I was looking forward to this series, expecting top drama and characters I wanted to root for. Unfortunately what I got was a low budget retelling of James Cameron's Titanic.
As I watched I started to notice a few similarities to Cameron's screenplay, such as certain character stereotypes, thematic tropes, story lines ... At first I thought 'well OK, it's an historical event so there are bound to be some commonalities...' But as the incidents started to mount up, even down to exact lines of dialogue,(steerage passengers being locked behind wrought iron gates, others being unjustly locked in the prison cell, a porter telling someone off for damaging white star property, the crew member in the life boat telling the first class woman to shut up when she tells him to go back for survivors... and on and on) it went from similarities to outright rip off. Even the music sounds strangely familiar! Is there a single original idea in this series? Cheesy as it is, I'd rather go back and watch Jack and Rose. At least that was entertaining!
As I watched I started to notice a few similarities to Cameron's screenplay, such as certain character stereotypes, thematic tropes, story lines ... At first I thought 'well OK, it's an historical event so there are bound to be some commonalities...' But as the incidents started to mount up, even down to exact lines of dialogue,(steerage passengers being locked behind wrought iron gates, others being unjustly locked in the prison cell, a porter telling someone off for damaging white star property, the crew member in the life boat telling the first class woman to shut up when she tells him to go back for survivors... and on and on) it went from similarities to outright rip off. Even the music sounds strangely familiar! Is there a single original idea in this series? Cheesy as it is, I'd rather go back and watch Jack and Rose. At least that was entertaining!