Sulphur on 10/10/2018 at 20:02
I'm sorta intrigued by approaches to that. FaceID incorporates machine learning that works with its mapping of your facial structure that can help it recognise your mug through glasses and hats and whatever, the data of which I assume is stored locally instead of some secure cloud thing that'll be busted open in some random hackathon for shits and giggles - if that's correct, it makes unauthorised entry possible only through network backdoors or social engineering attacks (or simply just swiping someone's phone and pointing it at their face as they glare at you).
It still strikes me as less secure than Touch ID (or, indeed, a simple PIN), which at least had the benefit of capacitive sensors that wouldn't work if the finger being applied belonged to someone who's shuffled off of this mortal coil.
SubJeff on 10/10/2018 at 22:04
Quote Posted by Thirith
Go ahead, spoil it (in SPOILERS). I know the plots of most if not all the episodes anyway, and I've watched all of the first two seasons and some of seasons 3 and 4. I have a faint idea what you might be referring to, but nothing that IMO would make watching the episodes in sequence essential.
Ok.
There are loads of easter eggs that are chronological. You won't see them if you don't watch in order, or at least you won't fully get them.I also think the first episode of the first series is one of the best episodes.
People focus on one thing. Well it seems Americans do.
But it's about much more than that. It's about society.
Renzatic on 11/10/2018 at 08:01
This. I watched this.
[video=youtube;TjiHA9IeA1k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjiHA9IeA1k[/video]
uncadonego on 12/10/2018 at 02:01
Quote Posted by SubJeff
I also think the first episode of the first series is one of the best episodes.
People focus on one thing. Well it seems Americans do.
But it's about much more than that. It's about society.
Not American, and I got the point of the show.
Sulphur on 12/10/2018 at 16:52
...and only tangentially related, but in the same domain as a recent Black Mirror episode (you know, the black and white one about an incredibly persistent sentry robot, directed by the guy who directed Hannibal's best-looking episodes), Boston Dynamics continue to scare the everliving bejeezus out of us with their leaps in technology.
[video=youtube_share;fRj34o4hN4I]https://youtu.be/fRj34o4hN4I[/video]
And better news: (
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1050510642954661888) it can do parkour now, too. :D
uncadonego on 12/10/2018 at 18:53
Oh Metalhead. Bad dogs! Bad!
uncadonego on 13/10/2018 at 02:42
They never said anything about those dogs in the whole show.
I imagined that, at one time, every wealthy home and every business wanted one of these things for security purposes. They were probably touted as the ultimate guard dogs for your warehouse or your home to protect your family. No one could escape these things, and even if someone did somehow manage to get away, the guard dog stuck them with jagged RFID chips to track the criminal down.
Then something went wrong. Software glitch maybe? Who knows, but now there is no distinction between friend or foe.
Sad at the end to see what they were trying to get out of that warehouse.
Renzatic on 15/10/2018 at 05:30
I just finished binging my way through The Haunting of Hill House. That was a lot different than what I thought it would be, and it works out all the better for it.
I loved the original 1963 take of the book, thought the 1999 version was one of the worst things ever put to film. Going by the trailer, I figured the series would try to land itself somewhere between the two, leaning on jump scares over tension, but better crafted. It ended the total opposite of that, being more of a psychological character study of a family torn apart by two months of horror during the summer of '92, how the father came to cope with the fallout, and how it effected the lives of his children as adults. The first 5 episodes are dedicated to one of the 5 kids, showing their perspective on the events of the past, and in the present as they all come together to mourn a new tragedy in the family.
It's crafted very much in the vein of modern slow burn horror stories, being more concerned with the family itself, parsing the spooky supernatural stuff out sparingly for maximum effect.
...though that's not to say it doesn't ever lean on the tried and true tropes of the genre. There are a couple three jump scares thrown in for flavor, one that blindsided me so thoroughly, it just about knocked me out of my chair.
If I have one complaint about it, it'd be the ending. It shouldn't have tied up on a bittersweet note, with the remaining members of the family gaining hard earned closure, and moving on with their lives. The whole story felt like it was building up to a mule kick to the solar plexus, but it decided to pull it all back at the last second. The house needed to win, top to bottom.
Sulphur on 15/10/2018 at 13:22
I'm watching it too, but I'm feeling a bit wary because it's written and directed by the guy who did Oculus. That film could have been relatively smart and well-executed horror, but unravelled before the third act, and the finale predicated itself on the characters doing stupid things (as per usual). So what's your non-spoilery take on the ending for the show?
Also, I'm at the third episode and I like the cinematography mostly, especially the use of match cuts to link the past and present in this one (even if they don't always quite link up - how does opening a door to a room in the house match with opening the door to a fridge, hm?), but can someone please tell 'em to stop that gradual, slow zoom in on a character's face for each new scene? It's distracting and annoying, and even matched by a slow zoom out in places for extra urgh sauce.
Renzatic on 15/10/2018 at 17:59
There's really only one thing I thought the ball was dropped on. It's not a deus ex machina, but given that it's treated somewhat as a background event throughout the show, mostly mentioned, rarely shown, never really focused upon, it's sudden importance at the end loses a lot of its impact. You'll know what I'm talking about when you get to it, I'm sure.
Beyond that, the story is fine. Really honestly, so is the ending. None of the family ever act out of character, doing random stupid things primarily to further the plot. If anything, it subverts your expectations by having them all do things that actually make sense, given the circumstance. This nice streak of people not acting like total idiots doesn't fall apart by the end. The two siblings who do the wrong things were the most effected by the house in the past, and are severely emotionally compromised in the present. When it comes to the ending, it's not the structure or reasoning exactly, so much as the tone of it. My problems with it are entirely subjective, I'll admit, but I don't think it ends the way a good horror story should.