|
I mean LOL at the Jeffersons theme but it's another distracting instance of non-period music (he types, over=concerned about immersion in this show about wizards and monsters). I'm interested to see The Dag from Fury Road in something else, but I'm not sure why they went with the [WARNING--BOOK ISSUES:] gender swap for Braithewhite the younger when it added one more complication.
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2020 04:46
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 27, 2024 01:58 |
|
|
Flimf posted:Is this real? thats terrible. It's never actually said, but strongly implied. Atticus describes them as "blobs covered with eyes," which doesn't fit their show appearance--though they do have a lot of eyes, and they do make the fluting noise described in At The Mountains of Madness
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2020 22:28
|
|
|
GoGoGadgetChris posted:Are they intentionally doing a different subgenre each episode? I dunno how much Book Chat we want in the TV thread, but based on the previews, we're not going in book order any more.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2020 21:05
|
|
|
GoGoGadgetChris posted:The novel was written by a white dude? That's a bummer Take heart then, it's spiraling way off the book by this point.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2020 18:35
|
|
|
s1e4: Hello, trans character! Oh. Goodbye, trans character.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2020 01:13
|
|
|
Gordon Shumway posted:Was she supposed to be transgender? I thought she was a hermaphrodite, and they were doing a Native American third gender thing with her "knowing two worlds" or however she put it. My understanding of the Two-Spirit thing is that it was used in the same way that we'd use "gender-nonconforming" or "non-binary" today, but yes, the character was clearly intersexed. And they've been playing coy with Christina/William before, but I think that scene was our confirmation that you're correct.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2020 19:47
|
|
|
Ballz posted:I noticed that right away too, mostly because I recognized the actress from The Deuce. Gonna make for an awkward reunion when Tic and Leti inevitably run into Heather Davenport! Especially since Ruby essentially performed for a witness.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 14, 2020 17:42
|
|
|
I have to admit I was surprised it didn't dovetail into the end of the previous ep.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 21, 2020 04:58
|
|
|
It was odd that they set the happenings in Korea toward the beginning of the war, when everything was in panic retreat towards Pusan, rather than later when it had stalemated down.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 22, 2020 22:14
|
|
|
I've already learned to dissociate everything in the book from what the show is doing, but even with my expectations adjusted I was still surprised to see Garnet from Steven Universe show up. Once again, a good episode let down by the bizarre music choices.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2020 16:25
|
|
|
radlum posted:I know little of the Korean War so can someone tell me if any of it was fought in trenches like the one we saw in Atticus fantasy on the pilot? I don't think those were meant to be Korea.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2020 23:48
|
|
|
JazzFlight posted:Also, was there any historical basis in black women in the 1800s banding together in a Native American-style camp while wearing Amazonian armor and then fighting Confederates who don't like actually using their guns or... what? I guess that was a multi-verse universe where that happens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons e:f,b
|
|
#
¿
Sep 30, 2020 16:06
|
|
|
JazzFlight posted:Still was super dumb that the men attacking them didn't shoot, they just charged them with swords. Yes, but Dahomey amazons had firearms of their own, so I'm willing to concede artistic license that that part of the skirmish was over.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 30, 2020 19:55
|
|
|
anothergod posted:Are people always concerned about having likeable heroes? I generally feel like most TV I've watched for a while has heroes w/ obvious flaws that are overcome by likeability. Tic seems like completely the opposite. He's very likeable up front but his flaws eat away at that. I feel like that is intentional. Protagonists have to be at a minimum either interesting or sympathetic.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 8, 2020 16:17
|
|
|
I was spanked exactly once, for lying.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 12, 2020 20:22
|
|
|
radlum posted:To be fair, I don't think the book did that either. The whole "Lovecraft" thing in both the book and the series is so tenous that I guess the author just wanted a cool name. It's pretty clear what the connection is to me, anyway--not Lovecraft's works, beyond the broadest themes of "people loving with the supernatural and regretting it," but racism in New England. Atticus crosses the Mason-Dixon line and feels relief that he shouldn't, because he's no safer. He's in "Lovecraft Country" and every hand is still turned against him.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 14, 2020 17:53
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 27, 2024 01:58 |
|
|
I'm not really comfortable with Diana's part in this being to kill a powerless and defeated enemy, for a couple of reasons, no matter how cool her cyborg arm was. It was presented as this big "gently caress YEAH" comeuppance moment, but it sure didn't feel like it.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2020 17:29
|
|