I feel like I'd like The Boys concept but I might just have to shelve it till later. Not sure I can handle a show about massive abuse of power given everything going on.
This was/is me with The Man in the High Castle.
And me with the British House of Cards
And Handmaiden's Tale.
This made me feel physically ill watching it. Like feeling vomit coming up my throat.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Dab on all others with these new Netflix additions:
-A Bridge Too Far
-Airplane
-Batman Mask of the Phantasm
-Clash of the Titans '81
-Donnie Brasco
-I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
-Kangaroo Jack
-Karate Kid 1-3 (!!!!!!!! probably because they signed up the Cobra Kai series to bring it over to Netflix with Season 3)
-Mean Streets
-Million Dollar Baby
-Poltergeist '82
-Shaft '71
-Spaceballs
-Stardust
-Splice (lolololololol)
-Stand and Deliver (HOW DO I REECH THESE KEEEEEDZ?)
-Sucker Punch
-Swordfish
-The Art of War
-The Town
-Total Recall '90
-The Witches (!!!)
I actually had to turn off BNA because it was too much a generic anime. It feels like it's for a tween audience. It's not bad, but it's insanely predictable. I need more Kipo.
Not to say that Kipo isn't also predictable but it's more efficient about it.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Huh, I had no idea that Netflix was going to get Cobra Kai. I kind of wanted to see it, but I didn't want to sign up for another streaming service, so eh. Maybe I'll check it out once it shows up on there. And maybe I'll rewatch some of the Karate Kid movies between now and then. It's been a while.
Huh, I had no idea that Netflix was going to get Cobra Kai. I kind of wanted to see it, but I didn't want to sign up for another streaming service, so eh. Maybe I'll check it out once it shows up on there. And maybe I'll rewatch some of the Karate Kid movies between now and then. It's been a while.
It's very good, and if all you have is the basic childhood memories of the movies, that's enough to enjoy the show. I don't know that watching them again is a good idea.
Huh, I had no idea that Netflix was going to get Cobra Kai. I kind of wanted to see it, but I didn't want to sign up for another streaming service, so eh. Maybe I'll check it out once it shows up on there. And maybe I'll rewatch some of the Karate Kid movies between now and then. It's been a while.
It's very good, and if all you have is the basic childhood memories of the movies, that's enough to enjoy the show. I don't know that watching them again is a good idea.
Oh, I'm fully expecting to cringe at what I once thought was great.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Huh, I had no idea that Netflix was going to get Cobra Kai. I kind of wanted to see it, but I didn't want to sign up for another streaming service, so eh. Maybe I'll check it out once it shows up on there. And maybe I'll rewatch some of the Karate Kid movies between now and then. It's been a while.
It's very good, and if all you have is the basic childhood memories of the movies, that's enough to enjoy the show. I don't know that watching them again is a good idea.
Oh, I'm fully expecting to cringe at what I once thought was great.
Karate Kid 1 and 2 are still great, even though they absolutely strain credulity in the most 80s ways possible.
I only saw Cobra Kai season 1. I disliked having to use Youtube so much I didn't bother with 2, but I remember it being fun in a vaguely home move/fan film kinda way.
New series will be set 5000 years after the bombs go off.
Still nobody has cleaned up the skeletons.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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That_GuyI don't wanna be that guyRegistered Userregular
New series will be set 5000 years after the bombs go off.
Still nobody has cleaned up the skeletons.
In the headcanon, the Fallout games take place ~25-50 years after the bombs fell and everyone is just wrong about how long it's been. That's the only way I can reconcile the world they built with the story they're telling.
knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I can’t wait for an entire season that signposts a twist so stupid and obvious that everyone thinks it can’t possibly be what they're really going for and yet when the finale rolls around it’s exactly the stupid obvious twist people were predicting two episodes in.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Fallout could be great! I'd do a first season with a few major characters - some outside the vault living normal lives and a couple in the vault program itself. As the first season progresses, we get the whole infodump on what this world is (so non-gamers can catch on), doom approaches (and this can be easily updated to make it as scary and ridiculously present as possible), and it essentially ends with the end of the world. The stinger (god I hate that word and concept) for the first season is the vault door spinning open.
I'd watch it.
But...I watch a lot of TV.
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AkimboEGMr. FancypantsWears very fine pants indeedRegistered Userregular
Fallout could be great! I'd do a first season with a few major characters - some outside the vault living normal lives and a couple in the vault program itself. As the first season progresses, we get the whole infodump on what this world is (so non-gamers can catch on), doom approaches (and this can be easily updated to make it as scary and ridiculously present as possible), and it essentially ends with the end of the world. The stinger (god I hate that word and concept) for the first season is the vault door spinning open.
I'd watch it.
But...I watch a lot of TV.
Except we're talking about Westworld producers here, so the stinger is the vault door opening only to reveal the vault inside long abandoned.
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Fallout could be great! I'd do a first season with a few major characters - some outside the vault living normal lives and a couple in the vault program itself. As the first season progresses, we get the whole infodump on what this world is (so non-gamers can catch on), doom approaches (and this can be easily updated to make it as scary and ridiculously present as possible), and it essentially ends with the end of the world. The stinger (god I hate that word and concept) for the first season is the vault door spinning open.
I'd watch it.
But...I watch a lot of TV.
Except we're talking about Westworld producers here, so the stinger is the vault door opening only to reveal the vault inside long abandoned.
Ha! And don't forget Season 3 when you find out the vault is inside...a bigger vault.
Dudes... I'm not even kidding, this thing holds up! I have no real nostalgia for it as I didn't really watch it as a kid, but I'm 5 episodes in now and I am seriously, non-ironically, digging this!
First, the obvious:
- The theme song is the best kind of earworm
- Yeah, it rips off Star Wars pretty hard (including the sound design. I mean, Ulysses straight up has a lightsaber, with the same sound and everything, and I definitely heard some TIE fighter engine noises in there too)
Next, the good:
- The animation is actually pretty solid, especially considering the standards at the time. Haven't seen any super-obvious looping or recycled frames (though I'm sure there's some)
- Ship and creature designs are, for the most part, pretty freaking cool! So far my favorites have been the Cyclops and Hydra
- Stories are riffs on Greek Myth and the actual Odyssey and aren't afraid to get real dark. People straight up die. The Sysiphus one was a gut punch. ("welp, I had a chance to get out, but I acted like an asshole, so I'm just gonna have to accept that I'll be pushing rocks for the rest of eternity. Shit.")
- Theme song aside, even the background music slaps pretty hard. Lots of variety too, from mellow 80s sci-fi synths to straight-up rocking guitar riffs during action scenes
- Ulysses, in general, comes off as a pretty reasonable, aspirational hero (the writers opted, perhaps wisely, to omit Odysseus' more murdery tendencies in this characterization)
- In fact, in one extended action scene, Ulysses acts like a total badass, visibly sweats and worries, and barely says a word throughout. No quips, no over-exposition about what is happening, just stoic badassery, and I appreciated that
- Most of the episodes actually have a moral, derived from the story told, but isn't presented ham-fistedly as many 80s cartoons did, it's just seamlessly introduced in the denouement of the episode. Like, in the Sysiphus example above, Zeus tells Sysiphus: "Ulysees came here to help you, and you attacked him! You would have escaped this place if you hadn't let your pride get in the way!" which is exactly what happened in the episode and a moral lesson that can totally apply in real life.
The bad:
- Requisite 80s goofy sidekick character: NoNo
- He could be a lot worse, I suppose, (at least he doesn't have any apparent verbal tic like Snarf or something) and, in fact, he is instrumental to the plot in a couple of episodes so far, but still... sigh...
- Only other main characters aside from the titular one are kids. Kids loooooove picking up the stupid ball. Way too many of the episodes revolve around one of the kids doing something stupid and Ulysses having to go save them
- The voice acting is pretty wooden. Not "bad" per se, but definitely stilted. (i.e. "Look, it is Ulysses, my father, he is over there! I am so happy to see him!") It also does that thing a lot of early anime does where the actors speed-talk and talk over each other to match the voice flaps, which can get off-putting at times.
Anyways, highly recommended! Glad I (sorta) re-discovered it. Super recommended if you're a Greek Myth fan!
They're just going to give us shots of empty sets and patch in all the characters a year later.
I want the end of the first season to be the bombs dropping and the screen going black, and then the main character waking up in a horse-drawn cart in a snowy forest.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I just watched My Spy on Amazon. It was cute. Dave Bautista continues to be great.
So. YTTV is going up $15/mo. We are considering moving to Hulu+Live TV but my mom also uses my YTTV sub, which I understand you can't do on Hulu even with the "unlimited devices" add-on because she's in a different zip code.
Is that right?
Also we're finishing the first season of Dark and while it took a while to get started, it's great!
So. YTTV is going up $15/mo. We are considering moving to Hulu+Live TV but my mom also uses my YTTV sub, which I understand you can't do on Hulu even with the "unlimited devices" add-on because she's in a different zip code.
Is that right?
Also we're finishing the first season of Dark and while it took a while to get started, it's great!
Looks like you only get one household, yes. (This appears specific to the Live TV upgrade, and not the base service.)
Warrior Nun is..... ok? It tries to do the action movie thing, but I dont think it quite makes it. It's a lot more buffy the vampire slayer movie than the series, as to say it keeps trying to take itself more seriously than tongue in cheek/funny. It does the thing where in the final act is introduces a bunch of B plots that you have to wait till season 2 to have any movement on which has always been annoying in these shows.
Also sort of related, I don't have a source, I think the news right now is still 'theres onctractual issues with the lead' for Lucifer's final season. It sounds like they got resolved quickly and the next season is done shooting. It also sounds like in the negotiations they established that there is one more season after this one to wrap stuff up. This season is going to be 16 eps, released in two 8 episode parts, first part this fall. I wonder if netflix is going to move to split season realeases. It felt like voltron and other shows were doing this but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. edit: It might be split because of covid stopping production.
Warrior Nun is..... ok? It tries to do the action movie thing, but I dont think it quite makes it. It's a lot more buffy the vampire slayer movie than the series, as to say it keeps trying to take itself more seriously than tongue in cheek/funny. It does the thing where in the final act is introduces a bunch of B plots that you have to wait till season 2 to have any movement on which has always been annoying in these shows.
Also sort of related, I don't have a source, I think the news right now is still 'theres onctractual issues with the lead' for Lucifer's final season. It sounds like they got resolved quickly and the next season is done shooting. It also sounds like in the negotiations they established that there is one more season after this one to wrap stuff up. This season is going to be 16 eps, released in two 8 episode parts, first part this fall. I wonder if netflix is going to move to split season realeases. It felt like voltron and other shows were doing this but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. edit: It might be split because of covid stopping production.
I quite like Warrior Nun, it’s basically Buffy set in Spain.
Looking forward to more Lucifer, and I’m glad it’s 16 eps, the last season felt so short.
So many things they can do, and places to go. I can’t wait to see what whacky stuff they have in store.
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One of my favorite shows, I've been rewatching it too, even though the new episodes aren't coming for a loooong time.
Looks like I've got something to watch this weekend.
This made me feel physically ill watching it. Like feeling vomit coming up my throat.
(this band stand wasn't double bolted!)
Dab on all others with these new Netflix additions:
-A Bridge Too Far
-Airplane
-Batman Mask of the Phantasm
-Clash of the Titans '81
-Donnie Brasco
-I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
-Kangaroo Jack
-Karate Kid 1-3 (!!!!!!!! probably because they signed up the Cobra Kai series to bring it over to Netflix with Season 3)
-Mean Streets
-Million Dollar Baby
-Poltergeist '82
-Shaft '71
-Spaceballs
-Stardust
-Splice (lolololololol)
-Stand and Deliver (HOW DO I REECH THESE KEEEEEDZ?)
-Sucker Punch
-Swordfish
-The Art of War
-The Town
-Total Recall '90
-The Witches (!!!)
Not to say that Kipo isn't also predictable but it's more efficient about it.
My Backloggery
It's very good, and if all you have is the basic childhood memories of the movies, that's enough to enjoy the show. I don't know that watching them again is a good idea.
Oh, I'm fully expecting to cringe at what I once thought was great.
My Backloggery
It holds up.
Karate Kid 1 and 2 are still great, even though they absolutely strain credulity in the most 80s ways possible.
I only saw Cobra Kai season 1. I disliked having to use Youtube so much I didn't bother with 2, but I remember it being fun in a vaguely home move/fan film kinda way.
The trailer looks like it might be more fun than it has any right to be.
Looks like a modern Buffy, maybe ?
Say WHAAAAT?!!!
Fallout is getting an Amazon series, with the producers of Westworld attached to the project.
I don't think there's anyone left at Bethesda that remembers what made Fallout compelling.
Still nobody has cleaned up the skeletons.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
In the headcanon, the Fallout games take place ~25-50 years after the bombs fell and everyone is just wrong about how long it's been. That's the only way I can reconcile the world they built with the story they're telling.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Sets will be filled with rubble and debris, with the ceilings above mysteriously intact.
I'd watch it.
But...I watch a lot of TV.
Except we're talking about Westworld producers here, so the stinger is the vault door opening only to reveal the vault inside long abandoned.
Ha! And don't forget Season 3 when you find out the vault is inside...a bigger vault.
I'm going to start it tonight.
I watched the trailer and was like 'ok I'll give it a shot'
and then this phrase happened "Fucks given? NUN" and I stopped watching the trailer. I'm still on the fence.
Does this description help?
"Fighting evil? Hell, it could become a habit."
They're just going to give us shots of empty sets and patch in all the characters a year later.
Toy Galaxy posted a history of 80s French/Japanese Anime Ulysses 31. (linky:
I was but a bambino when that thing came out, but I did have vague memories of the intro song (though in my case, it was the French version).
Bemused, I go to youtube to look it up and find every episode is available for streaming:
Dudes... I'm not even kidding, this thing holds up! I have no real nostalgia for it as I didn't really watch it as a kid, but I'm 5 episodes in now and I am seriously, non-ironically, digging this!
First, the obvious:
- The theme song is the best kind of earworm
- Yeah, it rips off Star Wars pretty hard (including the sound design. I mean, Ulysses straight up has a lightsaber, with the same sound and everything, and I definitely heard some TIE fighter engine noises in there too)
Next, the good:
- The animation is actually pretty solid, especially considering the standards at the time. Haven't seen any super-obvious looping or recycled frames (though I'm sure there's some)
- Ship and creature designs are, for the most part, pretty freaking cool! So far my favorites have been the Cyclops and Hydra
- Stories are riffs on Greek Myth and the actual Odyssey and aren't afraid to get real dark. People straight up die. The Sysiphus one was a gut punch. ("welp, I had a chance to get out, but I acted like an asshole, so I'm just gonna have to accept that I'll be pushing rocks for the rest of eternity. Shit.")
- Theme song aside, even the background music slaps pretty hard. Lots of variety too, from mellow 80s sci-fi synths to straight-up rocking guitar riffs during action scenes
- Ulysses, in general, comes off as a pretty reasonable, aspirational hero (the writers opted, perhaps wisely, to omit Odysseus' more murdery tendencies in this characterization)
- In fact, in one extended action scene, Ulysses acts like a total badass, visibly sweats and worries, and barely says a word throughout. No quips, no over-exposition about what is happening, just stoic badassery, and I appreciated that
- Most of the episodes actually have a moral, derived from the story told, but isn't presented ham-fistedly as many 80s cartoons did, it's just seamlessly introduced in the denouement of the episode. Like, in the Sysiphus example above, Zeus tells Sysiphus: "Ulysees came here to help you, and you attacked him! You would have escaped this place if you hadn't let your pride get in the way!" which is exactly what happened in the episode and a moral lesson that can totally apply in real life.
The bad:
- Requisite 80s goofy sidekick character: NoNo
- He could be a lot worse, I suppose, (at least he doesn't have any apparent verbal tic like Snarf or something) and, in fact, he is instrumental to the plot in a couple of episodes so far, but still... sigh...
- Only other main characters aside from the titular one are kids. Kids loooooove picking up the stupid ball. Way too many of the episodes revolve around one of the kids doing something stupid and Ulysses having to go save them
- The voice acting is pretty wooden. Not "bad" per se, but definitely stilted. (i.e. "Look, it is Ulysses, my father, he is over there! I am so happy to see him!") It also does that thing a lot of early anime does where the actors speed-talk and talk over each other to match the voice flaps, which can get off-putting at times.
Anyways, highly recommended! Glad I (sorta) re-discovered it. Super recommended if you're a Greek Myth fan!
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I want the end of the first season to be the bombs dropping and the screen going black, and then the main character waking up in a horse-drawn cart in a snowy forest.
Is that right?
Also we're finishing the first season of Dark and while it took a while to get started, it's great!
Looks like you only get one household, yes. (This appears specific to the Live TV upgrade, and not the base service.)
Also sort of related, I don't have a source, I think the news right now is still 'theres onctractual issues with the lead' for Lucifer's final season. It sounds like they got resolved quickly and the next season is done shooting. It also sounds like in the negotiations they established that there is one more season after this one to wrap stuff up. This season is going to be 16 eps, released in two 8 episode parts, first part this fall. I wonder if netflix is going to move to split season realeases. It felt like voltron and other shows were doing this but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. edit: It might be split because of covid stopping production.
I quite like Warrior Nun, it’s basically Buffy set in Spain.
Looking forward to more Lucifer, and I’m glad it’s 16 eps, the last season felt so short.
So many things they can do, and places to go. I can’t wait to see what whacky stuff they have in store.