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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Great to see @Kiwiwomble and @Machpants outing themselves as neckbeards.
I outed myself ages ago, search dnd on the forum, I probably come up the most
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA some people need to realise how much of what they hold dear is just their own head cannon, shit they inferred
from what i understand the source material is a few chapters from the Silmarillion...the show runners are going to have added their own shit....the difference being they paid for the rights to do so rather than sitting in their basement....i say this having been through a pretty major Tolkien phase that may have included time on a Tolkien forum.....
Nah this series only has the rights to the appendices of lotr, that's 250 million US for the appendices. Tolkien is a God!
Anyway there's a fuck load more head canon required to full in the gaps in the story to make anything coherent from just appendices!
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
anyone watching The Bear on disney+?
the guy that plays Lip in the US Shameless, we liked it, start of and the characters are just pretty unlikeable....but then you start liking them
Yep, discussed it early in the thread.
The penultimate show is one of the best episodes of TV.
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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Great to see @Kiwiwomble and @Machpants outing themselves as neckbeards.
pretty sure i was having a go an neckbeards
@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA some people need to realise how much of what they hold dear is just their own head cannon, shit they inferred
from what i understand the source material is a few chapters from the Silmarillion...the show runners are going to have added their own shit....the difference being they paid for the rights to do so rather than sitting in their basement....i say this having been through a pretty major Tolkien phase that may have included time on a Tolkien forum.....
Nah this series only has the rights to the appendices of lotr, that's 250 million US for the appendices. Tolkien is a God!
Anyway there's a fuck load more head canon required to full in the gaps in the story to make anything coherent from just appendices!
just the appendices? wow, really testing me here but the Silmarillion and the appendices cover a bit of the same turf?
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
anyone watching The Bear on disney+?
the guy that plays Lip in the US Shameless, we liked it, start of and the characters are just pretty unlikeable....but then you start liking them
Yep, I'm into it 7eps in. Loved Shameless and Lip, but I reckon the chick is the star of this series, she's a great actress.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
The run of bad final season of shows continues. I think Peaky Blinders was the worst of the lot. What a terrible final season. I've always found the show to have iffy writing but it's always been enjoyable. This season was just tiresome which makes it harder to overlook the poor scripting and characterisation. Nothing rang true at any stage.
Some main characters were sidelined and weird new characters brought in.
There's a Boston gangster character which I think the actor watched Adrien Brody on the show and decided he would have a shot at his pantomime performance crown and bloody well succeeded.
Disappointing end to a good show.
I thought Seasons 1-4 of this was some of the best TV I'd ever seen. Then season 5 was fell off a cliff, and I haven't even tried S6 yet. Doesn't sound like I should bother.
I don't rate S1-4 as high as you (as I noted above I find the writing iffy, it's an enjoyable show but I doubt it would trouble my top 30) but the quality of those seasons is markedly better than the final two. This is what happens when you introduce the piece of plank that is Adrien Brody into your show ...
Agree on the scripting, but the acting was top notch, and it was just so unique and unpredictable. I was fully invested for a while there
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Great to see @Kiwiwomble and @Machpants outing themselves as neckbeards.
pretty sure i was having a go an neckbeards
@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA some people need to realise how much of what they hold dear is just their own head cannon, shit they inferred
from what i understand the source material is a few chapters from the Silmarillion...the show runners are going to have added their own shit....the difference being they paid for the rights to do so rather than sitting in their basement....i say this having been through a pretty major Tolkien phase that may have included time on a Tolkien forum.....
Nah this series only has the rights to the appendices of lotr, that's 250 million US for the appendices. Tolkien is a God!
Anyway there's a fuck load more head canon required to full in the gaps in the story to make anything coherent from just appendices!
just the appendices? wow, really testing me here but the Silmarillion and the appendices cover a bit of the same turf?
Sure there is cross over, but there is not much in the appendices about this age. There's a lot of stuff that is irrelevant. So yeah, some very bare bones that can have black dwarves and Harfoots as a race rather than a type of hobbit
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@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
The first episode of Black Bird has some bangers on the soundtrack - Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Morphine.
I'm halfway through Yellowjackets - and quite enjoying the soundtrack on that too... Portishead, Nirvana, Garbage, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr, Janes Addiction - pretty much taking every good, (and bad,) song from 1996 to match the time-setting.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
The Resort (think I had seen reviews in here)
So so, some pretty good stuff, couple of slow eps and bit of a lame ending.
Same feeling here
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@Kruse I wasn't taken by that series...I havent checked if a 2nd session had been lined up, but you do not find out alot by end of s1
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@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Great to see @Kiwiwomble and @Machpants outing themselves as neckbeards.
pretty sure i was having a go an neckbeards
@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA some people need to realise how much of what they hold dear is just their own head cannon, shit they inferred
from what i understand the source material is a few chapters from the Silmarillion...the show runners are going to have added their own shit....the difference being they paid for the rights to do so rather than sitting in their basement....i say this having been through a pretty major Tolkien phase that may have included time on a Tolkien forum.....
Nah this series only has the rights to the appendices of lotr, that's 250 million US for the appendices. Tolkien is a God!
Anyway there's a fuck load more head canon required to full in the gaps in the story to make anything coherent from just appendices!
just the appendices? wow, really testing me here but the Silmarillion and the appendices cover a bit of the same turf?
Sure there is cross over, but there is not much in the appendices about this age. There's a lot of stuff that is irrelevant. So yeah, some very bare bones that can have black dwarves and Harfoots as a race rather than a type of hobbit
and thats possibly where people will get annoyed, if they only have the rights to the bare bones stuff then they'll make up a lot of stuff which might not align with the Silmarillion
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@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
LOTR: The Rings Of Power
Two episodes released on Prime Video so far. I'm enjoying it for the scenery. The production values are good.
Importantly, out in the web there are a bunch of neckbeards going off about how it doesn't agree with anything Tolkein did/wrote etc.
So that's also a plus.
I'll keep on with it.
hardcore source material fans are the fucking worst (see any Star Wars thread anywhere)
i didn't mind the start. Visually it's very cool.
I'm a hardcore source material person, but still enjoying RoP. The most off putting thing it's how the main protagonist, Galadriel, is so fucking unlikeable. Also her fight with the snow troll was so much posing, rather than fighting, it was pathetic. Like anime or some form of dance off
This scene right?
I'm not too invested in JRRR but I believe he and his son were absolutely disdainful about adaptations and messing with the world he had so painstakingly created. Having said that Tom Bombadill was farking crap and I salute PJ for not including that shit. But yeah, entertaining enough but Galadriel is unfortunately the LOTR version of Rey Skywalker.
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Great to see @Kiwiwomble and @Machpants outing themselves as neckbeards.
pretty sure i was having a go an neckbeards
@Machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA some people need to realise how much of what they hold dear is just their own head cannon, shit they inferred
from what i understand the source material is a few chapters from the Silmarillion...the show runners are going to have added their own shit....the difference being they paid for the rights to do so rather than sitting in their basement....i say this having been through a pretty major Tolkien phase that may have included time on a Tolkien forum.....
Nah this series only has the rights to the appendices of lotr, that's 250 million US for the appendices. Tolkien is a God!
Anyway there's a fuck load more head canon required to full in the gaps in the story to make anything coherent from just appendices!
just the appendices? wow, really testing me here but the Silmarillion and the appendices cover a bit of the same turf?
Sure there is cross over, but there is not much in the appendices about this age. There's a lot of stuff that is irrelevant. So yeah, some very bare bones that can have black dwarves and Harfoots as a race rather than a type of hobbit
and thats possibly where people will get annoyed, if they only have the rights to the bare bones stuff then they'll make up a lot of stuff which might not align with the Silmarillion
Yeah, it would have been cool if they ignored the 2nd Age and just focussed on the lands to the South. That would have given them a blank canvas within Tolkiens world and they could have avoided farking with the lore.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel thats the thing though...if you ignore the lore then you just have a pretty generic "fantasy" setting, elves and dwarves, wizards and trolls etc
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Rancid-Schnitzel thats the thing though...if you ignore the lore then you just have a pretty generic "fantasy" setting, elves and dwarves, wizards and trolls etc
Are you suggesting they would have to come up with something original
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@Rancid-Schnitzel its my argument for several series, even things like bond....if the plot was good then you dont need the name, its why i think the Joker was so good, they could have just called the movie something else and it would just be a great film of a dude going insane
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@Rancid-Schnitzel its my argument for several series, even things like bond....if the plot was good then you dont need the name, its why i think the Joker was so good, they could have just called the movie something else and it would just be a great film of a dude going insane
TBH, I don't think that The Joker would have been half as successful financially if it wasn't a Joker film. IIRC the director even spoke about that in interviews and the fact that it's easier to secure funding for a Joker movie.
Not that I disagree with your point about making movies with good plots that aren't already connected to other IP.
