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Anyone else watching this? I've watched 4 episodes and thus halfway now and so far, I think the acting, atmosphere, set work, music and such is fantastic, you can tell this is a Tim Burton and Danny Elfman project.
They did a wonderful job with thing, the casting for Gomez seems decent, Catherine Zeta is ok as Morticia but I'm not that impressed yet. I didn't even recognise Christina Ricci as Thornhill either! Putting that in spoiler in case its a surprise somehow lol.
Jenna Ortega is fantastic as Wednesday, I'm adoring her greatly in the role, she is truly Wednesday for me, like Christina was back in the day and its not the most "unique character" to play, Daria comes to mind for example but Wednesday has a lot of ironically dour charm to her and works well against the Stepford Smilers in the show and thus "happy, crazy facade" going on. I am missing the rest of the Addams family, they barely appear but I've seen they feature more in later episodes including Uncle Fester finally appearing quite late in too.
I've not seen Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things, the new Sabrina series or such, but this new Wednesday series gives me similar vibes to them as well as the Riverdale series, especially with the murder mystery angle of Riverdale?
The mystery is interesting so far, it does keep you guessing and the story does feel familiar with other series I've seen. Some of the other cast are very nice, particualrly a couple of friends for Wednesday, the werewolf girl and the male gorgon or "stoner" lmao. The actress for the siren is great too and has an amazing outfit at the "Rave'N" party too.
I did have extremely high standards for this coming off how absolutely incredible Edgerunners and Arcane were, especially the latter even and also being a massive fan of Addams Family in the past and for the most part, this does hit the high notes so to speak. I'm trying to savour the show instead of binging it wildly like I usually do as I feel I miss a lot and don't appreciate shows as much if I binge them like crazy, hence why I'm going slow with Breaking Bad atm too. I regret binging Arcane and Edgerunners in retrospect to this too, I should have savoured them too. Planning to rewatch Arcane though and maybe Edgerunners too.
Wednesday is worth a watch so far from what I can see anyway, its very nice escapism with the gothic, whimsical flair that the Addams Family and Tim Burton have. The Deppster or Johnny Depp was meant to play Gomez apparently too! Tim really wanted to cast him as Gomez! The current casting of Gomez is very odd but works kinda well so far, a very different take on him but more matching the original comic or so?
I'm looking forward to the unravelling mysteries, including the grand murder (actually multiple murders apparently) mystery though as Gomez and Morticia have major history at Nevermore Academy and some deep, crazy shit is implied and mentioned to happen with them there so far and ever so briefly see a younger and more "typically depicted" Gomez from what I saw too, with him in his "prime" back then I imagine and thus resembling the Gomez that we've adored from the great cartoon series and the awesome 90s live action films too? RIP the legendary Raul Julia in that regard too, I LOVED his Gomez and Anjelica Huston's Morticia back then, they were ICONIC and my eternal favourite versions of them.
For anyone else who is watching the series anyway, what are your thoughts on it? I've rambled on so much here, I really want to know what you all think of it so far? Or if anyone is curious to try it at least?
:cheers:
Ironically I decided to binge the 2nd half of the series and honestly my opinion of it is now MUCH worse than before!
I should have waited until I finished the series, before making a thread and thus posting my thoughts, oh well!
I'm very disappointed with the direction it took, the constant baiting/reliance on shock value, the generic, cliche ending and overall plotline and a bunch of other things.
It's also extremely self indulgent by the end too.
Think of the issues with One Piece especially Wano and Post TS generally and you'll get an idea of why I'm so mad about this now lol.
But even then, Wednesday has its own ridiculous problems by the last few episodes or the 2nd half of the series and it's carried extremely hard by the actors, visual and musical direction, special effects, set work etc. But the most important part, the backbone of it all, goes down the drain imo, it just plummets and becomes absolutely ridiculous for the wrong reasons.
It feels like another attempt at Enola Holmes mixed with Umbrella Academy Harry Potter or something, the new Sabrina series and your generic, big bad villain, ancient evil, save the world plot, but then teases deeper, bigger conspiracies way beyond that right at the end too.
Yeah..no thanks, I'll pass.
If you know the memes about how JRPG games start off with rescuing someone's cat but you're battling a literal god by the end, thats how it feels this series was snd wants to be even beyond this in future too if it gets more seasons, which I fear it definitely will.
Also see Shonen power creep/escalation basically.
*glares at Naruto and One Piece especially but at Dragonball too, even more intensely as well.*
Wow this guy ended up making similar criticisms to me, I'm glad I'm not alone in these troubling feelings over the show:
They did a wonderful job with thing, the casting for Gomez seems decent, Catherine Zeta is ok as Morticia but I'm not that impressed yet. I didn't even recognise Christina Ricci as Thornhill either! Putting that in spoiler in case its a surprise somehow lol.
Jenna Ortega is fantastic as Wednesday, I'm adoring her greatly in the role, she is truly Wednesday for me, like Christina was back in the day and its not the most "unique character" to play, Daria comes to mind for example but Wednesday has a lot of ironically dour charm to her and works well against the Stepford Smilers in the show and thus "happy, crazy facade" going on. I am missing the rest of the Addams family, they barely appear but I've seen they feature more in later episodes including Uncle Fester finally appearing quite late in too.
I've not seen Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things, the new Sabrina series or such, but this new Wednesday series gives me similar vibes to them as well as the Riverdale series, especially with the murder mystery angle of Riverdale?
The mystery is interesting so far, it does keep you guessing and the story does feel familiar with other series I've seen. Some of the other cast are very nice, particualrly a couple of friends for Wednesday, the werewolf girl and the male gorgon or "stoner" lmao. The actress for the siren is great too and has an amazing outfit at the "Rave'N" party too.
I did have extremely high standards for this coming off how absolutely incredible Edgerunners and Arcane were, especially the latter even and also being a massive fan of Addams Family in the past and for the most part, this does hit the high notes so to speak. I'm trying to savour the show instead of binging it wildly like I usually do as I feel I miss a lot and don't appreciate shows as much if I binge them like crazy, hence why I'm going slow with Breaking Bad atm too. I regret binging Arcane and Edgerunners in retrospect to this too, I should have savoured them too. Planning to rewatch Arcane though and maybe Edgerunners too.
Wednesday is worth a watch so far from what I can see anyway, its very nice escapism with the gothic, whimsical flair that the Addams Family and Tim Burton have. The Deppster or Johnny Depp was meant to play Gomez apparently too! Tim really wanted to cast him as Gomez! The current casting of Gomez is very odd but works kinda well so far, a very different take on him but more matching the original comic or so?
I'm looking forward to the unravelling mysteries, including the grand murder (actually multiple murders apparently) mystery though as Gomez and Morticia have major history at Nevermore Academy and some deep, crazy shit is implied and mentioned to happen with them there so far and ever so briefly see a younger and more "typically depicted" Gomez from what I saw too, with him in his "prime" back then I imagine and thus resembling the Gomez that we've adored from the great cartoon series and the awesome 90s live action films too? RIP the legendary Raul Julia in that regard too, I LOVED his Gomez and Anjelica Huston's Morticia back then, they were ICONIC and my eternal favourite versions of them.
For anyone else who is watching the series anyway, what are your thoughts on it? I've rambled on so much here, I really want to know what you all think of it so far? Or if anyone is curious to try it at least?
:cheers:
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Ironically I decided to binge the 2nd half of the series and honestly my opinion of it is now MUCH worse than before!
I should have waited until I finished the series, before making a thread and thus posting my thoughts, oh well!
I'm very disappointed with the direction it took, the constant baiting/reliance on shock value, the generic, cliche ending and overall plotline and a bunch of other things.
It's also extremely self indulgent by the end too.
Think of the issues with One Piece especially Wano and Post TS generally and you'll get an idea of why I'm so mad about this now lol.
But even then, Wednesday has its own ridiculous problems by the last few episodes or the 2nd half of the series and it's carried extremely hard by the actors, visual and musical direction, special effects, set work etc. But the most important part, the backbone of it all, goes down the drain imo, it just plummets and becomes absolutely ridiculous for the wrong reasons.
It feels like another attempt at Enola Holmes mixed with Umbrella Academy Harry Potter or something, the new Sabrina series and your generic, big bad villain, ancient evil, save the world plot, but then teases deeper, bigger conspiracies way beyond that right at the end too.
Yeah..no thanks, I'll pass.
If you know the memes about how JRPG games start off with rescuing someone's cat but you're battling a literal god by the end, thats how it feels this series was snd wants to be even beyond this in future too if it gets more seasons, which I fear it definitely will.
Also see Shonen power creep/escalation basically.
*glares at Naruto and One Piece especially but at Dragonball too, even more intensely as well.*
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Wow this guy ended up making similar criticisms to me, I'm glad I'm not alone in these troubling feelings over the show:
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