astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
Man...now I just want film/tv versions of all Borges's stuff. A good "Death and The Compass" would be wild and a fun mystery twist that I don't think I remember seeing ripped off or replicated.
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Has anyone seen the new Lost in Space series on Netflix? It worth checking out? I'm trying to get back to watching like, actual scripted sci fi tv and movie stuff. I still feel like there isn't a good replacement for the parts of the X-Files I liked best, which was the episodic case-of-the-week sort of thing.
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Has anyone seen the new Lost in Space series on Netflix? It worth checking out? I'm trying to get back to watching like, actual scripted sci fi tv and movie stuff. I still feel like there isn't a good replacement for the parts of the X-Files I liked best, which was the episodic case-of-the-week sort of thing.
I liked it a fair bit! It felt like it could have been sandwiched in a lineup in a nineties sci-fi block with stuff like seaQuest DSV and like Earth 2. And I mean that in the best way. It can be a bit meat and potatoes at points, but the cast is great and its a very well put together show. Frankly, it's refreshing to see the problems introduced at the beginning of an episode solved in fairly clever ways by the time the credits run. Even the serialization feels more "what happens next?" than the mystery box alternative.
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yeah, I still haven't finished it, but it reminded me of mass effect andromeda, of all things, a game which I also didn't finish. but I mean that in a positive way! the trappings and man vs. environment aspects of sci fi are doin a fair bit of that lifting, but MEA and it both share some DNA with the charms of the middling-yet-watchable 90s sci fi of my youth
Lost in Space was fine. But after I finished the fifth episode and took a break, I didn’t really feel compelled to keep going. Part of it is that their version Dr. Smith really strained my credulity.
I enjoyed the new lost in space, but I did feel like it dragged in a couple spots. Though that’s typical of Netflix dramas, and maybe just more noticeable when you binge a series.
Okay, my wife and I were watching all of Person of Interest, so we were late in watching Luke Cage: Season 2, and so that became our new nightly show to watch.
We enjoyed that, and literally the last day of watching Luke Cage, Iron Fist: Season 2 came out.
Well...might as well.
It is markedly better than the first season, though Joy has like the second-flimsiest villain motivation I can think of (trailing only behind the comic version of Eddie Brock). Though at least Misty calls her on it.
Anyways, Misty is a main character in this show as well, which is good since she's great. As in Colleen. And the newly-added Mary. Additionally, the female characters get a pretty big focus this season, and Danny kind of takes a bit of a backseat.
Especially since he has the Iron Fist powers stolen from him like a third of the way into the season, and then shortly after that he gets his leg broken.
Also, he doesn't get the Iron Fist powers back from Davos...
Colleen does. She even gets the big super-hero punch where her and Davos punch each other's glowing fists for a giant shockwave.
As soon as they started talking about stealing the powers back from Davos, my wife and I were joking that Colleen should get them instead of Danny. Then that actually got brought up in the show.
We were like, "No way, they might try to give them to her but Danny's going to get his powers back."
Then they start the ceremony. "Well, she might have them for a little while, but it'll turn out they're killing her or something and Danny will have to take them back."
Nope, she beats the villain and keeps the powers. And also learns how to channel them through her katana.
(Granted, the very last second of the show seems to indicate Danny also got his powers back, though that may just be related to the weapons he's holding)
My only real complaint is when Mary's plotline gets to where you're expecting it to the entire season...it just ends. Kind of a "haha, hope we get another season so you can see this revelation come to fruition."
Though there were also two smaller things that annoyed me:
*Nobody ever mentioned the Punisher in relation to Davos's whole "kill the bad people" thing.
*No Luke Cage. Just a quick mention at one point. I seriously thought Misty was going to get him at one point but nope.
Claire also doesn't get a cameo this time. Turk still does, and it might be the first time nobody punched him or broke his stuff?
Anyways, give me a Colleen/Misty show. And stick Mary in one of the Marvel shows (or give her her own) if Iron Fist doesn't get another season.
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I'd be cool with a Daughters of the Dragon show, yes.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Rebecca, talking to Sam about a shitty burger joint she's become obsessed with (her rich scumbag of a boyfriend "spontaneously" seduced her there, as we shortly learn he's done to several other women), says "you know, this place might seem like a real dive, but to me it's something special," and it cuts to Sam's face, and he just has this distant, heartbroken look
And knowing the series ends with the acknowledgement that Sam's one true love is Cheers, it just made that tiny little moment into something really special
I don't think the writers intended that (maybe they did--it's pretty close to the show's ending, and the season-long arc has been Sam trying to buy chack Cheers from this corporation), but it was a moment that really hit me
i am like 4 episodes behind on better call saul this season with bo urgency to get caught up
i'm just so bored of mike
This season had the problem that most seasons of Saul have in that there just had to be tire spinning because it's a prequel and they can only move so far, so fast.
But the closer we get to BB and the more seasons they order, the more spinning has to happen. It's about episode 4 or 5 this season where it finally feels like they're moving forward with something actually happening this season.
I enjoy watching Saul but I am almost always at least lightly frustrated by all the concessions that need to be made due to it's prequelness.
Better Call Saul assumes you treat the lore of Breaking Bad as a sacred text that must be ahered to strictly
What they did not foresee is I would much rather this become a complete elseworlds, it would be way more interesting if he just never became Saul Goodman
I liked Black Mirror before it was cool, because now every season is surrounded by endless thinkpieces proclaiming its genius and brave, brave souls on Twitter saying "actually its bad"
I watched up to the end of Season 2 and I thought it had some genuine high points (as well as some pretty middling stuff), but the bleakness started to get to me and I haven't had the psychological fortitude to go back. Especially after the Waldo episode.
I watched up to the end of Season 2 and I thought it had some genuine high points (as well as some pretty middling stuff), but the bleakness started to get to me and I haven't had the psychological fortitude to go back. Especially after the Waldo episode.
The Waldo episode is notable because it used to be an awful, slight episode that felt like it was written in a day, and now it's genuinely harrowing.
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I liked it a fair bit! It felt like it could have been sandwiched in a lineup in a nineties sci-fi block with stuff like seaQuest DSV and like Earth 2. And I mean that in the best way. It can be a bit meat and potatoes at points, but the cast is great and its a very well put together show. Frankly, it's refreshing to see the problems introduced at the beginning of an episode solved in fairly clever ways by the time the credits run. Even the serialization feels more "what happens next?" than the mystery box alternative.
The family dynamic is really well done, the robot is cool, and Ally Sheedy Parker Posey is really good.
I recommend it to basically anyone.
We enjoyed that, and literally the last day of watching Luke Cage, Iron Fist: Season 2 came out.
Well...might as well.
It is markedly better than the first season, though Joy has like the second-flimsiest villain motivation I can think of (trailing only behind the comic version of Eddie Brock). Though at least Misty calls her on it.
Anyways, Misty is a main character in this show as well, which is good since she's great. As in Colleen. And the newly-added Mary. Additionally, the female characters get a pretty big focus this season, and Danny kind of takes a bit of a backseat.
Also, he doesn't get the Iron Fist powers back from Davos...
As soon as they started talking about stealing the powers back from Davos, my wife and I were joking that Colleen should get them instead of Danny. Then that actually got brought up in the show.
We were like, "No way, they might try to give them to her but Danny's going to get his powers back."
Then they start the ceremony. "Well, she might have them for a little while, but it'll turn out they're killing her or something and Danny will have to take them back."
Nope, she beats the villain and keeps the powers. And also learns how to channel them through her katana.
(Granted, the very last second of the show seems to indicate Danny also got his powers back, though that may just be related to the weapons he's holding)
My only real complaint is when Mary's plotline gets to where you're expecting it to the entire season...it just ends. Kind of a "haha, hope we get another season so you can see this revelation come to fruition."
Though there were also two smaller things that annoyed me:
*Nobody ever mentioned the Punisher in relation to Davos's whole "kill the bad people" thing.
*No Luke Cage. Just a quick mention at one point. I seriously thought Misty was going to get him at one point but nope.
Claire also doesn't get a cameo this time. Turk still does, and it might be the first time nobody punched him or broke his stuff?
Anyways, give me a Colleen/Misty show. And stick Mary in one of the Marvel shows (or give her her own) if Iron Fist doesn't get another season.
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And knowing the series ends with the acknowledgement that Sam's one true love is Cheers, it just made that tiny little moment into something really special
I don't think the writers intended that (maybe they did--it's pretty close to the show's ending, and the season-long arc has been Sam trying to buy chack Cheers from this corporation), but it was a moment that really hit me
i'm just so bored of mike
Yeah this is where I am too. I'm probably gonna wait for the whole season to drop at this point
This season had the problem that most seasons of Saul have in that there just had to be tire spinning because it's a prequel and they can only move so far, so fast.
But the closer we get to BB and the more seasons they order, the more spinning has to happen. It's about episode 4 or 5 this season where it finally feels like they're moving forward with something actually happening this season.
I enjoy watching Saul but I am almost always at least lightly frustrated by all the concessions that need to be made due to it's prequelness.
What they did not foresee is I would much rather this become a complete elseworlds, it would be way more interesting if he just never became Saul Goodman
maybe i just watched the wrong episodes
Could be! I think it's generally very good, occasionally exceptional, and occasionally bad.
As long as it airs at the same time as Discovery, so I can get by with 3 or 4 months of All Access a year.
Where are my revivals of Tales from the Crypt and The Outer Limits?
WHERE?
There are some rough ones and also some very good ones, like most sci-fi anthology shows.
Check out San Junipero, Nosedive, Hang the DJ if you don’t want to get quite as bleak as some of the other eps.
"coincidence" means two events that seem at first glance to be related but in fact came about independently
The Waldo episode is notable because it used to be an awful, slight episode that felt like it was written in a day, and now it's genuinely harrowing.