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Topic: TV we've been watching lately  (Read 145916 times)

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TV we've been watching lately #195
Wynonna Earp is not good.
It's cheesy and campy, but not audacious enough to pretend it's on purpose (it tries to, though).
Still, I'll be watching - because I have no standards.
Ambious, June 19, 2016, 08:19:22 am
Are you watching Penny Dreadful? It is similar but better-produced and at least when you cringe at the dialogue it's b/c you're supposed to

bonus Penny Dreadful fact - it is a show where Timothy Dalton, playing an effete gentleman scholar looking for his daughter (who was kidnapped by Dracula) teams up with Victor Frankenstein and an American Werewolf (who happens to be In London) and Eva Green's piercing, beautiful eyes to fight miscellaneous servants of the devil

also there's Dorian Grey, Dr. Jekyll, on-screen dick, voodoo, Billie Piper with (and later without) a cartoonish Irish accent, undead radical feminists, a woman fighting a doll version of herself and the doll is possessed by Satan, and lots and lots of sex and blood, not infrequently together

it's campy and stupid and very well put together and i love it so much

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TV we've been watching lately #196
That sounds suspiciously like Mystery Men, I'm assuming it's better?

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Get hyped, folks. GET MOTHERFUCKING HYPED.
CormansInferno, June 18, 2016, 03:15:42 pm

Don't know if I'm that fond of Adult Swim handling a beloved childhood cartoon. Will it have the spirit of the original SJ or will it be an arbitrary grimdarkening with swear words and boobs?
MISANDRY CANNON, June 19, 2016, 07:28:07 am

Gennedy is in complete control of it, I assume parts of this are the Samurai Jack movie he tried to make on and off for a decade. All indications are that it's the same show, the action movie violence and stakes are just amped up.

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That sounds suspiciously like Mystery Men, I'm assuming it's better?
A Meat, June 19, 2016, 10:25:48 am
it's better

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Man-oh-man.

Star Trek: Enterprise is the prequel series to the original Star Trek, airing from 2001 to 2005, and I hadn't actually watched it since it was being aired, so I figured that it might be time to give it another go. It was the first star trek series that my family stopped watching (and we watched Voyager together). The air date puts a lot of the things that happen in the show in context, I think. Anyways, so the show's aim was to make Star Trek 'fresh' again, something that modern audiences would sit down and watch over other primetime television of the era. So, they aimed to make Star Trek something that could compete with Buffy or Alias: something exciting, occasionally gritty, and above all, SEXY

But, like, they start with the bits where they have to rub decontaminant gel on each other, in tank-tops and shorts.



"Not good enough! Make it sexier!"

Uh, then they move it to, like, intimate massages for "Vulcan neural realignment therapy".



"Still not good enough! Ratings are too low!"

Fuck it. Naked Vulcan shower massages.



"NOT WORKING! PULL UP PULL UPPPPPP!"



AUGH. Are you wearing a snake's skin?! Anyways, so yeah, the totally transparent boobs=ratings grab was shitty and remains shitty.

There's also the really muddled nature of the show's politics: the show started in 2001, and continued through 2005. You've got 9/11 there at the start,  the main villains of the first couple seasons are named the Suliban, just a couple letters off from Taliban. You've got the Iraq war happening, and there's a storyline about an alien race, the Xindi, that is developing a WMD that could wipe out the earth. And the traditional enlightened Star Trek 'all problems can be solved by communication, and all sentient species deserve our respect' collides with the 24-esque sensibilities of the era. Captain Archer fucking tosses a dude in an airlock and starts sucking the air out 'til he tells him where the weapon is, and that's not something that anybody ever calls him out on.

This sort of dovetails with the show's weird racial attitudes: the Xindi, developing the WMD, are composed of five subspecies, some of which don't actually want to destroy Earth. Like, I guess the intention was to demonstrate that sometimes there are internal groups in a conflict that we don't necessarily see, and no species is 100% ideologically aligned, so we shouldn't hold all of them responsible for the actions of a few, but two of the subspecies are just out-and-out evil, which kind of contradicts the whole point. Plus, there's this weird thing where the Vulcans are actually, like, controlling the human government? And they get to say what kind of missions Starfleet undertakes? It's got a really weird kind of Jewish cabal/Illuminati vibe to it. Plus, there's a bit where kindergarteners are sending their crayon drawings to the enterprise, and the one of the Vulcan officer is this weird green racial caricature, and it's played for laughs! Like, if there were a chinese character, and some kids drew, like, a yellow-skinned buck-toothed crayon drawing, that would be some serious shit.

Also, the writing is bad, the characters are one-dimensional and totally fail to grow in any significant way over the course of the show, they don't ask any interesting questions or explore any interesting themes, and they do way *way* too many dumb episodes where they meet (THING YOU KNOW FROM STAR TREK) for the first time, even if it doesn't make any sense and directly contradicts what we know from the other Star Trek series (the Borg, the Ferengi, the Romulans).

AUGH.
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Vice Principals is probably the darkest thing McBride and Hill have made. Walton Goggins plays the Oily Sociopath role to perfection. Love how they make the revenge plot against the new principal at least somewhat empathetic when the receptionist is fired, then 5 minutes later they BURN DOWN HER FUCKING HOUSE. The only way the series ends is with the death of one or both of these characters.
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I don't know if you've noticed, but Stranger Things is pretty much a love letter to 80's science fiction horror and it's pretty good? Like, I've heard people talking about it, so I took the plunge myself because I'm a sucker for Stephen King inspired teleplays and The Stand TV miniseries is still my favorite Stephen King thing ever???? You should check both of these things out?????????

What??????????
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I don't know if you've noticed, but Stranger Things is pretty much a love letter to 80's science fiction horror and it's pretty good? Like, I've heard people talking about it, so I took the plunge myself because I'm a sucker for Stephen King inspired teleplays and The Stand TV miniseries is still my favorite Stephen King thing ever???? You should check both of these things out?????????

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STOG, August 10, 2016, 09:31:45 am

I really liked it. I'm glad there's going to be a second season, but now I have to wait and it suuuucks.

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TV we've been watching lately #203
I just finished Stranger Things, and it's really really good. I like how each set of characters is in their own type of 80s movie (Spielbergian coming-of-age, Stephen King supernatural conspiracy thriller, and teen horror romance, respectively) and they gradually blend together. It really fits with the atmosphere of the show, too, as the characters gradually unite and cross over into the other world.

The downsides are that it does get less scary as it goes on.  The fear of the unknown gets less scary when we start learning the rules of the unknown, although it ends strong. In fact, it ends TOO strong. I don't see a second season of this being any good. Where could they possibly go? Everyone is a badass demon hunter and they go to save Elle from even MORE monsters? Will causes the other world to seep into ours and now they have to fight to stop Armageddon? I don't see it working, unless they maybe change the entire genre, and base season two on, like, Alien and Conan instead of E.T. and Poltergeist.

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TV we've been watching lately #204
Saw the new Christopher-Nolan'd Tick pilot. Not bad, but weird timing bringing it out when superhero fans are getting tired of the grim, grey reboot. Hopefully it compensates by getting even more satirical and mean with the superhero jokes, ala Mills and O'Neill's Marshall Law or the Venture Bros (which literally owes its existence to both Tick TV shows). There's a hint of that in the flashback where the Terror causes a spaceship to crash on Arthur's father and then casually murders 4 B-List superheroes, but I hope it pulls more in that direction instead of trying to make the Tick "real". Also hilarious reading the negative Amazon reviews saying "whoever made this show doesn't GET the the Tick" when it was written by the guy who created it and is the 2nd live-action Tick series Barry Sonnenfeld has produced.

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TV we've been watching lately #205
I tried watching the first three episodes of Rick and Morty.

I didn't really like it. Was all pop culture jokes, and just not too funny in general

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TV we've been watching lately #206
I liked Rick and Morty but looking back on it I don't know why because whenever I think of an episode I just remember hating it.

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I tried watching the first three episodes of Rick and Morty.

I didn't really like it. Was all pop culture jokes, and just not too funny in general
A Meat, August 23, 2016, 02:15:18 pm

Same.
It was funny, but... A bit over the top.

Anyway, I ran into the weirdest little mini-series called "Dramaworld" (it's on Netflix). The premise sounds a lot like bad fanfiction but it's actually really fun.
It's about a girl who's obsessed with K-Dramas and gets sucked into "Dramaworld" which is a place where all the K-Dramas she's watching are real and she becomes part of the show, and her role in that world is trying to set up the two main characters in every series.
I know - it sounds stupid - but it's actually really adorable and fun so give it a shot. It's also pretty short, so it's not a huge commitment to watch.

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Opinion about rick and morty mark II:

Some of the episodes are good and funny , and some are downright embarrassingly bad, it's very hit and miss

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Opinion about rick and morty mark II:

Some of the episodes are good and funny , and some are downright embarrassingly bad, it's very hit and miss
A Meat, August 27, 2016, 07:40:45 pm

Same - Mark II.