Feel free to share your review and thoughts on the 3rd episode of Season 3: "Urban Jungle".
Feel free to share your review and thoughts on the 3rd episode of Season 3: "Urban Jungle".
As expected, the timeline is shortened. But instead of 100 years, its 200 years. Instead of just long text walls, I'll be providing images, even if it cost me a copyright warning.
Now instead of the obsession of ship collisions, we got lightning obsession in this episode, and landslides. Still not keeping realism in mind btw, this is AI. If I had to correctly scale the timeline, lets say 200 years is scaled to 500 years, 100 years is scaled to 200 years, 2 weeks scaled to 1 month. It feels the entire show is just Aftermath: Population Zero but without the sudden disappearance which lead to plane crashes, etc.
Now, we got explosion fest in Orlando, landslides in Rio de Janeiro, and the domino effect collapse in New York City in this episode. Lets begin in Orlando.
Orlando explosion and inferno fest from fireworks mortar were bullshit. While the depiction of fireworks explosions were a bit accurate like the Enschede Fireworks Disaster, having them twisting rollercoasters FROM an concrete area FAR away from rollercoasters looks like they want to accelerate the destruction. Also the shot lacks fireworks, and they use AI to depict fireworks explosion.
Also, this isn't even Orlando from this shot, just a random city up in inferno thanks to its vast natural gas pipelines. Orlando is just the reverse of Atlanta, but its pacing were bad and the depiction doesn't make sense.
Next we got landslides in Rio de Janeiro, destroying the favelas. Sure, its a right accuracy, but why 1 week? Shouldn't be suppose to happen in a few months or few years? Also, the landslides looks too liquified. Not forgetting the fact they use AI on some shots that weren't suppose to be used, like some views of the favelas or in previous episodes, overview shots of London.
As for the depiction of the decay of Rio de Janeiro in 100 years. Its so clean and inaccurate enough that the depiction of Sao Paulo from Latinamerica sin Humanos better than this.
New York City... *sigh*. Lets compare two images.
This is the New York City we know, as seen in Heavy Metal from Season 1, circa 200 years after people.
And this is the wide shot of New York City after 100 years. See the difference? Other than the image of Season 3 is too clean and too realistic, its depiction looks not realistic when it comes to detail. Heck, I'll even admit there is no good shot of an aerial view of the decaying New York City to compare the image from Heavy Metal to this episode. The building in the background, the Secretariat Building of the United Nations Headquarters, is entirely hollow and looks a lot worse compared to its depiction at Take Me to Your Leader in Season 2.
I am not gonna discuss animals again, because I don't want to repeat my previous thoughts on the previous episodes. But I'll mention about the only major change from the previous 2 seasons. In The Invaders, it is stated that the invasive Burmese Pythons would beat the alligators and dominate the Everglades. But in this episode, it is state that the Swamp will always win. Huh?????
After a disappointing collapse of the Ceasar's Superdome, the many ships collision that the AI documentary keeps showing, and the super clean animals that you know its super fake, we finally get to see the collapse Central Park Tower (Understandable about the depiction of One World Trade Center), and the "reincarnation" collapse of Christ the Redeemer and Statue of Liberty.
The collapse of Central Park Tower is disappointing to say the least. Its wobbling unrealistically and its collapse feels weird. What's worse is that its location depiction is inaccurate, such as this shot on what appears to be the Grand Central Terminal, which is not located in Billionare's Row. Also, do I have to tell you that there is explosion after its collapse across Billionare's Row? Yeah, thats what happen when there is AI. It collapse after 25 years btw. Would've been 100 years to be a bit more accurate and make sense.
This is the only depiction of the collapse of Christ the Redeemer. It looks similar to the Latinoamerica sin Humanos, but instead its collapse is attributed to lightning strikes rather than gravity. Its collapse is still disappointing. And I notice that the Corcovado Mountain looks like its lowered.
As for the Statue of Liberty...
What in the fuck of this collapse of the Statue of Liberty. Instead of the torch, its the BASE of the statue. The first time I've seen this, they never even thought of realism in the first place. And instead of being amazed, its like comedy on how unrealistic the collapse is.
After seeing 3 episodes, it has become more cracked like Ancient Aliens unfortunately. Sure you could drop it off at anytime, but I'll drop off the show at episode 3, following the 3-episode rule like I follow in anime, due to being only 10 episodes in the season and its just different theme on each episode. Continuity is out of place here. Lastly, there are more Physicists and Journalists in the entire show than Engineers and Biologists in the previous seasons and they've kept discussing on things on they're not suppose far from their expertise, like Physicists and Engineers discussing Biology. These things might be one of the reasons (along with History themselves and the usage of AI) why the quality of Season 3 looks like shit.
When I first known that Season 3 is announced via from this wiki, I appreciate its return. But when I start researching and following logical reasoning on why its returning, it seems like Season 3 return would not be the same faith as the previous seasons, would not be made by the same production company, and would not be using original CGI artists. AI are suppose to be tools, not replacing the logical reasoning, creativity of the artists or the artists themselves. Sure, the original narrator return when the 1st episode release, but it doesn't mean the show is good. Then again, its History Channel, the same company who believes Aliens are history.
Its the final nail in the coffin and I am not going to contribute to Season 3. Motivation is what keeps me going, but it doesn't gonna stop me from protesting this AI slop shit.
Final scoring? AI dogwater shit out of Mona Lisa.
Fuck AI and Fuck this season. Lets start pretending it doesn't exist in the 1st place like Pacific Rim Uprising or the Megamind Sequel.
Yeah, this season is atrocious. The container ship sinking scene had shipping containers spawning out of thin air (very visibly so), there's a scene 50 years after people of a perfectly intact, non-cracked road with absolutely zero vegetation on it as if it was freshly paved, and even worse, there's a parked SUV that is not only intact with zero rust, it's also clearly running with the headlights on! There was an entire episode in the old series dedicated to what happens to vehicles and roads after we're gone, and it seems they never took that into consideration here. This season is incredibly sloppy, little care was done to make sure any of the AI scenes made sense, and the collapses are very disappointing and underwhelming.
Also, they keep forgetting the power grid's supposed to fail within days or weeks of humans disappearing, as there are so many scenes taking place decades later where lights are very visibly still on inside crumbling, overgrown buildings. Hell, it took them til episode 2 to even mention the power going out.
What happened to the days when we thought back in the day that some of the CGI in LAP was atrocious. Now I would rather take that over this garbage AI slop. It blatantly disregards structures already covered and makes a new separate timeline with visuals I want to punch my screen in frustration for. This new season is dead to me, nothing more than a fake impostor that should have never been brought up from the ground. Never reward television channels who pivot to AI instead of CGI.
What do you think?