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[TV]Thread: Have you guys seen this new show, Lost? It’s an Anime
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I’m curious what people think.
I just found it a REALLY boring.
I don’t know. I think you might be right about it-at first I thought it was trying to provide a window into the absolute terror of being black in the south in the 50’s and how that was very much much an experience of dehumanizing horror as an sleepy squid god could ever aspire to be, and yet...it’s going in these other places for reasons that aren’t clear and hurt the narrative momentum.
Also the blonde icelandic elven vampire kids or whatever seem incredibly boring and they seem like obstacles rather than compelling characters.
Community at least went the subversive route of having the Subway product placement be accompanied by a character who was a man contractually obligated by the Subway corporation into acting as the human embodiment of Subway via "corpohumanization" until he broke character and told someone his real name, at which point Subway's goons forcibly took him into custody.
Here's an extended version of the previously posted clip:
Too bad there don't seem to be any!
I mean they still got paid to sell you sandwiches
The most recent episode's take on the
Still too gory for my tastes.
It took me a bit to pinpoint it, because it's not a case of the week genre show, and it takes itself a bit more seriously than those shows do at their best, but it's essentially just the Smallville of Arthurian mythology. It takes a bunch of familiar names and characters and presents them a bit younger, shows how their lives and intertwined and all that, and tells a story that is clearly leading to the familiar "beginning" for those characters (in this case, Arthur receiving Excalibur from The Lady in the Lake/Nimue).
And there is a fair bit to like about the remix, honestly - I've watched every episode of Smallville so it shouldn't be entirely damning to compare it to that. I'm not entirely on board with the Fae being an ethnic class, but I like their inclusion overall. I'm excited by the prospect of a black King Arthur, even if it's not something the show is engaging with too much. I think some of the tonal shift and the shorter season is what I've been asking for with these sort of shows for a long time, and this show would absolutely be ruined by dealing with Paladin of the Week plots or what have you.
That said, it seems to fall into every folly of those shows as well. In trying to shove characters together before their time, it creates new relationship avenues, it uses names that are recognizable too early, that sort of thing. A lot of that is going to mean getting into spoilers though, so from here on out, spoilers for the whole first season and/or eight hundred year old poems.
Similarly, the Arthur/Nimue stuff is... I mean it's just a recipe for disaster. I feel like I've seen this setup with genre shows countless times, and you end up with a Lana and/or a Chloe that are inexplicably around for later seasons still or worse the disaster of how Arrow dealt with Laurel. I don't know how this show would be able to introduce Guinevere, and trying to make a Merlin/Nimue thing happen (as it often does) would be terrible with their presentation here.
That said, I do like their King Arthur a lot. He's knavish, but not excessively so, and his presentation as a unifier of the men of England feels legitimately earned as a result of his character.
Also their Morgan is fun, and I enjoy giving her an origin story. It is funny that in a show where half the characters are Fae, Morgan le Fay isn't one of them, but that honestly feels like an interesting thing that could develop rather than a misstep.
I didn’t even realize this
This is Lost levels of uncanny
And Merlin is probably a bit closer to that overall, honestly - Cursed is definitely trying to go more "Did you know that in the original versions of the fairy tales, people die?" with their tone. But it still reminds me of it as a whole.
Well they were abusive
Yeah, @Raijin Quickfoot, mind throwing that and any future Lost stuff behind some spoiler tags?
Yeah you’re probably right. I edited it
I mean body horror is totally a Lovecraft thing. At times it does feel like they’re trying to throw in something that’s more like True Blood into the mix but I never read the book
It’s a known issue. The mixing is garbage
Ok good, I was worried it’s just me.
I am tempted to just turn on CC
okay i am in the tail end of the first season now, and the bates family have come together to take down a sex trafficking ring so this show rules, actually
When you have 3 kids you always have CC on.
I swear my uninformed brain is trying to say this is some kind of audio compression thing where they’re trying to reduce streaming bandwidth or something. I have no clue how plausible this would be, but I’ve given up on Amazon Prime entirely based on how all audio across the board is terrible, original content or no.
If you can switch it away from that, it should be better, but it's not necessarily easy (or even possible) to switch that off
I know how to do it in Netflix and nowhere else
Now you've run into bad CC where "[speaking in foreign language]" blocks the burned in subs. :rotate:
Huh! Is this like a television app thing? Because I've had my 5.1 speakers set up on my PC for over a year now, and I don't think I've ever heard a streaming service try to play a movie in surround sound, only games.
Yeah, that's specifically where I've noticed it. I never play things through my computer though, so I can't fully verify.
Yeah, 5.1 dialogue will generally be way quiet if you only have a stereo setup, and it can be really tricky to try and find the combination of settings between streaming software, device, and TV that will make it realize that what you really need is just a 2 channel mix.
Of course, they still default it to 5.1 for everything, you can't like... tell them to not do that across the board, so you need to go in and individually switch things (which if you're like me, sounds like a lot of work and whatever I'll just make it louder)
about every 4-5 minutes I crack up and internally go "You piece of shit show. You stupid bullshit. You're the stupidest thing I've ever seen."
It's good.
Also a former Power Ranger is in it and she says fuck.
I remember when that ep first came out people were going "How did Subway approve this?" when that's advertising - getting your brand in people's minds by any means
I feel like most commercials are
I love some commercials, but (for example) even the recent one with Patrick Stewart and Mark Hamill preparing to go at it with bats isn't going to persuade me to use uber eats.
Because the line between remembering and then buying is thin. It’s why you still get adds for coke, it’s to try and put it in our brains first google results, less about the add itself convincing us the product is good, as most people have had a coke, and more about tricking our brains into thinking about coke first
And yet still sometimes I'll randomly think, damn, it's been like 2 months since I've gotten a shwarma there. Now that I don't drive past it literally every day, it's easy to slip my mind.
It's also trying to affect the zeitgeist by making you associate certain positive traits with certain products. Oh, he's having fun while drinking beer. Oh, he's a man's man and rugged as hell with that Jeep. Oh, she's thin and attractive and eating yogurt.
Now I'm picturing the reboot of Love Boat for a depression era economy.
The Love Raft
Sometimes that be how autocorrect do
ohhhhh it's because it's space oddity