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Speaking of my brother, it was while I was down in Texas visiting him, that we watched the first episode of Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil<\/em> rendition.\u00a0 I remember when it was first announced, there was a lot of hullaballoo about how the show had the audacity to cast a black guy as Albert Wesker, and I theorized<\/a> on whether who cared more about it between black people and white guilters.<\/span><\/p>\n But in spite of the general clunkers the Resident Evil franchise has had as far as <\/span>live-action adaptations<\/a>, Netflix still has a good track record of putting out hits, and I tend to favor television format over film, so that stories can breathe and have better pace, so I was optimistic that RE:Netflix couldn\u2019t really be that bad.<\/span><\/p>\n Welp, I was fucking wrong.\u00a0 I will admit that freely.\u00a0 It was without question one of the worst things I\u2019ve watched in recent memory, and I have nothing but regret in how much time I sunk into watching it, when I could\u2019ve watched absolutely anything else in the seemingly endless queue of shit that I want to watch.\u00a0 Mythical wife and my au pair, as well as everyone else I\u2019ve ever brought up the series with all asked why the fuck I was continuing to watch it despite my complaining of how bad it was, and it really boils down to the fact that I\u2019m a fan of the franchise and I was always holding on to hope that things would get better as the season progressed.<\/span><\/p>\n But it just didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It never even got any better as it went on.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like The Witcher S1, which started off slow as fuck but then started getting really interesting up until the end of the season.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like <\/span>Moon Knight<\/em>, which I thought also sucked, but did have a few moments here and there where I realized that I sort of cared of what was going on.\u00a0 It just fucking sucked from start to finish.<\/span><\/p>\n None of the characters are really likeable.\u00a0 Kid Jade and Billie are na\u00efve obnoxious teens versus the world, and their adult counterparts aren\u2019t much better.\u00a0 As much as I was willing to give black Wesker a chance, since I didn\u2019t think Lance Reddick was a bad actor, he clearly played down to his competition, and up until one of the plot twists, he was rigid, robotic and as putrid as the rest of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n Jade Wesker is about the stupidest character in television since like, Andrea from <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/em> in the sense that she just can\u2019t stop fucking shit up, no matter how good intentioned she might be, there\u2019s always some very critical and tragic collateral damage in the process.\u00a0 There\u2019s literally an episode where I\u2019m resorting to yelling at the television to get the fuck out of here with this bullshit, because she\u2019s written so recklessly stupid, that it\u2019s just my natural instinct as a viewer with a brain to be that flabbergasted that someone be portrayed to being that goddamn stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n Aside from being about Albert Wesker and his kids, the show makes a few other references to core Resident Evil IP by having lickers, showed a Tyrant, a character named Barry, mentions of the Arklay mountains, and name dropping an actual RE character late in the season, but none of it really helps, nor does it really make you feel like you\u2019re in the world of Resident Evil.\u00a0 In fact, Netflix could really do Capcom a huge favor replace the names Wesker and Umbrella which are the two main things that anchor it to the RE franchise, and just call this show by a new name and chalk it up as a clunker, because the franchise already has a bad enough history of nobody seemingly being capable of turning such a successful video game franchise into a palatable live action series.<\/span><\/p>\n The funniest part of this series is that they clearly were banking on there being a second season, based on all the loose ends, unanswered questions, and plot ropes they set up at the end of the season.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t even really answer the question of how the world got to where it was in the present, although it doesn\u2019t take a genius to make an easy assumption.\u00a0 And the news of the show\u2019s cancellation was something that I already knew going into it, which added to the amusement of how the show presented itself as something that was assuming was going to go beyond a first season.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same though, Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil was basically like the ESPN Zone of television watching for me.\u00a0 Completely mediocre and regrettable to have invested my precious time into, and I wish I had spent that time on so many other possible options instead.\u00a0 It makes me sad that one of my favorite video game franchises just can\u2019t ever get it right with a live-action adaptation, and at this point, I just want Hollywood to just stop trying, because they\u2019re 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Despite the fact that the show is about how the world is mostly overrun by zombies, they sure didn\u2019t show a whole lot of zombies, and they ones that they did show really weren\u2019t particularly impressive … Continue reading Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil was terrible and I don\u2019t know why I watched all of it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,83,99,39,69,49,145],"class_list":["post-49176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-reminiscing","tag-resident-evil","tag-television","tag-wtf","tag-zbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49178,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176\/revisions\/49178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
![a low-budget HK zombie film<\/a>.\u00a0 The main cast were so often away from zombies or any of the traditional Resident Evil baddies, that a single solitary Cerberus dog image, wins by default.<\/span><\/li>\nA long time ago, when I was in Las Vegas in my brother, we for some reason went to the ESPN Zone in New York, New York for dinner, instead of the numerous alternate places to go eat, like Ellis Island. I think there was a WWE pay-per-view on that night, and we thought that they would be showing it, which is what caused us to go in the first place. \u00a0There was no PPV and worse off we phoned it in and stayed for dinner, and it was so mediocrely unimpressive, it\u2019s basically become a go-to analogy for us to describe anything at all that is as unimpressive, even to this day.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSpeaking of my brother, it was while I was down in Texas visiting him, that we watched the first episode of Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil<\/em> rendition.\u00a0 I remember when it was first announced, there was a lot of hullaballoo about how the show had the audacity to cast a black guy as Albert Wesker, and I theorized<\/a> on whether who cared more about it between black people and white guilters.<\/span><\/p>\nBut in spite of the general clunkers the Resident Evil franchise has had as far as <\/span>live-action adaptations<\/a>, Netflix still has a good track record of putting out hits, and I tend to favor television format over film, so that stories can breathe and have better pace, so I was optimistic that RE:Netflix couldn\u2019t really be that bad.<\/span><\/p>\nWelp, I was fucking wrong.\u00a0 I will admit that freely.\u00a0 It was without question one of the worst things I\u2019ve watched in recent memory, and I have nothing but regret in how much time I sunk into watching it, when I could\u2019ve watched absolutely anything else in the seemingly endless queue of shit that I want to watch.\u00a0 Mythical wife and my au pair, as well as everyone else I\u2019ve ever brought up the series with all asked why the fuck I was continuing to watch it despite my complaining of how bad it was, and it really boils down to the fact that I\u2019m a fan of the franchise and I was always holding on to hope that things would get better as the season progressed.<\/span><\/p>\nBut it just didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It never even got any better as it went on.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like The Witcher S1, which started off slow as fuck but then started getting really interesting up until the end of the season.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like <\/span>Moon Knight<\/em>, which I thought also sucked, but did have a few moments here and there where I realized that I sort of cared of what was going on.\u00a0 It just fucking sucked from start to finish.<\/span><\/p>\nNone of the characters are really likeable.\u00a0 Kid Jade and Billie are na\u00efve obnoxious teens versus the world, and their adult counterparts aren\u2019t much better.\u00a0 As much as I was willing to give black Wesker a chance, since I didn\u2019t think Lance Reddick was a bad actor, he clearly played down to his competition, and up until one of the plot twists, he was rigid, robotic and as putrid as the rest of the show.<\/span><\/p>\nJade Wesker is about the stupidest character in television since like, Andrea from <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/em> in the sense that she just can\u2019t stop fucking shit up, no matter how good intentioned she might be, there\u2019s always some very critical and tragic collateral damage in the process.\u00a0 There\u2019s literally an episode where I\u2019m resorting to yelling at the television to get the fuck out of here with this bullshit, because she\u2019s written so recklessly stupid, that it\u2019s just my natural instinct as a viewer with a brain to be that flabbergasted that someone be portrayed to being that goddamn stupid.<\/span><\/p>\nAside from being about Albert Wesker and his kids, the show makes a few other references to core Resident Evil IP by having lickers, showed a Tyrant, a character named Barry, mentions of the Arklay mountains, and name dropping an actual RE character late in the season, but none of it really helps, nor does it really make you feel like you\u2019re in the world of Resident Evil.\u00a0 In fact, Netflix could really do Capcom a huge favor replace the names Wesker and Umbrella which are the two main things that anchor it to the RE franchise, and just call this show by a new name and chalk it up as a clunker, because the franchise already has a bad enough history of nobody seemingly being capable of turning such a successful video game franchise into a palatable live action series.<\/span><\/p>\nThe funniest part of this series is that they clearly were banking on there being a second season, based on all the loose ends, unanswered questions, and plot ropes they set up at the end of the season.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t even really answer the question of how the world got to where it was in the present, although it doesn\u2019t take a genius to make an easy assumption.\u00a0 And the news of the show\u2019s cancellation was something that I already knew going into it, which added to the amusement of how the show presented itself as something that was assuming was going to go beyond a first season.<\/span><\/p>\nAll the same though, Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil was basically like the ESPN Zone of television watching for me.\u00a0 Completely mediocre and regrettable to have invested my precious time into, and I wish I had spent that time on so many other possible options instead.\u00a0 It makes me sad that one of my favorite video game franchises just can\u2019t ever get it right with a live-action adaptation, and at this point, I just want Hollywood to just stop trying, because they\u2019re not doing the franchise any favors.<\/span><\/p>\n\nOne of the episodes I watched was on Plex, so I could watch it on a device that didn\u2019t have Netflix. The version of the episode had audio narration for the visual impaired, and I couldn\u2019t turn it off; but the funny thing?\u00a0 It actually helped the viewing experience, because it filled in the gaps of character names that the show doesn\u2019t really put much effort into trying to educate viewers on, and it really helped pinpoint the endless back-and-forth time skips between the past and the present.<\/span><\/li>\nNetflix\u2019s 1899<\/em> wasn\u2019t a bad show. It was pretty intriguing up until the weird Matrix<\/em>-like ending.\u00a0 Resident Evil, however stunk from start to finish.\u00a0 What do both have in common?\u00a0 They\u2019re both cancelled!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something that was surprisingly difficult to do for this post was finding a good image to use with it. 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![live-action adaptations<\/a>, Netflix still has a good track record of putting out hits, and I tend to favor television format over film, so that stories can breathe and have better pace, so I was optimistic that RE:Netflix couldn\u2019t really be that bad.<\/span><\/p>\nWelp, I was fucking wrong.\u00a0 I will admit that freely.\u00a0 It was without question one of the worst things I\u2019ve watched in recent memory, and I have nothing but regret in how much time I sunk into watching it, when I could\u2019ve watched absolutely anything else in the seemingly endless queue of shit that I want to watch.\u00a0 Mythical wife and my au pair, as well as everyone else I\u2019ve ever brought up the series with all asked why the fuck I was continuing to watch it despite my complaining of how bad it was, and it really boils down to the fact that I\u2019m a fan of the franchise and I was always holding on to hope that things would get better as the season progressed.<\/span><\/p>\nBut it just didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It never even got any better as it went on.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like The Witcher S1, which started off slow as fuck but then started getting really interesting up until the end of the season.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like <\/span>Moon Knight<\/em>, which I thought also sucked, but did have a few moments here and there where I realized that I sort of cared of what was going on.\u00a0 It just fucking sucked from start to finish.<\/span><\/p>\nNone of the characters are really likeable.\u00a0 Kid Jade and Billie are na\u00efve obnoxious teens versus the world, and their adult counterparts aren\u2019t much better.\u00a0 As much as I was willing to give black Wesker a chance, since I didn\u2019t think Lance Reddick was a bad actor, he clearly played down to his competition, and up until one of the plot twists, he was rigid, robotic and as putrid as the rest of the show.<\/span><\/p>\nJade Wesker is about the stupidest character in television since like, Andrea from <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/em> in the sense that she just can\u2019t stop fucking shit up, no matter how good intentioned she might be, there\u2019s always some very critical and tragic collateral damage in the process.\u00a0 There\u2019s literally an episode where I\u2019m resorting to yelling at the television to get the fuck out of here with this bullshit, because she\u2019s written so recklessly stupid, that it\u2019s just my natural instinct as a viewer with a brain to be that flabbergasted that someone be portrayed to being that goddamn stupid.<\/span><\/p>\nAside from being about Albert Wesker and his kids, the show makes a few other references to core Resident Evil IP by having lickers, showed a Tyrant, a character named Barry, mentions of the Arklay mountains, and name dropping an actual RE character late in the season, but none of it really helps, nor does it really make you feel like you\u2019re in the world of Resident Evil.\u00a0 In fact, Netflix could really do Capcom a huge favor replace the names Wesker and Umbrella which are the two main things that anchor it to the RE franchise, and just call this show by a new name and chalk it up as a clunker, because the franchise already has a bad enough history of nobody seemingly being capable of turning such a successful video game franchise into a palatable live action series.<\/span><\/p>\nThe funniest part of this series is that they clearly were banking on there being a second season, based on all the loose ends, unanswered questions, and plot ropes they set up at the end of the season.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t even really answer the question of how the world got to where it was in the present, although it doesn\u2019t take a genius to make an easy assumption.\u00a0 And the news of the show\u2019s cancellation was something that I already knew going into it, which added to the amusement of how the show presented itself as something that was assuming was going to go beyond a first season.<\/span><\/p>\nAll the same though, Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil was basically like the ESPN Zone of television watching for me.\u00a0 Completely mediocre and regrettable to have invested my precious time into, and I wish I had spent that time on so many other possible options instead.\u00a0 It makes me sad that one of my favorite video game franchises just can\u2019t ever get it right with a live-action adaptation, and at this point, I just want Hollywood to just stop trying, because they\u2019re not doing the franchise any favors.<\/span><\/p>\n\nOne of the episodes I watched was on Plex, so I could watch it on a device that didn\u2019t have Netflix. The version of the episode had audio narration for the visual impaired, and I couldn\u2019t turn it off; but the funny thing?\u00a0 It actually helped the viewing experience, because it filled in the gaps of character names that the show doesn\u2019t really put much effort into trying to educate viewers on, and it really helped pinpoint the endless back-and-forth time skips between the past and the present.<\/span><\/li>\nNetflix\u2019s 1899<\/em> wasn\u2019t a bad show. It was pretty intriguing up until the weird Matrix<\/em>-like ending.\u00a0 Resident Evil, however stunk from start to finish.\u00a0 What do both have in common?\u00a0 They\u2019re both cancelled!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something that was surprisingly difficult to do for this post was finding a good image to use with it. Despite the fact that the show is about how the world is mostly overrun by zombies, they sure didn\u2019t show a whole lot of zombies, and they ones that they did show really weren\u2019t particularly impressive … Continue reading Netflix\u2019s Resident Evil was terrible and I don\u2019t know why I watched all of it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,83,99,39,69,49,145],"class_list":["post-49176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-reminiscing","tag-resident-evil","tag-television","tag-wtf","tag-zbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49178,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49176\/revisions\/49178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/attackofthefanboy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Resident-Evil-movie-Chris-Claire.jpg\"){kind=link}