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Monday Media Musings - 7/29/19
Arrow: Season One/Season Two -- Still not bad, and getting better. I wasn't expecting to be nearly so excited when Sara Lance made her first brief appearance in the Season Two premiere, but I was, a big grin immediately spreading across my face. The Lance family drama was probably my favorite part of the season. The overarching plot moves a little slowly, especially when you consider it's really two plots with the flashbacks to the island. Slade was definitely overpowered as a villain, and I got bored with him pretty fast. I have thoughts about how the show played things with Moira Queen. Back to the beginning of the show, at first it seemed they were setting her up as the bad guy, but she becomes more gray and complicated as time went on. It's clear that she has a casual relationship with the truth, and is much more comfortable with lying to save face and to protect others than either of her children. Her motivations were complex, and I really loved the reveal that she knows her son is the Arrow... but I should have realized the reveal also marked her for death. I can't decide whether her death at the hands of Slade is a fridging; at the very least, it's borderline, and it's disappointing that such a strong mother figure is off the show so quickly.
Apollo 11: This is a documentary comprised entirely of historical footage, with the exception of some background music and a few graphics. Some of the footage was only discovered in 2017 -- it had been filmed in large format (70mm) and then got lost in an archive. The new footage is from the launch of the rocket and recovery of the astronauts, and it is pretty spectacular -- detailed surfaces, vibrant colors. We had just watched First Man, the Neil Armstrong biopic, a few weeks earlier, so many of the events shown in the documentary were fresh in my mind, but I enjoyed seeing them as they actually played out instead of with narrative twists. The film is presented without narration, which I found a little difficult at first, since I don't have an intimate knowledge of the equipment used in and historical timeline of the launch, but once past the first few minutes, there was historical audio as well, from NASA and news, and that made it much easier to follow.
Apollo 11: This is a documentary comprised entirely of historical footage, with the exception of some background music and a few graphics. Some of the footage was only discovered in 2017 -- it had been filmed in large format (70mm) and then got lost in an archive. The new footage is from the launch of the rocket and recovery of the astronauts, and it is pretty spectacular -- detailed surfaces, vibrant colors. We had just watched First Man, the Neil Armstrong biopic, a few weeks earlier, so many of the events shown in the documentary were fresh in my mind, but I enjoyed seeing them as they actually played out instead of with narrative twists. The film is presented without narration, which I found a little difficult at first, since I don't have an intimate knowledge of the equipment used in and historical timeline of the launch, but once past the first few minutes, there was historical audio as well, from NASA and news, and that made it much easier to follow.