In terms of height, I now question the capabilities we've been able to pull off considering how high some scenes in TrT are. Or did they just get a higher tent this go around for that? But I was genuinely impressed.
I do question the idea of camo netting... I think in theory it should work, but the more I think about it, it might break the concept of perspective. If I'm supposed to be looking deep into a forest, yet there's a giant net in close range, it completely breaks that perspective. It'd ultimately look cheap and like we're in a lagoon or something. As where if it's just darkness, with the right lighting, it could supposedly go on forever. I'd prefer matte paintings, with trees "in the distance" getting smaller and smaller, but that'd be very time consuming and would need to be lit in some way, which again would just make it look like a wall. I think the best thing to do is what Disney does in their dark rides. Have layers + matte paintings. Again, it'd have to be lit and may look like a cartoon.
Yeah, that first scare is EMBARRASSING. He's just standing there out in the open, not hidden at all. That's when I knew the maze was in trouble.
And I agree, in theory by scene count the maze is standard. But all of those scenes feel short. The experience as a whole is a beyond truncated version of everything we've seen on the show. Compared to what they've done on TWD or AHS, none of the scenes felt fully fleshed out. So yes, a standard length, but none of the scenes are done justice by that length. Which is why I think it needed to be twice as long, and it had the space to do it, too. And we honestly did not need the First Purge, all that money could've poured into ST.