@MaxiPaxi
I mean I would agree that season one was amazing and season two couldn't keep up, that some plots of s2 were kind of pointless (the different worlds in particular) and that it was too all over the place in general. But I think the guy is trying way too hard to sell a rant. Like do people actually count the number of powerful male and female characters? Does it really trigger people so much that Maeve and Dolores don't have male counterparts at the moment? Even when Dr. Ford, Bernard and I guess the guy who built that super AI of s3 are basically the gods of this universe? I don't know the other videos of that person, does it bother him as much when the shoe is on the other foot, as I'm sure there are countless male dominated shows and movies?
And while I can understand a lot of his points about s1 and s2, I think his review of the s3 opener is fairly weak:
-Dolores doesn't visit the first guy just to enact revenge, but to gather intel. The way he died was also a bit interesting, as it leaves the question of what would have happened had he not gone after her (illusion).
-Stuff like the board meeting being cut short or the host characters not changing to different actors are like perfectly normal suspension of disbelief stuff. Had they spent 5 minutes on the board meeting and shown Bernard with some cringy disguise he'd be ranting about that just the same.
-Complaining that the meaning of the apparent main objective of the season has not been revealed in the first episode
-Complaining about the crime app, like there is some definite truth to what level of security that could have in a fictional future
-Whining about the plot to dispose of Dolores, when the fixer character straight up tells the viewer that he was trying to set up a trap for her handlers
I think the episode was solid entertainment. I liked the mood of the outside world, I thought the plot wasn't particularly deep, but still interesting enough for a season opener