The shot where Manousos and Carol are fighting over the phone looked like a pre-VFX shot from a Marvel film or something. What was up with that?
Also the close up shot of Carol walking on the beach in Thailand(?) was oddly bad too.
The show is beautiful and I love it but it’s strange to me how they can let that sort of thing through.
I’m a vfx artist of over 25 years and I have haven’t seen such horrible green screen in a major series.
That being said, I enjoy the show and the writing so I ignore it.
Then you haven't seen Outlander S7. Some really terrible green screens in what is otherwise fantastic season. Fellow VFX artist here & sometimes I wonder if they ran out of time/budget with some shots.
Nope haven’t seen it
Yeah I really don’t care about vfx, i can suspend my disbelief just fine and enjoy the story
i mean i care about it in the sense that i love filmmaking so i care about every part of filmmaking. but it of course does not destroy the story lol.
It’s cool when it’s seamless but everything’s expensive, we have endless tv and it’s whatever at the end of the day. Not every shot has to be 1000% amazing.
To be fair that’s a little bit what Vince is known for. Not perfect, but consistently elevated above your standard tv show. So I get why it’s a little off putting
Also, while watching the show I’m cognizant of accepting imperfect lol. I wonder if it’s a happy coincidence or if he decided to spend money elsewhere on purpose, save for copter shots, extravagant hotels and the Darian Gap episode.
It’s weird to me that they didn’t shoot the Canary Islands or Spain for some other tropical locale instead of the green screen, unless they didn’t want to fly her out for 1-2 shots
I think the unreal element worked well. I had a thought like, wait is this a dream? I knew it wasn’t but it gave me the sense it wasn’t a forever situation
You know, they have a budget, they’ve already jetted around the world, they had to make an ice hotel and Air Force One and the same episode. They built a fake neighborhod in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes one has to realize, it’s not a $250 million dollar movie. It’s $135 million for 9 hours of TV. It’s television and you have to pick your battles.
I totally get that.
But why the bad green screen while they were fighting over the phone in a cul de sac in Albuqurque? That was weird
Probably a reshoot from a problem with editing or something where it’s just not feasible to recreate the same scene for a shot or two
sure but there is definitely a wide gulf between 1000% amazing and this, lol. i think it's ok to mention/talk about, but yes, there are many factors that make up this show and many are great.
There was a scene in last week’s episode (I think) that looked straight out of The Room.
It was when she was on the roof as she watched The Others leave - my guess is that it was a last minute production change that forced them to reshoot
Nope. They worked on that shot for three solid months, according to the podcast.
Did they not just go on the roof and shoot at dusk? Like I could see spending a lot of time to add cars and what-not. But if they can't get up there and to it practical there's gotta be another vantage point they could have used. Like a telescope from CArol's house. (We can see the traffic lights leaving from her house in the final episode and that looked great)
The problem is that it’s an enormously ambitious 270 degree panning shot at multiple times of day across the entire traffic system of Albuquerque. Getting the traffic going only one way out of the city requires a massive amount of compositions getting rid of all the traffic going the wrong way and replacing it with empty roads, plus you have to sell the location with those empty cloverleafs, which provide scale and impact - those require daylight hours. But you also need traffic lights that aren’t exactly night time because that doesn’t sell the evacuation but are lit up enough to convey clear traffic. It was an entirely different thing than the basic locked-down shot in the last episode (which also partly works because now we know what it looked like). It’s a panning shot that can’t exist in reality. Not without literally shutting down the entire traffic system of ABQ.
Bro doesn’t know about The Walking Dead junkyard or deer scenes🙏🏻
i wonder why? i know vfx can be expensive but i mean...time constraints, maybe?
Definitely time constraints and a change in shot planning
Not that it did well but ABC had a canceled prime time show called Last Resort that I watched out of boredom years ago and one of the last episodes had green screen so bad it literally looked like the actors were standing in front of a photo backdrop and not actual green screen. It was laughably bad
There were a few green screen shots in The Office (US) that were pretty bad. But the VFX in a lot of the outdoor shots were pretty good that I never noticed. They had to erase a lot of palm trees for shots of characters driving in cars because it was filmed in L.A. but set in Pennsylvania. They missed some from time to time.
Just curious. I noticed it too but I can't really tell what makes it look so bad. My brain just tells me something is wrong there. Is it just bad lighting or what makes it look so wrong?
You must work so much that you must not watch a lot of stuff I guess
Oh cmon now. Are you seriously going to tell me this was worse than the infamous green screen scenes in The Office or Netflix Arrested Development?
I only noticed like one shot I felt this way about and still thought it wasn’t that bad, because they still matched the lighting direction
lol, I know for a fact that you’re talking about the beach scene with the mountains in the water. I had the exact same train of thought when I saw that scene. I was like “woah that’s oddly bad for this show, but atleast the sun matches the direction, which is more than most green screens do. “
I thought it was a dream sequence at first
Maybe meant to seem like a bad romantic fantasy that’s coming apart visually idk
Even in mistakes - Vrabo Bince!
Yup that’s the one. And apparently some pointed out others but honestly this is the only one that stood out.
Consider what they’re paying per episode this shouldn’t be noticed
Probably shot one one of those 360 screens
Yea the beach is the only one I remember. I'm not sure what people are talking about the phone scene, there were a bunch of phone scenes.
The one on the roof watching the others leave wasn't great.
When manoussos puts carols phone down the drain, there's a shot where they've changed the sky to be bluer, so their heads and shoulders that framed above the roof of carols neighbours house are noticeably against a greenscreen
Go to the episode around 16:20 when he has just snatched the phone from Carol and is about to toss it in the grate. She's waving her arms around and it makes the house behind her scene so fake that I bust out laughing.
The contact shadows are a bit weird.
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Yeah, looks like the actors were filmed in a studio, cut out (masked) from the green-screen, added onto a new background, and the shadows were reconstructed.
The light shining onto the actors from the right side, is not casting the correct shadows that are on the ground.
I’m gonna be honest, I genuinely have no idea what is happening here even with you giving an example and explaining, not seeing it.
the bodies are floating. they're comped onto a background image and the work to composite them such as the shadows and lighting doesn't work that well. Likely the surface they were standing on was flat and different from the surface of the curb/street
I wonder why they needed to do green screen for this scene. Did they just run out of time to shoot on location??
Yea I thought maybe it was a dream sequence, but then it turned out to be just bad green screen.
I actually thought it was done on purpose, to echo and recall in a way the cheap corny fantasy of Carol’s Wycaro books. She is living a “speculative historical romantasy” (or whatever the bookstore PA called the genre in episode 1) idyllic interlude with Zosia, after all.
I also thought the same, it’s a reflection of how cheap and not real the fantasy is that she can have a life with one of the hivers.
I didn’t notice the other apparent green-screen gaffes that other commenters are mentioning, e.g. the sky when Manousos drops Carol’s smartphone in the storm drain, or the sky when Carol is on the hotel roof watching the Hive depart Albuquerque en masse for the first time. But the fantasy vacation-with-Zosia sequence was so obviously “cotton-candied” and color-manipulated, I thought at first it was a dream sequence, and then thought it must be a callback to Carol’s escapist Wycaro romantasy books, to emphasize that despite her tough, blunt presentation to others, she’s a mushy romantic at heart. I think that’s still her Achilles heel for the hive to exploit in future. Can the Hive make her think the former Zosia is still in there somewhere, so she lowers her defenses again, and Zosia gets a chance to gas her with a canister of the virus?
Thank you! This is obviously the answer. The chersy effect when she's on the beach is 100% intentional.
So, her and Manousos fighting over the phone was a symbolic representation of the Babel tower, and the terrible green screen was a metaphor of its absurdity?
/s
Btw, it’s perfectly fine if some shots are worse than others
Bravo Vince!
I can’t believe he actually unleashed a hive mind and kept us all in a state of limbo for the whole production of this series! I’m in awe that hundreds of millions of people even sacrificed themselves for us to watch this today.
I wonder when we’ll enter that comatose hive mind state again for the next season. Have you received any kind of communication, or do you perchance know when we’ll get an update from the production?
Oh my god I love the show but please stop grasping at every little straw. Cant someone criticize a show without someone giving out the worse excuse of all time
Every time someone brings out a small criticism you all turn into a hive
I don’t think seeing larger symbolic meaning in the look of a scene constitutes intolerance of the green screen criticism. I don’t care if you criticize the green screen. You’re certainly entitled to and justified in expressing disappointment in a forum like this. I just don’t see most of the vfx errors because I’m not a film tech pro and I’m not educated in it. I’m just telling you how it looks to me, someone who doesn’t see green screen errors for the most part, because I haven’t been taught or learned to identify them as technical errors. I just see something that looks different and maybe i rationalize it to make sense to me.
I don’t like it when e.g., I see an actor playing a tennis pro and they’re demonstrating really bad form, I can tell they’re not a tennis pro, and it takes me out of the story and annoys me. I imagine that’s how vfx technicians feel seeing these mistakes that I don’t see, for the most part. I’m sorry you guys are annoyed by this, but it doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to a symbolic interpretation of what I perhaps mistakenly take to be a technical choice, whether it is indeed a technical choice or technical flub.
You guys have to be trolling at this point
It’s hilarious
Next level cope
Lmfao man the lengths people go to
Read their other comment. I think it could make some sense. Cause I didn’t notice the green screen effect either except for that scene. That one felt intentional at least.
Feel from the disagree, though. We ar just having fun and discussing things
I thought so too, definitely seemed stylistic, especially because most of the vfx have been decent (exceptions being the rooftop cars leaving scene and the scene in this episode that op mentioned with the sewer grate)
The roof scene back when the hive first left and the beach scene in the finale were kind of jarring. Can't make sense of those,
Scenes like this really make me wonder where the budget goes
If you listen to the podcast you’ll find the budget goes to rebuilding the Georgia o Keefe museum
I imagine making Vegas empty was expensive as well
Vegas has been on hard times, I thought it was just empty all the time.
they talk about how they shot “empty” vegas in the podcast!
tldr for those who aren’t interested in a whole podcast?
You can read the transcript in the Apple Podcasts app. Relevant quotes (slightly edited for formatting)
Yeah, and the main challenge was that we had to depict an empty Vegas. Las Vegas had to be devoid of humans. So in terms of filming in Vegas, I'm sure everyone who's shot in Vegas has perhaps faced a challenge like this. But you can't really shut down a casino. And we didn't just need empty casino, which we were able to cordon off a section and be really nice to the security who were helping us. But we also needed to shoot exteriors of empty Vegas. And that is the actual challenge because Vegas is pretty busy 24-7. How do we get empty streets? Because she arrives and we need to see the arrival and understand and contextualize it geographically in Vegas. So, we ran array plates. How do you describe array plates? 360? Yeah, like cameras, multiple. Multiple cameras, yeah. Like nine or 12, I think it is. And they take close to a 360-degree image of what they're seeing. And so, you can use those to then put on screens or replace blue screens. But the key thing for us is that we needed to stitch. So, we needed to run these array plates for as long as possible on the exact path that Carol's car was, well, the police car, was going to be going. And then later, with the help of our VFX team, stitch those images together. And so, meaning that we need enough runs so that if there was a human in front of a McDonald's, then suddenly you need to make sure that you capture enough there so that when you do cut to that shot, there's no human in front of the McDonald's. And then because our very last day of shooting for this episode was Carol in the car. And so her arriving, seeing the Westgate sign, seeing all the messages to her and her reactions. So we needed those images on the video boards or the LED screens to then be able to have enough of a soft image in the background so you do realistically believe that she's driving a car. So I mean, I think some of the most tense conversations we had were actually, how do we get empty vegas?
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That’s the worst part actually. The most expensive shot of the show, according to the podcast, was a green screen shot. From when Carol was on the garage rooftop. I was floored when I heard that because it was such a horrible look.
Vince needs a new VFX director lol
my guess is this isnt a budget thing, its a
"in post we realized there was some equipment in the shot. should we call up everyone, get a plane, fly out to new Mexico and reshoot these 39 seconds of shots?"
"Nah, grab a green screen."
Yea, that decision is affected by budget though.
These days I would have thought they'd just paint out the equipment
Building an entire neighborhood and blowing parts to smithereens.
Buying a real atom bomb for the show
Or why it’s going to take 2 years for the next season
I think it’s more like unrealistic demands. For example scene where she is standing on the roof watching the plurbs leave town, apparently it was shot at night then last minute decided to make it a daytime scene. So yeah when you try to use cgi to make a nighttime shot look like daytime is gonna be ass. I imagine there’s other cases like this
No matter the budget, if the shot is poorly planned it will show
Vince. The budget goes to Vince.
And he deserves every penny.
Better call wheelbarrow
I literally have no idea why people are downvoting you right now
Those crazy bastards sure can downvote
I swear to Jesus the biggest predictor of being downvoted is already having downvotes 😂
For real that's likely just bots though that are trying to assimilate like a hive on the few posts humans actually downvote haha
Breaking Bank
Didn’t notice anything myself
It almost looks like the green screen in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie. But like that movie, I loved the story and I enjoyed the execution. The message was clear and while the vfx was bad, it didn’t distract me from the point of the scene. So ultimately, idgaf.
I didn't even notice? Anyone got an example?
16:20 is the main offender
Yea that beach shot was so green screeny it took me out of the moment
Yeah E7 had such beautiful scenery, then E9 had this disaster stock image quality.
I took the fake beach as meta-commentary on the fake relationships with Zosia.
I would to if it wasn't one of many bad greenscreen shots
I absolutely agree.
I didn't see any green at all. Have you got a time point?
16:20 as they fight over the phone
Oh yea thanks for the time stamp. That’s fucking bad. I imagine it had to do with the lighting, since it’s tough to keep it looking like sunset for so long. That whole neighborhood is a set, so weird that they would do that for any other reason.
Yeah, I was also wondering why they even had to do green screen here.
So they ran out of light when filming on location? Or realized there was something wrong with the shot when it was too late? And instead of filming it the next day which would disrupt their schedule, they reshot it over green screen? And hoped most people won't notice, so they did that rather than potentially adding a day of shooting (if they were done otherwise) because of a 9 second shot?
I'll be honest, I was so absorbed by that point that I didn't notice it but now that I rewatch that scene, yeah that's pretty bad.
A lot of this episode was green-screened. Probably either budget issues due to how Vince films his shows episode-by-episode, or narrative issues requiring re-shoots after principal photography.
I noticed Carol’s hair are particularly “blocky”, rough maybe (?), in the scene where she fights with Manousos and the phone falls in the sewer.
Really? I didn’t notice it in this scene at all. Fucking weird, though, since her entire neighborhood is a set that was built for the show. Kinda like what HBO did for deadwood. At first I thought it was the same neighborhood where Hank and Marie lived, since it look really, really similar.
there’s a specific shot that looks bad. The rest is perfect. The shot I’m. talking about is the one where Manousos drops the phone in the sewer.
Yea OP just posted a timestamp of 16:20. I saw it again. It’s pretty fucking terrible lol.
I saw it now that someone posted the timestamp of 16:20 . The edges of her strands of hair on her left side.
its like one shot, they are fighting over the phone, right before it drops into the sewer.
so strange.
That shot on the beach was so unrealistic looking that I thought it was going to be a dream sequence
In my mind it’s their relationship isn’t real. It’s all an illusion. So you seeing the beautiful perfect scenery is a fake. It is what to come. She kind of senses it too.
It’s bad, I noticed it too, but who cares. The good story does make up for it
I noticed, but I don't care. I highly doubt production had the budget to fly the cast and crew around the world.
If anyone could provide me a screenshot of
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Holy fuck why did i just noticed this
Thank you! This is exactly what I was referring to. Some people in here are making me feel crazy haha.
Sky straight out from the Simpsons
Go to 16:20 onwards
I've noticed a lot of bad VFX lately. The baby monster from Welcome to Derry comes to mind. It's an interesting phenomenon.
Seems like quantity matters more than quality. I’ve read VFX subreddits, it’s bad.
I'm a GenX tv watcher and I did not notice the green screen effects. And as others have said, the story itself keeps me engaged. That said, I understand when things pull you out. I'm also a violinist and I hate seeing actors try and play just about any instrument when they clearly don't know what they are doing. It pulls me out of the story when I see it happen.
I figured the Carol and Manusos scene had a sky replacement. Probably a plane was flying past in the background, which doesn’t make sense in the story. So they CGed in a clear sky. I’m thinking all of the camera moves led to it looking a little janky.
The green screen beach felt deliberate. Like, it's all fake, Carol. You might even BE in Thailand, Carol, but it's still FAKE. (meta thinking, I guess)
Truthfully those shots looked to be bad purposely to me, giving a dreamlike quality to the "romance" scenes. It reminded me a bit of the climax to Contact.
"When there is something bad in the show that was actually done on purpose in a clever subversion of the audience expecting a good thing but getting a bad thing instead."
Bravo Bince
It’s not on purpose, there were a scene or two on previous episodes where it was bad too. They were not “romance” scenes.
I should have said romantic. Not romance (although Carol saw it that way) but romantic as in grandiose, dreamy, surreal.
Maybe I’ll catch it when I rewatch but I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. The entire episode looked great to me. Guess I get so caught up in the story that I miss these details.
Yes it was very visible in the fighting scene, it suddenly looked cartoonish.
Yes they beach scene was terrible. The lighntning was terrible.
While I didn't notice anything off initially, I watched that episode from quite a distance away, so I decided to rewatch it on a closer screen.
Anyway, looking back at it, the scene with Carol and Manousos looks a bit off for around 11-12 seconds, but it really isn't that bad? I'd hesitate to say that it was greenscreened. Given that they do have a real set, it could just being something with the cameras, and the background of that shot being very blurry combined with the strands of Carol's hair not being visible against the light blue sky vs the darker colours of her house (this is also the case in the umbrella sequence).
When i first looked back at it, it looked fine, then i rewatched it more and it started to look weird, and now it looks fine again. Am I crazy or something? Are you crazy? How the hell can two people look at a scene in a show and one person thinks it looks normal while the other thinks it's "terrible green screen". This isn't the first time i've seen this sort of discussion happen with a piece of media either, and I can't for the life of me understand how.
How? Because the OP is full of it.
At first, I thought it was a dream, which is why it all seemed so fake. Then it turned out it wasn't a dream, but I just forgot about it and didn't think about it anymore... but it's true, it was sooooo fake...
Isn't this supposed to be a big-budget series???
It's on purpose. Duh.
Genuinely people in this thread are claiming that.
The wild thing is that there's shots like that considering the insane budget the show has.
Agree, what was that?
I’m assuming after they got the shot and took down the set they realize they had an issue with it and had no choice.
Did they took down the set? I assume it's still there right?
I think so. I could drive over and look. 😅
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Other episodes had some pretty egregious compositing too... I have no idea how productions like this work... but someone messed up!
you’re tripping about the fighting over the phone shot..
I am not crazy! I know Vince swapped those shots!
he covered his tracks. he got that idiot at the VFX department to lie for him… are you telling me that a phone just happens to fall like that?
No, that shot was glaringly out of place and the colors didn't match the rest of the scene at all. They aren't tripping. It took me aback that furst second of it.
I did think it was glaring yeah, the first shot with the girl in the village, and all of carols travels very obvious green screen which I didn’t notice much of throughout the rest of the series
The vacation shots were pretty obviously green screens
It's the only thing that I find to be a major flaw in the series and I would love to find out how it ended up happening, because the QC around Vince's shows makes it a really obvious outlier. There was a similarly awful shot when she's on top of the hotel watching the Plurbs leave ABQ.
Maybe by the time they got to episode 9 they started to run out of money lol
Each episode of the show is shot in three colors which contribute to the fake looking scenes. Google it to see more.
There was a point where the orange radio screen looked a little rough around the edges too. Like it didn’t perfectly line up with the movement of the actual radio
These things don’t take me out of the show at all; it’s really well written and I love the path that the show is going toward. But I never noticed these things in breaking bad or better call saul lol
That's the actual radio. I have a Tecsun Pl-330 (very fun little radio) and that's exactly its interface. Unless they did an insert swap of the screen later which would be odd to do. They'd just film an extra's hands for a pickup shot.
There's a lot of super obvious green screen scenes.
I mean part of the problem is more and more people have 4k high quality screens so the bar to make that stuff look seamless is incredibly high, but even so, it's usually not so jarring.
My TV is from about 12 years ago. May be why it looked so bad, but on the other hand I would have thought a lower quality TV would have been less obvious.
Yeah, they were awful comps
That's just what $15 Million an episode gets you these days, what did you expect? /s
Well when the story is good you don't really care about vfx and untrained eyes would rarely see it unless pointed out.
In the beginning when the Plurbed man was watching the plane land and approach him.
It was genuinely shocking and caught me completely off guard
Those were the same two shots I noticed too, but genuinely other than that it was never a problem. I’m guessing the shot of them fighting over the phone was reshot or something and that’s why it looked so much worse than the others, they were obviously actually in that real set for most of the shots, that one was just a green screen for some reason
I actually had the thought of “surely the budget and lack of care about climate change stretches to getting Rhea and a few crew on a plane to a beach for a day”
The close-up Thailand shot was horrible
What about the scene when the plane lands in that Peruvian girl's native.
Funnily enough I didn’t notice that.
Omg it was so noticeable but I was trying to stay engrossed in the story since it was the finale lol
Hopefully things are a bit tighter for season 2
The reason some people notice and some people don't is because of the tremendous variety of screens people have these days. Some people made a crystal clear 80" tv and others are watching on an old iPhone.
I don't mind the terrible CGI in itself, but it does make it hard to take some elements of the show seriously. It's just hard to imagine that a show has some kind of nuanced 4D chess going on when it's letting this kind of thing through - it feels very lazy.
I responded to another comment that I have a 12 year old TV and it looked so bad for us. I would have thought it might have masked the poor VFX but it didn’t.
The Thailand shot...i thought why Vince? No bravo
Not as bad as the Roof green screen. The roof top scene is was very amateurish and totally won't justify the budget the show has.
I assume they won't just fly for one scene. Probably they need permits and local crew, hotel stay and delay of production just to be in Thailand or else.
The beach scene was let’s just say not given appropriate Gilligan love.
Really really weird that they let that beach scene slip
People have been complaining about them non-stop ever since the episode came out lmao
I genuinely scrolled for ages on the discussion thread and didn’t see it mentioned. I also searched the sub and didn’t find anything about this ep but to be fair the reddit search function sucks.
Suspend your disbelief for an hour.
Suspension of disbelief is totally different to noticing shoddy visual effects. I just watched 9 episodes about an alien hive mind and loved it, suspension of belief isn’t an issue.
yeah it's unbelievable that a show like this with the backing from Apple would have such terrible vfx. I first noticed the bad vfx in the rooftop shop when the hive is leaving, was surprised how could they have such bad vfx
I noticed the beach shots lol I thought green screen was gonna be part of the plot for a minute
Ye it stood out so bad 🤣
Yeah this took me out of it. It left me thinking where the $15 million per episode went
I can forgive them for that tbh, writing Is very good and I think those green screen errors shouldnt have any impact on the rate bc they are not the main focus
Oh yeah I’m definitely a huge fan of the show and think it’s pretty brilliant. I think it’s more me being surprised about the level of care the creators put into the show from listening to the podcast and as evidenced by the writing and cinematography but then you’ll just have these shots that are bafflingly bad and it’s confusing how they let it go.
Looked like they used the volume to me. But could be wrong
Perhaps it was a deliberate decision? Seems strange to include it otherwise. Added to the illusory happiness that Carol was attempting to convince herself of? No matter how hard she tried to ignore it, she knew it was false and was on borrowed time. Thats how I observed it. Could just be budget/time constraints though 😬😂Vince?
No one's talking about it because it doesn't matter.
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Probably because they’re not as bad as you’re making them out to be. If they were, they would be talked about.
it’s undeniable that there’s a shot in the scene where they fight over the phone is a very evident green screen. I work on (way way smaller and independent) sets and it did feel off. I went back once the episode was over and it was worse than I remembered. People here talk about the beach scene, but it looks almost perfect to me. Who knows.
Anyway, these kind of things actually make me appreciate the beautiful cinematography of this series. It’s something we usually give for granted. It was somehow cool to see even these people can meet obstacles and accidents.
Go watch that scene from 16:20 and tell me it’s not shockingly bad. It’s just weird for a show that is so meticulously written and shot.
I just checked and there are over a dozen threads (I stopped counting) specifically about the green screen issues this season, and that doesn’t count episode recaps and other threads where the topic is discussed.
The show is so good we let that stuff slide, but it was hilariously noticeable. The irony is that often it's been so good we don't notice, like the outside of Air Force one being part set and part green alscreen
I swear to god it's on purpose to increase the sense of unsettled fakeness coming off the hive. It's been bad nearly every time they have used it.
Yes, that's how I took it as a viewer Very artificial.
Very good point of view. And clearly these are the kinds of responses I like to read—constructive ones. Not people who get indignant about everything. We know it's the number one VG, that's why that scene was strange, and different points of view are always appreciated.
I don’t notice the phone fight scene, but the beach seems like it could have been intentionally dreamy to me.
“Bitching, for bitching sake!”!
I'll have to rewatch it, but if neither I nor my wife noticed anything awry on a 75" TV, it can't be as bad as everyone's making it out to be, sorry. Unless you're just sitting there scrutinizing everything to an unreasonable degree, in which case that's a you problem.