Well not always. You liked the Buffy comics and Agents of Shield more than I do. ;-)
The CGI work often really, really looks like CGI, and again instantly takes me out of the moment. Sleepy Hollow and the Orignal OUaT have used it far better. (Oh-- I did like the chess-set castle decor bit, that was pretty neat visually.)
They do appear to be using various types of special effects. Unlike OUAT and Sleepy Hollow which use green screen and CGI infrequently or very little, OUAT Wonderland is using it all the time, which is difficult to do. We're advanced but not that advanced. As a result, at times it looks a bit like they are walking through a videogame. But the lead characters are so captivating to me and their interaction, that the CGI doesn't bug me.
Besides - it's Wonderland.
The time shifts bother me more than they usually do in a magical series. Alice is a little girl when she first goes to Wonderland. When we see her next she's a young woman. Are we to assume she visited Wonderland many times in between, or went back once and stayed for many years? Even more bothersome is that the Knave of Hearts is in present-day Storybrooke, the Rabbit appears, and they return to Alice in the asylum. Is the asylum in Neverland, which time-wise is like Victorian England?
It took me a few minutes but I figured it out. Alice goes back to Wonderland to find "proof" and it takes a long time to get "proof" - as you might expect.
Remember - the little girl overhears her father saying she's crazy, and states - "it is true. I'll get proof." So she goes back to get "proof". Which apparently took a while. The White Rabbit isn't that easy to catch.
Once she got proof, she got sidetracked and fell in love with Cyrus.
Re: Knave of Hearts? Remember he goes through the White Rabbit's porthole - and porthole's take you wherever and whenever you are thinking of in time. (That's how Regina got the apple she used to attempt to poison Emma in OUAT. She reached in and grabbed it from a specific point in time through the Mad Hatter's portal.) So, the White Rabbit took the Knave from modern day Storybrook to Victorian England through a similar "portal".
The Red Queen actress seems very uneasy in her role, nowhere near as threatening as I'd think she needs to be. Perhaps I'm just spoiled with Lana Parilla's excellent work as Regina, but it did take me out of the moments where the Red Queen appeared.
Well our mileage varies here. I'm as you know not crazy about Parilla. I think she over-acts or has an overly broad acting style. Which is odd coming from me. But seriously she can give daytime soap actors a run for their money.
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The CGI work often really, really looks like CGI, and again instantly takes me out of the moment. Sleepy Hollow and the Orignal OUaT have used it far better. (Oh-- I did like the chess-set castle decor bit, that was pretty neat visually.)
They do appear to be using various types of special effects. Unlike OUAT and Sleepy Hollow which use green screen and CGI infrequently or very little, OUAT Wonderland is using it all the time, which is difficult to do. We're advanced but not that advanced. As a result, at times it looks a bit like they are walking through a videogame. But the lead characters are so captivating to me and their interaction, that the CGI doesn't bug me.
Besides - it's Wonderland.
The time shifts bother me more than they usually do in a magical series. Alice is a little girl when she first goes to Wonderland. When we see her next she's a young woman. Are we to assume she visited Wonderland many times in between, or went back once and stayed for many years? Even more bothersome is that the Knave of Hearts is in present-day Storybrooke, the Rabbit appears, and they return to Alice in the asylum. Is the asylum in Neverland, which time-wise is like Victorian England?
It took me a few minutes but I figured it out. Alice goes back to Wonderland to find "proof" and it takes a long time to get "proof" - as you might expect.
Remember - the little girl overhears her father saying she's crazy, and states - "it is true. I'll get proof." So she goes back to get "proof". Which apparently took a while. The White Rabbit isn't that easy to catch.
Once she got proof, she got sidetracked and fell in love with Cyrus.
Re: Knave of Hearts? Remember he goes through the White Rabbit's porthole - and porthole's take you wherever and whenever you are thinking of in time. (That's how Regina got the apple she used to attempt to poison Emma in OUAT. She reached in and grabbed it from a specific point in time through the Mad Hatter's portal.) So, the White Rabbit took the Knave from modern day Storybrook to Victorian England through a similar "portal".
The Red Queen actress seems very uneasy in her role, nowhere near as threatening as I'd think she needs to be. Perhaps I'm just spoiled with Lana Parilla's excellent work as Regina, but it did take me out of the moments where the Red Queen appeared.
Well our mileage varies here. I'm as you know not crazy about Parilla. I think she over-acts or has an overly broad acting style. Which is odd coming from me. But seriously she can give daytime soap actors a run for their money.