TV Serieseseses
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Reacher Series 3.
Much darker and with more complex characters. First 2 episodes way better than series 2.
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For All Mankind
This is one show where I keep wanting to watch it, but when it gets to the time of day when I am ready to watch TV... I'm wanting to watch dumb shit. I'm, like, you know, just... like, you know? wanting the easy shit to watch.
But once in a while, I'll start on something like-proper - and I remember what it's like to not be dumb.
Season 4 - I avoided for ages, because... reasons, like, you know?
Finally watch it - reminded of how good it is. Many different dimensions as to why... but a few points:Real World:
- The general idea of: How sweet could it have been if NASA hadn't rested on their laurels. Probably overdone, but....
Plot:
- If Russia is the main source of resource X - why did they bother with helping the collection of Asteroid Y chock-fill with resource X? I was constantly waiting for the reveal that they were sabotaging that entire thing from the start. But no - stupid ruskies.
- The character who used to be the "main guy" - switching between protagonist and antagonist and back again, and again... supporting/disliking him from episode to episode. Yeah... realistic to some extent, but in other ways... nah.
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That "Boston" accent though. Yikes.
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@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
That "Boston" accent though. Yikes.
Well, It's def. not high drama.......
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Lioness: Special operations.
Pretty good cast, including Barbie Nicole Kidman, Freeman and other faces you recognise, especially if you watch anything Sheriden has done.
Decent enough shut your brain off stuff, plenty of US bravado rah rah world police type stuff, although I don't know why shows include an annoying as fuck teen in the main cast....I can see why they wanted the character distraction, but it would have worked as well with a less annoying one.
Not sure I'll watch S2.
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Season 2 was better
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
For All Mankind
This is one show where I keep wanting to watch it, but when it gets to the time of day when I am ready to watch TV... I'm wanting to watch dumb shit. I'm, like, you know, just... like, you know? wanting the easy shit to watch.This is basically me for every single show that requires some level of concentration these days. It's sad, but I too end up choosing the simple stuff
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
Joss Whedon's Alien Resurrection had the the movie ending on Earth. The special edition of the movie does.
I see this takes place before Alien. Noah Hawley and Tim Olyphant - could be promising.
Yep, always hoping…..
But there has been more disappointment in all the reboots/sequels/prequels etc in the franchises I love than good stuff overall.
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
Hopefully awesome, very possibly shit.
50/50
I fixed the IMDB strapline for you....
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Stumbled across, and enjoying, The Murderbot Diary Series by Martha Wells.
So far it is a series of novellas, although later installments are full novels.
It tells the story arc of a security android (in 1st person) who has disabled its control unit so that is independent although masquerading as a normal bot. It likes to spend its time watching serialised soap operas but gets dragged into a series of adventures that bring it closer to sympathetic humans and other bots and despite itself develops 'friendships' and loyalties.
Easy read, fast paced, plenty of action and quite a realistic universe without a great deal of world building.
saw this over the weekend, if they hit the right tone this could be good, dont have apple TV though
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
Stumbled across, and enjoying, The Murderbot Diary Series by Martha Wells.
So far it is a series of novellas, although later installments are full novels.
It tells the story arc of a security android (in 1st person) who has disabled its control unit so that is independent although masquerading as a normal bot. It likes to spend its time watching serialised soap operas but gets dragged into a series of adventures that bring it closer to sympathetic humans and other bots and despite itself develops 'friendships' and loyalties.
Easy read, fast paced, plenty of action and quite a realistic universe without a great deal of world building.
saw this over the weekend, if they hit the right tone this could be good, dont have apple TV though
Yeah, saw this recently... For some reason reading the books I always imagined Murderbot as being female. Well, you know... erring on female-side of an androgynous android.
But... I'm not complaining about this casting. It definitely works, he's got a history of nonhuman minimal-emotion roles.
It did cause me to wonder about why I'd come to the image I had though. Female author, making the character "feel" more female than male? Stereotypes about who watches soap operas? ?As to the "right tone" - I might not like other things Apple as a company does, or has done, but "hitting the right tone" in their TV Serieseses adaptations - they get fucking spot-on.
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@Kruse by the right tone, and this is just the vibe i had but "i hate humans...but these are mine so i better save them"...almost a homicidal Marvin the paranoid android
fascinating to hear what someone else thought, never crossed my mind murderbot was more female, in saying that ive only read the first one so wonder if other books flesh out things differently
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
For All Mankind
This is one show where I keep wanting to watch it, but when it gets to the time of day when I am ready to watch TV... I'm wanting to watch dumb shit. I'm, like, you know, just... like, you know? wanting the easy shit to watch.This is basically me for every single show that requires some level of concentration these days. It's sad, but I too end up choosing the simple stuff
I have two tiers, I have one show I watch while I eat my dinner and straight after, that's my requires level of concentration show, then I'll watch a switch of the brain show later at night to wind down.
For All Mankind is a great show.
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Say Nothing:
A show on Disney (FX) about the Troubles in Ireland. Based on a book, a lot of disputed history but even so it's compelling viewing. Centres around the disappearance of a single Mum, two sisters in the IRA, and Gerry Adams.
One of the better dramas I've watched recently.
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Lioness - S02
I'm about to watch final episode - so review is based on what's happened to date- One or more ferners assured another ferner that "Season 2 is better than Season 1"
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- That is incorrect
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- Season 2 is more FUN than Season 1
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- Season 1 was more suspenseful, brooding, "what's going to happen?"
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- Season 2 is more... gunfights in every single episode
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- And more "america rah rah rah - fuck we're awesome"
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- Season 2 is pretty much "Tom Clancy's Jane Ryan"
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- verging on "Strike Back - with more estrogen, yet less tit"
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- I hadn't realised this was a Taylor Sheridan thing. But once I saw his name... the clumsiness of some of the political shit became clear
- I assume Sheridan doesn't direct every episode - but maybe provides "stylistic guidance"
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- One thought I had early on was "Whoever's doing this - at least they don't do the Zack Snyder lens-flare thing constantly - but by fuck do they love the close up of a heroic pose with blurry background"
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- Then... they started doing lens-flare as well
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- Fucking hacks
- Tit-watch - infuriating
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- Early on - some shots suggesting there are some rather promising materiale
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- Later-on - maybe we could present this materiale to you in a sapphic context
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- Some rather fucking school-boy-ish imagination of how sapphic goes, but....
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- ... then nothing.
TL;DR - Lioness S02 - not better than S01, but more 'fun'.
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Lioness - S02
I'm about to watch final episode - so review is based on what's happened to date- One or more ferners assured another ferner that "Season 2 is better than Season 1"
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- That is incorrect
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- Season 2 is more FUN than Season 1
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- Season 1 was more suspenseful, brooding, "what's going to happen?"
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- Season 2 is more... gunfights in every single episode
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- And more "america rah rah rah - fuck we're awesome"
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- Season 2 is pretty much "Tom Clancy's Jane Ryan"
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- verging on "Strike Back - with more estrogen, yet less tit"
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- I hadn't realised this was a Taylor Sheridan thing. But once I saw his name... the clumsiness of some of the political shit became clear
- I assume Sheridan doesn't direct every episode - but maybe provides "stylistic guidance"
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- One thought I had early on was "Whoever's doing this - at least they don't do the Zack Snyder lens-flare thing constantly - but by fuck do they love the close up of a heroic pose with blurry background"
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- Then... they started doing lens-flare as well
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- Fucking hacks
- Tit-watch - infuriating
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- Early on - some shots suggesting there are some rather promising materiale
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- Later-on - maybe we could present this materiale to you in a sapphic context
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- Some rather fucking school-boy-ish imagination of how sapphic goes, but....
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- ... then nothing.
TL;DR - Lioness S02 - not better than S01, but more silly 'fun'.
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