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muscles like this! posted:It's really weird, if you watch stuff on the CW app you get a lot of ads for CW Seed shows. I was messing around on their website today and saw that all these shows they advertise have like 5 episodes and they're like 5-6 minutes long each. Seems like a lot of effort putting these ads together for not a lot of content. What's really funny is half the (very minimal) ad breaks on the Syfy Now app are just advertising the channel itself with NO shows even mentioned. I guess this is what they call "branding." As a side note Channel Zero has been completely without ads on Syfy Now so far this season.
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Syfy has been kind of weird about ads recently. Happy! had every episode run with limited commercial breaks and a similar thing happened with Blood Drive last year.
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swickles posted:Yeah, Prime is more than the video content. I imagine the amount they make off of sales dwarfs the amount they make on people who just want the media content. Once amazon starts delivering out of their whole foods stores I'll barely ever need to buy anything from anyone else.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:00
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Grand Prix Driver, the McLaren docu-series on Prime was pretty decent. I wonder if they originally started out planning to follow the team for the full season until they realized just how much of a poo poo show it was going to be. I don't know if you any of you follow F1 at all, but I thought it was well worth 2 hours of my time.
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The Wire is a hell of a drug. Finished the first season last night and snagged the box set to finish the series at Walmart. It looks like reviews of the show indicated the later seasons are somewhat better?
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I'm annoyed at the SyFy app because i was binging Van Helsing S2 and then the episodes disappeared even though I hadn't noticed any expiration warnings. muscles like this! posted:It's really weird, if you watch stuff on the CW app you get a lot of ads for CW Seed shows. I was messing around on their website today and saw that all these shows they advertise have like 5 episodes and they're like 5-6 minutes long each. Seems like a lot of effort putting these ads together for not a lot of content. Yeah, CW Seed is weird and I don't quite get why it exists and that stuff isn't just on the CW App. My thinking is that since the CW App is connected to cable subscriptions the Seed app is supposed to be the cable free thing that draws you in? But I dont think you actually need to log in to watch CW shows? So I don't get it.
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precision posted:Yeah, but that might not be terrible! They did in England. It was a mad time for all.
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McSpanky posted:The only thing worse than actually living through the 90s is everyone gushing about 90s nostalgia now. Everything did suck, call me back when we're all fondly remembering where we were on 9/11 again. It is our space launch.
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muscles like this! posted:It's really weird, if you watch stuff on the CW app you get a lot of ads for CW Seed shows. I was messing around on their website today and saw that all these shows they advertise have like 5 episodes and they're like 5-6 minutes long each. Seems like a lot of effort putting these ads together for not a lot of content. bull3964 posted:What's really funny is half the (very minimal) ad breaks on the Syfy Now app are just advertising the channel itself with NO shows even mentioned. I guess this is what they call "branding." I imagine a part of it must be that internet advertising is so far in the toilet that nobody is really interesting in buying ads, so they have to fill the ad breaks with their own stuff.
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Inspector 34 posted:Grand Prix Driver, the McLaren docu-series on Prime was pretty decent. I wonder if they originally started out planning to follow the team for the full season until they realized just how much of a poo poo show it was going to be. I don't know if you any of you follow F1 at all, but I thought it was well worth 2 hours of my time. Oh dear, what year was this planned in? Nobody could have possibly though those dogshit Honda powerplants were going to make for a good season-long doc.
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Josh Lyman posted:It took months for me to finish Legion, and even then I had to binge the back half in one sitting. I like mutant stuff and I like artsy stuff (see: Hannibal) but for some reason, Legion just never worked for me. I thought it had promise at first and seemed really cool, but the plot wasn't very interesting as it went along and moved at a slower pace than Spider-Man newspaper comics, and I loving hated the season finale so I don't really care if I see more of it or not.
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I liked it a lot overall but man that finale was a fuckin disaster
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IRQ posted:Oh dear, what year was this planned in? Nobody could have possibly though those dogshit Honda powerplants were going to make for a good season-long doc. Oh, but you see the 2017 Honda motor was newly designed from the ground up! I've never been a huge McLaren fan, but Alonso driving for them has made me pull for them a little more than usual and his complete honesty about the motor was really refreshing. The series pretty much ends with the preseason Barcelona test but they do give a little bit of lip service to the rest of the season. I wish they had given more credit to the McLaren engineers though for designing what seemed like a pretty kick rear end car last year.
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Here's what Brainiac is going to look like on that new Krypton TV show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fWtdeyykz8
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CBJSprague24 posted:The Wire is a hell of a drug. Finished the first season last night and snagged the box set to finish the series at Walmart. It looks like reviews of the show indicated the later seasons are somewhat better? I’m so mad you get to watch it for the first time.
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The Wire season 1 is, from my experience, generally considered to be the fourth best out of five. So yeah you got a hell of a ride to go.
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I know I'm gonna be an aspect ratio snob but is it really worth it for me to watch the Wire as well? Does it convert into widescreen at any point?
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Croatoan posted:I know I'm gonna be an aspect ratio snob but is it really worth it for me to watch the Wire as well? Does it convert into widescreen at any point? Shrug. It's a good show but I don't consider it anything that blows my dick off. And no.
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Croatoan posted:I know I'm gonna be an aspect ratio snob but is it really worth it for me to watch the Wire as well? Does it convert into widescreen at any point? I think the blu rays are all in widescreen
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The blus are in widescreen and despite what Simon may say are by far the superior version
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Croatoan posted:I know I'm gonna be an aspect ratio snob but is it really worth it for me to watch the Wire as well? Does it convert into widescreen at any point? HBO remastered the whole series in 16:9 1080p in 2014. Amazon and HBO both have the remastered versions.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:18
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Is there a Homeland thread I can't find or should I make one? Is anyone watching this?
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Huh. I've never actually watched them in widescreen. That's a good excuse for a rewatch.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Is there a Homeland thread I can't find or should I make one? It's being suppressed by the government. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3848934
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I checked out that Final Space pilot and I have mixed feelings. It's interesting but I don't care about the characters as much as I should. Many things in the pilot are done okayish but not super well. Some characters were half-introduced and didn't have enough subtext to care about them. Jokes were hit and miss although I found Gary more charming than most. I'm going to keep watching because I love goofy space stuff and I the plot is engaging, if cliched.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5X3vC-XsU0 Captain Flint!!! 
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DoubleCakes posted:I checked out that Final Space pilot and I have mixed feelings. It's interesting but I don't care about the characters as much as I should. Many things in the pilot are done okayish but not super well. Some characters were half-introduced and didn't have enough subtext to care about them. Jokes were hit and miss although I found Gary more charming than most. Yeah, I enjoyed it and it has potential. I do think the editing was a bit off which screwed with character intros a bit. The voice cast is strong though so if everyone is chewing the scenery it should be worth watching for that alone. I'm usually really good at picking up VAs, but I cannot hear David Tennent in Lord Commander at all.
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zoux posted:Oh man they're making an LA Confidential TV show! And Walton Goggins is starring in the Spacey role from the film! Aaaaandddddd it's on CBS Well, this will be a disaster. I doubt Amazon has the budget to do it justice, and Consider Phlebas is the wrong one to start with, even though it was written first. There's also going to be a temptation to give the series an overarching plot. also if they somehow get to Use of Weapons....well. HMMMM. I just don't see how this could be sustainable. The Culture novels are about on the same level of popularity as Altered Carbon, but far more cerebral (and socialist-edged as opposed to fairly standard cyberpunk with an Eat the Rich undercurrent but no teeth to it). Well, Consider Phlebas is a slambang space opera actioner, so I guess if they nail it, it could create enough of an audience to justify doing The Player of Games. And then the series gets cancelled after Use of Weapons alienates 90% of the audience, while the critics anoint it one of the best things ever. Only way this will work is if they get Alex Garland (writer of Dredd, director of Ex Machina and the upcoming Annihilation).
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Or, it could just be a lose adaptation, picking and choosing themes and settings rather than an outright retelling of the books. That's precisely what they've been doing with "The Man in the High Castle" and it's working pretty well. The book has very little resemblance to the TV show outside of the initial setup.
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Spatula City posted:Well, this will be a disaster. I doubt Amazon has the budget to do it justice, Lol
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Spatula City posted:Well, this will be a disaster. I doubt Amazon has the budget to do it justice Amazon literally didn't pay a single cent in federal income taxes last year and got a $789 windfall from the tax
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I wonder if they'll emphasize the post scarcity economy, people's ability to synthesize drugs in their brains or to change their sex? I hope this brings us one step closer to a Hyperion series. That seems like it would be pretty easy to adapt into a show.
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Syfy channel are working on Hyperion with Bradley Cooper as Exec Producer. Normally I'd write it off as a doomed project but The Expanse owns.
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Mu Zeta posted:Syfy channel are working on Hyperion with Bradley Cooper as Exec Producer. Normally I'd write it off as a doomed project but The Expanse owns. That's two forthcoming Dan Simmons book TV series
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Walton Goggins has joined the cast of CBS' LA Confidential in the Kevin Spacey role, the flashy, Hollywood connected detective.
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muscles like this! posted:Walton Goggins has joined the cast of CBS' LA Confidential in the Kevin Spacey role, the flashy, Hollywood connected detective. SOLD.
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Holy poo poo Channel Zero: No-End House is incredible. Best horror thing I've seen since Get Out
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HorseRenoir posted:Holy poo poo Channel Zero: No-End House is incredible. Best horror thing I've seen since Get Out I’m three episodes into the new mini-season (6 episodes; it’s called Butchers Block and has Rutger Hauer as the primary antagonist) and it’s even creepier than No-End House. No bullshit.
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Mu Zeta posted:Syfy channel are working on Hyperion with Bradley Cooper as Exec Producer. Normally I'd write it off as a doomed project but The Expanse owns. Is there anything on this more recent than 2015?
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Someone recently asked about Frankenstein Chronicles and no one replied. I'm curious myself. Is at all in the same league as Penny Dreadful?
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