Random TV Show Thoughts

[Totenkindly]

They don't hate each other. I don't think they should have gone in the direction they took late in the series, but I think they had a deep and abiding love for each other platonically or brother/sister.

 

[The Cat]

They don't hate each other. I don't think they should have gone in the direction they took late in the series, but I think they had a deep and abiding love for each other platonically or brother/sister.

Perhaps it is this sibling dynamic that I am misinterperating. Thank you this clarifies and the dynamic and performances make sense with this context. Much obliged matey!

 

[Totenkindly]

Perhaps it is this sibling dynamic that I am misinterperating. Thank you this clarifies and the dynamic and performances make sense with this context. Much obliged matey!

uhhh.... cheers?

 

[The Cat]

uhhh.... cheers?

Yes. Cheers. A fine situation comedy as well.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

re Community: I used to think I was like a hybrid of Abed and Annie, but I'm more like a hybrid of Abed and Britta.

 

[Totenkindly]

Tatiana Maslany says She-Hulk: Attorney At Law has likely been thrown out of court

She-Hulk: Attorney At LawScreenshot: Marvel EntertainmentIf we had a nickel for every time a show about an improbable creature spending time in a courtroom was abandoned by its studio, we’d have two nickels... which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. First it was Warner Bros.’...

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Maslany was honestly a great cast for this role. it's unfortunate Marvel dropped the ball in how they decided to product Phase 4/5 Disney+ shows.

In an extensive report from The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that the studio was eschewing traditional speculative pilots and instead jumping into series with no real forethought, swapping seasoned showrunners for execs from the film side with minimal experience, patching mistakes in post-production instead of in the moment, and so on. According to a different report from Variety, the budget for a few single episodes of She-Hulk occasionally grew to a whopping $25 million, way more than the final season of Game Of Thrones, for example, but without even half of its cultural impact.

I don't really care if Jessica Gao had ideas for Season 2, the writing and episode design was pretty lousy for Season 1. If they ever did Season 2, they should fire the entire writing team and start fresh. Not that it was entirely her fault, because for whatever reason Marvel sidelined the writers I think once they wrote episodes rather than having them part of the daily shoot and working to improve scripts that were not working.

You can't fix shows in post. It costs too much, for one; and it's like realizing you have problems with the house you are building but you decide to wait until it's built and then try to change things.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Tatiana Maslany says She-Hulk: Attorney At Law has likely been thrown out of court

She-Hulk: Attorney At LawScreenshot: Marvel EntertainmentIf we had a nickel for every time a show about an improbable creature spending time in a courtroom was abandoned by its studio, we’d have two nickels... which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. First it was Warner Bros.’...

www.yahoo.com

Maslany was honestly a great cast for this role. it's unfortunate Marvel dropped the ball in how they decided to product Phase 4/5 Disney+ shows.



I don't really care if Jessica Gao had ideas for Season 2, the writing and episode design was pretty lousy for Season 1. If they ever did Season 2, they should fire the entire writing team and start fresh. Not that it was entirely her fault, because for whatever reason Marvel sidelined the writers I think once they wrote episodes rather than having them part of the daily shoot and working to improve scripts that were not working.

You can't fix shows in post. It costs too much, for one; and it's like realizing you have problems with the house you are building but you decide to wait until it's built and then try to change things.

I'm not a close follower of MCU, I still haven't watched Endgame, and I watched Avengers 1 and 2 in theaters for the water cooler aspect. I find feel a much stronger attachment to DC characters; and the Marvel ones I do have attachment to have been tertiary to or absent from the MCU for various reasons. However, it's not hard for me to draw a parallel here. It's mind-boggling to me that a company like Disney with so many resources at its disposal, with a truly global reach is showing this pattern of pushing out these sloppy, undercooked movies and tv shows for things they spend billions of dollars acquiring. You can probably get away with doing that for a while, coasting on the assumption that the audience will always be there. But eventually, there will be diminishing returns, and this is what we're seeing.

 

[The Cat]

I'm not a closer follower of MCU, I still haven't watched Endgame, and I watched Avengers 1 and 2 in theaters for the water cooler aspect. I find feel a much stronger attachment to DC characters; and the Marvel ones I do have attachment to have been tertiary to or absent from the MCU for various reasons. However, it's not hard for me to draw a parallel here. It's mind-boggling to me that a company like Disney with so many resources at its disposal, with a truly global reach is showing this pattern of pushing out these sloppy, undercooked movies and tv shows for things they spend billions of dollars acquiring. You can probably get away with doing that for a while, coasting on the assumption that the audience will always be there. But eventually, there will be diminishing returns, and this is what we're seeing.

I think you'll like this. It'll basically catch you up on the "plots"
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Regarding wtf Disney is doing....They're making money in global markets. There's really too many cooks at this point for anything to ever feel fully cooked and appetizing.

 

[The Cat]

I've seen my future.​

 

[Z Buck McFate]

Walton Goggins is going to be in season three White Lotus. LMAO.

 

[Totenkindly]

Hazbin Hotel on Prime is kind of amusing, if you're into the neat animation style (kind of like Powerpuff Girls taken to the far next level) and a weird mix of adult scripting, Broadway musical, and the rehabilitation of hell denizens.

It took a bit of time to get in sync with it but it's becoming fun. It's just taking a bit of time to find itself.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

rewatch the GOT

A character I liked in the books that I feel like the show didn't do justice to was Jon Snow. They took the line of him "knowing nothing" and applied it too literally. It was fine for the first few seasons, and they handled the romance with Ygritte quite well (somehow they had excellent onscreen chemistry). But like in many things, they started to lose their way in season 5. I think the last time I found Jon Snow on the show interesting was this scene:

So, I've never hung people for treason, but he has this "fuck this shit, I'm done here" energy here that I relate to. I'm also curious with regards to how he felt about Olly; on the one hand, he was quite young, and on the other, he did betray him, and on the third hand, he fired the arrows that killed his lover, even if this spared him from having to do so himself.

(Olly isn't a character in the books and was created for the show to highlight and clarify the relationship between the Northerners and the wildings. [Spoiler, it's not great])

Theoretically, the last season should have given him plenty to do, but his only line of dialogue for most of it is "She is muh queen." He needs far too much explaining from Tyrion to do what needs to be done. It should have been framed as him knowing what he must do but struggling and agonizing over the decision. The Jon Snow in the books isn't stupid (just impulsive), he wouldn't have needed that much explaining to get to that point. Reluctance and hesitation make perfect sense, but he would not need it spelled out.

I did like his ending, though. I'm holding out the hope that he meets another Ygritte. His exile to serve on the wall with the Wildings wasn't a bad ending; he was at his happiest when he was with them.

 

[Totenkindly]

While I don't want to get into it much here since there is a GoT thread in this subforum, it wasn't just Jon who was let down as the series progressed. Pretty much all the characters became caricatures of themselves because they didn't have any writers who had a really nuanced sense of the characters.

Jon always did better when he was taking action, he was kind of bad with words and indecisive, but once he was in a situation where he HAD to respond, he was enough like Ned that he would just step up and do it. One of those moments was going after Ramsey. Another one was in Hardhome, which ironically wasn't even in the books but is one of the best original passages in the series. Jon needs the wildings to speak for him and convince the other tribes that he's on the level and won't betray them -- but when the hordes of the dead spill down on the community, he goes beyond words and shows his honor through action. He orders all the Crows back into the settlement to buy time for the fleeing wildings and regain the dragonglass (a task he fails in), but it's a freaking crazy moment where so many people are dying left and right and Jon never flinches, and he doesn't care how many of the crows follow him. He just runs back in, not knowing what he would face, and ends up facing down one of the wraiths, and is one of the last people to flee the settlement, in the process saving a decent amount of wildings (although many are still lost).

It is one of Jon's best moments, revealing his courage, his faithfulness, and his fighting ability.

 

[The Cat]

New heman on netflix so good. The aesthetics are perfect. The cross overs are perfect. The cameos are perfect. It really taps in to the heart of what drew me to the original they even tie in the 80's live action movie.

 

[The Cat]

Just gonna throw it out there now. The Next one brings home Adora, not yet She-ra.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I rewatched the final episode of Community recently, and I think it confirmed that Annie was the ass-crack bandit. It's always who you least suspect.

 

[The Cat]

I rewatched the final episode of Community recently, and I think it confirmed that Annie was the ass-crack bandit. It's always who you least suspect.

Annie wasn't a lone gunman. Remember Intro to Conspiracies. It's all a conspiracy. There wasn't just one ass crack bandit.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Annie wasn't a lone gunman. Remember Intro to Conspiracies. It's all a conspiracy. There wasn't just one ass crack bandit.

Copycats, maybe? Or even more nefariously, were they working together?

 

[The Cat]

Copycats, maybe? Or even more nefariously, were they working together?

It was all just a dream. A dream you had about watching a tv show where there were simple answers to fictional questions. A dream where you thought you knew what was real. A dream you share. A Dream where there was a D&D episode on streaming.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It was all just a dream. A dream you had about watching a tv show where there were simple answers to fictional questions. A dream where you thought you knew what was real. A dream you share. A Dream where there was a D&D episode on streaming.

The reality is that I was not watching a TV show like that, but rather something more like the movie Zodiac; where there is no answer for anything. The bandit(s) are still out there, and we could perhaps be their next victims. I'm putting tape over my asscrack, I'm Andrew Clark-ing myself.