Post by sturgeon on Mar 24, 2021 21:08:30 GMT
Today's capital is about a guy who's duped into being herded into a mad scientist's lab with a bunch of secret clones. James Bond meets Never Let Me Go, with a sprinkling of Three Identical Strangers. And, let me tell you, it's an absolute triumph of plot over quality.
By which I mean to say, it's a fun idea. But so blunt, and silly, and full of plot holes, that I wondered if it was meant to be a comedy. The fact that I'm not sure ain't a good sign.
Like, why did all the Dans accept their kidnapping so gracefully? (And again at the end, when the plot was revealed to them, they seemed to accept it without question?) Why did the evil genius go for the ultimate cliché of monologuing his masterplan the moment his victims were supposedly unconscious? Why did he install a retinal scanner to defend against a bunch of literal genetic clones?
The last line bugged me too. "You just don't seem to have it in your DNA." Is he implying they're not clones? Not to mention the grammatical errors that smack of a story that has not been pored over and perfected (eg Tom/Toms/Thom and Hughes/Hughs).
Nope. YMMV.
By which I mean to say, it's a fun idea. But so blunt, and silly, and full of plot holes, that I wondered if it was meant to be a comedy. The fact that I'm not sure ain't a good sign.
Like, why did all the Dans accept their kidnapping so gracefully? (And again at the end, when the plot was revealed to them, they seemed to accept it without question?) Why did the evil genius go for the ultimate cliché of monologuing his masterplan the moment his victims were supposedly unconscious? Why did he install a retinal scanner to defend against a bunch of literal genetic clones?
The last line bugged me too. "You just don't seem to have it in your DNA." Is he implying they're not clones? Not to mention the grammatical errors that smack of a story that has not been pored over and perfected (eg Tom/Toms/Thom and Hughes/Hughs).
Nope. YMMV.
