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GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Think of the worst green screen you've ever seen in your life. It was worse. I remember enjoying the show somewhat in spite of that.

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STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

zoux posted:

I have no memory of this show.
I remember it was a webseries that seemed too bad for me to care about but apparently it got bought by SyFy and had 4 seasons, which I had no idea of.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

STAC Goat posted:

I remember it was a webseries that seemed too bad for me to care about but apparently it got bought by SyFy and had 4 seasons, which I had no idea of.

Wasn't that Defiance?

Also I looked it up and the plot sounds like Warehouse 13 but with monsters.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


zoux posted:

Wasn't that Defiance?

Also I looked it up and the plot sounds like Warehouse 13 but with monsters.

Defiance was the one with a tie in videogame but was actually pretty good.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Defiance didn't get four seasons. :(

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Defiance is missed. I really liked that show.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15CRdE5Bv0
Here's a thing to get hype about.
Chainsaw Man anime

isaboo
Nov 10, 2002

Muay Buok
ขอให้โชคดี
Yeah Defiance was cool. The vidya game was sorta rebooted a couple of years ago but I didn't do much with it.

I remember the name Sanctuary but not the show.

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Yeah, Defiance was pretty awesome. I keep meaning to go back and revisit that.

It was one where the cast carried it. Tony Curran, Jamie Murray, and Jessie Rath made the best dysfunctional alien family ever. Grant Bowler was also perfectly cast.

It ended too early, but it ended well and in a satisfying way for the show.

I remember watching Sanctuary, but very little about it other than Christopher Hyderdahl being Bigfoot.

Chairman Capone
Dec 17, 2008

The Defiance MMO actually just got shut down a month or two ago.

I remember there was an expansion for the game that was marketed as being Season 4 of the show but I have no idea if the TV actors did additional stuff for it or anything like that.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Speaking of dead Syfy shows for some reason I got recommended Dominion on an app the other day. That was the one which was a sequel to the Paul Bettany horror movie Legion which involves an angel lead apocalypse.

Although the most notable things from that show were the pretty good fx on the angel wings and someone in production being an rear end freak because of all the butt shots.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

If that was the whole review I might have actually watched Dominion.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Watched the first four episodes of Kevin Can gently caress Himself. That show is weird. Basically, it's about how hot sitcom wives are living in hell and how the universe distorts into an obscene perversion of reality whenever the title character (and the canned audience) is around.
Honestly, this has me hooked. I really want to see how much of that is in the woman's head as a weird sort of coping mechanism for a life which went in a dead-end direction, or if this universe just rolls this way. Also, those sitcom shenanigans where actually, kinda fun. I enjoy the mental backlash between the sort of crime drama and the wacky antics. But yeah, Kevin is absolutely a giant rear end in a top hat and probably purposely mentally abusive, based on the last episode.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.
I want KCGFH to do something with Allison's world view being its own trope. Like we get a POV of the father in law and he sees everything as a cozy mystery or some poo poo.

Toast King
Jun 22, 2007

Servant is a wild show and easily my favourite Apple TV thing I've seen so far. Just incredible atmosphere and shots all around, works well with the shorter episode length too.

I haven't seen For All Mankind yet but I'm sure that'll be up there too. Very happy that Servant has another season coming up eventually though.

IRQ
Sep 9, 2001

SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

zoux posted:

Why is every tagline so loving stupid these days. Even legends can have a beginning? Also given like, the wheel aspect of time in the Wheel of Time series, it's not even accurate. Grahhh!

There's like a built in tagline for those books, what on earth made them go with one so generic, and literally completely incorrect? It's not even subtext or a spoiler, it's in the drat name of the series. Please don't suck.

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed

GreenNight posted:

Think of the worst green screen you've ever seen in your life. It was worse. I remember enjoying the show somewhat in spite of that.

Sanctuary was good from what I remember, certainly on the cheap side, but had some nice characters. And it gave us Christopher Heyerdahl.

Norwegian Rudo
May 8, 2013

Oasx posted:

And it gave us Christopher Heyerdahl.

?? He'd been around for 20 years, and was a recurring on Stargate Atlantis for several years before Sanctuary.

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed

Norwegian Rudo posted:

?? He'd been around for 20 years, and was a recurring on Stargate Atlantis for several years before Sanctuary.

That was bad phrasing on my part, I realize that he has done things before Sanctuary, but I was never into the SG shows. So I first discovered him later, and became a fan since he plays the two best characters on the show.

SamBishop
Jan 10, 2003

Did some kind of legislation expire or something? I'm seeing SO. loving. MANY drug commercials now, and it makes me want to tunnel into my TV kill every last one of them while they talk to people like we are doctors and then tell us not to take their drug if we're allergic to it.

I'm not sure if it's because they've wormed their way into dumping a shitton of cash into streaming TV (I used PlayStation Vue because of our work discount and moved to YouTube TV once our TV aspirations cratered hard at the end of 2019), but I literally see them every commercial break on every program I can't skip, and I know Google is doing some heavy targeting because if you rewind past some commercials, you can actually see what was encoded in the stream, and if you hit play on that part, it's something completely different, but I swear it's gotten so much worse in the last week or two.

It's not an exaggeration to say there's at least one per break, and I loving despise them so much.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

SamBishop posted:

Did some kind of legislation expire or something? I'm seeing SO. loving. MANY drug commercials now, and it makes me want to tunnel into my TV kill every last one of them while they talk to people like we are doctors and then tell us not to take their drug if we're allergic to it.

I'm not sure if it's because they've wormed their way into dumping a shitton of cash into streaming TV (I used PlayStation Vue because of our work discount and moved to YouTube TV once our TV aspirations cratered hard at the end of 2019), but I literally see them every commercial break on every program I can't skip, and I know Google is doing some heavy targeting because if you rewind past some commercials, you can actually see what was encoded in the stream, and if you hit play on that part, it's something completely different, but I swear it's gotten so much worse in the last week or two.

It's not an exaggeration to say there's at least one per break, and I loving despise them so much.

I remember Truvada had a huge streaming advertising push on Hulu like two years ago, it was a big part of why I switched to no ads because it reminded me of when I had to go on post-exposure prophylaxis after a gnarly exposure while I was doing CPR. And it was in every ad break.

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Aside from local ad inserts, ads on YouTube TV are the same as any other cable company as they are baked into the station provider feed.

SamBishop
Jan 10, 2003

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I remember Truvada had a huge streaming advertising push on Hulu like two years ago, it was a big part of why I switched to no ads because it reminded me of when I had to go on post-exposure prophylaxis after a gnarly exposure while I was doing CPR. And it was in every ad break.

I've always hated them, but when they first started a couple decades ago, they were at least for stuff that sorta hit a wide audience - COPD or IBS or something. Now, it's for poo poo literally so specific and niche (including drugs for people taking other drugs) that I genuinely can't fathom why they're spending money for a lot of them.

The legally-required words being motormouth-barfed in these things will sound like a foreign language to 99.99% of the people that hear them, and if you're somehow someone suffering from the condition why the gently caress would you think you know more about the available drugs out there than your specialist? Or remember their horrible made-up names? It just makes no sense to me; there has to be something I'm missing about why they're allowed on TV.

bull3964 posted:

Aside from local ad inserts, ads on YouTube TV are the same as any other cable company as they are baked into the station provider feed.

No, they aren't; streaming TV services have their own ad feeds and regularly pre-empt feeds for things from the station with house ads or literally nothing. You don't know what you're talking about.

SamBishop fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jul 1, 2021

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

Nickolodeon hired the Korra and Zuko voice actors to start a new Avatar podcast. Which is weird since the last Avatar related show ended like 8 years ago. I think Nick is going to start blanketing the world with way more Avatar soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-2d9-pf8hQ

Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jul 1, 2021

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
Isn't Netflix making a live action show? I'd imagine it's in anticipation of that as a boffo marketing opportunity.

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


SamBishop posted:


No, they aren't; streaming TV services have their own ad feeds and regularly pre-empt feeds for things from the station with house ads or literally nothing. You don't know what you're talking about.

I had FiOS tv and YouTube TV at the same time and ran them side by side to compare quality and the ads were the same aside from the local and regional inserts (which was often when you got the "taking a break" insert from YouTube TV.)

Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013
I'm catching up on it now, before the finale next week, and the back half of HBO Now's Generation has been loving rad.

Dave next maybe, or I'll finally finish Lucifer season 5.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

feedmyleg posted:

Isn't Netflix making a live action show? I'd imagine it's in anticipation of that as a boffo marketing opportunity.

And they cast a bunch of white people I think.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


feedmyleg posted:

Isn't Netflix making a live action show? I'd imagine it's in anticipation of that as a boffo marketing opportunity.

Netflix is doing a live action show but Nick has doubled down on Avatar with a dedicated studio to make more Avatar related stuff with the series creators in charge.

DrVenkman
Dec 27, 2005

I think he can hear you, Ray.
Ah, that's a shame.

https://twitter.com/EW/status/1410602870597046273?s=19

SunshineDanceParty
Feb 7, 2006

One Road. Two Friends. One Ass.
I didn't see a Succession Alien crossover happening but sure I'll check it out.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Ripley's been through enough

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

I've always wanted to see Weyland Yutani executives be killed by Xenomorphs so sounds good to me

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

Rhyno posted:

And they cast a bunch of white people I think.

I don't believe there's been any casting info on that show at all actually.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Although it isn't a good sign that it was supposed to be shepherded by the creators of the cartoon and they quit in preproduction due to creative differences.

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004

Did you actually read the article?

quote:

[The Alien franchise] is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work. In mine, you're also going to see the people who are sending them. So, you will see what happens when the inequality we're struggling with now isn't resolved. If we as a society can't figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what's going to happen to us?

He's not saying that the show won't focus on the grunts. He's saying the show focuses on both the exploited and their exploiters.

Randallteal
May 7, 2006

Computers probably did not create the growth of conglomerates and multinational corporations, but they certainly have abetted it. They make fine tools for the centralization of power, if that's what those who buy them want to do with them.

muscles like this! posted:

Although it isn't a good sign that it was supposed to be shepherded by the creators of the cartoon and they quit in preproduction due to creative differences.

Doing a straightforward remake of a cartoon series as a live action show is just such a lazy idea in the first place. At least with a movie adaptation you might see some nice CG.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

feedmyleg posted:

Did you actually read the article?

He's not saying that the show won't focus on the grunts. He's saying the show focuses on both the exploited and their exploiters.

Hawley could have a field day with the executive fashion of the era

Open Source Idiom
Jan 4, 2013

muscles like this! posted:

Although it isn't a good sign that it was supposed to be shepherded by the creators of the cartoon and they quit in preproduction due to creative differences.

Isn't one of the reasons they reportedly walked away casting? Aging up the cast, sexing up the narrative and pressure to cast white leads were the three issues IIRC

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bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


All we have is one source "FandomWire" that claimed to speak to "several inside exclusive sources in Netflix" which pumped out these claims.

As far as I know, that's it. So, one nebulous click bait blog that decided to publish a list of the most generic reasons for creative differences.

Netflix makes some odd choices to be sure, but they also haven't been shy about backing projects that have diversity, so that claim seems super odd considering that was one of the large issues with the movie.

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