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You know what annoys me the most about Almost Human?
It's the fact that the entire tech department of the police apparently consists of one guy in a badly lit basement.
I know, I know, Pedantic Lass -- it's a show about human-shaped robots, and this is what breaks your suspension of disbelief. But it DOES! It drives me bonkers! I can buy it for something like Fringe, where the characters are supposed to be this little branch division without much funding and a crazy guy with a badly organized lab is the best they can do.
But this is the police. In 2048. Some premises lend themselves to the "cranky, eccentric lone genius with very little oversight" archetype. This is REALLY REALLY not one of those. Maybe there is a shiny state-of-the-art lab upstairs and they give this guy down in his basement the really bizarre jobs that no one else will touch, but that's not really the impression I got in the premiere, when he seemed to be running the entire process of assigning robots to their new partners. Can't they afford to give him a staff? Or lab lights that work? It's just badly written and stupid and it really annoys me.
(Maybe I would enjoy it more if I liked that character, but mostlyI kinda wish he'd die okay, that's harsh, let's say that I find him unconvincing as a character and basically irritating. When the previews for next week got to Kennex's "He's gone!" all I could think was, "Oh, if we were only so lucky.")
In general, I wish Almost Human was better sci-fi than it is. So far, it's an okay action/cop show but it's really terrible sci-fi -- the "2048 tech" feels very shoehorned in for the shiny without any thought put into the worldbuilding -- and that annoys me.
I know, I know, Pedantic Lass -- it's a show about human-shaped robots, and this is what breaks your suspension of disbelief. But it DOES! It drives me bonkers! I can buy it for something like Fringe, where the characters are supposed to be this little branch division without much funding and a crazy guy with a badly organized lab is the best they can do.
But this is the police. In 2048. Some premises lend themselves to the "cranky, eccentric lone genius with very little oversight" archetype. This is REALLY REALLY not one of those. Maybe there is a shiny state-of-the-art lab upstairs and they give this guy down in his basement the really bizarre jobs that no one else will touch, but that's not really the impression I got in the premiere, when he seemed to be running the entire process of assigning robots to their new partners. Can't they afford to give him a staff? Or lab lights that work? It's just badly written and stupid and it really annoys me.
(Maybe I would enjoy it more if I liked that character, but mostly
In general, I wish Almost Human was better sci-fi than it is. So far, it's an okay action/cop show but it's really terrible sci-fi -- the "2048 tech" feels very shoehorned in for the shiny without any thought put into the worldbuilding -- and that annoys me.
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...I think he's my favorite character thought. Which admittedly is sort of a low bar with this show.