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ScootsMcSkirt
Oct 29, 2013

pogi posted:

anybody check out the netflix adaptation of the three body problem series that got released a couple days ago? the first episode apparently got decent to good reviews.

i liked the book series a lot, although characterization took a back seat in the second book and just kind of evaporated in the last. also in the last book, the “humanity grew too decadent and the men grew too feminine” stuff blew chunks, but the dark forest stuff was so good.

oh poo poo, didnt know that was out. They better keep in the nano wire part

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Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Knight posted:

The Netflix adaptation with Benedict Wong isn't out yet, who you trying to fool?

It's the Chinese adaptation that's also releasing this year

it'll be fun to compare to the D&D adaptation and see all the ways they missed the mark

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


pogi posted:

anybody check out the netflix adaptation of the three body problem series that got released a couple days ago? the first episode apparently got decent to good reviews.

i liked the book series a lot, although characterization took a back seat in the second book and just kind of evaporated in the last. also in the last book, the “humanity grew too decadent and the men grew too feminine” stuff blew chunks, but the dark forest stuff was so good.

Apparently there is a Chinese live action adaptation this year, at the same time there's an American one being made for this year. However, the latter is being EPed by the Game of Thrones showrunners lmao

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

the one airing on tencent seems good

God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

pretty surprised D&D haven't broken up yet and tried to rebrand as solo acts, there's just too much stink on that brand now IMO and I have no reason to believe they've done anything to address their smug writers' room bs

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

AnimeIsTrash posted:

when u tell wokes the black girl in the show is called scoobi


Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1615045804993007617?cxt=HHwWgsC-6cnm5eksAAAA

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

another great take from Kath Barbadoro: "eat the slop, hogs!"

God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

if I was a television actor I just know I would want to work with the directing team famous for killing off cast members they didn't like and then publically mocking and sending epic clap backs at them through mass media

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

While we're on Pascal, he was in a pretty decent indie sci-fi film called prospect. I think it's on Hulu now.

Worth a watch for anyone who likes slowburn low budget sci-fi stuff

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
the outsized attention Velma is getting is very obvious to explain: nothing really exciting is going on in the news right now and it's on the front page of the HBOMax app for everyone in America. that's it.

I do agree with her that Mindy did not intentionally make it "ragebait"

Pepe Silvia Browne has issued a correction as of 17:46 on Jan 17, 2023

POWELL CURES KIDS
Aug 26, 2016

God Hole posted:

if I was a television actor I just know I would want to work with the directing team famous for killing off cast members they didn't like and then publically mocking and sending epic clap backs at them through mass media

i thought all the flashy got deaths were just from the books? if there's juice here please be specific, because i'm a catty bitch and i'm always on the lookout for reasons to hate those schmucks more

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

While we're on Pascal, he was in a pretty decent indie sci-fi film called prospect. I think it's on Hulu now.

Worth a watch for anyone who likes slowburn low budget sci-fi stuff

prospect is real good, and, to my recollection, fairly socialist

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

POWELL CURES KIDS posted:

i thought all the flashy got deaths were just from the books? if there's juice here please be specific, because i'm a catty bitch and i'm always on the lookout for reasons to hate those schmucks more

the guy who played Barristan Selmy was done dirty because he asked to have a bigger role in the Dany plot

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


i don't know. i'd hire them if i wanted my show to be morally simplistic and have basic themes like "dragon lady bad". not sure i'd want them for *checks notes* a show about china making contact with aliens during the cultural revolution

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the outsized attention Velma is getting is very obvious to explain: nothing really exciting is going on in the news right now and it's on the front page of the HBOMax app for everyone in America. that's it.

I do agree with her that Mindy did not intentionally make it "ragebait"

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Jazerus posted:

i don't know. i'd hire them if i wanted my show to be morally simplistic and have basic themes like "dragon lady bad". not sure i'd want them for *checks notes* a show about china making contact with aliens during the cultural revolution

Late GOT was hilariously awful and the King Bran thing was handled particularly badly but I maintain that it dragon lady being bad was a good twist and people only didn't see it coming because khaleesi was their girlboss :colbert:

God Hole
Mar 2, 2016

yeah it was Barristan Selmy's actor

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

While we're on Pascal, he was in a pretty decent indie sci-fi film called prospect. I think it's on Hulu now.

Worth a watch for anyone who likes slowburn low budget sci-fi stuff

yeah this is a pretty great low-key space western and feels like the practice run for TLOU

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the outsized attention Velma is getting is very obvious to explain: nothing really exciting is going on in the news right now and it's on the front page of the HBOMax app for everyone in America. that's it.

I do agree with her that Mindy did not intentionally make it "ragebait"

also that it's a contemporary ~reimagination~ of a legacy media property..... it wouldn't be getting this heat if it wasn't about the mystery gang

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

It was at least a little bit intentional ragebait, just maybe not of us (esp since Scoobi turned out to be Fake News)

IIRC the original trailer was all about how this was totally gonna trigger the chuds

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

also that it's a contemporary ~reimagination~ of a legacy media property..... it wouldn't be getting this heat if it wasn't about the mystery gang

right. it's not that it was made with the goal of people rageclicking - it was made with the goal of people RECOGNIZING it, which is going to mean more reactions of all kinds. just like every legacy media property.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


loquacius posted:

Late GOT was hilariously awful and the King Bran thing was handled particularly badly but I maintain that it dragon lady being bad was a good twist and people only didn't see it coming because khaleesi was their girlboss :colbert:

it is a good plot twist, so is king bran. and both are foreshadowed to varying degrees in the books afaik.

however, they did it in the worst way possible because they stopped giving a poo poo.



i like watching tv that is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec16nQOzWhE

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

King Bran is so lame lol

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


"But white people make tv shows that aren’t very good all the time and no one yells at them 24 hours a day on social media about it"

idk i don't think this is true

just one example that came to mind is how everyone was making GBS threads on this scene for a couple days when this tweet was posted (show was written/created by a white woman) —— 26,000+ quote tweets!!

https://twitter.com/saessance/status/1365028600639082499

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
yeah i got six seconds into that clip before my cellular telephone melted into a pile of goo

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

If more people were willing to do it with me I'd love to spend all day talking about how Ted Lasso sucks poo poo

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

King Bran is so lame lol

I would have sighed and accepted King Jon as inevitable, I would have grumbled at Queen Daenerys, but the only iron throne ending I really would have found satisfying would have been King Gendry

He even got legitimized! That makes him the only living heir of King Robert! His claim is strong as gently caress!!!

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

look the only way to satisfy everyone is to give the crown to the character who is nobody's favorite, the one who during every one of his scenes throughout the whole series you're just waiting for it to get back to one of the good plotlines

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


loquacius posted:

If more people were willing to do it with me I'd love to spend all day talking about how Ted Lasso sucks poo poo

the definition of mediocre

also, was thinking of other ("white") shows that get/have gotten tons of hate the big theory/young sheldon, big mouth, girls*, emily in paris, this is us


*girls is actually good tho

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

also that it's a contemporary ~reimagination~ of a legacy media property..... it wouldn't be getting this heat if it wasn't about the mystery gang

There was someone who gave it a spin and said "Well if you liked Hazbin Hotel, you're going to like this" and got swarmed by Hazbin Hotel fans. Among with the factors described by Pepe Silvia... of course people are gonna make fun of the badly written quadratic formula, try to compare the anxiety attack scene to the Puss In Boots scene or try to conspire a theory of the show being done bad on purpose so it may bring another better franchise in the future. It's in a way, fun to dislike and no wonder its being passed around like a hot potato of "Oh, this show is horrible because it was made For You Weirdos!"

Serf
May 5, 2011


loquacius posted:

If more people were willing to do it with me I'd love to spend all day talking about how Ted Lasso sucks poo poo

I would have sighed and accepted King Jon as inevitable, I would have grumbled at Queen Daenerys, but the only iron throne ending I really would have found satisfying would have been King Gendry

He even got legitimized! That makes him the only living heir of King Robert! His claim is strong as gently caress!!!

personally i wanted it to end with the ice zombies winning to mirror real life

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

roommate has been on velma outrage youtube all morning, i'm gonna watch it just to spite him now

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
I just want to know how the walkers get past the wall in the never to be released books, since there's no ice king to get a zombie dragon. Hopefully it ends with euron tricking valarion into blowing the horn while wearing the valyrian armor , euron gets all of danys dragons, and then becomes king of everyone because gently caress it why not

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

chinese 3 body problem is all on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLompD6e_k

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

I love Resident Evil/Dead Rising/Dying Light but now it's time for a different monster

Bring on the greys imo

I’m cool with greys as a monster but I want them to be the version that are like three feet tall and travel in small groups, somebody make those little guys a threat.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

While we're on Pascal, he was in a pretty decent indie sci-fi film called prospect. I think it's on Hulu now.

Worth a watch for anyone who likes slowburn low budget sci-fi stuff

Thanks

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the outsized attention Velma is getting is very obvious to explain: nothing really exciting is going on in the news right now and it's on the front page of the HBOMax app for everyone in America. that's it.

I do agree with her that Mindy did not intentionally make it "ragebait"

Yeah, the writing doesn’t feel like they’re trying to ragebait, it feels like they think they’re killing it. We’re definitely supposed to be rooting for Velma and see her relentless cruelty as funny and everyone being a shithead is supposed to feel like banter and the jokes are supposed to feel fresh and transgressive instead of feeling like self absorbed millennial bitching.


Uncle Boogeyman posted:

look the only way to satisfy everyone is to give the crown to the character who is nobody's favorite, the one who during every one of his scenes throughout the whole series you're just waiting for it to get back to one of the good plotlines

Crown should have gone to Drogon.

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

i say swears online posted:

roommate has been on velma outrage youtube all morning, i'm gonna watch it just to spite him now

I get the feeling it's gonna be like one of those that will continue to be somewhat dreadful, but will still be a staple of "I'm at someone's house and they want to watch some poo poo together with the sound down" like semi-modern Simpsons or Last Man Standing.

To use a somewhat messed up example, nearly everyone I know online points to Harry Potter having a segment where they support some sort of goblin slavery, but my inlaw specifically uses that example to try to sell others on the books as a fun segment.

Kunster has issued a correction as of 18:45 on Jan 17, 2023

POWELL CURES KIDS
Aug 26, 2016

loquacius posted:

Late GOT was hilariously awful and the King Bran thing was handled particularly badly but I maintain that it dragon lady being bad was a good twist and people only didn't see it coming because khaleesi was their girlboss :colbert:

"dragon lady bad" would've worked as anything other than a twist. it would've been a good arc, and there were plenty of places where you could tell they were allllllmost going to make it one--but instead they kept fumbling that poo poo on down the line, and by the time they decided to bail on their own last season to go direct star wars or w/e they just didn't have the narrative space left to create an actual narrative for it

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the guy who played Barristan Selmy was done dirty because he asked to have a bigger role in the Dany plot

i believe that easily. if anybody has whatever dumb sniping and poo poo they were doing on social media after the fact i'd dig it. i forgot how angry i was about got so i'm glad we're talking about it so i can be angry again

POWELL CURES KIDS has issued a correction as of 18:45 on Jan 17, 2023

pogi
Jun 11, 2014

Nichael posted:

Apparently there is a Chinese live action adaptation this year, at the same time there's an American one being made for this year. However, the latter is being EPed by the Game of Thrones showrunners lmao

ahhh, I see. my dumb rear end didn’t realize there were two versions. sorry y’all

i knew about the GOT showrunners and was genuinely surprised about the decent reviews - now it makes sense lmao

Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

remember when they did a Game of Thrones spinoff

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

POWELL CURES KIDS posted:

i believe that easily. if anybody has whatever dumb sniping and poo poo they were doing on social media after the fact i'd dig it. i forgot how angry i was about got so i'm glad we're talking about it so i can be angry again
there's a clip in this one lmao:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynwZDOo573M

pogi
Jun 11, 2014


oh gently caress yes

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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

remember when they did a Game of Thrones spinoff

In the ranks of big budget prequel shows desperately trying to revive a dying franchise it was worse than Andor but better than Rings of Power

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