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Mu Zeta posted:I stil haven't finished season 3 of Leftovers because I don't want it to be over. I do this with far too many TV shows.
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Mu Zeta posted:I stil haven't finished season 3 of Leftovers because I don't want it to be over. You are robbing yourself of one of the best finales that has ever existed. And I'm going to rewatch at least the last 10 minutes now because I know it will perform a full reboot of my entire emotional system and it always feels incredible. Edit: let myself watch from the start of the episode, and drat I forgot that even this part brought tears. I love this loving show Cael fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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I always get sucked down the rabbit hole when I do that. For example, the dude that is still on the fence with Atlanta after 2 episodes, I thought I'd start episode 3 to see what it was and I've now watched 3 episodes.
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Gresh posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1483816516327915522 You mean making a great first season that was constantly the most streamed show and one of their biggest shows ever, against stiff competition, make the original book that's almost 30 years old jump back on top of all book charts, bring in a ton of new fans, and handle LBGTQ+ representation better than 99% of shows that try to do it and "brag" about it? And while it had a few few trips that will probably get sorted out next season, and the worst issues were clearly covid/actor leaving last second related? Not to mention a fantastic soundtrack, and basically perfecting casting for... well, everyone? LionArcher fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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I think most of the problems WoT has, can be blamed on having to tell a gigantic story on a (relatively) small budget and in a short amount of episodes. I think it was reported that Rings of Power has almost ten times the budget of WoT, so that will probably be less of an issue.
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Oasx posted:I think most of the problems WoT has, can be blamed on having to tell a gigantic story on a (relatively) small budget and in a short amount of episodes. I think it was reported that Rings of Power has almost ten times the budget of WoT, so that will probably be less of an issue. Yeah too many short cuts with the plot and, aside from some wide sweeping drone shots, the sets felt to Claustrophobic for me. I didn’t want to finish it. It felt cheap.
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Raspberry Bang posted:It felt cheap. The number of sets, locations and actors involved, plus covid... I can assure you the show was not cheap lmfao
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They didn't say it was cheap, they said it felt cheap. Doesn't matter if it cost one million or one billion to make. If it looks bad it looks bad
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LionArcher posted:You mean making a great first season that was constantly the most streamed show and one of their biggest shows ever, against stiff competition, make the original book that's almost 30 years old jump back on top of all book charts, bring in a ton of new fans, and handle LBGTQ+ representation better than 99% of shows that try to do it and "brag" about it? And while it had a few few trips that will probably get sorted out next season, and the worst issues were clearly covid/actor leaving last second related? Not to mention a fantastic soundtrack, and basically perfecting casting for... well, everyone? I mean lol/lmao at all of this but perfecting casting??? Did you not see how crappy most of the Twin Rivers leads are?
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Escobarbarian posted:I mean lol/lmao at all of this but perfecting casting??? Did you not see how crappy most of the Twin Rivers leads are? I’ve read all the books. The leads are good. Book one they act like idiots. The show actors are doing a good job with where they’re supposed to be. Perrin actor being the exception.
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JaddaCaddra posted:Also watched Mayor of Kingstown, and I'll echo that it escalated very loving quickly in the last two episodes. Sometimes I do body counts for TV shows (I have no idea why, it's just a habit I got into, maybe I'm some kinda loving psycho, maybe I just like listing weird poo poo, I dunno) and I gave up on those last two and just wrote down "A bunch of people get shot." I know the SWAT guys in this show were loving psycho cowboys, but can any Americans with law enforcement knowledge clarify whether it's normal to put 20 rounds with high calibre rifle into each person they take down? I understand the whole "shoot to kill/aim for centre mass" philosophy, but it seemed like overkill. How many clips of ammo do these guys even carry? Is this a thing played up for Hollywood, a comment on the particular characters in the show or entirely normal behaviour from real life SWAT guys?
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Looten Plunder posted:I know the SWAT guys in this show were loving psycho cowboys, but can any Americans with law enforcement knowledge clarify whether it's normal to put 20 rounds with high calibre rifle into each person they take down? I understand the whole "shoot to kill/aim for centre mass" philosophy, but it seemed like overkill. How many clips of ammo do these guys even carry? gestures broadly at like every piece of US police news and the entire BLM movement
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I try and avoid watching shootings if I can. Is it really this extreme?
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Breonna Taylor was shot six times in her home from 32 shots from cops who busted the door down without announcing themselves and were responding to a single shot from someone else. Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was shot 15 times from 34 bullets while running away. Jacob Blake was shot 7 times at like arm's reach after being tasered twice while he was opening a car door. That's just like a few quickly that made lots of news because there were recordings and such. I haven't seen the show in question but its very hard to imagine TV being able to exaggerate the problem of police shooting violence in this country.
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Ok yeah, that sounds about right then. Jeeeeeesus
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Looten Plunder posted:I know the SWAT guys in this show were loving psycho cowboys, but can any Americans with law enforcement knowledge clarify whether it's normal to put 20 rounds with high calibre rifle into each person they take down? I understand the whole "shoot to kill/aim for centre mass" philosophy, but it seemed like overkill. How many clips of ammo do these guys even carry? Police absolutely magdump at whatever they are shooting at.
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I mean, don't watch it, but the bodycam footage that they released from the Valentina Orellana-Peralta shooting (the teenage girl killed by a stray bullet as they gunned down a man armed with a bike lock) shows it too. Full cowboy poo poo where they're practically fighting one another to be the one to spray and pray shoot the guy. It's pretty bad all over. If you're dealing with really professional outfits they might be more reserved, but a smaller town SWAT team or armed up regular cops love to do that stuff.
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It's why a lot of them take the job. It's their fantasy.
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The new Stand also decided to completely sideline Nick’s character even though he was the main person Mother Abigail was speaking to up until the moment he died in the book.
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LionArcher posted:You mean making a great first season that was constantly the most streamed show and one of their biggest shows ever, against stiff competition, make the original book that's almost 30 years old jump back on top of all book charts, bring in a ton of new fans, and handle LBGTQ+ representation better than 99% of shows that try to do it and "brag" about it? And while it had a few few trips that will probably get sorted out next season, and the worst issues were clearly covid/actor leaving last second related? Not to mention a fantastic soundtrack, and basically perfecting casting for... well, everyone? It felt cheap, tacky, and melodramatic. I haven't read the books and don't know anything about them, but I've heard the name "The Wheel of Time" an awful lot when it comes to high end fantasy growing up so there must have been something to those books thats completely missing from the show. The writing sucked balls, its like nothing had time to breath with character motivations often feeling rushed, underdeveloped, and forced. None of the actors were particularly good either, especially the lead white guy I don't even know his name. The only thing that stands out about the WOT are the obvious strides for diversity in every frame which is good, but that doesn't excuse everything else from being so subpar. I don't even understand nor really care about all the lore in The Witcher but at least that that show knows how to have fun and doesn't have the look and feel of a soap opera And why has seemingly every new show settled on 8 episodes per season? Seriously, why has 8 become the magic number? According to imdb, even LOTR is gonna be just 8 episodes.
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Possibly all the criticism of 13 episode shows being too padded out?
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honestly my main gripe, as a huge fan of the series, is that it doesn't have the same 'epic' feeling as the books. It has the feel of a small-by-necessity video game setting where cities are like 20 buildings
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:honestly my main gripe, as a huge fan of the series, is that it doesn't have the same 'epic' feeling as the books. It has the feel of a small-by-necessity video game setting where cities are like 20 buildings Yeah, one of the touchstones of the books is that the world feels vast and extremely heavily populated, like crowds of people everywhere. The show feels sparse and like it takes place on a soundstage, especially toward the end where it literally does. That plus a cast of like 4000 named characters makes it a really tough row to hoe for a TV adaptation in the best of circumstances, and they were up against a lot of unforeseen hardships, but not all of them were externally imposed. Only giving themselves 8 episodes to tell the whole first book story was a ninja-precise self-inflicted deathblow. Data Graham fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:honestly my main gripe, as a huge fan of the series, is that it doesn't have the same 'epic' feeling as the books. It has the feel of a small-by-necessity video game setting where cities are like 20 buildings Yeah once they left Two Rivers every place they went felt claustrophobic.
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I really liked the lion guy but otherwise I mean it gave me literally no reason to ever care about anything that was happening
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Gresh posted:It felt cheap, tacky, and melodramatic. I haven't read the books and don't know anything about them, but I've heard the name "The Wheel of Time" an awful lot when it comes to high end fantasy growing up so there must have been something to those books thats completely missing from the show. The writing sucked balls, its like nothing had time to breath with character motivations often feeling rushed, underdeveloped, and forced. None of the actors were particularly good either, especially the lead white guy I don't even know his name. The only thing that stands out about the WOT are the obvious strides for diversity in every frame which is good, but that doesn't excuse everything else from being so subpar. I don't even understand nor really care about all the lore in The Witcher but at least that that show knows how to have fun and doesn't have the look and feel of a soap opera It certainly wasn't a "first season of Game of Thrones" viewing experience that actually made me go out and read the books because I was blown away by the show.
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I liked Wheel of Time for the most part but it felt ancient, cheap, and way too self-serious. I don't mean they should add quips everywhere, but like everyone was talking in overly exaggerated voices that obviously weren't their own, but in a very forced way instead of something that should've felt theatrical. Perrin was absolutely the worst example. I hope the second season is better.
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I would not recommend the Wheel of Time books, and am suspicious of people who say the show sucks because it doesn't live up to the books.
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zoux posted:I would not recommend the Wheel of Time books, and am suspicious of people who say the show sucks because it doesn't live up to the books. Yeah, I've only read the first and the... sixth? one, but I didn't find them particularly gripping. (Yes, yes, I know I know. It's what the library had.)
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There's a 600 page gold rated thread in TBB that once tricked me into reading the first 50 pages of the Malazan books, which are atrocious. There just aren't that many good fantasy series. After I read what was available for GoT some years ago (through storm of swords I think), I was like "Wow, I always thought fantasy sucked, but I guess it can be cool" and went on a quest to find other good fantasy series. That quest continues. Didn't help that the guy that turned me on to ASoIaF was like "you like that you should check out these Sword of Truth books"
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, I've only read the first and the... sixth? one, but I didn't find them particularly gripping. Haha amazing post
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I found a copy of the 6th or 7th book in the bathroom at work once and, knowing nothing about the series, tried to read it on the toilet. It was a very unsatisfying experience
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More fiber in your diet will help with that.
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zoux posted:…Didn't help that the guy that turned me on to ASoIaF was like "you like that you should check out these Sword of Truth books" Why would he do that to you?
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Someone was asking about it a while back but Upload s2 is March 11th
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muscles like this! posted:Someone was asking about it a while back but Upload s2 is March 11th Awesome!
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muscles like this! posted:Someone was asking about it a while back but Upload s2 is March 11th Huzzah!! Although it looks to be only seven episodes... 
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Trailer for Season 2 of Hanging with Doctor Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVMrGjKL9s
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muscles like this! posted:Someone was asking about it a while back but Upload s2 is March 11th Nice!!
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Oh cool, Upload was good.
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