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lmao Didn't realize there was a fourth original trilogy movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hH8rxarVG8
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Beeftweeter posted:idk why it got the praise it did really. cumberbatch is okay in it, but he's not great, ditto freeman. i don't even remember who played holmes' sister. the stories were usually fine enough too, and usually executed well enough, but given an absolutely stupid "modern" spin that ruins it i'm gonna indulge in cynicism here and say i think a lot of people were just starstruck by "oh wow, it's london! and it's in modern times (so relevant, look at those floating text messages, wow!) and benedict cumberbatch is doing the sheldon-from-bbt thing (autism!) and watson was in afghanistan (in the 2000s, so topical!) wow!!!" Beeftweeter posted:peter cushing is an excellent villain and it's a shame he's most well known today for being a digital puppet dude was also a massive nerd; he was literally playing with model armies before it was 
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even at the time they were airing it was well known that like half the Sherlock episodes were unwatchable poo poo. I was introduced to the series after it premiered by someone telling me "just watch the first and last episodes, the second one is awful." but I didn’t listen, and that was a mistake.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:dude was also a massive nerd; he was literally playing with model armies before it was lol, he got his wish in the worst possible way Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i'm gonna indulge in cynicism here and say i think a lot of people were just starstruck by "oh wow, it's london! and it's in modern times (so relevant, look at those floating text messages, wow!) and benedict cumberbatch is doing the sheldon-from-bbt thing (autism!) and watson was in afghanistan (in the 2000s, so topical!) wow!!!" yeah, agreed. it's not that the modern spin really bothers me, it's the way they did it. it just comes across as completely unnecessary. iirc holmes was a heroin addict? well, afaik in the books he used cocaine: that will definitely get someone obsessive about them into a mystery-solving mood
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one of my favorite baffling corporate tics is the neverending quest to make batman tv shows whose central premise is that batman never shows up in them first gotham, then pennyworth, and now gotham knights (a bunch of teen sidekicks get together to solve the mystery of the murder of bruce wayne) which just debuted on the cw and will likely only get this single season as their whole division has been downsized and reorged and strategically reoriented, just another casualty of the streaming wars three batman shows where the central conceit is that batman doesnt exist in them. idgi
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:
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FMguru posted:gotham knights (a bunch of teen sidekicks get together to solve the mystery of the murder of bruce wayne) lmao there is a terrible video game that came out last year of the same name and with the same premise had no idea they were doing it as a show too
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The Fool posted:lmao that sounds nearly identical to the awful "gotham city imposters" game from ages ago
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I thought that was a squad shooter the gotham knight game tries to copy the arkham formula and misses at every level
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good to see dc properties being just as obnoxious, ubiquitous, and utterly skippable as their marvel counterparts
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i have never watched any of the marvel spinoff tv shows this means that sometimes in a marvel movie a character is introduced with a sting and i have no idea who they are, because they're from one of the shows, but i don't care!
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and it's not like you need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out what narrative function they serve. I watched Loki for Owen Wilson, him and Loki had good chemistry, but you can just watch the final episode and get 90% of what made the series good (it's John Majors as Kang)
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loki sucked so bad and was such a massive waste of talent.
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it wasn't good. I did really like Kang though
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I'm reading the first Silo book and it's really really good. please don't probe me for this, when I read the book I picture the airlock and "cleaning" like this timestamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsfHUe6fnY&t=255s context: He is given a protective suit and sent outside, but when he exits the silo, he sees a healthy, vibrant world. Encouraged by this sight, he happily cleans the silo's external sensors and then explores the environment. However, he is forced to remove his helmet when he runs out of air, and at that point, he discovers that the world is actually toxic and his wife is dead. The suit's visor had been masking reality with a computer-generated image. Holston dies near his wife's abandoned body. SmokaDustbowl fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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yeah the dust/wool/shift series is pretty good, and i'm kinda excited for the atv+ series? mini-series? that's coming out soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBMajXwi6Cs
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Elder Postsman posted:yeah the dust/wool/shift series is pretty good, and i'm kinda excited for the atv+ series? mini-series? that's coming out soon wow that is not nearly as claustrophobic as it should be
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Shaggar posted:loki sucked so bad and was such a massive waste of talent. it started off so promising too, really cool mysterious vibes and then remembered it had to suck poo poo
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Elder Postsman posted:yeah the dust/wool/shift series is pretty good, and i'm kinda excited for the atv+ series? mini-series? that's coming out soon is it, like, good-good, or good-enough-for-sci-fi good?
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Achmed Jones posted:is it, like, good-good, or good-enough-for-sci-fi good? the stories are legit good, I don't read bullshit
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it's more or less on par with the southern reach books
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blame! is legit cool and good. the cg movie they have on netflix is decent annihilation is a cool movie but that bear scene sucks a lot for me. it’s also weird because the premise of the southern reach is almost identical to a book called chaga by Ian macdonald but I’ve never seen anyone besides me mention it. same with the tv series colony and the robert silverberg book the alien years. like both are so close I’m shocked there weren’t big lawsuits
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here is my legit review of Silo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9SjAJ_ki8
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Agile Vector posted:llllmao
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SmokaDustbowl posted:it's more or less on par with the southern reach books this is about the best recommendation I can hear for a book. I gifted my copy that has the whole trilogy in one binding just to get more people to read it
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picard season 3 episode 5 continues to disappoint. it again seems like a good show on the surface but if you think about it at all, it's deeply stupid - ro laren comes back only to die in the same episode - these are indeed meatbag changelings. beverly helpfully suggests that this is evolution that has occurred over the past 25 years  - kirk acevedo shows up! but he plays a british vulcan gangster for some reason. lmao. - the changelings have infiltrated starfleet comprehensively, relying on their semi-solid abilities to evade detection. i'm sure this won't be dumb as all hell and a chance for the very smart writers to constantly misdirect us - jack has some sort of extremely stranger things-esque hallucinations going on. this show can't do anything original. i'm guessing he's part borg, because those scenes are usually tinted heavily red and he looks like a cylon, plus he single-handedly wastes 4 changelings in this episode - worf and raffi's story finally gets tied into the main plot but it remains a huge millstone around its neck. man, those scenes really drag - speaking of scenes, you still can barely see what the hell is going on. apparently nobody on a starfleet ship needs to see more than 3 feet in front of them 
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Beeftweeter posted:- speaking of scenes, you still can barely see what the hell is going on. apparently nobody on a starfleet ship needs to see more than 3 feet in front of them 
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its seriously so bad. in the previous episode it's justified as a result of being in a nebula, but the lights very occasionally get turned up to what you might consider "normal starfleet level", because of power surges. even then it's pretty obvious that they just bumped up the luminosity digitally because everything briefly gets washed out. they didn't even bother to adjust the contrast and right off the bat in this episode ro orders the uss titan-a to "power down" (and surrender), which again seems like a lazy out for them to justify the lighting being absolute garbage. its therefore completely intentional and hilarious to watch the executive producer/showrunner (terry matalas) whine about it on twitter because he also wrote most of the episodes, he literally loving chose this
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Achmed Jones posted:good to see dc properties being just as obnoxious, ubiquitous, and utterly skippable as their marvel counterparts https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rrl1ynFv8Z1zwwi9l.mp4
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https://twitter.com/headexposure/status/1636288250691084288
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lol i had something of a real-time realization in the tviv thread. jack isnt a borg. he's a changelingBeeftweeter posted:i just watched jack's scenes again and yeah, i think he's somehow a changeling but doesn't know it. every time we see the cylon eyes or some hallucination, he had just seen or been around a changeling. the branches are probably a literal representation of the great link because this show does not do subtlety Beeftweeter posted:lol, he's probably something like shinzon Beeftweeter posted:ahh god it all fits someone else pointed out that they don't do a DNA test on him to confirm his lineage it all fits, it's just dumb as hell
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