Andor Episode 4. Some of the best looking Star Wars content to date. But man, what fucking dumb heist plan.
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I agree all of those are hanging questions, but they could have all been solved with 2mins of extra ending. Just have Josh I think was his name also arrested, the beginning of a court case, Jen taking up a job with Matt in Hell's Kitchen and Titania getting efamous. Todd I don't think should have hulk powers, it undermines Hulk and She Hulk and like Jen said, the powers aren't the enemy, Todd is. I like the way they did it, Jen saying the blood plot was stupid and repetitive and too much like super soldier serum(which was a nice nod to the fact in comics Bruce was trying to recreate the super soldier serum when he got blasted by gamma rays), so they just deleted the blood plotline. That was my take away at least. Just retconned it out of existence. Which I will grant does make several episodes unneeded, which even though it was purposefully written to be sloppy, is still sloppy writing.
Blonksy always came off to me as a clueless dipshit, even in the hulk movie. Like he's abomination, but also pretty fucking stupid just brainpan wise.
I get your point and 100% agree, Im just not as bothered by it. I think in season 2, Daredevil or World War Hulk they'll add a throw away line or two and have it all sealed and done with.
When I think Resident Evil I think impromptu girlpop musical numbers.
At least the other girl reacts appropriately.
Abbott Elementary - 7/10
I just binged all of the show that's currently out, like 12 episodes for season 1 and I think 3 for season 2. It's very much like an Office or Parks and Rec set in a school. The characters at the start a bit too cliche of characters you've seen in the Office or Parks, it was kinda cringe how they had the main character and the one guy be super obviously Pam and Jim in the first few episodes (even the guy giving similar facial expressions and everything). They are still a little too much archetypes of those characters though. The show overall just feels so much like a comfort show, I had a head cold for a few days and it was like the perfect thing to watch while drinking some hot tea with honey. The jokes are overall solid but have never reached the pinnacle of Office/Parks and the characters overall are more human in character vs having such extreme personalities that they feel more like people.
I just binged all of the show that's currently out, like 12 episodes for season 1 and I think 3 for season 2. It's very much like an Office or Parks and Rec set in a school. The characters at the start a bit too cliche of characters you've seen in the Office or Parks, it was kinda cringe how they had the main character and the one guy be super obviously Pam and Jim in the first few episodes (even the guy giving similar facial expressions and everything). They are still a little too much archetypes of those characters though. The show overall just feels so much like a comfort show, I had a head cold for a few days and it was like the perfect thing to watch while drinking some hot tea with honey. The jokes are overall solid but have never reached the pinnacle of Office/Parks and the characters overall are more human in character vs having such extreme personalities that they feel more like people.
I am surprised at the more or less pleased reviews for the She-Hulk finale.
I enjoyed the 1st episode and the 8th. The rest of the were not good but seemed to be adding up to something.
I enjoyed the 1st episode and the 8th. The rest of the were not good but seemed to be adding up to something.
The finale was an admission that, yeah, the season long story arc sucked. They did it in a clever way based upon the sort of thing I've heard came out of the 1980s comics. But if your final episode is telling the audience that all of those 5.5/10.0 scores they gave your show at IMDB were merited, that is going to really piss off most people, including me.
Avenue 5 - Episode 1 - the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
Hugh Laurie plays a captain (in name only) of a massive cruise ship in space when something obligatorily goes wrong and hilarity ensues. It has a bunch of humor along the lines of the public relations guy saying "if it's any consolation, he had very few loved ones" when all the passengers see a dead crew member floating in space.
Hugh Laurie plays a captain (in name only) of a massive cruise ship in space when something obligatorily goes wrong and hilarity ensues. It has a bunch of humor along the lines of the public relations guy saying "if it's any consolation, he had very few loved ones" when all the passengers see a dead crew member floating in space.
Following on from my previous post.
Watched the full series of Birds of Prey
Rating: 7/10 overall due to it being somewhat inconsistent in episode quality from some real impressive risk taking ones that honestly would be up there with some of the best comic storylines to some absolute filler episodes that felt really kind of weak.
(Own copy)
So some corrections:
The Joker isn't dead but he's been moved to some super high security prison implied to be Belle Reve.
It wasn't the Joker who killed Helena Kyle's mother but some-one the Joker hired to do it.
Huntress doesn't have Vixen's powers she actually is a "Half metahuman" (don't ask I thought it was binary you either had powers or didn't and that means it's implied that Catwoman is a Meta Human in this continuity).
Dina Lance is not Black Canary.
Thoughts on the series:
This really does feel like a pure example of Late 90's / Early 2000's TV for better and worse as you can see the budget stretching in places but it's kinda good still it's just got a DC coat of paint on it.
You can really see some of the meddling on show though as they sometimes get to use known characters (Black Canary & Clayface for example) and sometimes lesser known characters (Lady Shiva anyone?) and then other times you feel like they kind of wanted to use some-one like Nightwing or other characters and were told no by DC so you have new characters called things like Darkstrike turn up. I'm somewhat impressed as to what they were allowed to get away with doing on the show by DC as well it's weirdly both restrictive in places very obviously but so fine with doing stuff that even in the past DC comics would have undone within the year if it were done in comics.
Also holy crap is Mia Sara a good villain in this. This very much isn't the Harley Quinn people are used to whose slightly zany but often easily dealt with. This is what if Harley Quinn actually truly embraced her own intelligence and abilities rather than just being the mad clown chick. Cunning, pretty ruthless, still devotedly in love with The Joker and dead set on revenge for the city she blames for taking him away from her. She uses being a psychiatrist as a cover and also for personal enjoyment as she uses knowledge of psychology to manipulate her patients into committing crimes or having psychotic breakdowns.
It's a shame it only got 1 season as I'd love to see where the show would have gone with things especially as Dina is technically also the daughter of a DC hero (you can probably guess which one)
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Largely felt like a transitional episode. Lots of reeling from last episode, lots of setting up the finale. It's nice to immediately follow up a previous episode instead of jumping ahead another 6 years. The ending was a nice surprise too.
Largely felt like a transitional episode. Lots of reeling from last episode, lots of setting up the finale. It's nice to immediately follow up a previous episode instead of jumping ahead another 6 years. The ending was a nice surprise too.
Ok so the She-Hulk finale...
That whole smirky meta thing doesn't do that much for me personally and of course the finale was all about that so... bleh.
I'll only watch season 2 if my wife wants to. We only watched this one because we're huge fans of Tatiana Maslaney but overall this show's vibe is just not my thing. It's fine, I guess for what it is but it's just a skeleton to mug for the camera. When she's like "is this working for you?" I'm thinking no what works for me is a story and plot not a meta-criticism of Marvel.
Are we supposed to be impressed that Marvel characters are talking about their shows and movies all end in a dumb clusterf*** of mindless action? The worst part is, they'll just keep doing it, so what's the point? Just telling us they know? Ugh, stupid.
That whole smirky meta thing doesn't do that much for me personally and of course the finale was all about that so... bleh.
I'll only watch season 2 if my wife wants to. We only watched this one because we're huge fans of Tatiana Maslaney but overall this show's vibe is just not my thing. It's fine, I guess for what it is but it's just a skeleton to mug for the camera. When she's like "is this working for you?" I'm thinking no what works for me is a story and plot not a meta-criticism of Marvel.
Are we supposed to be impressed that Marvel characters are talking about their shows and movies all end in a dumb clusterf*** of mindless action? The worst part is, they'll just keep doing it, so what's the point? Just telling us they know? Ugh, stupid.
I do not understand why that was necessary or even relevant. There was nothing to indicate that relationship or dynamic existed and even it was it literally added nothing to the story. It feels like the show runner owed Harvey Weinstein a favor or something. It just felt like someone demanded it be put in for the sake of grossing out the audience. It would have worked earlier in the series when that relationship was building, but its literally the finale next week. It doesn't matter anymore.
I'm not in the mood for my cookies thinking I'm into feet, would you mind giving me some context so I don't need to google it lol
On a weirdly still related note, I saw a HotD clip recommended to me and I have to ask: are dragons really that important in this universe? I mean sure damn it's a fucken dragon, but I can't really see how they're such an important asset. Unless they have whole armies of them, in which case I could understand a little more.
Dragons are like the nuclear bomb in this setting - if you have them, no-one fucks with you.
To be more specific, dragons allowed the Valyrians to form an empire, and after Valyria's destruction, just three dragons were enough for the Targaryens to conquer the Seven Kingdoms. One dragon alone can pretty much destroy an army, and we see as such in Game of Thrones, where Daenerys does such a thing in the Reach, and again, where one dragon is enough to set King's Landing ablaze. It's telling that the Targaryens were only overthrown after their dragons died out, not before.
Was the destruction of the Valyrians a dragon vs dragon affair?
Also, while I haven't watched anything GoT related, I do know that at least one of Daenerys' dragons was killed by ordinary men. Unless that's just a shitty adaptation on the showrunner's part, it's hard for me to see how three dragons was enough to conquer the world (and that's just considering a matchup of a dragon versus an army, not the actual logistics of such a campaign).
Yeah, I mean it's the equivalent of having a B-17 bomber in medieval times. One dragon can swoop down and wipe out a 100 troops with one attack without ever stopping. They aren't the end all be all, but unless the army is specifically equipped to handle them it's pretty much game over. The couple times in the show they are actually stopped its by an entire platoon of archers or 10-20 ships equipped with harpoons and they only managed to take one down after losing a thousand troops. Additionally in HOTD the largest dragon in the world is introduced, which is about the size of a city block. It's impossible to say what kind of havoc it could wreak.
Ah for whatever the show decided to have a scene where a lord lady unwillingly shows the series Snidely Whiplash her feet and he masturbates. It's really dumb and out of place. Its an infantile call back the original shows first couple seasons where theres a lot of sex and nudity. Its supposed to be shocking but the character in question already and cartoon villain and it just feels infantile because it doesn't fit with the established power dynamic between the two characters up to this point. TBH the show was pretty mature up this point and I'm little disappointed they felt the need to "shock" us in the episode before the finale.
There used to be a lot more dragons I believe, but in the books and the show it's more of an intimation factor than anything concrete at this point in history. That said towards the end of the original show, I believe one of the dragons whipped out around 2000 troops and another destroyed 20-30 ships. They aren't godlike, but nobody wants to join an army thats gonna have to go fight one. I think two dragons are killed, I forgot how the second one dies, but I believe the first one is tricked into getting to close to a bunch of ships armed with Harpoons an get taken out. mm none of the dragons are killed yet in the books, but the show stops having anything in common with the books around book 4 and season 5. GRRM left the show to go do other things and the writing room fell apart and the show was all downhill from there.
Doom of Valyria - A Wiki of Ice and Fire (westeros.org)
The details are vague, but it wasn't a dragon vs. dragon thing. The real-world inspiration seems to be Atlantis, the thematic inspiration is "the Valyrians were gits, so karma bit them in the backside."
That's underselling it. Daenerys had three dragons. She lost one to the Night King (who is no ordinary man, and only downed Viserion through supernatural ability) and lost another to a ballista, which was specifically designed to counter the dragons, and despite all the ballistae that were produced, Rhaegal was the only one who was downed, and only then through a combination of circumstances.
If anything, it reinforces just how powerful dragons are, given how limited the ballistae were against them. Yes, Rhaegal was killed, but Drogon alone was enough to take King's Landing.
I usually teally like these kinds of shows but i couldn't get into that one. I think everyone is just too aware of how good they are. There's a metalwork one on Netflix which is good, though the host is exceptionally annoying.
There's a british woodwork one on channel 4 catch up if you can access that: Britain's Best Woodworker.