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A MIRACLE posted:Elden ring is sick. To be fair, this was already baked into pretty much everything about Dany from the jump.
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A MIRACLE posted:Elden ring is sick. They are irredeemable assholes so yeah, master race fits, in that they make everything horrible for everyone else but do not succeed. Except maybe in the PROPHECY of Ice and Fire and saving Westeros sort of. And Aegon is cool I guess. Some Dark Side guys get cool swords and armor and victory moves. Also RE: Prestige TV, it seems like a call back to "trust us and wait for it" which has been abused pretty thoroughly but also had its upsides. Slow burns are great and often enjoyable, especially at a binge pace, but having a payoff is expected. When the payoff is GoT season 8 or pick your failure it erodes that trust.
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I think I just got confused by the Rasta Targaryen, he seemed like a stand in to show they aren’t racist but I still thought they were if that makes sense
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A MIRACLE posted:I think I just got confused by the Rasta Targaryen, he seemed like a stand in to show they aren’t racist but I still thought they were if that makes sense It would be interesting/horrible if they had some kind of backstory as to why he wasn't "alabaster-skinned" or however they describe Targs but it's probably more likely just the modern trend to cast actors without regard to race*. *in a very calculated way that must never be talked about or made fun of in "behind the scenes" skits and suchlike because actually it is good after all
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Also RE: Prestige TV, it seems like a call back to "trust us and wait for it" which has been abused pretty thoroughly but also had its upsides. Slow burns are great and often enjoyable, especially at a binge pace, but having a payoff is expected. I'm having less and less patience with mystery box shows that reveal little to nothing in their first season. The mystery needs to be unwrapping the entire time, you can't just inundate the audience with weeeeeeird stuff constantly before they'll grow tired and frustrated. But actually, you can do some of that if the characters and story otherwise are compelling. I was a huge Lost fan back in the day, felt burned by the finale, and didn't watch it again for years. Then I rewatched it again during the start of the pandemic, and sure, the ending still sucks, but I had forgotten how much I loved all these characters, and how funny even some of the more filler episodes could be. The show had problems, but there was a reason why it was so huge.
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A MIRACLE posted:I think I just got confused by the Rasta Targaryen, he seemed like a stand in to show they aren’t racist but I still thought they were if that makes sense Why is your first reaction to seeing a black person on TV to call him "rasta" and assume he is there to make the show less racist, man?
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Cause everyone there was white as gently caress I guess idk. I get he’s not really rasta
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I'm gonna nerd out a little bit on the Dragon Show: Corlys Velaryon is a Velaryon, not a Targaryen. Two different families, both from the same region that was destroyed by a volcano. House Velaryon is apparently a vassal of House Targaryen but the show is of course getting into some political schemes.
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A MIRACLE posted:I think I just got confused by the Rasta Targaryen, he seemed like a stand in to show they aren’t racist but I still thought they were if that makes sense Do you mean Corlys? I feel like they go out of their way to tell you he married in
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The genre is called fantasy. You gotta ask yourself if your fantasy is a world where black people don’t exist
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GonSmithe posted:assume he is there to make the show less racist, man? Well, I mean… he is. GRRM even tried to take a little credit by saying he was totally thinking of making the Velaryons black(but then he didn’t) so he’s glad the show did. It’s a good thing these guys are no longer all 100% insanely white though, but I guess they have to stick with the white hair no matter what.
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I'm back on Netflix, and I'm 8 episodes into Sandman. All of the stuff in the dreamworld and Morpheus is really interesting, but all of the real world stuff is tonally inconsistent, and full of hokey, terrible acting, especially the actress who plays Rose Walker. A lot of the dialogue also doesn't sound very natural. Edit: just figured out that a lot of this has to do with the fact that this was filmed entirely in England, and that 90% of the cast are English actors playing American. A lot of them are overemphasizing the American R, and have a weird cadence with how they're speaking. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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itt that Elden Ring would actually make a good Netflix show. just have a bunch of one-off stories about Ranni, Hogaak, Wizard Mom, etc
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Yeah, but they'd never do that. Instead they'd do some grand overarching deep-worldbuilding mythos-encompassing wold-ending nonsense to out-epic all of the other epic fantasy shows. Hollywood is incapable of understanding that small-stakes episodic fantasy is the best way to make the genre shine.
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im watching the patient, I'm not really sure what kind of show this is supposed to be yet. its kinda cool, there are a lot of musical stings to remind you how tesne the situation is!
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, but they'd never do that. Instead they'd do some grand overarching deep-worldbuilding mythos-encompassing wold-ending nonsense to out-epic all of the other epic fantasy shows. Hollywood is incapable of understanding that small-stakes episodic fantasy is the best way to make the genre shine. I feel like the Witcher did pretty well with the monster of the week premise. The first season was kinda inconsistent but I think they did a lot better on the second season, I hope it keeps going and improves.
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Famethrowa posted:https://ew.com/tv/tv-reviews/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-amazon/ I’m trying to be less mean spirited but I want this to fail so bad. I’m sorry LOTR fans, it’s purely out of hate for Amazon. Edit: that article was not very convincing to me though. And the screenshots look pretty good. I guess we’ll see tomorrow! Starks fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Starks posted:I’m trying to be less mean spirited but I want this to fail so bad. I’m sorry LOTR fans, it’s purely out of hate for Amazon. I read a review by io9 saying that the first few episodes are very slow to start, but then the show starts to pick up steam from there
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It's cool that in 2022 everyone can be talking about LOTR and GOT again, and probably watch an Avatar movie before the end of the year
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Is it, though...? I mean, I hope they're all good but I'd rather be talking about interesting-looking stuff that isn't based on a pre-existing franchise.
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Starks posted:I’m trying to be less mean spirited but I want this to fail so bad. I’m sorry LOTR fans, it’s purely out of hate for Amazon. Hoping a franchise I like fails because it's owned by a big company is not a good take
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Field Mousepad posted:Hoping a franchise I like fails because it's owned by a big company is not a good take it's a tv show not a person. it's ok.
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mystes posted:It's cool that in 2022 everyone can be talking about LOTR and GOT again, and probably watch an Avatar movie before the end of the year We also got a Predator movie that will probably be the best of these sequels
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Worth noting many of the reviews for rings of power were a bit more positive than the EW article, but everyone only got the two episodes to review so it's kind of hard to say how it's going to turn out.
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Famethrowa posted:it's a tv show not a person. it's ok. I was very irritated by the half-wits who kludged together The Dark Tower movie and can be upset if Amazon wastes potential like that. Them wasting hundreds of millions in the process is cold comfort though.
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Famethrowa posted:it's a tv show not a person. it's ok. Eh still not a good look
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Field Mousepad posted:Hoping a franchise I like fails because it's owned by a big company is not a good take It’s not really a take, it’s just how I feel. I can’t control what my heart roots for. I already apologized. it’s also not about the franchise but about the fact they spent a billion goddamn dollars on it. I hope you get a really good LOTR anime instead Starks fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Kingtheninja posted:Worth noting many of the reviews for rings of power were a bit more positive than the EW article, but everyone only got the two episodes to review so it's kind of hard to say how it's going to turn out. Yep the reviewers seem to be pretty good so far overall (nice cherry picking the worst review out there), but since only 2 episodes none of it matters.
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I'm willing to believe this is a hoax tweet https://twitter.com/BigGulpAmerikan/status/1565085151318745089
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm willing to believe this is a hoax tweet it's absolutely not the intro (https://ew.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-cover-story/), but lmao what a weird little clip https://twitter.com/boobastank/status/1565123769059926017 Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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lmao that works too perfectly. It needs name subtitles though.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm willing to believe this is a hoax tweet Floating faces? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtYuG6MgX8 mystes posted:lmao that works too perfectly. It needs name subtitles though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-Vzn38PYw Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm willing to believe this is a hoax tweet https://twitter.com/transparencyboo/status/1565140014559907848 https://twitter.com/Adequate_Scott/status/1565159658758836227 DEAR GOD. Gonz fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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