I was watching the Blacklist (starring James Spader), they’ve aired S7 E19: The Kazanjian Brothers in the midst of a pandemic back in 2020 (during production, they can’t film at some sets at the time when COVID was still relevant (understandable) so there’s a disclaimer at the start of this particular episode, those parts will be animated with voice overs from the actors, however the animated segments are horrible with crappy lip sync.

There were scenes where live action parts were filmed, at times had to work remotely with actors recording their lines linking those with their animated avatars (live filming was halted at the time). The narration opted for a combined approach of using both live action (for parts they managed to record prior) and graphic novel style animation (for parts that can’t be recorded on location due to the temporary closure of the set).

  • EntheoNaut@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’ve hate-watched the entirety of Foundation and the first two seasons were plain awful. Specifically all the combat/fight scenes, just dumb. The green screen to prop integration suuuucks and the story itself is lazy and predictable. The acting is okay but nothing to get excited about.

    S3 got better.

    Dark Matter also sucks.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The worst thing about Foundation is the Foundation.

      The Empire story is 10/10, but the Foundation story is passable at best. The Empire story gets better and better, and season three was amazing.

      If the show were more popular someone probably would have made a supercut of just Empire stories and it would be amazing.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    because it’s top of mind, so many Strange New Worlds episodes in seasons 3 and 4. The first two episodes of season 4 were:

    spoiler

    1. time travel to cretaceous era earth. Turns out Enterprise caused the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

    2. fever dream horror episode. no real sience fiction content whatsoever, just random visions and the away team being driven crazy.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Same here at episode 1. I think it was perfectly in line with star trek, but it was certainly odd as the season opener especially with the modern release schedule of 1-2 years between seasons.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    The historic one is probably the resolution of the murder of Laura Palmer, which took the wind out of the sails of the series and according to Lynch had never been meant to be resolved until the very end of the series.

    It effectively killed Twin Peaks at the time.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    The entire first season of Archer was rough for me because of the asynchronous voice actor recording. It sounds really stilted and awkward, and it was a pale imitation of the studio’s previous show Frisky Dingo. It really took a while to find a groove that worked for the voice actors.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      It found a groove eventually?

      It felt criminal that so many talented people were involved for it to be such a weak show.

      I enjoyed Archer, but yes, it was pale in comparison to Killface and Awesome-X.