First there was the government storage in Indiana Jones. And before that the whole Adventure pulp genre...
Then there was "Warehouse 13"which put the ancient artifacts-pulp heroics into a contemporary series format (which was fun if slightly campy and spun the government storage from Indiana Jones to some strange extremes). Warehouse 13 wasn't always great, but it had great acting and some utterly strange concepts, even if some CGI sucked hard.
And now TNT tries its hand at that and deliver something in the same vein ? With a spin-off series from the already mediocre Librarian movies who feebly imitated Quartermain and Indiana Jones movies...
Overall : weak performances abound, the CGI are to cry over (SyFy- level and worse), the plot is so utterly unoriginal that it hits all the much abused tropes in the first 30 minutes.
Nazis ? check! Egyptian Artifacts? Check ! Spear of Destiny ? Oh yeah Ninjas ? Sure ! Librarians in flower dresses, Cardigans and stuffed tweed jackets with elbow patches? yeah.... Evil "Foreign" conspiracies ? oh yes... and we start the whole thing with something as stupid King Arthur's crown ?
Trite does not even start to describe it !
Really it's a prime time for trope-bingo covered in cheesy C-level movie sound stages. It's clumsy in its exposition, stale riddles and even clumsier in its dialogs. Neither Rebecca Romjin nor Noah Wylie are helping any with their deliveries and seem to have jumped the shark on their respective careers. Even penguins to better grief than Mr. Wylie. Mrs Romjin has all the varied expression of a botox- victim. The junior librarians at least show some enthuisasm, but there is not really much for them to do.
There is however one very true sentence in the show, though : "You must be getting better, since you do not make any sense !"
Basically : Please restart this series with better actors, a solid budget and above all less amateurish scripts
Then there was "Warehouse 13"which put the ancient artifacts-pulp heroics into a contemporary series format (which was fun if slightly campy and spun the government storage from Indiana Jones to some strange extremes). Warehouse 13 wasn't always great, but it had great acting and some utterly strange concepts, even if some CGI sucked hard.
And now TNT tries its hand at that and deliver something in the same vein ? With a spin-off series from the already mediocre Librarian movies who feebly imitated Quartermain and Indiana Jones movies...
Overall : weak performances abound, the CGI are to cry over (SyFy- level and worse), the plot is so utterly unoriginal that it hits all the much abused tropes in the first 30 minutes.
Nazis ? check! Egyptian Artifacts? Check ! Spear of Destiny ? Oh yeah Ninjas ? Sure ! Librarians in flower dresses, Cardigans and stuffed tweed jackets with elbow patches? yeah.... Evil "Foreign" conspiracies ? oh yes... and we start the whole thing with something as stupid King Arthur's crown ?
Trite does not even start to describe it !
Really it's a prime time for trope-bingo covered in cheesy C-level movie sound stages. It's clumsy in its exposition, stale riddles and even clumsier in its dialogs. Neither Rebecca Romjin nor Noah Wylie are helping any with their deliveries and seem to have jumped the shark on their respective careers. Even penguins to better grief than Mr. Wylie. Mrs Romjin has all the varied expression of a botox- victim. The junior librarians at least show some enthuisasm, but there is not really much for them to do.
There is however one very true sentence in the show, though : "You must be getting better, since you do not make any sense !"
Basically : Please restart this series with better actors, a solid budget and above all less amateurish scripts