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Mindhunter S2 is really good so far, about halfway through. Also rewatching Lost in Space and it's more action packed but a little dumber than I remember, still love it though. Expanse S4 is fantastic so far, just a few episodes in. I don't really binge so it takes me a little bit to get through shows.
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Watched the first two eps of The Witcher. Not bad so far. Cavill seems a little stiff, but you can tell from things like his talk with Roach and punching Dandelion that it's all a front we haven't really seen crack yet. Other that that, if you didn't know the title of the show and who is top billed, you would think this show is about Ciri and Geralt is just a supporting character. Not a complaint, just an observation.
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wormil posted:Mindhunter S2 is really good so far, about halfway through. Mindhunter good, Lost in Space good. Good media diet mix of bleakly fascinating murder-men and a mawkish 90's-ish sf show with a 2018 effects budget.
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Are they going to make another season of Lost in Space? There was a lot I didn’t like but I thought it was a fun formula and wanted to see them get better
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Fallom posted:Are they going to make another season of Lost in Space? There was a lot I didn’t like but I thought it was a fun formula and wanted to see them get better Comes out next week!
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Fallom posted:Are they going to make another season of Lost in Space? There was a lot I didn’t like but I thought it was a fun formula and wanted to see them get better At the end of season 1 some text says something to the effect of, "there's a season 2 coming," which kinda cheered me up at the time, since it's kind of an optimistic, yet dark show, yet family-friendly to an almost "Hallmark" extent, and not real prestige TV. Maybe not even very good TV. But there's something I like about it. Medullah posted:Comes out next week! yay! soundtrack can be streamed too: https://aclibrary.freegalmusic.com/home/featured/albums/780163556926/2 (this is my library's free-ad-free streaming, it's probably on the usual places as well) doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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I watched a out a third of the first episode of The Witcher, and so far Henry Cavill is perfect as game Geralt. This includes how he responds to a lot of people with "hm". Also, female nudity within that same time span.
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Just finished 6 Underground and it's pretty much what I expected, a fun action movie with music video editing, bad cgi, and lots of explosions. I'm down for a sequel. My biggest disappointment is that they pretty much forgot about 5, the brunette chick. Her scenes are more like cameos than part of the story.
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What does it say about our society that science fiction is making a comeback? I’m quite happy. Especially if they start using more quality source material.
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Speaking of Sci-Fi - I need a new show to stream in the background while I paint miniatures. Any recommendations? It should be something that doesn't require too much attention, and preferably has a ton of episodes. I've worked my way through every season of Star Trek and Stargate.
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Class Warcraft posted:Speaking of Sci-Fi - I need a new show Amazon has 3 of 4 seasons of Defiance.
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Defiance was cool but I never saw the last season. Did it get a good ending?
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pahuyuth posted:Defiance was cool but I never saw the last season. Did it get a good ending? Yeah, it did.
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Did Witcher have all its money spent on Cavill's fee and CGI? This poo poo looks like a modern version of those syndicated shows from the 90's.
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Disposable Scud posted:Did Witcher have all its money spent on Cavill's fee and CGI? This poo poo looks like a modern version of those syndicated shows from the 90's. It gets better a few episodes in. It's pretty slow to start.
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I’ve watched the first four episodes and am finding it much better than I thought it would be. Episode three in particular was really good. I am actually enjoying the “monster of the week vibe” of Geralt’s sections. I wish they were a bit more clear that we are seeing several different time lines. It only became clear part way through episode 4 when everything was taking place. I do agree that it takes a little bit to get used to the look of the show. It feels like it’s 90% done on green screen as so many of the backgrounds have that budget blurry CG look but by the end of episode 1 it stopped bothering me. I also appreciate the “show not tell” story telling they are doing. They seem uninterested in having lengthy exposition dumps explaining how the world works.
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Ok I just finished "Don't gently caress With Cats" and there's one piece of information that seems really important that the documentary shows and then completely ignores. The final episode brings up the idea that Luka has been forced into killing by a mysterious person named Manny. One piece of evidence supporting this is another person's hands petting a cat in one of the killing videos. The group of internet detectives even talks about analyzing each video frame by frame but never mentions another person being present in any of the videos. The doc ends with the police saying nothing shows that anyone else was involved in the killings. Uh, someone else was present for one though, right? I guess it's very possible that the owner of the big snake was there for that video. Maybe he just knew a creep who was fine feeding his snake a kitten. Anyone follow this case and know anything about it? If they're analyzing a wolf blanket and a wall poster there's no way they didn't obsess over this, right?
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Also Jesus Christ, that framed picture of him and his mom that is also her desktop background. That thing is nightmarish.
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Class Warcraft posted:Speaking of Sci-Fi - I need a new show to stream in the background while I paint miniatures. Any recommendations? It should be something that doesn't require too much attention, and preferably has a ton of episodes. I've worked my way through every season of Star Trek and Stargate. Farscape
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Tainen posted:I wish they were a bit more clear that we are seeing several different time lines. It only became clear part way through episode 4 when everything was taking place. I agree. I didn't even realize that until I read an episode summary as I was a little confused by something that happened, and they pointed out the different time lines. Apparently we are supposed to pick it up from when they talk about who is ruling what kingdom at the time.
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Will I be completely lost with Witcher if I've never played the games?
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mirror123 posted:Will I be completely lost with Witcher if I've never played the games? They are based on the books not the games, so it's self-contained.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:They are based on the books not the games, so it's self-contained. That's good to hear, thanks. I feel so uncultured now.
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Watching Mindhunter makes me feel sorry for Anna Torv, not only is her character dumbed down this season but in every scene she looks like it's the worst day of her life. In ep4 I started FF through her personal scenes. The new boss is another energy vampire.
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Class Warcraft posted:Speaking of Sci-Fi - I need a new show to stream in the background while I paint miniatures. Any recommendations? Quantum Leap
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Marmaduke! posted:Quantum Leap If you haven't seen Quantum Leap, watch Quantum Leap, I don't even know if this guy is joking. I passed over Quantum Leap at first, I just wish there were some way for me to time travel within my own lifetime to right that wrong E but also Farscape, Amazon prime
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Marmaduke! posted:Quantum Leap Sliders.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I don't think it's really about animals being uniquely attractive to human empathy, so much as that we're routinely taught to devalue and dehumanize other people. It's just misanthropy recast into a superficially positive form.
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Animals trigger the same chemical responses in our brains as if they were children, I posted a link above to the science. Really I believe a lot of the handwringing over bad things that happen to strangers is for show. Hundreds of thousands of people die every day, many violently, if we actually felt empathy for all people we'd be emotionally crippled with grief.
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I had no idea it was about Luka Magnotta because killing cats is way WAY low on the list of what he's infamous for.
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feedmyleg posted:Sliders. In TV's new Golden Age, I'm honestly surprised there's no new Sliders coming to somebody's streaming service.
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wormil posted:Animals trigger the same chemical responses in our brains as if they were children, I posted a link above to the science. Really I believe a lot of the handwringing over bad things that happen to strangers is for show. Hundreds of thousands of people die every day, many violently, if we actually felt empathy for all people we'd be emotionally crippled with grief. pigs are just as cute and cuddily as puppies and kittens and arguably have more "personality" than them but we confine millions to body-sized cages all their lives and slaughter them without batting an eye. it's not about how cute something is, it's about how effectively we've normalized whatever atrocity we're committing against them. if baby yodas existed and tasted okay on a burger, we'd absorb their race into the existing meatpacking industry immediately.
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God Hole posted:pigs are just as cute and cuddily as puppies and kittens and arguably have more "personality" than them but we confine millions to body-sized cages all their lives and slaughter them without batting an eye. it's not about how cute something is, it's about how effectively we've normalized whatever atrocity we're committing against them. There is a difference between mentally disturbed and normalizing cruelty. I agree that food animals are often raised inhumanely and their living conditions cruel. I would say one difference is intent ... chicken farmers don't keep chickens in tiny cages because they enjoy the cruelty but because it is cheap and there is no outrage because the public isn't worried what chicken farmers might do to ordinary people. Not everyone accepts that the inhumane treatment of food animals is normal but change requires money and willpower and there is a lot of competition for those. I've been to an egg farm and it's revolting, the smell made me retch. If everyone could go once then change would happen. But a guy who delights in torturing cats is mentally disturbed and dangerous and the discussion started with why Twitter was more agitated over the cat torture than killing humans which I believe is subtly different than the issue of food animals.
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Jolo posted:Ok I just finished "Don't gently caress With Cats" and there's one piece of information that seems really important that the documentary shows and then completely ignores. Would it matter? It's obvious Canadian police give less than two shits about animal torture. Which is why it outrages people more than when a human being is murdered (besides the other reasons described on this page). If you video tape yourself torturing and killing a person, you get life in prison. If you do it to a cat or a dog, you get a bunch of police officers scratching their asses. The injustice is what gets people so angry (besides the innocence of the cute animal). A lot of outrage against animal abusers would be gone overnight if the perpetrators ever served more than 0-3 months for their crimes.
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I hate almost all the characters in The Expanse, also it's better than Game of Thrones
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I just finished Don’t gently caress With Cats and it was probably the strangest experience ever, vacillating between being horrified by Luka and laughing at the two internet nerds’ self-importance.
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