Vagrant Queen - Syfy - US Pace (***Spoilers***)

Agent Coulson

Vagrant Queen follows Elida (Adriyan Rae) from child queen to orphaned outcast as she scavenges the treacherous corners of the galaxy, always one step ahead of the Republic government that seeks to extinguish her bloodline. When her old friend Isaac (Tim Rozon) shows up claiming her mother, Xevelyn, is still alive, they head off with their new ally, Amae (Alex McGregor), to stage a rescue that will put the fugitive royal right back in the perilous heart of her former kingdom — and pit her against a deadly old rival, Commander Lazaro (Paul du Toit).

The tone of the one-hour adventure series is described as a “fun, violent, snarky, space opera.”

Martin Tyler AgueroooOO

Love a good crackpot syfy show from Syfy and this looks like it will fit the bill from that trailer.

pixelburp

I was going to snark that it looks like utter trash, trying way too hard to be cool, but then Killjoys was pretty godawful for the same reasons at the start, but grew into one of my favourite summer shows. So who knows, maybe this will be the space ragtag replacement

JP Liz V1

Syfy UK has it starting on Wednesday April 15th at 9pm

Slydice

Just at the end of writing this post I came back to the top cos I thought it'd be good to highlight that there's a level of violence in this show that might not be appropriate for younger kids.

anyway..


1: Well. That was wierd and different and well.. this sounds pretty close..

Martin Tyler AgueroooOO wrote: »

a good crackpot syfy show from Syfy

It's so strange. It feels a bit Saturday morning but then lumps in very Violent scenes right from the begining.
The budget seems quite low and is felt in some places like the computer generated imagery but there has been some top effort put into practical effects.

The physical fight choreography isn't great but feels like it fits to the show.
Some things kinda felt like they clicked together at the start of the final action scene when the subtitles said "[dreamy '80s synth music plays]"
This really does have an 80s feel to it.. but not like Stranger Things 80s feel.. like those 80s scifis with the practical effects and dreamy '80s synth music

I dunno about the acting and story. It's early days and this hasn't been hyped up to be too serious so I think I'll give it a shot for a bit.

Slydice

2: You know.. the death, blood, gore, torture :eek: (

Nim committing suicide

), cannibalism and general horror-ness of some of the scenes in this are really at odds with the feel of the show. Some of the ideas they are going with feel inspired by .. well .. the more horrific parts of the Mad Max universe feel.

Then the rest has that whole song feel and the whole combo just feels a bit wierd

anyway.. karaoke.. :eek:

pixelburp

It looks like a show where the studio saw Borderlands and went "yeah, let's do that, with more sass!"

Agent Coulson

I'm kind of liking it just for the pure stupid joy they all seem to be having.

Skerries

too silly even for a SyFy show, I'm out

Slydice

3: Some very daft and silly and gross bits! lol, I was like 'oh, that's a bit game of thrones'

when he overheard the conversation

but then threw the eyes in the air when he went 'meh'. Still though.. feels a right bit saturday morning-ish

Agent Coulson

Maybe i'm going a bit stir crazy am enjoying it for no reason I should.

Slydice

it's fun!

AMKC

pixelburp wrote: »

I was going to snark that it looks like utter trash, trying way too hard to be cool, but then Killjoys was pretty godawful for the same reasons at the start, but grew into one of my favourite summer shows. So who knows, maybe this will be the space ragtag replacement

I never got Killjoys. Just got totally lost as to what it was supposed to be about and just did not like it. Dark Matter on the other hand was Brilliant and deserved a few more seasons. Its criminal how they kept ''Killjoys'' and let ''Dark Matter'' go. It should have been the other way around.

pixelburp

AMKC wrote: »

I never got Killjoys. Just got totally lost as to what it was supposed to be about and just did not like it. Dark Matter on the other hand was Brilliant and deserved a few more seasons. Its criminal how they kept ''Killjoys'' and let ''Dark Matter'' go. It should have been the other way around.

Huh. I thought they got it about right. Never took to Dark Matter, thought it was a shotgun of generic sci-fi tropes mashed together with no real coherence - or budget. One bottle episode after another, never going anywhere interesting. When did you drop out of Killjoys cos it definitely had growing pains.

Agent Coulson

Slydice wrote: »

it's fun!

It is fun and in these times that is good enough.

AMKC

Watched this today and have to some of it is very good and other parts look very cartonish or comic like but that is maybe the point.It had some humour in it from the of which is good and not afraid to kill of characters either. Its seems fun so I will stick with it for now.

Slydice

4: That.. well you know.. Vagrant Queen. Fun episode.

The torture again though!

Then some hearty moments at only episode 4.

pixelburp

Apparently the ratings for this have been atrocious, SyFy looking to move broadcast away from PrimeTime for what's regarded as a "burn off" of episodes. Looks like another one for the SyFy graveyard.

Slydice

That kinda makes sense. It's trying to fit into a lot of places all at the same time and I'd guess maybe it's putting off audiences who'd watch it if it went in one direction or another.

Checked wiki and looks like it's losing between 26k to 100k viewers per episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrant_Queen
1: 375
2: 310
3: 208
4: 182

Slydice

5: Wow,

so that's a huge chuck of the group dead or splitting up.

The show just wandering along and then suddenly Bunny Rabbit Ripped apart by vines.. or Group member torn limb from limb! I guess again that feels like an audience splitter.

Yer man has the ster..star.. .. he has the orb. Looks like it controls minds so I'm guessing that's the end of the republic and beginning of a civil war between his new mind-control-empire and the republic.

I liked the special effects of Jupiter and the story work of how the temple/station had been overcome by the desert.

Slydice

6: Decent episode. Some hearty scenes. I like the feel of their ship. Then the usual :eek: bits with the

mind control dinner slaughter (Dark Knight nod?) and jumping off the balcony and mother head wound

Slydice

7: Ah! So kinda backstory development. Liked the way the train was done. It's like they've got the practical and special effects engine as sorted as they need it. Again the :eek: bits,

especially the fingers!

That last scene

with the traffic wardens! Ah that was daft!

Agent Coulson

This is so stupidly fun.

The door bell and The Cluedo weapons this week made me laugh so much a full episode of Cluedo in space.

Slydice

8: Sidequest!

Knives out meets Aliens!

The gore bits still feel a bit off for a show like this.

AMKC

Agent Coulson wrote: »

This is so stupidly fun.

The door bell and The Cluedo weapons this week made me laugh so much a full episode of Cluedo in space.

I have to say I did not like that episode at the beginning thought it was utterly stupid for the 20 mins or so was even going to stop watching it but it got better then. Still not the best episode do. There was another episode that was not great so two dudes so far. Most episodes have been very good with great character development and the back stories for Elida and Isaac. I think they could do with a few more crew do.

AMKC

I have to say they left this set up nicely for Season 2. Hope its gets a second season.

Agent Coulson

Cancelled.

It was a really fun show.

AMKC

Hopefully someone else picks it up. I thought it was getting better as it went along. I think it just came out at a very bad and unfortunate time with the World in a mess and a downturn and less Americans able to afford to pay for cable etc. I was looking forward to Season 2. Syfy is getting a bad as Fox for dropping shows.