pull a Rome or Deadwood where they were cut off and one, Rome, tried to tie up the series and done a terrible job and then Deadwood where it was just dropped and years later made a movie to tie it up.
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The writers strike is what caused that to happen to Deadwood. It's the reason the movie got the green light.
 
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KalEl said:
The writers strike is what caused that to happen to Deadwood. It's the reason the movie got the green light.
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It was a new guy coming in to head HBO. They decided to cut some cost and apparently Deadwood and Rome were big cost shows.

https://www.cbr.com/deadwood-why-hbo-canceled/

Show runner David Milch was cited as being a perfectionist that called for more money for various reasons and he also turned down a half season extra to wrap it up.

That is similar to what happened to Rome. But the people working with Rome took the extra half season to wrap up the series and it was Horrid trying to fit years worth of stuff into half a season and it sucked.
 
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