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I watched Serenity in theaters with friends in college without having seen Firefly. It was a decent action flick but nothing great.
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Serenity turns all the characters into really shallow, one-note versions of themselves. The story was okay, I guess. I liked some parts of it, the ending mostly.
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Aug 23, 2017 18:35
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feedmyleg posted:The Marvel Netflix shows depress me, because it was such a good opportunity for more good serialized fantastical martial arts action. Outside of Kung-Fu, have their been any other good martial arts-based TV shows? Does Banshee count? It's not really fantastical martial arts action, and it just completely falls off a cliff in the last season, but the first three seasons have some loving gold in 'em.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Does Banshee count? It's not really fantastical martial arts action, and it just completely falls off a cliff in the last season, but the first three seasons have some loving gold in 'em. Ahh too bad I haven't finished it yet. Black Sails has some of the best action production and stunt work I've ever seen on TV. Easily cinema quality.
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feedmyleg posted:The Marvel Netflix shows depress me, because it was such a good opportunity for more good serialized fantastical martial arts action. Outside of Kung-Fu, have their been any other good martial arts-based TV shows? I still can't believe they made a show about a kung fu guy and forgot to put kung fu in it.
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Lurdiak posted:I still can't believe they made a show about a kung fu guy and forgot to put kung fu in it. https://twitter.com/ComicBookNOW/status/900424342432919552 They're going to make a better run at it next season. If they can turn Chloe Bennett into a credible badass, they should be able to unfuck Finn Jones.
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Aug 23, 2017 20:01
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feedmyleg posted:Outside of Kung-Fu, have their been any other good martial arts-based TV shows? ATLA & TLOK
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Aug 23, 2017 20:08
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Aug 23, 2017 20:12
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, Into the Badlands is awful, much worse than Daredevil. I'd be totally open to any Asian shows as well if those are known around these parts, that's a huge blindspot in my knowledge.
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Aug 23, 2017 20:16
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Eventually I'm going to finish the scripts for the first season of my dream show "Ninja PD", about a Japanese American member of an LAPD Yakuza task force fighting a stream of assasins in between breaking up local crime rings.
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Aug 23, 2017 20:19
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AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place. http://www.avclub.com/
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Aug 23, 2017 20:23
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Snak posted:Eventually I'm going to finish the scripts for the first season of my dream show "Ninja PD", about a Japanese American member of an LAPD Yakuza task force fighting a stream of assasins in between breaking up local crime rings. With Scarlett Johansson or Emma Stone as the lead?
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Aug 23, 2017 20:28
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Mu Zeta posted:AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place. Just add it to your RSS reader and never visit the site again.
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Mu Zeta posted:AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place. I thought they were just changing their comment structure not making a gizmodo clone.
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Aug 23, 2017 21:06
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I finally finished Person of Interest. I can tell the final season was rushed, but the actual ending was pretty good. Out of 5 seasons, I would say there were about 2 seasons of really great episodes, 1 season of okay episodes, and the rest was mediocre to bad. Overall a decent show. It didn't help at all that it was really visually boring. Just a bland looking show all the time.
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Aug 23, 2017 21:12
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Mu Zeta posted:AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place. They had an article about it a couple of weeks ago and they were pretty up front that the whole thing was corporate mandate.
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Aug 23, 2017 21:13
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zoux posted:I thought they were just changing their comment structure not making a gizmodo clone. Univision bought The Onion back in January of 2016, and bought up the remains of Gawker in the bankruptcy auction in August 2016. This is pretty clearly a decision to have all of its online outlets sharing a similar look, feel and CMS.
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zoux posted:
That's really interesting how Stranger Things did compared to how prevalent its cultural osmosis was. It timed perfectly with a nostalgia wave bringing their own distorted version of what the sounds and sights of the 80s were.
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Shageletic posted:That's really interesting how Stranger Things did compared to how prevalent its cultural osmosis was. It timed perfectly with a nostalgia wave bringing their own distorted version of what the sounds and sights of the 80s were. Yeah, one thing it did wasn't to replicate the feeling of the eighties, but to replicate the feeling of watching an 80's movie, on the couch on a Friday night with your family or friends. It nailed that aesthetic. I was born in 1979 so it's directly in my wheelhouse, but younger kids can connect with it too because they were still watching 80's movies on Saturday afternoon filler TV slots or from the video store. I love Netflix and the current streaming environment, but I do miss the weekly Friday trip to the video store where you picked movies (and ONE game) based on how the cover looked and what the back said, rather than review aggregates. Until I was a teenager we did Friday Pizza/Movie night in my family and watching Stranger Things really brought that back.
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Like how my parents talked about drinking milk shakes at the soda shop and hanging out at the drive in, you old bastard.
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zoux posted:Yeah, one thing it did wasn't to replicate the feeling of the eighties, but to replicate the feeling of watching an 80's movie, on the couch on a Friday night with your family or friends. It nailed that aesthetic. I was born in 1979 so it's directly in my wheelhouse, but younger kids can connect with it too because they were still watching 80's movies on Saturday afternoon filler TV slots or from the video store. I pay more attention to music than TV (well the intricacies anyway) and its really apparent there. The so-called synthwave and retrowave and the like mimick the pointable features of 80s music (the drums, the synth) while not being able to replicate the exact conditions that created a lot of the great music of that era (an intermingling ecosystem of singers, writers, producers, and session musicians, the diverse and interesting musicscape afforded by record profits). While I don't want to make it entirely about Stranger Things, there I found that a lot of the stuff I had little patience for (the emphasis on character cut-outs rather than characterization, the uneven pace, the lack of idiosyncratic quirks or wrinkles) can be pointed to as things that are pretty hard to translate from the 80s. The sincerity/the crazy and brilliant auteurs of that era/the fact it was building off stuff from stuff decades in the making/a measured pace allowing more characterization (which is interesting to see happen compared even when one is a movie 120 minutes long versus 12 episodes on Netflix).
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Timby posted:Univision bought The Onion back in January of 2016, and bought up the remains of Gawker in the bankruptcy auction in August 2016. This is pretty clearly a decision to have all of its online outlets sharing a similar look, feel and CMS. Ohhh that's why The Onion sucks to browse now...
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Aug 23, 2017 22:21
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This "Good Place" show is pretty funny.
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Aug 23, 2017 22:29
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Lycus posted:This "Good Place" show is pretty funny. FYI it is on Netflix now.
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Aug 23, 2017 22:39
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Well, I mean, not YOUR information. Just in general.
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Aug 23, 2017 22:40
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Mu Zeta posted:AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place. Things I like: The site now loads quicker and scrolls smoother on my phone. Things I hate: Literally everything else. Yeesh.
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Aug 23, 2017 22:47
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Did you want to see what was reviewed recently? TOO BAD!
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muscles like this! posted:Did you want to see what was reviewed recently? TOO BAD! Ugh, I like to catch up on older shows I missed and read the old AV Club reviews as I go through then (most recently Deep Space 9). I don't think looking up a series of show reviews is even possible with Kinja. Motherfuck.
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Snak posted:Tuvok is character who portrays living the Vulcan lifestyle as a practice. Not something he did and then he is that way now, or something he is lying to himself about being, but something that is a constant struggle to maintain a chosen countenance and mindset. His character reflects the way that real-life monks practice meditation and continually try to address and improve their flaws. Often in Star Trek, you have flaws in Vulcan logic pointed out by other characters. Tuvok is one of the only Vulcans who constantly works to address and examine his own flaws. Which are many. I can't say I ever saw it that way, and I would consider a rewatch if not, as you said, for the rest of the show. There's just too much good stuff out there I haven't seen yet to watch Voyager.
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lelandjs posted:Ugh, I like to catch up on older shows I missed and read the old AV Club reviews as I go through then (most recently Deep Space 9). I don't think looking up a series of show reviews is even possible with Kinja. Motherfuck. Yeah, I watch everything delayed, so I'll glance at the TV grades to see how last night's episode went. Now it's a search just to determine what is a review and then the grade is in the body of the review. Not that grades are be-all-end-all but if it's a straight up A or D, it's a good indication of the quality.
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They've already added a TV reviews section to the bar btw. But yeah I absolutely hate this redesign. A step down in every conceivable way. I'll be keeping an eye on it to see how it changes due to feedback, but I feel like my time reading that site regularly is over. Are there any other pop culture sites anywhere near that good? Even with it going downhill over the past few years it was still way better than any other site of the same type I've seen.
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Well, since AV Club was originally part of comedy website The Onion maybe we should convince Lowtax to create a TV IV section to the Something Awful comedy website.
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Aug 23, 2017 23:52
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lelandjs posted:Well, since AV Club was originally part of comedy website The Onion maybe we should convince Lowtax to create a TV IV section to the Something Awful comedy website. Already happened, already failed. You need more time in the SA memory banks.
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Shageletic posted:Already happened, already failed. You need more time in the SA memory banks. I certainly don't remember it, but that's because I haven't looked at the front page regularly since like 2004.
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Mu Zeta posted:AVClub, nooooooo. Finally going to unbookmark this place.
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Aug 24, 2017 04:11
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Okay, I'm finally gonna watch that San Bernidino or Junipero or whatever ep of Black Mirror. My history with Black Mirror is about 50/50. Everyone said White Bear was good, and it was like my second least-favorite episode.
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Clint Mansell did the music for San Junipero. It sounds a lot like Mass Effect and it's great.
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