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Yea the Hood is literally some street thug who found a magic cape. So that's perfect. But why no Wrecking Crew?
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Getting to 24 hours on Sandman and trying to figure out how much how should warn my wife.
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Aug 9, 2022 03:35
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It’s something alright. It’s no worse than most things on streaming but it’s still pretty violent
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Aug 9, 2022 03:41
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I skipped most of 24 Hours and only regret not skipping more. The John stuff is just human misery, and the Morpheus part at the end is another bullshit magic fight. If you are going to watch 24 Hours, make sure you have time to watch the following episode too, rinse that out.
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Aug 9, 2022 03:50
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It wasn't as bad as it was in the comics. They left a lot out, and for the best. Still not very pleasant though. But yeah, The Sound of Her Wings is a great palette cleanser and it's probably the best episode of the show so definitely go right into that one.
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Aug 9, 2022 04:43
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Opopanax posted:Weird choice for Ironheart but I guess I don't actually know that much about her. Have they interacted much in the comics? Or maybe they're doing like a half adaptation of Infamous Iron Man I think so. Ironheart is a Bendis Marvel character, so I just assume that she’s had to deal with the Hood.
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Aug 9, 2022 06:02
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My wife started bawling crying during episode 2 When Morpheus absorbed tbe gargoyle. And she really doesn't like graphic violence. How much should I do to prepare her for future episodes?
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Aug 9, 2022 09:09
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The Question IRL posted:My wife started bawling crying during episode 2 When Morpheus absorbed tbe gargoyle. You might just skip 24/7, and The Sound of Her Wings will wreck her emotionally, but in a mostly good way. (that's episodes 5 and 6 respectively) Edit: If you don't know Sandman, definitely read a synopsis of 24/7 before letting your wife watch it, if it's just been a while since you read the comic and you don't recognize the title, it's the diner issue. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Aug 9, 2022 09:15
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Skwirl posted:You might just skip 24/7, and The Sound of Her Wings will wreck her emotionally, but in a mostly good way. (that's episodes 5 and 6 respectively) Yeah I'll probably give her a warning going into it. I have read some synopsis, sounds messy but also sort of important to the plot. The big twist is even though I'm the huge comic nerd, since she is such a Neil Gaiman fan I gave her the Sandman TPB's as a gift years ago. So she has probably read the dinner issue, but forgot most of it. (She days she remembers some of Sandman's story as we are watching the episodes.) I never read the comics, but I instantly recognised that John Dee is supposed to be super villain Dr. Destiny.
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Aug 9, 2022 11:21
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The Question IRL posted:
Its the best show on this list buddy. And at 20 minute something episodes you'll be, unfortunately, zipping thru it. quote:05) Big Mouth. Really funny with a great cast. You need to be able to tolerate "embarrassment comedy" but it's good. Another show justifying the service. It's real good and full of heart and also hysterical quote:04) American Vandal. Get on it! quote:01) Bojack Horseman. Kinda the same reason I dropped out of Orange, it's a misery cycle that I just decided I need to get out of. Eerily reminiscent of the acquaintance you stopped talking to because they were so self involved all they wanted to do was talk about the latest reason they feel bad about themselves. I get it! Go to therapy already
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Aug 9, 2022 12:35
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Mameluke posted:drat Santa Clarita Diet hasn't even been mentioned yet. Netflix does have some good stuff I guess
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Aug 9, 2022 12:37
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StumblyWumbly posted:I skipped most of 24 Hours and only regret not skipping more. The John stuff is just human misery, and the Morpheus part at the end is another bullshit magic fight. If you’re not expecting mostly “bullshit magic fights” Sandman might not be for you!
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Aug 9, 2022 13:29
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The Question IRL posted:And she really doesn't like graphic violence. How much should I do to prepare her for future episodes? Maybe just skip everything with John Dee? He kills a bunch of prison guards and folks. I think he mainly appears at the end of episodes, so you can just skip ahead, but I'm not 100% Some Corinthian stuff might get weird too. There's just a lot of dark stuff in the series, but the one you mention is definitely the saddest Shageletic posted:<Bojack Horseman stuff> Conrad_Birdie posted:If you’re not expecting mostly “bullshit magic fights” Sandman might not be for you! I guess I just like shows about garbage people trying to be better?
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At the end of Sandman episode 4 it was quite surprising to see Dee spare Rosemary's life and give her the protection amulet. I was expecting him to keep it and was wondering if that was Corinthian's plan as well as Corinthian figured that if Dream attacked Dee Dream would be hosed
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Aug 9, 2022 16:12
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twistedmentat posted:Yea the Hood is literally some street thug who found a magic cape. So that's perfect. But why no Wrecking Crew? They're in She-Hulk. Blink and you miss it shot of them in the trailer.
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Aug 9, 2022 16:57
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The Question IRL posted:
Yeah, the comic includes some more explicit references to the DC universe, including a cameo by the Martian Manhunter/
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Madkal posted:At the end of Sandman episode 4 it was quite surprising to see Dee spare Rosemary's life and give her the protection amulet. I was expecting him to keep it and was wondering if that was Corinthian's plan as well as Corinthian figured that if Dream attacked Dee Dream would be hosed Should note this was a notable change. In the comic as Dee goes over his backstory, and Rosemary sympathizes with him, he thanks her then shoots her anyway when she drops him off cause he's an evil piece of poo poo. Then he goes to the dinner and tortures a bunch of people purely because he can. But show Dee lacks comic Dee's big issue namely his inability to Dream and thus sleep, which heavily messed him up. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Aug 9, 2022 18:36
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Finished it, loved it, with episodes 3 - 6 being the highlight for me. Lie to me and tell me that season 2 and a JLC Hellblazer spin off are already on the way. Because it’s so long since I read it, my memory’s still very hazy but once Lyta’s ‘situation’ occurred, the fog cleared a bit and I was very much ‘oh gently caress’ at roughly recalling where it all eventually leads. Just how far into the series did this season go? I figured it would only be 10 or 12 issues but maybe it was a lot more?
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Aug 10, 2022 01:03
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Maybe something is wrong with me but I didn’t think anything was too horrific in 24/7. For all the hype around it, I didn’t think it met the “awful” hype.
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Sentinel Red posted:Finished it, loved it, with episodes 3 - 6 being the highlight for me. Lie to me and tell me that season 2 and a JLC Hellblazer spin off are already on the way. It skips some standalone stories but goes through issue 16, the end of the Dolls House.
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Joe Fisto posted:Maybe something is wrong with me but I didn’t think anything was too horrific in 24/7. For all the hype around it, I didn’t think it met the “awful” hype. Have you read the issue it's based on?
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Madkal posted:Have you read the issue it's based on? No, but I have listened to the audio play. I recall that being more graphic.
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theironjef posted:They're in She-Hulk. Blink and you miss it shot of them in the trailer. Oh nice. How did I miss Jenna Coleman had been cast as Constantine? Skwirl posted:Yeah, the comic includes some more explicit references to the DC universe, including a cameo by the Martian Manhunter/ I was legit wondering if they were going to add that in, or at least have something akin to it in the show.
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Joe Fisto posted:No, but I have listened to the audio play. I recall that being more graphic. TBH I didn't watch the full episode, but it definitely looked less bloody than the comic, which has fingers being cut off and people acting like animals killing each other. The comic was also drawn in a very sketched out manner, so it created a bit more mental space between the reader and the subjects, and it was a series of like three panel vignettes, so I think it worked a bit better but I would still probably skim it if I do a re-read. All in all it was just a lot of "why are these people being mean jerks? Oh right, magic". It was pessimism masquerading as cheap drama, and personally I don't need that. And the whole "Pessimism == Truth" is just a line I've grown sick of.
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Just watched 24 hours/sound of her wings. Spoilers below 24 hours is a lot less brutal than the comics but that feels like it is due to the motivation change in Dee. There is still some horrific body horror stuff but it is quick cuts and thankfully very quick and more implied then shown. I thought the ending/final battle was very rushed though. Dream mentions that Dee is causing major harm to the world but in the comics this is shown and in the show it feels like a throw away line. After the battle we see some fire in the real world and Matthew makes it sound like major damage has been done but as an audience we just don't see it. It just felt like we are being told the stakes are so high but never see anything to prove this. I am really super glad they combined Sound of Her Wings with Hobb's tale and that has been the best episode so far. I was surprised how quickly the episode was going with Death and thought it would be over soon but when the introduced Hobb I was so happy. They handled both stories really well and Hobb was perfectly done
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https://twitter.com/CaseyMalone/status/1557131279102930946?t=IsvZnIGk6kzkn21iGPlHGw&s=19 There's a show about Alfred in World War 2? Why is WB/DC like this. Why are they so afraid of Batman shows that they crank out truckloads of half assed garbo about ancillary supporting cast members? And what is going on with Dollar General Mister Freeze over here?
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fun fact the show is actually set in the 60's but it's a weird alternate history 60's where great britain is a fascist hellhole where bobbies are all packing SMGs and there's televised public executions
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Aug 10, 2022 08:29
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I looked it up and apparently that guy ate a bomb and it gave him bomb powers.
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Aug 10, 2022 08:31
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Honestly can't tell if y'all are making that up Like, Jamesman posted:I looked it up and apparently that guy ate a bomb and it gave him bomb powers. is some Axe Cop poo poo
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SlimGoodbody posted:Honestly can't tell if y'all are making that up Or some kind of serial numbers filed off MGS 3 adaptation.
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Jamesman posted:I looked it up and apparently that guy ate a bomb and it gave him bomb powers. He ate the Bomb Bomb Fruit?
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Is that their take on The Human Bomb? Rohan Kishibe posted:He ate the Bomb Bomb Fruit? Pretty close. The OG Human Bomb drank an experimental liquid compound so it wouldn't fall into the hands of nazi spies.
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Blockhouse posted:fun fact the show is actually set in the 60's but it's a weird alternate history 60's where great britain is a fascist hellhole where bobbies are all packing SMGs and there's televised public executions I didn't know it was in an alternative history. Why even bother making it about Alfred then? Why not just make it about Batman in some alternate history?
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Aug 10, 2022 14:13
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Pennyworth is a pretty good show. Weird, but watchable.
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Madkal posted:Just watched 24 hours/sound of her wings. Spoilers below The news playing in the background reveals a lot of the affects on the wider world, with the news caster behaviors changing as they report on weird weather phenomenon and disastrous infrastructure failure causing explosions and what not. It's subtle, but given what we see in the diner, I think it's easy enough to extrapolate what was going on elsewhere. I think the bigger problem is the next episode showing society continuing on fine as if nothing had happened.
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glitchwraith posted:The news playing in the background reveals a lot of the affects on the wider world, with the news caster behaviors changing as they report on weird weather phenomenon and disastrous infrastructure failure causing explosions and what not. It's subtle, but given what we see in the diner, I think it's easy enough to extrapolate what was going on elsewhere. I think the bigger problem is the next episode showing society continuing on fine as if nothing had happened. tbf that's exactly how it went down in the comics too
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Blockhouse posted:tbf that's exactly how it went down in the comics too Also to be fair, this part in the comic is still pretty heavily set in DC continuity, where these kind of crises aren't uncommon.
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SlimGoodbody posted:https://twitter.com/CaseyMalone/status/1557131279102930946?t=IsvZnIGk6kzkn21iGPlHGw&s=19 You mean Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler? 
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That show may have a lock on dollar store Mr. Freezes but it'll never catch Gotham when it comes to dieselpunk Banes wearing circuit pants.
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