Sure, the tone is different. But both shows have two things in common: poor storytelling and production value... and a lead actress who is just so compelling, it almost saves the show.
Immense respect for the lead here. She is just fantastic, and I hope she gets a lot more work. She's certainly perfect for this role, but is deserving of better quality from the showrunners. The pacing and editing of the show are pretty awkwardly disjointed, with a lot of characters who are just sort of... there... without really giving any narrative momentum. But I suppose it works (passably) for TV.
One critical note: When the cave dwellers became humans, their outer layer of skin fell off, but suddenly they had layers of fabric appear with no explanation. (They magically had clothing on.) This really took me out of it, because it made me aware they were trying to appease censors. But why dramatically show layers falling off, if you're going to make new layers appear a second later, without explanation? It would have worked better if either (1) the natives just didn't have clothes for that scene, or (2) the subtraction and addition of layers were presented in the same way, with similar effects. As it was, it was just disjointed, nonsensical, bad editing, and bad storytelling.
Immense respect for the lead here. She is just fantastic, and I hope she gets a lot more work. She's certainly perfect for this role, but is deserving of better quality from the showrunners. The pacing and editing of the show are pretty awkwardly disjointed, with a lot of characters who are just sort of... there... without really giving any narrative momentum. But I suppose it works (passably) for TV.
One critical note: When the cave dwellers became humans, their outer layer of skin fell off, but suddenly they had layers of fabric appear with no explanation. (They magically had clothing on.) This really took me out of it, because it made me aware they were trying to appease censors. But why dramatically show layers falling off, if you're going to make new layers appear a second later, without explanation? It would have worked better if either (1) the natives just didn't have clothes for that scene, or (2) the subtraction and addition of layers were presented in the same way, with similar effects. As it was, it was just disjointed, nonsensical, bad editing, and bad storytelling.