The fact that Daniel is offering free lessons kinda inclines me to root against him. He's only able to do that because he's rich. Don't forget he tried to sabotage Cobra Kai in the first season by getting the landlord to raise the rent on every business in the strip mall.
My thing is Final Space does the whole tight knit crew thing and the Orville does Star Trek but slightly more casual and both do it better so Im kind of set. Also I dont like any of the characters
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goddamn I could sit and watch people do impressions of mark proksch for...well, probably forever
What We Do in the Shadows is not a perfect show, but Colin Robinson is a Perfect Character
We were halfway through the first episode, the first time either of us had seen any of the show, and my wife turned to me and said "he's your favorite isn't he" and I said yes. I love Colin Robinson.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I don't know that I have a favorite, I like all of them
So I've started watching Raised by Wolves. I've seen two episodes (I had to pause because there are so many hints and mythos references that I need to unpack) and my hypemeter is right now at 11 out of 10 Xenomorphs.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
The season finale is next week and the two episodes that dropped this weekend are imo the best
idk if I'd say it's the best Ridley Scott project in a long time, but it's the one I've felt most satisfied by in a long time, and a Lot would have to go wrong in the last episode to really change that
So I've started watching Raised by Wolves. I've seen two episodes (I had to pause because there are so many hints and mythos references that I need to unpack) and my hypemeter is right now at 11 out of 10 Xenomorphs.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
So I've started watching Raised by Wolves. I've seen two episodes (I had to pause because there are so many hints and mythos references that I need to unpack) and my hypemeter is right now at 11 out of 10 Xenomorphs.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
Mythos like Cthulhu?
Well. Some. Pretty cryptic ones too. But mostly I used it in the more generalized sense of mythos. References from numberology, obvious and hidden bible references, pre-christian religions, crusader myths etc.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Hah. Star Trek Lower Decks had a proper Star Trek cameo.
Actual John De Lancie Q!
This was the first tolerable, bordering on good, episode. I hope the series becomes more this and less the first 7 episodes.
Also they go to Romulus so I guess this takes place after 90s Trek but before the supernova?
Edit: oh yeah except for that one joke at the end of the other episode which was also fantastic.
Considering they have mentioned Picard and the Enterprise as being actively out there doing stuff and the flashback to Mariner on DS9 with the TNG Movies/Late DS9 uniforms, I figure it has to be a couple of years after Nemesis.
Hah. Star Trek Lower Decks had a proper Star Trek cameo.
Actual John De Lancie Q!
This was the first tolerable, bordering on good, episode. I hope the series becomes more this and less the first 7 episodes.
Also they go to Romulus so I guess this takes place after 90s Trek but before the supernova?
Edit: oh yeah except for that one joke at the end of the other episode which was also fantastic.
Considering they have mentioned Picard and the Enterprise as being actively out there doing stuff and the flashback to Mariner on DS9 with the TNG Movies/Late DS9 uniforms, I figure it has to be a couple of years after Nemesis.
They’ve mentioned Picard making wine, lots of wine
So I've started watching Raised by Wolves. I've seen two episodes (I had to pause because there are so many hints and mythos references that I need to unpack) and my hypemeter is right now at 11 out of 10 Xenomorphs.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
I’d say it’s worth watching. It has ups and downs but it hasn’t gone like off track or anything yet.
We got the free year of apple TV and are checking out Ted Lasso, the show where a college football coach gets hired to coach (tank) a premier league team.
We’ve watched the 9 available episodes and I’ve decided it’s the best show on TV, at least until Better Call Saul comes back. People should absolutely check it out - don’t let the crazy premise dissuade you.
Looking forward to the finale on Friday and then season 2 whenever it gets finished.
Can you imagine having to go through microfiche for hours to find census records on a stretchy liver man?
Not a search box to be found!
The 90s were scary!
Microfiche is terrifying, because if you put it in the wrong drawer it's just gone forever. My first library job was the night shift in a university government documents department, and an evergreen task was flipping through the microfiche drawers looking for misfiled envelopes.
So I've started watching Raised by Wolves. I've seen two episodes (I had to pause because there are so many hints and mythos references that I need to unpack) and my hypemeter is right now at 11 out of 10 Xenomorphs.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
I was pretty ehhh about the first episode, but I've since binged through the rest of the episodes this weekend and I've completely turned around on it. It's absolutely one of my favourite shows of the year.
Also something about the title sequence just scares the absolute shit out of me.
Can you imagine having to go through microfiche for hours to find census records on a stretchy liver man?
Not a search box to be found!
The 90s were scary!
Not as Scary as the guy playing the stretchy liver man
Toomey, monster in the show, monster all around.
"A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
I just saw an ad for a show on Peacock called Noughts + Crosses where the premise is that Africa colonized Europe 700 years ago and whites are a suppressed underclass.
Like, I don't know what to think of this. Has anyone seen it?
I just saw an ad for a show on Peacock called Noughts + Crosses where the premise is that Africa colonized Europe 700 years ago and whites are a suppressed underclass.
Like, I don't know what to think of this. Has anyone seen it?
Haven't seen it, but it SOUNDS godawful
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I just saw an ad for a show on Peacock called Noughts + Crosses where the premise is that Africa colonized Europe 700 years ago and whites are a suppressed underclass.
Like, I don't know what to think of this. Has anyone seen it?
I haven't seen the show, but the books it's based on are extremely well-regarded and near the top of my reading list. Unless the producers have completely fucked up, the story thoughtfully points out the stupidity of racism by framing it in unfamiliar ways rather than just using the hook for surface-level shock value.
I just saw an ad for a show on Peacock called Noughts + Crosses where the premise is that Africa colonized Europe 700 years ago and whites are a suppressed underclass.
Like, I don't know what to think of this. Has anyone seen it?
Haven't seen it, but it SOUNDS godawful
Looking into it a bit, apparently it's based on a series of British YA novels written by a black woman that were fairly popular over in the UK and the people in charge of making the show are black, so I dunno. Maybe this is less of a charged premise for a piece of media over in the UK than the US.
I do know I'm most likely not going to subscribe to Peacock just because I'm curious, though.
I just really hate "What if colonized people were, themselves, colonizers????" One of my pet peeve genre tropes.
It does this inadvertent thing where it makes it seem like colonization just happens, like it's natural and unavoidable, like the only variable is who does it first. It also (and again, inadvertently) justifies the paranoid fantasies of racists. One of the big fears racists have, one of their justifications for suppression of rights is, "If we give our victims too much power, they will do to us what we did to them."
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
The idea that any other people, in our place, would have done the exact same thing feels like it excuses and rationalizes colonization and oppression as a natural course of action.
Like I get that in this case the creative team is black, but it feels like a thing that would be created to assuage white guilt.
Now I kinda want a dark comedy where white people panic so much about the other side doing what they would do, they accidentally colonize themselves, while everyone else is just confused about them and trying to go about their day. Tucker and Dale style
Now I kinda want a dark comedy where white people panic so much about the other side doing what they would do, they accidentally colonize themselves, while everyone else is just confused about them and trying to go about their day. Tucker and Dale style
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ain't gonna see my tailor till the pandemic's over!
One heavy wind is all it took. They were basically parachutes with a button fly
guess it is my lot to spend my life gazing enviously at lean women in tuxes.
Ah, my favorite David Sedaris book.
What We Do in the Shadows is not a perfect show, but Colin Robinson is a Perfect Character
This was the first tolerable, bordering on good, episode. I hope the series becomes more this and less the first 7 episodes.
Also they go to Romulus so I guess this takes place after 90s Trek but before the supernova?
Edit: oh yeah except for that one joke at the end of the other episode which was also fantastic.
We were halfway through the first episode, the first time either of us had seen any of the show, and my wife turned to me and said "he's your favorite isn't he" and I said yes. I love Colin Robinson.
I don't want any real spoilers, but can someone tell me if I should maintain this hype level or prepare myself for Lost level disappointment?
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
idk if I'd say it's the best Ridley Scott project in a long time, but it's the one I've felt most satisfied by in a long time, and a Lot would have to go wrong in the last episode to really change that
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Mythos like Cthulhu?
Well. Some. Pretty cryptic ones too. But mostly I used it in the more generalized sense of mythos. References from numberology, obvious and hidden bible references, pre-christian religions, crusader myths etc.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Considering they have mentioned Picard and the Enterprise as being actively out there doing stuff and the flashback to Mariner on DS9 with the TNG Movies/Late DS9 uniforms, I figure it has to be a couple of years after Nemesis.
They’ve mentioned Picard making wine, lots of wine
So yeah that sounds about right
I’d say it’s worth watching. It has ups and downs but it hasn’t gone like off track or anything yet.
Kirk A. Moore is a super nice, super funny guy, and this is a pretty fun concept for a show!
Looking forward to the finale on Friday and then season 2 whenever it gets finished.
Can you imagine having to go through microfiche for hours to find census records on a stretchy liver man?
Not a search box to be found!
The 90s were scary!
Not as Scary as the guy playing the stretchy liver man
Microfiche is terrifying, because if you put it in the wrong drawer it's just gone forever. My first library job was the night shift in a university government documents department, and an evergreen task was flipping through the microfiche drawers looking for misfiled envelopes.
I was pretty ehhh about the first episode, but I've since binged through the rest of the episodes this weekend and I've completely turned around on it. It's absolutely one of my favourite shows of the year.
Also something about the title sequence just scares the absolute shit out of me.
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Toomey, monster in the show, monster all around.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Like, I don't know what to think of this. Has anyone seen it?
Haven't seen it, but it SOUNDS godawful
I haven't seen the show, but the books it's based on are extremely well-regarded and near the top of my reading list. Unless the producers have completely fucked up, the story thoughtfully points out the stupidity of racism by framing it in unfamiliar ways rather than just using the hook for surface-level shock value.
Looking into it a bit, apparently it's based on a series of British YA novels written by a black woman that were fairly popular over in the UK and the people in charge of making the show are black, so I dunno. Maybe this is less of a charged premise for a piece of media over in the UK than the US.
I do know I'm most likely not going to subscribe to Peacock just because I'm curious, though.
It does this inadvertent thing where it makes it seem like colonization just happens, like it's natural and unavoidable, like the only variable is who does it first. It also (and again, inadvertently) justifies the paranoid fantasies of racists. One of the big fears racists have, one of their justifications for suppression of rights is, "If we give our victims too much power, they will do to us what we did to them."
Like I get that in this case the creative team is black, but it feels like a thing that would be created to assuage white guilt.
The Gang Gets Colonized