Review of Parallels (2015) by Jeff B — 26 Oct 2015

I'm giving it 3 stars for its potential. The biggest problem is obvious: this was a pilot that ended up being a movie, as has been explained before. But the biggest question is that if those who designed the technology to dimension leap, why put it in some old, cumbersome building? And why dimension leap? And why are there all these dimensions? How did they get generated and why? Also, if the technology is that advanced why dimension leap when you can probably cure all disease and ageing and just live forever? Well, maybe, but it just seems like misplaced knowledge for the greater part.

For science is about curing the human condition, and best case scenario to perpetuate life. Other lesser questions are who is the Asian girl / girls, and why hide the fact that there's more than one? For fun? A good purpose? And where's the dad going at the end? Where did he come from? And what's this about the mom not being completely dead or parts of her alive? I have more questions, but you get the idea.

With all these questions, the weak dialogue isn't even an issue, nor the excessive narrative about the mom, her past, and other family narratives spoken to by the brother and sister. For me, just too many questions.

Maybe they'd be answered by story continuation, but that building and all its inherent problems just seems like one big monolith to me.