Looking at reviews for Amazon Prime's Tales from the Loop on Rotten Tomatoes. Lots of people seem to be wowed by the stark beauty of the cinematography and the story telling. A few seem to be disappointed in that there were no subplots or layers to peel back.
I haven't watched it yet, but having seen some of the artwork myself, I can say that the minority group are looking for things in something that is not meant to have the things they are looking for. I suppose that one way of looking at it is that bit from Kung Fu Panda, where Uguay exhorts unto Shifu that, "...no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach."
So some people are looking at a peach, and hoping for some really weird things like for it to be secretly an apple under the skin, or an orange, or even both at once! Which honestly just makes me think these people are silly for expecting something more mind bending than what we're presented with.
What I am expecting when I finally sit down to watch it: an antithesis to cyberpunk. Not utopian - far from it, really. But there is the clear implication that we're trying for it. In this way, this is something that carries in it far more hope than nihilism; a promise that even if we don't get things quite right the first time or two, we're still going to keep trying, and keep getting better at it as we go along. You won't always get the answers you're hoping for, but you'll get the answers you needed in order to be better.
That's what I'm expecting... I'm hoping for it, anyhow... but if not, then I'll at least have my answers.
I haven't watched it yet, but having seen some of the artwork myself, I can say that the minority group are looking for things in something that is not meant to have the things they are looking for. I suppose that one way of looking at it is that bit from Kung Fu Panda, where Uguay exhorts unto Shifu that, "...no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach."
So some people are looking at a peach, and hoping for some really weird things like for it to be secretly an apple under the skin, or an orange, or even both at once! Which honestly just makes me think these people are silly for expecting something more mind bending than what we're presented with.
What I am expecting when I finally sit down to watch it: an antithesis to cyberpunk. Not utopian - far from it, really. But there is the clear implication that we're trying for it. In this way, this is something that carries in it far more hope than nihilism; a promise that even if we don't get things quite right the first time or two, we're still going to keep trying, and keep getting better at it as we go along. You won't always get the answers you're hoping for, but you'll get the answers you needed in order to be better.
That's what I'm expecting... I'm hoping for it, anyhow... but if not, then I'll at least have my answers.