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watched a ways into the second season of his dark materials. somehow it feels cheesier than the first. it’s probably mostly that the source material is much worse, because the first book is definitely the best of that series. but they’ve also made some pretty lazy choices, and the acting (especially lmm, who to be fair does not have a lot to work with) is verging on parody
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I've been on and off watching star trek discovery and my god does this take a nosedive in season 3 like it wasn't great before but had its moments but there is some utter trash writing going on here, like the entire waste of time episode with the vulcan argument that can be summed up as both sides going "nuh uh!" and then Burnham winning because she is emotional, and the pilot woman who had ptsd, got over it, then got it again, then got sent on a probable suicide mission and was like "yes this was the solution now I feel great!" after "setting controls to manual" which raises the question about what the hell all the buttons she was hammering were doing if they weren't controlling the ship the only well written character is the giant cat and the two gay dads
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Dec 27, 2020 11:54
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bump_fn posted:yeah the show pleasantly avoided the obvious tropes of abuse and assault in coming of age stories the chess board ceiling visualization was kinda dumb but there are several famous grandmasters that stare at the ceiling when thinking during games also yes i think that girl was a russian agent
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echinopsis posted:anyone here watching “raised by wolves”? the 2020 sci fi show? it’s an hbo thing that show starts off cool but gets worse and worse. the ending is comically bad
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fart simpson posted:that show starts off cool but gets worse and worse. the ending is comically bad
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raised by wolves is one of the only shows i've ever heard one of the uhh yeah dude guys solicit feedback to explain what the hell happened at the end lol
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rjmccall posted:watched a ways into the second season of his dark materials. somehow it feels cheesier than the first. it’s probably mostly that the source material is much worse, because the first book is definitely the best of that series. but they’ve also made some pretty lazy choices, and the acting (especially lmm, who to be fair does not have a lot to work with) is verging on parody i was glad to finish it, some of the changes from the book are good others bad just glad it's getting a 3rd season it was a drat shame that they couldn't make the first movie into the trilogy considering the original cast but i'll grasp at straws for the denouement
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Kenny Logins posted:uhh yeah dude drat i used to listen to that all the time and totally forgot about it. might see how theyre doin
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Jonny 290 posted:drat i used to listen to that all the time and totally forgot about it. might see how theyre doin
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:i was glad to finish it, some of the changes from the book are good others bad I never read the books but I remember the first movie being kinda poo poo when I saw it in theaters, just in terms of execution.
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shoeberto posted:I never read the books but I remember the first movie being kinda poo poo when I saw it in theaters, just in terms of execution. yeah it had a fantastic cast but just flopped, was barely entertaining one of those hey let's make a ya film they're all the rage and whoops s3 of the hdm show will finally give me the catharsis i need
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Dec 27, 2020 17:20
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indigi posted:it was poorly directed then, imo. put your boot on his windpipe or something and then I’ll see murderous intent, she just seemed to be beating the poo poo out of him after he twice attempted to sexually assault or rape her. the soundtrack was doing all the heavy lifting in that scene agreed, if that was the intent they should have pushed to the limit because anything she did was opposite her original persona, going to an extreme would help set the tone better since we had no new baseline
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shoeberto posted:I never read the books but I remember the first movie being kinda poo poo when I saw it in theaters, just in terms of execution. had a great cast and production design though
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rjmccall posted:watched a ways into the second season of his dark materials. somehow it feels cheesier than the first. it’s probably mostly that the source material is much worse, because the first book is definitely the best of that series. but they’ve also made some pretty lazy choices, and the acting (especially lmm, who to be fair does not have a lot to work with) is verging on parody yeah, the second season feels like it's just treading water and strangely like nothing has really happened despite quite a lot actually happening. the plot developments just don't seem to have much impact for some reason. also watching the mandalorian which, granting that it's a kids show, is pretty dang enjoyable and easily the best star wars in forty years (tho rogue one was pretty good). it nails the asthetic of the ot so well it's incredible; you can tell the people behind it actually give a poo poo. i can't say i was expecting the thrawn name drop tho, gonna be interesting seeing where that leads.
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Oneiros posted:also watching the mandalorian which, granting that it's a kids show, is pretty dang enjoyable and easily the best star wars in forty years (tho rogue one was pretty good). it nails the asthetic of the ot so well it's incredible; you can tell the people behind it actually give a poo poo. i can't say i was expecting the thrawn name drop tho, gonna be interesting seeing where that leads.
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Oneiros posted:yeah, the second season feels like it's just treading water and strangely like nothing has really happened despite quite a lot actually happening. the plot developments just don't seem to have much impact for some reason. having read the thrawn books when i was a kid i'm kind of looking forward to this my cousin and i read a bunch of eu stuff back in the day and the prequels disappointed us with his exclusion
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Dec 27, 2020 18:31
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its funny cause disney nuked the star war EU specifically so they could stop paying those authors and replace it with an EU over which they had full control of the IP. now they seem to be going back on that as all the new star war content seems to be based entirely in the old EU. i wonder if timothy zahn and the rest will get paid or if disney is gonna try to stop paying them like they did to alan dean foster.
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Dec 27, 2020 19:07
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it turns out the Disney machine is very good at extracting Content from IP but not great at generating new IP also cheaper to just not pay for older IP (adf lol)
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PCjr sidecar posted:it turns out the Disney machine is very good at extracting Content from IP but not great at generating new IP mostly just good at the kind of nostalgia/fandom/recapturing media from ones youth thing. making money on new ip is a risky short-term thing, which they only do to the extent they do to have it eventually transform into nostalgic ip.
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Shaggar posted:its funny cause disney nuked the star war EU specifically so they could stop paying those authors and replace it with an EU over which they had full control of the IP. now they seem to be going back on that as all the new star war content seems to be based entirely in the old EU. "we bought the rights, not the obligations"
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fart simpson posted:that show starts off cool but gets worse and worse. the ending is comically bad imma pretend you said it was good coz my brain is damaged
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infernal machines posted:"we bought the rights, not the obligations" ugh
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infernal machines posted:"we bought the rights, not the obligations" they clearly picked an author who had significant contributions to the IP but who probably wasnt making a bunch of money. if they win they win big, if they lose its not so bad
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rjmccall posted:watched a ways into the second season of his dark materials. somehow it feels cheesier than the first. it’s probably mostly that the source material is much worse, because the first book is definitely the best of that series. but they’ve also made some pretty lazy choices, and the acting (especially lmm, who to be fair does not have a lot to work with) is verging on parody Oneiros posted:yeah, the second season feels like it's just treading water and strangely like nothing has really happened despite quite a lot actually happening. the plot developments just don't seem to have much impact for some reason. holy poo poo glad it's not just me. I liked the first season a fair bit but man i'm "treading water" in watching the second one so far too. just kinda meandering and end up loving off doing something else or falling asleep. it's really quite weird and something is off about it. could be the source material, although i read them when i was a kid when they first came out so i don't remember mucha bout them.
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Shaggar posted:its funny cause disney nuked the star war EU specifically so they could stop paying those authors and replace it with an EU over which they had full control of the IP. now they seem to be going back on that as all the new star war content seems to be based entirely in the old EU. they brought zahn in pretty early on after they nuked the eu, so hes in disneys warm embrace, fortunately
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Xaris posted:holy poo poo glad it's not just me. I liked the first season a fair bit but man i'm "treading water" in watching the second one so far too. just kinda meandering and end up loving off doing something else or falling asleep. it's really quite weird and something is off about it. could be the source material, although i read them when i was a kid when they first came out so i don't remember mucha bout them. the second book is really weak, there’s an awful lot of arbitrary-feeling events and decisions that happen to lead the characters directly along their fated path. also lee scoresby is the first of many characters who basically gives up all independent character motivation in favor of just putting himself blindly in lyra’s service
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well i'm just glad my signed copy of the last command is rotting in a storage unit storage wars: return of the fungi
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raised by wolfs feels like they had an ending prepared and stuff and then two shows before it ended someone told them that they had to make two more seasons and they just threw some stuff together like my advice is watch the show but don't watch the last two episodes and then make up the way you think it should have ended.
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rjmccall posted:the second book is really weak, there’s an awful lot of arbitrary-feeling events and decisions that happen to lead the characters directly along their fated path. also lee scoresby is the first of many characters who basically gives up all independent character motivation in favor of just putting himself blindly in lyra’s service
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Dec 28, 2020 01:52
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Xaris posted:Maybe it's that, but something about the production/everything about season 2 feels really off, like.. cheaper looking, worse acting, weird camera work, etc. thats just how all filmed footage of england looks
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Dec 28, 2020 01:56
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the color of everything there is just slightly not good enough
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Dec 28, 2020 02:04
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Good Omens seemed fine. especially Anathema 😍
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the lady playing anathema is hot as balls
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the color of everything there is just slightly not good enough  middle-school teachers who don’t know about conditioner
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