I haven't ever seen the original movie, so both serials aired on Netflix were new to me. I enjoyed the first one quite much and liked the characters, so I rushed to watch Ten Years After.
I found the serial quite funny, despite stupid - to say the least - Reagan/Bush/Clinton plot, which appeared to be the main axis of action in the serial towards the end. Well, I'd prefer that writers had focussed on developing relations between the characters instead.
After the episode 6 'The Rain' I was willing to give the serial 9 stars (in spite of an infamous scene of Reagan destroying a camp model). Unfortunately, a plot twist in the last episode ruined the impression - and then the next plot twist ruined it again. Quite a feat!..
A solving of a plot, in which villains reveal, that all was just a test, and was not real, was the worst possible, thus nullifying meaning of all attempts of heroes, and leaving a watcher with a feeling of wasted time and emotions. Never mind, how stupid was the whole evil plot anyway (and a subplot of Eric and Mark characters turned into a kind of cyborgs). As I've said, it would have been better to focus on characters' problems instead. In addition, such ending was deeply inconsistent with earlier action, and simply nonsense.
Adding insult to injury was a suggested twist in the latest scene, that all events starting from a prequel were just a fiction, described by Coop. Well, we all know that talking cans don't exist, but such was the convention of the series. It would be like ending of a superhero movie, revealing, that all characters were normal people and all their superpowers and adventures were just a fiction. It is not what we expect from such entertainment. And you have to be more talented to make an ending in "The Wizard of Oz style"...
I found the serial quite funny, despite stupid - to say the least - Reagan/Bush/Clinton plot, which appeared to be the main axis of action in the serial towards the end. Well, I'd prefer that writers had focussed on developing relations between the characters instead.
After the episode 6 'The Rain' I was willing to give the serial 9 stars (in spite of an infamous scene of Reagan destroying a camp model). Unfortunately, a plot twist in the last episode ruined the impression - and then the next plot twist ruined it again. Quite a feat!..
A solving of a plot, in which villains reveal, that all was just a test, and was not real, was the worst possible, thus nullifying meaning of all attempts of heroes, and leaving a watcher with a feeling of wasted time and emotions. Never mind, how stupid was the whole evil plot anyway (and a subplot of Eric and Mark characters turned into a kind of cyborgs). As I've said, it would have been better to focus on characters' problems instead. In addition, such ending was deeply inconsistent with earlier action, and simply nonsense.
Adding insult to injury was a suggested twist in the latest scene, that all events starting from a prequel were just a fiction, described by Coop. Well, we all know that talking cans don't exist, but such was the convention of the series. It would be like ending of a superhero movie, revealing, that all characters were normal people and all their superpowers and adventures were just a fiction. It is not what we expect from such entertainment. And you have to be more talented to make an ending in "The Wizard of Oz style"...