review dump: things unfinished

[psocoptera]

Keeping track of some stuff I didn't care to finish, for Hugo voting purposes:

Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods was unbearably twee.

Ogres felt like a tiresome belaboring of worn tropes.

Severance had an interesting premise - a writer I trusted (Greg Egan, say) might have really said some stuff with it. I did not trust the show to actually deliver anything and was not enjoying its glacial high-atmosphere low-content pacing meanwhile. Gave up after three episodes, read the summaries, am not sorry to have not spent those six hours watching all that with that payoff.

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak I managed to miss my checkout window with the library and am going to have to get back in the queue for. Or maybe it will be in the packet? Is there ever going to be a packet? Has there already been a packet and I just can't find any information about it?

Comments

[ursula]

I enjoyed Ogres, though I feel like I'm the only person I've seen around dw who did. I'd rank it around the middle of the pack if I were voting, but I'll probably also end up giving it to glasseye, who likes stories about proletarian revolutions.

[psocoptera]

Having already read four of the others that I liked better probably made me more willing to give up on it than I might have been otherwise.

[elysdir]

I’ve now skimmed _Ogres_, and liked it more than I expected to, especially the ending. But I haven’t read any of the others in that category yet.

(I started with _Ogres_ because my expectations were low, so I think that worked in its favor for me. :) )