My wife and I watched Chip 'n' Dale last night. I'm old enough to remember watching the show; she's not. We both enjoyed it but I thought it was goddamn hilarious.
We also started watching Night Sky on Amazon. The first episode is super slow but I enjoyed it. Seems like it's got a lot of places it could go.
Mason's Rats was probably the standout to me - funny, well animated and a nice twist.
Bad traveling was a close second though. Could have wished for more color, but I appreciate what it did and how it played things.
In Vaulted Halls Entombed was visually impressive, but very.. expected, I think is how I'd put it? Didn't feel like it really did anything with it's concept. Well executed for what it was, but you knew exactly what was going to happen.
Jibaro I didn't like - sensory overload, and felt like a return to some of the grossness of season one.
Likewise, Swarm started really strong and then took a hard right into honestly feeling torture-porny. I think there were way better ways to execute what we got than, well, that. Which is a shame because the scifi was good
Clark's coup turns into a civil war. B5 declares independence.
Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
Clark's coup turns into a civil war. B5 declares independence.
Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
The most resigned and significant phrase thusfar in a season of significant utterances:
Funny story, it was supposed to be General Hague in that scene, but the actor got double booked and did DS9 instead. JMS, who Does Not Fuck Around, added to the script that the vessel took a shot amidships that killed Hague.
That said, Delenn has Ryan beat later in the episode.
Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
The concept of the Earth/Mimbari war was one of the things that drew me to B5 in the first place. The mystery of it. I was used to mystical hippie aliens. Bitter wars that ended in begrudging peace. But a war where Man straight up got his ass kicked by a technological superior enemy? That was new. The fact that it was the mystical hippie aliens that did it only made it more intriguing.
I still always love the delipidated excellence of the Centauri when we meet them in season 1. Just a group living on the glory days of their old republic and hoping to hitch on to the human's star who they saw as ascending. Of course the results of the show made them a lot harder to like.
I do love the lines about shoes being too tight, but it doesn't matter because they had forgotten how to dance.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I have the same order, but for some reason the first episode it played was 'Bad Travelling' *shrug*
Strange, same thing happened for me. I had to check the episodes because somebody in here mentioned robots being 1st.
It was a pretty solid season, in my opinion. I didn't care for Mini Dead or Mason's Rats, but they weren't bad. Swarm was interesting but the final bit of dialogue was very confusing. The rest were all great. Bad Traveling was my favorite, very tight story.
I have the same order, but for some reason the first episode it played was 'Bad Travelling' *shrug*
Strange, same thing happened for me. I had to check the episodes because somebody in here mentioned robots being 1st.
It was a pretty solid season, in my opinion. I didn't care for Mini Dead or Mason's Rats, but they weren't bad. Swarm was interesting but the final bit of dialogue was very confusing. The rest were all great. Bad Traveling was my favorite, very tight story.
Clark's coup turns into a civil war. B5 declares independence.
Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
The most resigned and significant phrase thusfar in a season of significant utterances:
Funny story, it was supposed to be General Hague in that scene, but the actor got double booked and did DS9 instead. JMS, who Does Not Fuck Around, added to the script that the vessel took a shot amidships that killed Hague.
That said, Delenn has Ryan beat later in the episode.
Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
Bill. Did you ever meet the captain of the Clarkstown? He and the general were at the academy together, Hague introduced me to him last summer. He has a wife back home. Three small children. An abyssinian cat named Max. That's what makes this war different from anything we have ever gone through before. This time, we know everyone we kill.
Mini dead was just a lot of fun in 7 minutes; my wife's comment on the opening was "that escalated really fast."
The opening was the best part!
When I say I didn't care for it, my only real complaint is how it fits with the rest of the anthology. I was really vibing with the melancholy tone the collection has and didn't want to chuckle at that point.
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They just do TV shows, they along with this thread have sold me on trying Severance, Ozark apparently went up its own ass, I forgot Pentaverate existed even though I saw the trailer but they say it's shit, this From show seems like it could be good but also just become derivative Lost crap just with more gore.
Clark's coup turns into a civil war. B5 declares independence.
Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
The most resigned and significant phrase thusfar in a season of significant utterances:
Funny story, it was supposed to be General Hague in that scene, but the actor got double booked and did DS9 instead. JMS, who Does Not Fuck Around, added to the script that the vessel took a shot amidships that killed Hague.
That said, Delenn has Ryan beat later in the episode.
Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
Bill. Did you ever meet the captain of the Clarkstown? He and the general were at the academy together, Hague introduced me to him last summer. He has a wife back home. Three small children. An abyssinian cat named Max. That's what makes this war different from anything we have ever gone through before. This time, we know everyone we kill.
Yeah that was grueling. JMS absolutely sold the horror of civil war right there. When Ryan finslly took the gloves off the firing team, he was killing someone he knew and respected.
Severed Dreams is a master class in meaningful conflict.
They just do TV shows, they along with this thread have sold me on trying Severance, Ozark apparently went up its own ass, I forgot Pentaverate existed even though I saw the trailer but they say it's shit, this From show seems like it could be good but also just become derivative Lost crap just with more gore.
From's first season feels more like there could be a coherent explanation than Lost ever did but it doesn't give you any obvious hints as to what the fuck that explanation might be. It's not quite doing the Lost "Every time you think you might get answers, instead there are 10 more secrets!" thing but I guess we'll see if they actually explain anything in season 2. Its mysteries aren't quite as iconic and meme-able as Lost's but, on the other hand, From does not do the Lost "We know you are here for the mystery island but let's spend 3/4ths of each episode in flash backs/forwards/sideways of shit that may or may not ever become really relevant". I feel like it's a stronger show overall, based purely on first seasons, but I could definitely see it not going anywhere.
My opinion of the Pentaverte is pretty much the same as Jay's, I like seeing Mike Myers, but it's not an interesting show. It seems to be trying to be positive and progressive but weirdness for its own sake isn't funny and the story overall isn't interesting. Thankfully it's pretty short so I stuck it on in the background.
Bad Traveling and Masons Rats were the standouts for me
Enjoyed 3 Robots, Kill Team Kill, and Mini Dead
In Vaults Entombed feels like it wanted to be longer and had to be cut down, and Swarm felt very mean.
I thought Jibaro felt familiar, then I saw it was made by the same person who made “The Witness” in season 1 and everything came together.
Edit: not sure how I felt about The Very Pulse Of The Machine.
Kill Team Kill bugged me for the same reason most of season 1 did. It felt like they were trying too hard to be edgy. The animation was gorgeous, though.
Definitely feel like this season was a lot stronger than the first two seasons.
Clark's coup turns into a civil war. B5 declares independence.
Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
The most resigned and significant phrase thusfar in a season of significant utterances:
Funny story, it was supposed to be General Hague in that scene, but the actor got double booked and did DS9 instead. JMS, who Does Not Fuck Around, added to the script that the vessel took a shot amidships that killed Hague.
That said, Delenn has Ryan beat later in the episode.
Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
There's a bit in the season 3 gag reel with Major Ryan being honest with Sheridan about General Hague's fate.
Just finished season 1 of Night Sky, it is only 8 episodes so it's not long. It's essentially a beautiful prologue to what should be an amazing scifi adventure in future seasons. Probably shot themselves in the foot trying to do it this way, but I really want a season 2 now.
Please watch, or at least play this in the background to make Amazon think you watched this. I need a second season to be made
Speaking of Ozark, I just finished it the other day (farewell Netflix)
I was honestly dragging serious ass on actually finishing the story, because I was absolutely expecting that they were just going to go the predictably rote endings other shows of this kind (which I won't name because spoilers but I'm sure you know which ones I'm talking about) where the protagonists all die at the end because we have to send a moral message about punishing monsters, after all. So I was in no real hurry to ever finish the show.
I was totally surprised that not only did they not do that, but it was very close to them getting exactly what they wanted at the end. I'm sure not everyone is going to like how it ended but I consider it a far more uncomfortably true to life outcome than what people wish would happen and if nothing else I respect that they did this.
"Since when?" is a bookend line I'm going to remember for a while.
Watching part 2 of this HBO George Carlin documentary. Jon Stewart comes on to talk about how good one of his routines was. I reactively just say outloud "Man, Jon Stewart is getting old."
30 seconds later, he's using Carlin's 'A Place For My Stuff' as a metaphor for why Cancel Culture is the devil.
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I'm on my second episode and it's tracking the same way.
That was my order as well.
Is inspired.
You have so much good TV to watch
Low key one of the best shows of the last decade.
We also started watching Night Sky on Amazon. The first episode is super slow but I enjoyed it. Seems like it's got a lot of places it could go.
Bad traveling was a close second though. Could have wished for more color, but I appreciate what it did and how it played things.
In Vaulted Halls Entombed was visually impressive, but very.. expected, I think is how I'd put it? Didn't feel like it really did anything with it's concept. Well executed for what it was, but you knew exactly what was going to happen.
Jibaro I didn't like - sensory overload, and felt like a return to some of the grossness of season one.
Likewise, Swarm started really strong and then took a hard right into honestly feeling torture-porny. I think there were way better ways to execute what we got than, well, that. Which is a shame because the scifi was good
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Thoughts:
A pivotal moment in this episode is the early bit where Major Ryan makes the decision to fire on Clark-aligned ships. This is the first time that the rebellion against Clark's coup actually started shooting back. Other than that, I'm not sure what I can say about it; much of this was a battle scene, which doesn't lend itself well to this kind of analysis. It's good, incredibly important to the greater story, and the battle scenes look reasonable, it just don't support much in the way of analysis. The lines have been drawn. All that's left is to see who has the most military might.
The most resigned and significant phrase thusfar in a season of significant utterances:
That one's stuck with me all these years.
Funny story, it was supposed to be General Hague in that scene, but the actor got double booked and did DS9 instead. JMS, who Does Not Fuck Around, added to the script that the vessel took a shot amidships that killed Hague.
That said, Delenn has Ryan beat later in the episode.
The concept of the Earth/Mimbari war was one of the things that drew me to B5 in the first place. The mystery of it. I was used to mystical hippie aliens. Bitter wars that ended in begrudging peace. But a war where Man straight up got his ass kicked by a technological superior enemy? That was new. The fact that it was the mystical hippie aliens that did it only made it more intriguing.
Who didn't want to know more after that?
I do love the lines about shoes being too tight, but it doesn't matter because they had forgotten how to dance.
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I would like to know more. *click*
Shit.
Wrong franchise.
Strange, same thing happened for me. I had to check the episodes because somebody in here mentioned robots being 1st.
It was a pretty solid season, in my opinion. I didn't care for Mini Dead or Mason's Rats, but they weren't bad. Swarm was interesting but the final bit of dialogue was very confusing. The rest were all great. Bad Traveling was my favorite, very tight story.
I loved Mini Dead - really silly, but funny.
Mini dead was not a fav (but funnily enough i worked on that episode a little bit. I'm in the credits!)
Honestly I'm pretty bummed there was no Robert Valley episode this season! He did zima blue and the ice whales one in the last two seasons.
Enjoyed 3 Robots, Kill Team Kill, and Mini Dead
In Vaults Entombed feels like it wanted to be longer and had to be cut down, and Swarm felt very mean.
I thought Jibaro felt familiar, then I saw it was made by the same person who made “The Witness” in season 1 and everything came together.
Edit: not sure how I felt about The Very Pulse Of The Machine.
The opening was the best part!
When I say I didn't care for it, my only real complaint is how it fits with the rest of the anthology. I was really vibing with the melancholy tone the collection has and didn't want to chuckle at that point.
They just do TV shows, they along with this thread have sold me on trying Severance, Ozark apparently went up its own ass, I forgot Pentaverate existed even though I saw the trailer but they say it's shit, this From show seems like it could be good but also just become derivative Lost crap just with more gore.
Yeah that was grueling. JMS absolutely sold the horror of civil war right there. When Ryan finslly took the gloves off the firing team, he was killing someone he knew and respected.
Severed Dreams is a master class in meaningful conflict.
From's first season feels more like there could be a coherent explanation than Lost ever did but it doesn't give you any obvious hints as to what the fuck that explanation might be. It's not quite doing the Lost "Every time you think you might get answers, instead there are 10 more secrets!" thing but I guess we'll see if they actually explain anything in season 2. Its mysteries aren't quite as iconic and meme-able as Lost's but, on the other hand, From does not do the Lost "We know you are here for the mystery island but let's spend 3/4ths of each episode in flash backs/forwards/sideways of shit that may or may not ever become really relevant". I feel like it's a stronger show overall, based purely on first seasons, but I could definitely see it not going anywhere.
Oh my god, the sex scene was amazing.
Kill Team Kill bugged me for the same reason most of season 1 did. It felt like they were trying too hard to be edgy. The animation was gorgeous, though.
Definitely feel like this season was a lot stronger than the first two seasons.
There's a bit in the season 3 gag reel with Major Ryan being honest with Sheridan about General Hague's fate.
Edit: Hmm, was supposed to start at 5:46, with that bit, but doesn't like the time stamp.
I'm on episode 5, and it's slow but not glacial and the story has been constantly moving forward.
It's got JK Simmons doing some of his best old man acting and deserves a watch for that alone.
Please watch, or at least play this in the background to make Amazon think you watched this. I need a second season to be made
I was totally surprised that not only did they not do that, but it was very close to them getting exactly what they wanted at the end. I'm sure not everyone is going to like how it ended but I consider it a far more uncomfortably true to life outcome than what people wish would happen and if nothing else I respect that they did this.
"Since when?" is a bookend line I'm going to remember for a while.
Also Ruth is my favorite character.
30 seconds later, he's using Carlin's 'A Place For My Stuff' as a metaphor for why Cancel Culture is the devil.
"...Man, Jon Stewart is getting old."
Lol
Lmfao