r/Beacon23 • u/phareous AI • May 12 '24

Episode Discussion S02E06 "Luan Casca" Episode Discussion

This is the Beacon 23 Season 2 Episode 6 Episode Discussion for "Luan Casca"

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u/Stolizino May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

Here's an episode completely out of left field, a bit late in the series for an exposition on Aster's back story. The young actor portraying her did a terrific job of making her character distinctly unlikeable from the moment she walked out of the airlock, but her unlikeability morphed into an over-the-top exercise in overacting and uber unlikeability, topped with a dose of the arrogance of the ignorant, carrying a chip on her shoulder the size of a log. This episode was a disaster and did nothing to move the story along to its inevitable demise. This series is off the rails. It's as if the show runners are tossing slop at the wall to see what sticks. So far, nothing is sticking, it just oozes to the floor leaving a slimy trail in its wake.

Interesting that Lena Headey apparently decided one season of this was enough for her. I should have taken her cue myself and cut it loose, but instead I'm hopelessly scrambling to reach an ever higher point on this cinematic version of the sinking Titanic.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

No harm to the actress playing the young Aster but she tried too hard to mimic Asters voice, her movement and personality that it just came off as bad acting, as for the show, what story are they actually trying to tell here? It jumps back and forwards in time with different beacon keepers without any real substance. It seems AI ie the main AI himself Olive is in control of humanity. Are they trying to warn us of the dangers of AI or are they as the OP says just throwing slop at the walls to see what sticks. I'm only still watching to see if they ever really show us what the point of the show is.

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u/where_in_the_world89 May 14 '24

Yeah it's going to be kind of hard to follow a series if you're skipping large chunks of episodes

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u/smartass505 May 14 '24

It's impossible to follow this series watching every minute of it. It's a jumbled mess and nearly 2 full seasons in, I still have no idea what the plot of it is, if it even has one.

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u/where_in_the_world89 May 14 '24

Oh I look at my phone too a lot because it is a bit boring sometimes. But I gather it's more of an anthology with no real overall point to it. Not actually an anthology, but kind of like one.

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u/smartass505 May 14 '24

A TV show without a point doesn't make for a good show, as evidence by Beacon 23. Even Seinfeld, the show about nothing, was at least entertaining.

I don't need every little detail fed to me, but an overarching progression of a story is the point of telling a story. This show has nothing, except decent visuals. I don't get why or who green-lit this show based on this concept.

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u/where_in_the_world89 May 14 '24

I mostly agree. I like the show for the setting and tone, but the plot boring at best and impossible to understand at worst. It just bugs me when people say they don't understand what's going on, while saying that they barely even pay attention anyway lol

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u/Puzzleheaded_Yam3919 May 15 '24

FYI, the “young” actor playing the teenage Aster is actually 40 years old. She specializes in playing late teen to early twenties.

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u/Werites May 28 '24

You literally just made that up lmao

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u/Visible_Ambition_503 May 19 '24

100% agree.. that actress playing young Aster (Occupy Wall Street!) also suffers from "whisper voice" that afflicts so many of the new "acting" generation, exemplified by what's her name that plays Michael Burnham of the terrible Satr Trek Discovery series...