Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)
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Rare as my opinion is, the first season is the best. After that, it goes 1>3>2>4.
First season is the shortest, but it's also the best.
Alex Rider Season 2 - complete
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Rating - Well it's better than Season 1 in that it's now gone from being so bad I was watching it to laugh at how bad it was to just mediocre.
To carry on from what I was saying before and correct something.
So in season 2 they've re-named the character to Sabina Pleasance so she's no longer Sabina Pleasure, but she's very much meant to be the same character this isn't a "No this is totally a different character also called MJ" situation. The change is seemingly related to the weird decision that the Alex Rider series shouldn't be YA / Teenage classic era James Bond with over the top villains and Alex using a range of gadgets but instead the series should be trying to do Teenage / YA Jason Bourne with grim dark gritty spycraft the name of the day, only with all the stupid over the top villain plots still going on like clone armies trying to take over the world to bring about the 2nd rise of the Nazis. As such Season 2 opens with Alex Rider suffering from PTSD and having to see a counsellor due to the events at Point Blanc in Season 1
Season 2 is loosely adapting the 4th book only now the main villain isn't a pop star but a sort of high profile video game director whose made the worlds most popular video game called Feathered Serpent which is a mix between an MMO, a MOBA and a Battle Royale game based on what little is said about how it works and shown in the series, the game is also cross play between PC and mobile. Events and the order of events have been changed round and the villain has been given a new sidekick whose very clearly meant to be a somewhat autistic woman programmer but the overall plan is roughly the same only now Cray wants to win the war on drugs not at all war. Oh also the ending contains a reference to events that only some-one who knows about the books would understand because the series decided to either not film or cut the entire part it relates to (I am not so I only learned about this just by looking up about it online).
Carrying on the tradition of Sony picture TV series not doing diversity well (which I mentioned initially with Sabina) Sony decided that being Indian in heritage Sabina's father Edward would live up to the stereotype of people of Indian origin of being really interested in cricket because of course he's into cricket what other sport out of all the others would they pick there's so few...... oh wait there not and once again Sony's attempts to diversify characters ends up looking rather racist. Add to that the main villains henchwoman a lady programmer who "Isn't very good with people" and is very obsessed with stats and numbers and coding while struggling to pick up on social cues and things like jokes being made such that it's said she has "No sense of humour". Yeh way to go Sony you managed to add in a level of ableism to proceedings too by having the Henchwoman show all the signs of autism and weirdly just not bother developing her as a character or explaining on any level why she's happily going along with the villains insane plan. Her whole purpose exists seemingly to be the doting dedicated henchwoman and to be some-one for Sabina to be able to fight at the end rather than her and Alex both fighting the main villain. Also this robs Sabina of one of her hero moments by fighting Cray while Alex is thought to be dead.
The series also has the issue that it was seemingly adapted by some-one who doesn't understand video games very well. In the novel the villains plan is to sell high powered game consoles all with copies of Feathered Serpent and use all the people online with their systems as a giant linked computer network to act as the worlds biggest super computer. The plan in the series is to use the release of Feathered Serpent 2 as a means to do the same only everyone has to download and install the game on PC or tablet or mobile phone and it will do the same. The only issue? The game is releasing worldwide all at the same time and it's mentioned the majority of people have to start playing the moment the game releases as they need greater than 89% of the global players to be online all at once for their plan to work. So the game launching at midnight UK time has to be played by people all round the world in different time zones where the game could be launching mid day or other times for their plan to work when people won't likely be there to play unless they took the day off work. Worse the series specifically mentions the game launch will be people downloading the new game and they need to optimise the download speed to make sure people can download it faster, at no point does the idea of pre-loading the game come up which is how most modern titles do it with the release of the game seeing a small bit of activation code sent out to activate copies.
The only good parts of the series are the seemingly far better cinematography with far better framing of scenes and far better shots veering more towards spectacle shots than the first seasons shot compositions, which were more in like with gritty spy fiction style shots like Jason Bourne etc. Also the return of new original character Kyra from season 1. Honestly if some-one told me Kyra was some fan fiction self insert character I'd believe them at this point but she's actually a good character and I'm more interested in her stuff than Alex Rider. She also brings a level of humour to the series with a sort of dry wit / level of sarcasm but also being a bit neurotic and awkward which adds comedy to. E.G. one plot points revolves around Alex and his best friend Tom having to get into their school and get Kyra (whose father was a tech wizard) to a computer room to use the schools networked computers to crack DRM on the game. One problem in Kyra's own words "I don't do school, I don't do people, I don't do crowds" so an actual plot point of the show is them having to figure out a way to empty the school because Kyra is too socially awkward / socially anxious / anti-social to be able to handle being in a school with people groups of people her own age.
Kyra is a new original character for the show as I mentioned and honestly I also liked the weird kind of awkward shipping bait stuff that's being introduced as there's implied to be some connection between Alex and Kyra still but also there maybe something with Tom (Alex's best friend) liking her and she and him have good banter as she understands of often counters his nerdy film buff references to stuff or shuts down his analogies but not in a mean way in a sort of "Snap out of it this isn't like in the films you dork" way. Also she's now a sort of cybergoth too.
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Rating - Well it's better than Season 1 in that it's now gone from being so bad I was watching it to laugh at how bad it was to just mediocre.
To carry on from what I was saying before and correct something.
So in season 2 they've re-named the character to Sabina Pleasance so she's no longer Sabina Pleasure, but she's very much meant to be the same character this isn't a "No this is totally a different character also called MJ" situation. The change is seemingly related to the weird decision that the Alex Rider series shouldn't be YA / Teenage classic era James Bond with over the top villains and Alex using a range of gadgets but instead the series should be trying to do Teenage / YA Jason Bourne with grim dark gritty spycraft the name of the day, only with all the stupid over the top villain plots still going on like clone armies trying to take over the world to bring about the 2nd rise of the Nazis. As such Season 2 opens with Alex Rider suffering from PTSD and having to see a counsellor due to the events at Point Blanc in Season 1
Season 2 is loosely adapting the 4th book only now the main villain isn't a pop star but a sort of high profile video game director whose made the worlds most popular video game called Feathered Serpent which is a mix between an MMO, a MOBA and a Battle Royale game based on what little is said about how it works and shown in the series, the game is also cross play between PC and mobile. Events and the order of events have been changed round and the villain has been given a new sidekick whose very clearly meant to be a somewhat autistic woman programmer but the overall plan is roughly the same only now Cray wants to win the war on drugs not at all war. Oh also the ending contains a reference to events that only some-one who knows about the books would understand because the series decided to either not film or cut the entire part it relates to (I am not so I only learned about this just by looking up about it online).
Carrying on the tradition of Sony picture TV series not doing diversity well (which I mentioned initially with Sabina) Sony decided that being Indian in heritage Sabina's father Edward would live up to the stereotype of people of Indian origin of being really interested in cricket because of course he's into cricket what other sport out of all the others would they pick there's so few...... oh wait there not and once again Sony's attempts to diversify characters ends up looking rather racist. Add to that the main villains henchwoman a lady programmer who "Isn't very good with people" and is very obsessed with stats and numbers and coding while struggling to pick up on social cues and things like jokes being made such that it's said she has "No sense of humour". Yeh way to go Sony you managed to add in a level of ableism to proceedings too by having the Henchwoman show all the signs of autism and weirdly just not bother developing her as a character or explaining on any level why she's happily going along with the villains insane plan. Her whole purpose exists seemingly to be the doting dedicated henchwoman and to be some-one for Sabina to be able to fight at the end rather than her and Alex both fighting the main villain. Also this robs Sabina of one of her hero moments by fighting Cray while Alex is thought to be dead.
The series also has the issue that it was seemingly adapted by some-one who doesn't understand video games very well. In the novel the villains plan is to sell high powered game consoles all with copies of Feathered Serpent and use all the people online with their systems as a giant linked computer network to act as the worlds biggest super computer. The plan in the series is to use the release of Feathered Serpent 2 as a means to do the same only everyone has to download and install the game on PC or tablet or mobile phone and it will do the same. The only issue? The game is releasing worldwide all at the same time and it's mentioned the majority of people have to start playing the moment the game releases as they need greater than 89% of the global players to be online all at once for their plan to work. So the game launching at midnight UK time has to be played by people all round the world in different time zones where the game could be launching mid day or other times for their plan to work when people won't likely be there to play unless they took the day off work. Worse the series specifically mentions the game launch will be people downloading the new game and they need to optimise the download speed to make sure people can download it faster, at no point does the idea of pre-loading the game come up which is how most modern titles do it with the release of the game seeing a small bit of activation code sent out to activate copies.
The only good parts of the series are the seemingly far better cinematography with far better framing of scenes and far better shots veering more towards spectacle shots than the first seasons shot compositions, which were more in like with gritty spy fiction style shots like Jason Bourne etc. Also the return of new original character Kyra from season 1. Honestly if some-one told me Kyra was some fan fiction self insert character I'd believe them at this point but she's actually a good character and I'm more interested in her stuff than Alex Rider. She also brings a level of humour to the series with a sort of dry wit / level of sarcasm but also being a bit neurotic and awkward which adds comedy to. E.G. one plot points revolves around Alex and his best friend Tom having to get into their school and get Kyra (whose father was a tech wizard) to a computer room to use the schools networked computers to crack DRM on the game. One problem in Kyra's own words "I don't do school, I don't do people, I don't do crowds" so an actual plot point of the show is them having to figure out a way to empty the school because Kyra is too socially awkward / socially anxious / anti-social to be able to handle being in a school with people groups of people her own age.
Kyra is a new original character for the show as I mentioned and honestly I also liked the weird kind of awkward shipping bait stuff that's being introduced as there's implied to be some connection between Alex and Kyra still but also there maybe something with Tom (Alex's best friend) liking her and she and him have good banter as she understands of often counters his nerdy film buff references to stuff or shuts down his analogies but not in a mean way in a sort of "Snap out of it this isn't like in the films you dork" way. Also she's now a sort of cybergoth too.
Wait, they made Alex Rider into a TV show??? Didn't the books end like a bajillion years ago? Who are they making this for... Although admittedly the same can be said for the whole book series.
Glad you are enjoying it. As far as my ratings for the seasons go: 2>4>1>3.
I won't spoil anything about season 3, but it's a mood killer and a bum of a season unfortunately. Goes overboard on the darkness.
The last book was Nightshade which came out in 2020 and apparently more as planned still
Who the series is for? Fuck knows at this point it's not fans of the books because a lot of the more over the top fantastical stuff is gone, except for the silly over the top villain plots. It's not really for fans of gritty spy fiction either because while it's seemingly trying to make the series into that to follow the trend it's also trying to keep it as a series for teenagers so it's a lot of people threatening to shoot others or very bloodless off camera / out of frame people being shot except in Season 2 where they've decided bullet holes and blood splatter are now fine but over the top violence such that it's clearly silly isn't ok.
Interesting, they've released three more books after what I assumed was the final entry in the series. They really wanna make him James Bond huh?
I also saw the actor playing Alex, why the hell did they give him such a douchebag haircut?
Watched Smiling Friends on HBO.
Show's a lot of fun, wish there were more episodes. Has some of that dark, edgy early Adult Swim vibe that tries to shock you or gross you out and while there's some of that it's usually at the service of a joke. The world is as spastic and super inconsistent as the animation, it helps that the main comedy duo is relatively grounded in banal exchanges and seem genuinely at odds with everyone around them.
I do wish the writing was a bit more layered though. With each episode it feels like the whole thing loses some complexity. We start off with a traditionally written main plot/B story episode with some decent existential writing amid all the juvenile gags where everything pays off and wraps up together nicely. But beginning with the fourth (out of eight) episode, the show develops a sort of tunnel vision where each episode devotes itself 100% to the main "plot" of increasingly random premises. No subplots, no intricacies, and the secondary characters that seemed so important in the pilot become background filler.
Show's a lot of fun, wish there were more episodes. Has some of that dark, edgy early Adult Swim vibe that tries to shock you or gross you out and while there's some of that it's usually at the service of a joke. The world is as spastic and super inconsistent as the animation, it helps that the main comedy duo is relatively grounded in banal exchanges and seem genuinely at odds with everyone around them.
I do wish the writing was a bit more layered though. With each episode it feels like the whole thing loses some complexity. We start off with a traditionally written main plot/B story episode with some decent existential writing amid all the juvenile gags where everything pays off and wraps up together nicely. But beginning with the fourth (out of eight) episode, the show develops a sort of tunnel vision where each episode devotes itself 100% to the main "plot" of increasingly random premises. No subplots, no intricacies, and the secondary characters that seemed so important in the pilot become background filler.
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Book of Boba Fett
Given I knew it would be of a smaller scale and scope than the Mandalorian, I'm pleasantly surprised by it (up to ep 4 so far) and am enjoying it thus far. Not sure how I feel about the 'Mods' though... -_-'
But never mind all that... how the hell is Ming Na 58?! Sure, make up, but she genuinely doesn't look out of her mid-thirties.
Given I knew it would be of a smaller scale and scope than the Mandalorian, I'm pleasantly surprised by it (up to ep 4 so far) and am enjoying it thus far. Not sure how I feel about the 'Mods' though... -_-'
But never mind all that... how the hell is Ming Na 58?! Sure, make up, but she genuinely doesn't look out of her mid-thirties.
Winning the Lottery Neo Meditation (and by extension, the neo meditation cube)
"Oh my...What is this otherworldly concept?"
I hear you ask. Do not fret. The answers you seek lie at the end of this journey we share together
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"No, seriously. Wtf am I looking at?"
Ok, settle down. Understandably, new concepts for the human mind can cause a natural emotional rejection upon first exposure. Take a closer look at these relevant wares...
"Wares?? You've got to be kidding me."
No kiddos here, I'm afraid. Hope you like mystical sci-fi cubes though.
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"'Black goo shield'?? I just... What's in the box?"
*Chuckles condescendingly* Now these are the questions.
Testimonials? But of course!
Instantly Transported
"The Neocube is amazing device. It throws me instantly into a deep meditation, the likes of which i have never experienced in my life. WOW. I never reached the height or depth that im instantly transported to with the neo"
A Sense of Connection
"The meditation cube, whoa. One of the deepest disconnects to rational five sense perception I have ever experienced. A sense of connection so deep my body began to numb as if I was no longer in need of a physical body."
Turbo Button Law of Attraction
"This cube is awesome . I feel it on my hands and eyes calming awareness. I’m really calm. Receiving input “Turbo button for law of attraction.”
"..."
Hello? Helloooooo?? Have they gone? It looks like they have. Thank fuck! This is just terrible, 0/10 complete bollocks. Am not getting paid enough for this.
"Oh my...What is this otherworldly concept?"
I hear you ask. Do not fret. The answers you seek lie at the end of this journey we share together
MEDIA=youtube]itu2lteTUZU[/MEDIA
"No, seriously. Wtf am I looking at?"
Ok, settle down. Understandably, new concepts for the human mind can cause a natural emotional rejection upon first exposure. Take a closer look at these relevant wares...
"Wares?? You've got to be kidding me."
No kiddos here, I'm afraid. Hope you like mystical sci-fi cubes though.
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"'Black goo shield'?? I just... What's in the box?"
*Chuckles condescendingly* Now these are the questions.
"...???"
Testimonials? But of course!
Instantly Transported
"The Neocube is amazing device. It throws me instantly into a deep meditation, the likes of which i have never experienced in my life. WOW. I never reached the height or depth that im instantly transported to with the neo"
A Sense of Connection
"The meditation cube, whoa. One of the deepest disconnects to rational five sense perception I have ever experienced. A sense of connection so deep my body began to numb as if I was no longer in need of a physical body."
Turbo Button Law of Attraction
"This cube is awesome . I feel it on my hands and eyes calming awareness. I’m really calm. Receiving input “Turbo button for law of attraction.”
"..."
Hello? Helloooooo?? Have they gone? It looks like they have. Thank fuck! This is just terrible, 0/10 complete bollocks. Am not getting paid enough for this.
I think one of the nice things is that it does fulfill those little cliches, they're very... comfortable for a viewer. And I certainly agree, I like the idea of people doing some proper sort of investigative work, rather than just kicking heads in or finding extraordinary deus ex machina clues that lead them to the evil mastermind.
Damnit this forum won't let me edit the video back in for whatever reason, so have to quote post it in I guess;Winning the Lottery Neo Meditation (and by extension, the neo meditation cube)
"Oh my...What is this otherworldly concept?"
I hear you ask. Do not fret. The answers you seek lie at the end of this journey we share together
MEDIA=youtube]itu2lteTUZU[/MEDIA
"No, seriously. Wtf am I looking at?"
Ok, settle down. Understandably, new concepts for the human mind can cause a natural emotional rejection upon first exposure. Take a closer look at these relevant wares...
"Wares?? You've got to be kidding me."
No kiddos here, I'm afraid. Hope you like mystical sci-fi cubes though.
View attachment 5539
View attachment 5540
"'Black goo shield'?? I just... What's in the box?"
*Chuckles condescendingly* Now these are the questions.
"...???"
Testimonials? But of course!
Instantly Transported
"The Neocube is amazing device. It throws me instantly into a deep meditation, the likes of which i have never experienced in my life. WOW. I never reached the height or depth that im instantly transported to with the neo"
A Sense of Connection
"The meditation cube, whoa. One of the deepest disconnects to rational five sense perception I have ever experienced. A sense of connection so deep my body began to numb as if I was no longer in need of a physical body."
Turbo Button Law of Attraction
"This cube is awesome . I feel it on my hands and eyes calming awareness. I’m really calm. Receiving input “Turbo button for law of attraction.”
"..."
Hello? Helloooooo?? Have they gone? It looks like they have. Thank fuck! This is just terrible, 0/10 complete bollocks. Am not getting paid enough for this.
And pics of "products" that I only just noticed are now missing from post too...
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Ah, decided to start your own cult to get in on the whole wellness / spiritualisms grift, eh? I can dig it. Get that holy moolah.
She doesn't look or move like she's out of her mid-thirties. Rather rude of her.
If you go and grab a Legacy title from the relevant thread you can get the ability to edit all posts instead of only those posted under ~10 minutes ago.
Don't know how true this really is, but I heard East Asians tend to have skin that shows age less than caucasians (by about a decade).
Skin also ages from damage - often harsh weather (wind, rain, cold, heat, sunlight). What someone consumes matters - poor diets and numerous recreational drugs tend to damage or impair skin, although some of that might be drug-induced lack of personal care. So if you avoid that stuff, you'll look better. Exercise should help withstand some signs of ageing. With good care over the years, cosmetics can do the rest.
A colleague of mine from that part of the world likes to say that, 'Asian don't raisin'. I've also heard, usually in regards to Samuel L. Jackson 'Black don't crack'.
Of course, mileage varies due to below.
Well, Ming Na Wen is a career model and actress; presumably she learned very early about good diet and exercise to help her physical upkeep in both worlds, psychotically ruthless about looks that they both are, and was smart enough to not indulge in drug abuse (so far as I can determine). Plus she might just have scored a decent string in the genetics lottery.
20/Boogie Woogie Feng Shui
The worst episode of Cowboy Bebop by universal consensus. It's already weird because it's narrated in the first person by Jet, which suggests another film noir foray into Jet's past, but the story itself is very lighthearted and has practically nothing to do with him. Instead it's about guest character Meifa, who is on a wild scavenger hunt looking for her father. Jet is kinda roped into it by a letter from Meifa's dad, and it's purely circumstantial - by his own inner monologue neither Meifa not her father are meaningful to him. Which is why the episode feels so hollow to me. Much is made of Jet and Meifa's relationship - the best part of the episode is Spike an Faye eavesdropping and speculating on what's going on between the two - but ultimately it doesn't matter. How you'd think this would normally go is Jet is established (earlier, ideally) to have a dead or estranged daughter and he would overcome some form of trauma or emotional stagnation by helping Meifa out. Maybe he loved her mother. Maybe it's his fault Pao is where he is at and he's trying to right some past wrong. Something, anything. The episode gives you nothing to work with. Jet is purely along for a ride that goes in circles and then ends.
The feng shui aspect also irritates me. Whatever feng shui means to the show, it's way more complex than arranging furniture so you can declare a room has 'good' feng shui. Yet despite the whole story hinging on it, the episode never even bothers to explain any of it. By the power of feng shui you can escape a gunfight, read into cryptic messages and tear the fabric of hyperspace just to name some of the story beats. Couldn't tell you how any of it works. Maybe it's like The Force, but for such a realistically grungy sci-fi show to delve into such weirdo magic/religion/spiritualism angle without really owning up to it or exploring the implications seems really slipshod. Like the episode itself, it comes across as something you just make up on the go.
The worst episode of Cowboy Bebop by universal consensus. It's already weird because it's narrated in the first person by Jet, which suggests another film noir foray into Jet's past, but the story itself is very lighthearted and has practically nothing to do with him. Instead it's about guest character Meifa, who is on a wild scavenger hunt looking for her father. Jet is kinda roped into it by a letter from Meifa's dad, and it's purely circumstantial - by his own inner monologue neither Meifa not her father are meaningful to him. Which is why the episode feels so hollow to me. Much is made of Jet and Meifa's relationship - the best part of the episode is Spike an Faye eavesdropping and speculating on what's going on between the two - but ultimately it doesn't matter. How you'd think this would normally go is Jet is established (earlier, ideally) to have a dead or estranged daughter and he would overcome some form of trauma or emotional stagnation by helping Meifa out. Maybe he loved her mother. Maybe it's his fault Pao is where he is at and he's trying to right some past wrong. Something, anything. The episode gives you nothing to work with. Jet is purely along for a ride that goes in circles and then ends.
The feng shui aspect also irritates me. Whatever feng shui means to the show, it's way more complex than arranging furniture so you can declare a room has 'good' feng shui. Yet despite the whole story hinging on it, the episode never even bothers to explain any of it. By the power of feng shui you can escape a gunfight, read into cryptic messages and tear the fabric of hyperspace just to name some of the story beats. Couldn't tell you how any of it works. Maybe it's like The Force, but for such a realistically grungy sci-fi show to delve into such weirdo magic/religion/spiritualism angle without really owning up to it or exploring the implications seems really slipshod. Like the episode itself, it comes across as something you just make up on the go.
I am half-way through the Netflix live action Cowboy Bebop (having watched the original recently for the first and only time because I actually am not into anime at all).
It's good! I dunno why it got shit on. I mean it ain't Breaking Bad masterpiece but it's not supposed to be, it's cool action, cooler music, and style, and it delivers. Whatever changes they made- like bringing in Faye earlier and having her outfits be somewhat actually reasonable- make sense!
The last episode I watched involved Jet's big revisiting his past episode and I love that he's an actual bebop wonk, talking about Charlie Parker solos, to really connect the music with the style with the characters (and yeah I saw a little too much of myself in there when he's talking about jazz and a pretty girl wants to die, lol)
It's good! I dunno why it got shit on. I mean it ain't Breaking Bad masterpiece but it's not supposed to be, it's cool action, cooler music, and style, and it delivers. Whatever changes they made- like bringing in Faye earlier and having her outfits be somewhat actually reasonable- make sense!
The last episode I watched involved Jet's big revisiting his past episode and I love that he's an actual bebop wonk, talking about Charlie Parker solos, to really connect the music with the style with the characters (and yeah I saw a little too much of myself in there when he's talking about jazz and a pretty girl wants to die, lol)
Book of Boba Fett Season 7.(correction: episode 7).
Finished the series. Honestly I question just how the hell they plan to run Tatooine. Their whole plan and execution of the whole Siege/battle at the end was just stupid and poorly done. I don't know if the intention was to show that Boba and Fennec have no fucking clue what they're doing but honestly that's how it comes across. Like the whole plan is a joke of "Put one guy hear, two guys there, we cower in a bombed out building for reasons in the middle of a city we don't control". Like WTF? At least put laser turrets, cameras and barricades up to create choke points if you INSIST on fighting in the middle of a city like that.
And there's the whole problem where the show has no fucking idea what tone it wants. It tries to play the battle seriously, then have silly shit like amy sedaris(whatever her name is in this show) in a rickshaw, then a duel in the streets with cad bane, but then a big king kong rancor fight(with Boba riding the damn thing because.....he picked up the animal friend skill or something) and then blatantly references the godfather at the end. God damnit, pick a fucking tone. You can strive to be Saints Row or the Godfather, but you can't be both at the same time. It does not work and trying to do so makes you look like a complete idiot. ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ?
I don't know if they plan to do Season 2 but if they do I don't plan to come back for it.
Finished the series. Honestly I question just how the hell they plan to run Tatooine. Their whole plan and execution of the whole Siege/battle at the end was just stupid and poorly done. I don't know if the intention was to show that Boba and Fennec have no fucking clue what they're doing but honestly that's how it comes across. Like the whole plan is a joke of "Put one guy hear, two guys there, we cower in a bombed out building for reasons in the middle of a city we don't control". Like WTF? At least put laser turrets, cameras and barricades up to create choke points if you INSIST on fighting in the middle of a city like that.
And there's the whole problem where the show has no fucking idea what tone it wants. It tries to play the battle seriously, then have silly shit like amy sedaris(whatever her name is in this show) in a rickshaw, then a duel in the streets with cad bane, but then a big king kong rancor fight(with Boba riding the damn thing because.....he picked up the animal friend skill or something) and then blatantly references the godfather at the end. God damnit, pick a fucking tone. You can strive to be Saints Row or the Godfather, but you can't be both at the same time. It does not work and trying to do so makes you look like a complete idiot. ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ?
I don't know if they plan to do Season 2 but if they do I don't plan to come back for it.
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