SF8: Empty Body

 

This episode felt like a monodrama about a grieving mother.

SF8: Love Virtually

 

The story here has not much substance, however editing and humor make up for it. 

SF8: White Crow

 

Maybe it's because I'm not a gamer, I find movies, or series about gaming utterly boring. But here, the game was just a false (sic!) pretense to explore something else.

[First Impression] Alice

 

Time travel is notoriously hard to get right and to present in a form without many plot holes and inconsistencies. There is not even one work of fiction that gets it right, and the one that was closest to it was SyFy series 12 Monkeys. And only because they invented their own mythology of time. 

SF8: Baby, It's Over Outside

At first I had strong Arthur C. Clarke's vibes - with the world coming to an end and humanity not being able to stop it. But then it got weird.

SF8: Blink

This episode dealt with and A.I. and its integration with a human brain. But in fact, it dealt with loneliness.

SF8: Joan's Galaxy

The year is 2046, and the ghost of Wong Kar-wai is hovering over this little story.

SF8: Manxin

 

I really liked this episode. And Lee Donghwi starring it it has absolutely nothing to do with it. I am a professional.

SF8: The Prayer

 

Finally, a sci-fi show to watch.

 According to Asianwiki:

 8 film directors participated in "SF8," with each person directing a 1 episode TV special. The genre of the specials deals with science fiction, including AI, AR (augmented reality), VR, and robot games.

Which reminds me a bit of Black Mirror series. Now, as I'm one of two people I know who don't sing sky high praises of BM, I hoped it would be sci-fi but with a Korean twist that is giving the characters some emotions and thus - making us care about them.

TV Series Opening 47: Seaquest

Picture from here

I was so addicted to this show in my teen years, I honestly can't explain.

[First Impression] RUGAL

I have waited until I had all first four episodes to watch them in one go (two days, fine) because I feared that in this recent deluge of series that appeared to end us, I might be too distracted to watch or remember the facts.

Also, I have not read the webtoon, so I probably have no idea about many things yet.

[Advent drama calendar 2019] Day 19: What Drama You Wanted To Watch But Ended Up Disappointed?

 

The first place goes ex-aequo to two sci-fi shows. This genre is my favorite and I'm ready to stick to something if it engages me even a little. I don't really need for the show to be The Expanse level of complexity, real science and full bloodied characters, I just don't want to split my skull open every fifteen minutes. 

TV Series opening 15: The Expanse

TV Series opening 12: 12 Monkeys

One of the best tv series I have watched.

TV Series opening 7: Fringe

Actually a compilation of 7 of them, because the show used different words and colors during the opening sequence depending on where and when the show took place (in S 3 and 4 the action took place also in the parallel Universe, that is why the Amber colored one and different words; and S5 was a full blown dystopia, that is why the words there are so important and so simple). This attention to detail and yet the ability to keep it simple is what really shows the series' creators genius.

TV Series opening 4: Altered Carbon