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Dongattack posted:I don't like non sci-fi/fantasy stuff, but i forgot that The Expanse was a thing i wanted to check out, cheers! Yeah it's both. Also, The Magicians, while not as great as the other three shows I mentioned, is fairly ok and I don't really like fantasy or fantasy-inspired stuff.
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I enjoyed S1 of Colony and S2 is still airing or just finished (I'm saving it to binge).
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Longbaugh01 posted:Yeah it's both. Is the The Magicians just Mopey but Sexy Harry Potter or am I thinking about a different show?
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homullus posted:It is a superhero thing that is also about mental illness. I'd say it is a mental health thing that is also, tangentially, about people who have powers and are not particularly heroic, really.
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Aleph Null posted:Is the The Magicians just Mopey but Sexy Harry Potter or am I thinking about a different show? In S2 they turned down the emo stuff a little and made the show a little more self aware and laughing at itself. But yeah, its mostly mopey, sexy Harry Potter/Narnia.
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Aleph Null posted:Is the The Magicians just Mopey but Sexy Harry Potter or am I thinking about a different show? Like Stac Goat kinda said, yeah first season was a lot of that, but second season cut it back by a lot and it's generally accepted to have changed for the better and gotten notice. There was a fun episode where they plan and execute a bank heist using MAGIC.
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I don't know if they toned it down "a lot." But its definitely been tweaked so that only like half the cast is outwardly depressed at any given time. Or actually, they're all probably depressed but they're much more active with crazy magical things to do to keep their minds off it instead of just sitting around getting wasted all the time like in S1.
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Mid-20's depression is like a staple of the books it's based on and the show in general, so that's never going away anyway. This season has just generally had too much going one at any one time for it to get to season one levels. IMO. Though I guess you basically said the same thing.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're all still depressed for a variety of reasons (and I think it goes well beyond "mid-20s" "What am I going to do with my life?" stuff and to full on clinical depression and grief) but they're too busy to wallow in it. Like, you got a perfect example of that this past episode where one of the characters starts the episode drinking out of depression and then another grabs the glass and says "you have poo poo to do." In season 1 they would have just gotten wasted together for half the episode and then done something self destructive.
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Pan Dulce posted:I knew it! I knew she was going to go by that name. That is her name.
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pee out my butt posted:That is her name. Seems to be a debated point.
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STAC Goat posted:I enjoyed S1 of Colony and S2 is still airing or just finished (I'm saving it to binge). The finale is next Thursday. The consensus is it's not quite as strong as S1 but still pretty good for what it is.
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Mmmmm gratuitous beefcake shirtlessness in the new promo. I missed you Brett Dalton
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Phylodox posted:I'd say it is a mental health thing that is also, tangentially, about people who have powers and are not particularly heroic, really. I'd say it's loving incredible and trying to put it in a box of some sort does it a tremendous disservice. This isn't a knock against anyone here, I just want to emphasize how drat good it is.
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Chokes McGee posted:I'd say it's loving incredible and trying to put it in a box of some sort does it a tremendous disservice. The comic it was loosely based on was also wonderful
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Longbaugh01 posted:Also, The Magicians, while not as great as the other three shows I mentioned, is fairly ok and I don't really like fantasy or fantasy-inspired stuff. Magicians is a perfect example of what happens when you went to make a genre show, but don't have any budget. Pretty much all the terrible writing in season one can be blamed on poor writing, due them not being able to afford sets or magic. It does get better in the second season though, once they run out of good material and just start making up boring stories on their own.
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Oasx posted:Pretty much all the terrible writing in season one can be blamed on poor writing But you repeat yourself. (Also, I'm not even sure what you're trying to say. It's not a great show by any means, but if the writing was as consistently bad as you seem to be saying, then I wouldn't have binged the first season, some of the second, and kept watching.)
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OB_Juan posted:Seems to be a debated point. 
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Slashrat posted:I like that Daisy's immediate instinct upon seeing Ward was to tremor him into paste. What's great is she is probably going through some really hosed up emotional poo poo because she's not even really thinking of him as Ward right away, but as Hive, the creature that mindfucked her last season.
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Keshik posted:What's great is she is probably going through some really hosed up emotional poo poo because she's not even really thinking of him as Ward right away, but as Hive, the creature that mindfucked her last season. And then thinking of him as Ward, who spent a significant amount of time loving with her mind.
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I hope it will be a mini redemption story for Ward, i really like the character 
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Dongattack posted:I hope it will be a mini redemption story for Ward, i really like the character I hope Ward gets downloaded into an LMD.
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Just binged Legion, thanks for suggesting it, it was pretty good. Aubrey Plaza stole the show really hard tho, which isn't "bad" i guess, just made everyone else except David seem kinda boring.
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Dongattack posted:Just binged Legion, thanks for suggesting it, it was pretty good. Aubrey Plaza stole the show really hard tho, which isn't "bad" i guess, just made everyone else except David seem kinda boring. Jermaine Clement and Bill Irwin were anything but boring.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Jermaine Clement and Bill Irwin were anything but boring. Ok.
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Um, possible spoiler? If so, I'm down with it.
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That promo clip made me all tingly with anticipation. Can't wait for Tuesday!
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Dongattack posted:Just binged Legion, thanks for suggesting it, it was pretty good. Aubrey Plaza stole the show really hard tho, which isn't "bad" i guess, just made everyone else except David seem kinda boring. Aubrey 's performance is so amazing that this is more a complement than a detriment. Plus, the scene where SK is rampaging around in David's memories. Rawr.
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Well, I guess we know what Mace has been doing in the Framework. Being loving awesome.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Well, I guess we know what Mace has been doing in the Framework. Being loving awesome. live your dream, Jeff.
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I'm hoping either Mace or Ward is the framework-verse Captain America. Not sure which would be funnier.
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Javid posted:I'm hoping either Mace or Ward is the framework-verse Captain America. Not sure which would be funnier. Mace will be. If a certain amount of the Framework is wish-fulfillment, Mace being a hero fighting the good fight completely makes sense.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Well, I guess we know what Mace has been doing in the Framework. Being loving awesome. Hell yes
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Dongattack posted:I hope it will be a mini redemption story for Ward, i really like the character Oh boy, not pointing figures but you made me realize there's a mortal lock that if Ward is anything short of totally evil in this storyline it will spark a whole online "redemption" thing for him that ignores that that ain't Ward, but just a computer simulation that Aida thinks will make Daisy complacent.
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Javid posted:I'm hoping either Mace or Ward is the framework-verse Captain America. Not sure which would be funnier. Davis.
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RareAcumen posted:Davis. Koenig.
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Lance.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Koenig. Which one?
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Fauxshiz posted:Which one? Why limit yourself to one?
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vlad3217 posted:Why limit yourself to one? God could you imagine? Every corner you turn there's pudgy, slow Captain America. HOW THE gently caress IS HE DOING THIS?
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