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Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Snowpiercer V.3
With a different team again, we have volume 3: Terminus.
This follows on from the end of the last book. There's power here, so where is it? Investigation leads to an underground city which welcomes them all with open arms... surely that can never be bad, can it? Of course, not everything is as it seems, and the ones at the top have some very strange ideas. And there are those on the train who are more than happy to side with them. Is this the end, or can what remains of humanity as represented by the train people survive without them?
This doesn't give any answers for the wider narrative, but at least explains its own presence. And, unlike the previous books, doesn't end in complete bleakness (not *complete* bleakness).
As we get away from the train, can this be a proper Snowpiercer story? It does feel like a story in the same universe, but separate from what we've had before, even with having the same characters. The team definitely wanted to continue (it was in the end notes that I found out this was a different writer), but I can't help but feel there was another way to continue this.
It's still a decent story, and there isn't any reason for a fourth volume, so I guess we are left with that one last image of possible hopefulness.
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Monday, 3 October 2016
Snowpiercer V.2
Volume 2 takes a turn I wasn't expecting. This is The Explorers.
We are with the Icebreaker, which is the second Snowpiercer train. Yep, this is the second. Every now and then they have "break tests", which is actually when people, Explorers, go out into the frozen wasteland to pick up items from civilisation. One Explorer gets ideas above his station, so again we end up taking a trip through the train, until finally he forces their hand to take him on. Then they get a signal from somewhere out there, and the train has to break off from where it's going to find out what's at the source.
This is building off the world, and finding out that there's another train is definitely a step up. The characters are, however, similar to those in the first volume, and again there's going through the train and such, until we get to the second story which is moving on a beat. But again we are having a bleak ending, because this is not a happy world.
So now I'm really looking forward to the next volume.
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Sunday, 2 October 2016
Snowpiercer V.1
While I liked the movie, I found out there was a set of graphic novels! So yeah, I'm in there. The first one is Escape.
The train is going endlessly through the snow, and someone turns up from the tail section. A second class passenger claims he should be let free, but guards taken them both and lead them to the front of the train to explain themselves. And so we get a mini form of travelogue as we see various cars of the train. By the end, we get some backstory, where "something" happened and the train took off with people barely able to get on board. And it was an accident... wasn't it?
The ending is rather bleak, with no real winners. The only real escape is the chap from the end of the train, but otherwise no-one else is escaping usefully. This feels like a world-setting up story, so I can only assume we expand on the work from there...
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Saturday, 1 October 2016
Speciesist III
The third one immediately shows off that it was direct to video with terrible CGI effects and no big names to see. (There are some known actors, but no-one top tier.)
At the end of the last movie, Eve gave birth in a truck, so we start this movie with Eve taken away and then giving birth. The driver happens to be a mad scientist who raises this girl, and is also dealing with half-breeds that are dying. He gets a student involved to help him understand the girl, named Sara, and there's something about her eggs, then a half-breed turns up and kills him? And then another alien female turns up from somewhere (I missed if they explained it), and gets the student's roommate to help her make more aliens, but the government comes into the frame as well, and then they are all on a chase that ends in a fusion reactor...
To be honest, the ending is a lot of a mess, and I lost track far before then. And I don't feel like going in and rewatching anything. This isn't a great movie, and the amount of time spent in a basement and such doesn't fill me with any excitement that I'm watching an action series about an alien human experiment that goes around trying to mate. Because none of that happens. This screams "let's make a buck on the series" that I'm surprised Natasha came back to reprise her role as Eve (before immediately getting killed).
Oy, and then there's one more to go...
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Friday, 30 September 2016
Lost Six Room
This is it, this is where it's all been leading to.
The Legion try to stop Kurtz from recreating the experiment, but he now has the Eye, so zap, zap, zap, they aren't a problem. Fortunately, the cop has managed to track down the final important Object, the Occupant. And Martin is now back, and he's the prophet for the Order. Things come together as Kurtz reopens the door he shouldn't, to get his kid back, and nearly crashes reality again. The Occupant goes in, his presence enough to stop it, and the cop is in with him. It turns out the Occupant wants to die, but due to conservation of Objects, another Object will be created... the cop. But at least then the cop will be able to get Anna back.
Consider for the moment the Occupant. He only had one set of clothes, a false eye and needed glasses... wow, that's pretty terrible. Here's a complete list of Objects.
And so we have so many things set up, ready for a new series. Martin is in place to be a major figure in the next series, and we have that the cop is now the Cop, and he should be able to control the Objects around him. It would be a kick ass next season... but it never happens.
Damn, this was a series that deserved better, but it didn't get it.
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