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Raised By Wolves for sure.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:22
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I try not to recommend shows that won't ever get resolved except maybe by a comic in a decade.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:26
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isaboo posted:Raised By Wolves for sure. I keep thinking about the final few episodes. Both genuinely epic in tone, in the old school mythological sense, and also so ludictously batshit that I couldn't help but laugh. Really looking forward to Netflix's upcoming KAOS, hope that it lives up to that title and the casting.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:35
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GreenNight posted:I try not to recommend shows that won't ever get resolved except maybe by a comic in a decade. the end works well enough as a finale given the weird as gently caress nature of the show.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:57
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2 episodes into 3BP and I can't quite describe why, but the dialogue just feels off. The non-subtitled parts feel like a poorly translated dub like one of the spanish/italian series that Mrs McHuge watches. I'm also severely struggling with the whole "all the particle accelerators in the world are malfunctioning in the same exact way at the same time and producing results that are against the laws of physics, better shut down all research!". If that were to happen it would be one of the most noteworthy scientific discoveries in decades, there is no way they would be shutting down programs.
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Mar 25, 2024 20:39
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Big McHuge posted:The non-subtitled parts feel like a poorly translated dub Just being true to the books.
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Mar 25, 2024 20:46
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...Raised by Wolves...
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Mar 25, 2024 20:52
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Jerusalem posted:...Raised by Wolves...
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Mar 25, 2024 21:57
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Every day I praise Sol, and I fear that he doesn’t hear those prayers. Never the less, all glory to Sol, giver of light. *sticks arm in random wall holes*
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Mar 25, 2024 21:59
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Sol will provide, but only once we eat these weird ball bearing eyes
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Mar 25, 2024 22:22
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Big McHuge posted:2 episodes into 3BP and I can't quite describe why, but the dialogue just feels off. The non-subtitled parts feel like a poorly translated dub like one of the spanish/italian series that Mrs McHuge watches.  but in fairness I can appreciate that it's very hard to write believable characters who talk like human beings, but who are also scientists who have to deliver high concepts to a lay audience
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Mar 25, 2024 22:24
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Open Source Idiom posted:I keep thinking about the final few episodes. Both genuinely epic in tone, in the old school mythological sense, and also so ludictously batshit that I couldn't help but laugh. I'm rewatching RbW and I'm only halfway through S1 and it's good and werd, but I'm looking forward to S2 for all the truly nutty poo poo. I hadn't heard of KAOS but that looks cool. Sell me on Fortitude. I'm almost at the end of S1. Does it get better or go places?
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Mar 25, 2024 22:31
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isaboo posted:. It's just mad. It starts out as something of a boilerplate British murder thriller, but it radically reinvents itself as it goes along. It has wild twists, the lead actors get to mad things, a handful of well choreographed fight scenes, a seriously high body count of regulars and manages a weirdly comic tone in some of the oddest places. There's camp, but I vibed with it. Roughly speaking, it starts as a murder mystery and ends (light-ish spoilers) as a town wide descent into madness.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:38
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Odds on we're 3/4 months out from a cancellation announcement https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1772273640446317052 High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 23:33
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quote:Despite a recent BAFTA TV Awards nomination for leading actor Paapa Essiedu, Sky has confirmed it has canceled its sci-fi series “The Lazarus Project” after two seasons. Well, I guess I can take this off my backlog. I heard season 2 ended with a hell of a cliff hanger.
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Mar 25, 2024 23:34
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Jerusalem posted:...Raised by Wolves... I just want Abubakar Salim to get a new project.
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Mar 25, 2024 23:43
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High Warlord Zog posted:Odd on we're 3/4 months out from a cancellation announcement That would be dissapointing. Season 1 of Euphoria is some of my favourite television. Definitely top 10. Part of it is it being utterly relateable for reasons I won't get into. But it's also just a really good story well told in a stylistic way. Season 2 was just fine tv as well. And/but the third season is a head scratcher for me until I see a trailer. The second season ends with Rue saying she stayed clean & sober for the rest of high school. This could mean: A) Sam could go in an interesting direction with this. Maybe she goes off the college and other problems facing Gen Z and Millenials crop up. Maybe it's about how she overcame her problems in the first place. Maybe the lull was temporary and the show gets serious with more hardcore drug use (Zendaya could pull it off I think.) B) It was a lie or is just ignored, and the show keeps being about Rue being an actively using addict with bipolar disorder. So hit or miss.
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Mar 26, 2024 00:08
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Just finished the fifth episode of 3 Body Problem. The nanowire scene was pretty gnarly.
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Mar 26, 2024 01:48
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Chairman Capone posted:Just finished the fifth episode of 3 Body Problem. The nanowire scene was pretty gnarly. same and yeah lol. that's a loooot of dead kids
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Mar 26, 2024 03:24
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https://twitter.com/leepace/status/1772237827926843405
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Mar 26, 2024 09:12
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Big McHuge posted:2 episodes into 3BP and I can't quite describe why, but the dialogue just feels off. The non-subtitled parts feel like a poorly translated dub like one of the spanish/italian series that Mrs McHuge watches. I don't recall them saying every particle accelerator is malfunctioning in the same exact way. They said that every single one is producing completely gibberish and nonsense results with no pattern.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:31
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https://x.com/leepace/status/1772560161766289748?s=46&t=GxZoSKgPzb_-zyUnvLFKvg
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Mar 26, 2024 10:48
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High Warlord Zog posted:Odds on we're 3/4 months out from a cancellation announcement Zendaya's gonna be in her forties when the third episode is filmed.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:55
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Ya'll acting like it doesn't often take 3 years to bring out a new season of an HBO/ABC/FX show at the best of times.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:56
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Bright Bart posted:Ya'll acting like it doesn't often take 3 years to bring out a new season of an HBO/ABC/FX show at the best of times. The two year gap between season 7 and 8 of GoT was pretty unprecedented and that was a show with lots of special effects shot on a variety of different locations.
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Mar 26, 2024 11:28
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Alhazred posted:The two year gap between season 7 and 8 of GoT was pretty unprecedented and that was a show with lots of special effects shot on a variety of different locations. Hmm. The last three seasons of The Wire had two years between them. And my favourite FX show also had a pair of two year skips in a run of five seasons total. I don't think either had as many actors with big projects outside of the show at the same time. If they can bring it out by the middle of 2025 it might be aiming for a record for a show that didn't officially go on hiatus (or not I'm not sure) but it then could just be attributed to Hollywood grinding to a halt and maybe taking HBO at face value that they want to make this season special, rather than a sign the production was troubled. A much bigger worry is that like I said earlier it's a show about a teenage drug addict whose lead has now been out of her teenage years longer than she ever was an actual teenager, and where in-show her character says she stopped doing drugs long-term. They almost by definition have to make serious changes to how the show is set up.
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Mar 26, 2024 12:27
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Chairman Capone posted:Just finished the fifth episode of 3 Body Problem. The nanowire scene was pretty gnarly. I saw this one last night, and I still can't figure out why they did that rather than just stopping the ship from Waterworld and interrogating them. Maybe I missed it?
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Mar 26, 2024 12:30
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This is a wild swing since I don't know if anyone here sounds like the right audience for it, but Davey And Jonesie's Locker, a Hulu/Amazon co-production, is kind of fantastic. It's a Canadian highschool science-fiction throwback about a pair of intolerable teen girls who accidentally get trapped in a Sliders scenario. I didn't think it would be very good, but I'm a trash racoon so of course I ended up checking it out. Honestly, I was kind of blown away, and had a really fun time with a very silly show that's proud of its limitations and still happy to punch about its weight. So yeah, Sliders in a highschool. But these alternative worlds are, honestly, kind of amazing? They're frequently so stupid that it wraps back around to being genius, and are shamelessly low budget and happy to show that off at any and every opportunity. So you'll have an entire Mad Max post-apocalyptic scenario, complete with various cult leaders and their associated fashion cults, but when it comes down to portraying the murderous bike gang that has taken over the school hallways, the show only has the budget for one bike. (The gang, we're told, has become really good at sharing.) There's another episode where a prop visibly malfunctions midscene, and all the actors keep going on while pretending not to notice -- which ends up being insanely funny. The lead two, fantastically, openly recognise how stupid everything is but basically love it all anyway, while being completely ignorant to danger and responsibility to a near sociopathic degree. (When it's explained to them that their dimensional jumping causes the displacement and death of their alternative copies they don't even appear to notice.) They have really believable friend chemistry, and are very enthusiastic and funny, and you can tell they were having a ball filming everything. That unpretentious charm carries the show a long, long way. The only thing the show takes remotely seriously is its villain, who's also really great. The actress is basically out of a completely different kind of show, and is giving this shaded, nuanced performance with like, layers and poo poo. She gets to be actually dangerous and do mean things, but this, again, ends up being something of a very dark joke, as she's slowly driven insane by the unserious inanity of the setting and the people in it. But yeah this show is loving hilarious. The third episode is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages, just an absolute pisstake of the kind of thing you'll have seen a billion times in Canadian science-fiction productions. I was worried that the show had blown its best jokes too early, but then this episode was, somehow, upstaged by a pitch perfect Riverdale parody later on in the season. One that (tone spoilers) gets that Riverdale isn't just riddiculous and stupid, but also manages to capture the slightly sinister edge the series could often have, and takes a full tilt into B-grade horror. Which is exactly what Riverdale would do. So yeah, it's Sliders meets Community, if it was written by the DC's Legends Of Tomorrow gang. I know enough about goon tastes that a lot of you won't be able to stand this thing if you give it a try, particularly since it only really starts showing off its potential from the second episode onwards. BUT if you've read this far then you kind of know whether this show is for you or not. It was definitely for me. I've watched the entire thing and had an absolute ball. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 12:37
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Bright Bart posted:A much bigger worry is that like I said earlier it's a show about a teenage drug addict whose lead has now been out of her teenage years longer than she ever was an actual teenager, and where in-show her character says she stopped doing drugs long-term. They almost by definition have to make serious changes to how the show is set up. If it does happen they'll set it in college or post high school with the most in-demand actors being geographically dispersed (one in NY, one in LA, maybe one doing and MFA in Iowa, or something similar) so they can silo them off to reduce scheduling conflicts. But between most of the mains being in high demand, the unprecedented hiatus for a YA show, the showrunner coming of a major dud, and HBOs new owners being shitcan happy, my prediction is cancellation. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 13:11
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IRQ posted:I saw this one last night, and I still can't figure out why they did that rather than just stopping the ship from Waterworld and interrogating them. Maybe I missed it? They briefly talked about the various non-lethal options, but they were afraid that the people on the ship would have time to erase the evidence
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Mar 26, 2024 13:23
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High Warlord Zog posted:If it does happen they'll set it in college or post high school with the most in-demand actors being geographically dispersed (one in NY, one in LA, maybe one doing and MFA in Iowa, or something similar) so they can silo them off to reduce scheduling conflicts. But between most of the mains being in high demand, the unprecedented hiatus for a YA show, the showrunner coming of a major dud, and HBOs new owners being shitcan happy, my prediction is cancellation. Didn't one of the leads also kill themselves recently meaning they are loosing a popular character AND the showrunner has had some rumblings of being abusive?
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Mar 26, 2024 13:24
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Zendaya is gonna be filming the new Spiderman movie which is one reason given that the show is delayed.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:26
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PriorMarcus posted:Didn't one of the leads also kill themselves recently meaning they are loosing a popular character The show has basically written him off at the end of the second season, so it shouldn't be a huge problem.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:33
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PriorMarcus posted:Didn't one of the leads also kill themselves recently meaning they are loosing a popular character AND the showrunner has had some rumblings of being abusive? If you consider an od as killing themselves then yes.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:37
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:If you consider an od as killing themselves then yes. Oh, I thought it had been a deliberate OD, apologies for misremembering.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:39
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I mean, sometimes you can't know. Often in fact. That's important to remember. A fatal overdose can be anything from 'Oooh, I have a concert tomorrow and dinner with friends next week. This is going to be a good month.' and then it's something stronger than you thought you were taking, relapse without accounting for tolerance, knowing one of these days it won't end well but not being able to stop, knowing you're crossing a line but still wanting the effects of a higher dose, ambivalence about surviving, through to 'This is it.' We shouldn't really speculate given the range of possibilities and not being able to read a person's mind.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:06
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Open Source Idiom posted:This is a wild swing since I don't know if anyone here sounds like the right audience for it, but Davey And Jonesie's Locker, a Hulu/Amazon co-production, is kind of fantastic. It's a Canadian highschool science-fiction throwback about a pair of intolerable teen girls who accidentally get trapped in a Sliders scenario. I didn't think it would be very good, but I'm a trash racoon so of course I ended up checking it out. Honestly, I was kind of blown away, and had a really fun time with a very silly show that's proud of its limitations and still happy to punch about its weight. Haha I caught most of this a couple days ago and thought it was great. Way funnier than a Canadian teen show has any right to be. Fun premise, I like how they pretty much destroy every sliders portal universd they pop through.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:47
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Aphex- posted:I don't recall them saying every particle accelerator is malfunctioning in the same exact way. They said that every single one is producing completely gibberish and nonsense results with no pattern. Which is also no reason for shutting them down and giving up. Some of the biggest discoveries in science has been made when someone said "this doesn't add up"
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Mar 26, 2024 16:08
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Big McHuge posted:I'm also severely struggling with the whole "all the particle accelerators in the world are malfunctioning in the same exact way at the same time and producing results that are against the laws of physics, better shut down all research!" 3 Boomer Problem
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3BP is a collection of very interesting sci fi ideas with an abysmal plot and characters. Book readers have they done the imaginary gf stuff yet
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