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CatstropheWaitress posted:Glad to hear the Avatar adaption is 'good to ok' sounds like. Sucks that the original creators can't catch a break on staying attached to their property, but it's not like they got Disco Elyisum'd out of working in that world. Will have to give it a watch. iirc Mike and Bryan weren't kicked off of the project, they left because they weren't being listened to, in a sense. Also, while it would be kinda nice to have even 1 or 2 additional episodes, they've still managed to get a lot of worldbuilding into the season. The difference this time around is that it means we are giving more depth to the supporting cast (such as Zuko's crew) as opposed to...whatever The Great Divide was supposed to communicate. That, and because they've shifted around some things and made slight character changes such as Aang not crushing on Katara all the time, or even at all, really, it means they can cut out some episodes and mix in plots from future episodes. Because of introducing Azula earlier, we already know about Iroh's son and how he abandoned the siege of Ba Sing Se to grieve, and how this impacted his reputation in the Fire Nation. We're spending some time with Azula, Ty Lee, and Mei before they go off Avatar hunting and it's kind of nice that they're already foreshadowing Ozai's whole "oh yeah, I guess you can be Fire Lord, but you're still gonna be subservient to me as the Phoenix King" treatment of her
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Feb 25, 2024 02:05
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Watching Constellation on Apple TV. They should have called it Constipation because I'm not a fan of it.
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Feb 25, 2024 02:14
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Hughmoris posted:Watching Constellation on Apple TV. They should have called it Constipation because I'm not a fan of it. Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that it's a bit basic.
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Feb 25, 2024 02:28
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that it's a bit basic. The concept has promise but the dialogue feels like college writing.
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Feb 25, 2024 02:39
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Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but that was my fear seeing it was written by Peter Harness 
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Feb 25, 2024 02:50
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Hughmoris posted:The concept has promise but the dialogue feels like college writing. It's all the scenes with the family on the ground that really keyed me into its vibe. They're repetitive, shallow, generic. There's nothing going on beneath the surface, and they keep cutting back to them to play the same one note over and over. It's not great stuff, and the show is hanging so so much on it.
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Feb 25, 2024 02:53
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My immediate takeaway from the first episode of Avatar is it seems kinda cool but man none of these kids can act. Their performances feel so flat and phoned in. The worldbuilding is cool though and I'm going to keep watching it and see where it goes, I wasn't sold on any of the One Piece actors after the first episode either but they ended up growing on me.
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Feb 25, 2024 03:00
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We thought Shogun was going to be on, it wasn't, so friends wanted to watch Avatar instead so we saw the first few episodes of that instead It's ok but lmao at how lovely the water power is
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Feb 25, 2024 03:42
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deep dish peat moss posted:My immediate takeaway from the first episode of Avatar is it seems kinda cool but man none of these kids can act. Their performances feel so flat and phoned in. The worldbuilding is cool though and I'm going to keep watching it and see where it goes, I wasn't sold on any of the One Piece actors after the first episode either but they ended up growing on me. We're watching the live action Ember Island Players
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Feb 25, 2024 03:44
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Jerusalem posted:Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but that was my fear seeing it was written by Peter Harness I liked that Mr.Strange and Nottel show he produced. High quality.
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Feb 25, 2024 03:51
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Shageletic posted:I liked that Mr.Strange and Nottel show he produced. High quality. Haven't seen those, my exposure to him was through the stuff he wrote for Doctor Who which were bafflingly awful and seemingly delivered the exact opposite message that he intended. How much of that was down to the behind-the-scenes showrunning process I don't know, I will certainly give Constellation a try and hope for the best though.
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Feb 25, 2024 04:29
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Chairman Capone posted:Add me to the Dune/Children of Dune enjoyers, though I don’t remember the original as well as I do Children. I think the latter was the first time I saw James McAvoy in anything. Man I had no idea this many people even remembered the show, let alone loved it. Cool as hell. Aces High posted:
Big same. Lynch’s version is trippy and has some cool visuals but Baron Harkonnnen was just gross and lacked anything that would make him seem truly dangerous player. I figured it was a deliberate choice but the Emperor Shaddam also felt a bit weak. Ian McNeice brought the goods. I’m still hoping the movie does the Emperor right as the Sardukar have been fantastic.
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Feb 25, 2024 05:33
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Idk what happened with that Monsieur Spade finale, but that might be the hardest faceplant I've ever seen, esp considering how good the show was up to that point. It's shockingly bad in a weird way, where it felt like the show itself broke character and walked off set.
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Feb 25, 2024 06:10
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RBA Starblade posted:It's ok but lmao at how lovely the water power is The only water bending you see in the first three episodes is from a complete beginner who has no idea of what she is doing, it doesn’t really reflect the ability as a whole.
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Feb 25, 2024 06:19
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Oasx posted:The only water bending you see in the first three episodes is from a complete beginner who has no idea of what she is doing, it doesn’t really reflect the ability as a whole. I got that, but maybe bring a club like the other guy in that case lol
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Feb 25, 2024 06:34
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Some day Hollywood will learn how to write kids who aren't incredibly annoying, but they didn't manage it for Constellation. There is much too much focus on the main character's family, and I don't want to spend 8 hours waiting to see if the story will make sense.
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Feb 25, 2024 09:29
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Avatar is pretty good, apparently i don't care they trimmed some fat and change a few things, like Sokka not being a "girls can't do anything" teenage dickhead.
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Feb 25, 2024 10:20
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Someone was asking about adult cartoons a while back and I don't remember if they meant things like BoJack Horseman (tense and with serious mature themes that might actually be things kids can't even relate with yet), Archer (something that will entertain people more if they've completed their education), or South Park (irreverent and with violence/nudity/foul language that may not be appropriate for little ones). If it's the latter, I binge watched Little Demon at one point and liked it. Somehow, Danny DeVito is not the highlight of the show. It's his daughter, literal and in-show, with the best voice acting and coolest lines.
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Feb 25, 2024 13:29
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The wife and I finished our watch of both seasons of Dr. Death. I remember seeing the ads for the first season in 2021 and dismissing it as a cheap way for Peacock to cash in on true crime and podcast stuff to have something to put on their service, but I wound up really liking it. It had some funny and creative parts, Christian Slater in particular was great and he and Alec Baldwin had great chemistry, it was well written, it had a lot of big drama moments. But season 2 (which covers a completely different subject matter) really blew me away. There are far less scenes of surgery for those who are squeamish but just the description and focus on the impact of the doctor's completely unethical experimental surgeries (supposedly "biosynthetic" tracheas that are really just plastic that decay in their bodies and cause incredible pain and additional complications before inevitably killing the patient). The second season doesn't seem to be as well received as the first largely because of the structure (it follows two stories, one around a team of doctors in Sweden in 2012 who start to uncover his work and the other following his journalist fiancee in 2014 realizing he's a con artist who has scammed her) but I thought this let the show really dive into the twin aspects of his personality in a way that let each storyline have a strong focus. In particular, the fifth episode of season 2 is one of the most brutal episodes of TV I've seen in years. It follows a 22 year old Turkish girl who he basically pressures into getting one of his tracheas after removing one of her lungs in what was supposed to be a simple exploratory surgery that he pushed her into getting, and follows her over 190 (!) additional surgeries as her body gradually collapses and you see her slowly lose every little bit of the will to live. I enjoyed the show but don't think it was necessarily "great," but that one episode was just so well done and so effective that if I had watched it in time for the TVIV poll I might have included it on my top ten just for that alone. I'll also say that I thought season 2 had a pretty good child actor as the daughter of Mandy Moore's character. Anyway, that's my report on Dr. Death.
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Feb 25, 2024 18:00
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RBA Starblade posted:We thought Shogun was going to be on, it wasn't, so friends wanted to watch Avatar instead so we saw the first few episodes of that instead I don't know if you've seen the cartoon, but it gets into just how terrifying water bending can get. I'm interested to see if the live action gets to it.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:10
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Bit into Avatar, gonna finish it before posting too many thoughts but the diversity casting is noticeably cool. They did my boy Bumi dirty but the actor nails the performance of it.
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Feb 25, 2024 23:24
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/foundation-david-s-goyer-steps-down-showrunner-season-3-1235834630/ Shake up at Foundation with Goyer out as showrunner reportedly due to Skydance tightening their belts on budgets.
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Feb 25, 2024 23:32
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I can't believe I'm watching the 100 and actually enjoying it. I feel like I should be watching the Halo show since apparently 2nd season is actually good or Perry Mason or something. I just hope the show goes batshit and some of the youth go native or something ...The sister episode I previously finished was kinda boring/felt like forced exposition though.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:23
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The 100 is good and gets super weird with it later on.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:29
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The 100 is one of the best shows to come out of the CW.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:30
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GreenNight posted:The 100 is one of the best shows to come out of the CW. I’m not going to empty quote this because holy poo poo the show is amazing. Clarke is legit.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:38
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I watched the first episode of the Last Airbender. I've not seen the cartoon so maybe it was the same, but so far this certainly feels like one of those,"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" type of shows.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:39
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I'm up through episode 3 of Avatar now and the first episode was really rough. The exposition dies down a little after the first episode, and the actors learn how to emote and stop sounding like kids who got called on to read in class. There's some famous actors playing bit parts which is always fun to see, too. I chuckled at Dani Pudi as the mechanist dad in episode 3.
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Feb 26, 2024 01:07
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I came here looking for the A:TLA thread. So far I really dig this show, adapted from a children's cartoon I happened to catch while babysitting my brother. In all seriousness we're only 4/6 episodes but I'm loving it (I have watched the complete original). At first the CGI stuff was too noticeable, but episodes in now I don't understand why I had any complaints. They are hitting the aesthetics of the show perfectly, reminds me of kung fu hustle in that the things I would have scoffed at delighted me. And the message and themes! They actually address that people are dying without going "blue" (if that can address gratuitous violence). One of the more ridiculous parts of the original show was that casualties were something you mostly heard about, despite a world war (and the responsibility of wielding force), being so prevelant. This helps define aang's guilt better than it was in the original show perhaps. Honestly whatever cheesy TV magic is being wielded is a critical hit.
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Feb 26, 2024 02:35
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BRJurgis posted:I came here looking for the A:TLA thread. The General Kids thread in this subforum has a lot of chat as well.
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Feb 26, 2024 02:41
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Dessel posted:I can't believe I'm watching the 100 and actually enjoying it. I feel like I should be watching the Halo show since apparently 2nd season is actually good or Perry Mason or something. I just hope the show goes batshit and some of the youth go native or something hell yeah The 100 is very good and fun and the body count gets crazy. lookin at you, Genghis Clarke 
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Feb 26, 2024 02:41
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The 100 was something I would see mentions of, but never gave it a shot. I watched it randomly a year or so ago, and it's really good. It's kind of a stupid premise but it really goes places.
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Feb 26, 2024 02:45
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Yeah, The Hundo is pretty great, except for a few times when it's not (IMO Season Five is a real slog). Though even it wasn't functioning at the top of its game it was able to pull out some weird cool poo poo. Great sets and production design too.
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Feb 26, 2024 03:00
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I was the change I wanted to see in the forums: made an Avatar thread given how many times it's coming up here. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4055095
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Feb 26, 2024 03:09
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Just saw Family Guy is moving to Wednesday night. When was the last time an animated network show was on an actual weekday (not Friday) in prime time? The Simpsons I remember being on during the week until eventually settling with what would become Fox's animation block with King of the Hill.
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Feb 26, 2024 03:19
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swickles posted:Just saw Family Guy is moving to Wednesday night. When was the last time an animated network show was on an actual weekday (not Friday) in prime time? The Simpsons I remember being on during the week until eventually settling with what would become Fox's animation block with King of the Hill. The Simpsons were on Thursdays for a spell, beating The Cosby Show in the ratings. I want to say it's been 25-ish years since the last animation prime time fad, and it was dire ( either in quality or viewership).
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Feb 26, 2024 03:37
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muscles like this! posted:The 100 is good and gets super weird with it later on. No the internet discourse is what got super weird. The show was fine but it made a lot of people online goes bugfuck insane.
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Feb 26, 2024 04:12
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pentyne posted:No the internet discourse is what got super weird. The show was fine but it made a lot of people online goes bugfuck insane. Yeah, all the shipping discourse and a lot of bad faith arguments that arose as a consequence. It's a shame that the show ended up being so affected by them, and went through a gunshy period as a consequence.
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Feb 26, 2024 04:20
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pentyne posted:No the internet discourse is what got super weird. The show was fine but it made a lot of people online goes bugfuck insane. If you don't think the transition from space Lord of the Flies to humanity pleading their case to a celestial god that had previously crysalized a civiliation of 40 foot giants isn't "super weird" or "bugfuck insane", I don't know what to tell you.
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Feb 26, 2024 06:50
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Some people were going bugfuck insane over the aleged "fridging" of a character. Another actor was also furious about being killed off and was really public about it.
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Feb 26, 2024 06:57
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