Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

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....AAANNNDDDD now we have Conquest, voiced by Jeffery Dean Morgan (aka Negan from The Walking Dead). Now that's hilariously ironic considering their roles in TWD.

Can't say Jeffery Dean Morgan fits Conquest. Out of all the viltrumites Conquest has the most manic violence boner energy - dude fucking loves the slaughter with glee - and Jeffery Dean Morgan can't not be soft and syrupy to save his life. He'd be a good fit for Thragg, but for Conquest you'd be better off wth someone like Rip Torn or Gene Hackman (if either were still alive).

 

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Can't say Jeffery Dean Morgan fits Conquest. Out of all the viltrumites Conquest has the most manic violence boner energy - dude fucking loves the slaughter with glee - and Jeffery Dean Morgan can't not be soft and syrupy to save his life. He'd be a good fit for Thragg, but for Conquest you'd be better off wth someone like Rip Torn or Gene Hackman (if either were still alive).

Yeah, kinda have to agree. I also think Micahel Ironside (who voiced Darkseid in various DC shows) would've worked as well for Conquest, or as that Viltrumite big boss.

Maybe even Ron Pearlman?

I swear JDM was only added as a geek service. I feel JDM would've been better as the "dinosaur guy" later in the series

 

[Casual Shinji]

Yeah, kinda have to agree. I also think Micahel Ironside (who voiced Darkseid in various DC shows) would've worked as well for Conquest, or as that Viltrumite big boss.

Maybe even Ron Pearlman?

I swear JDM was only added as a geek service. I feel JDM would've been better as the "dinosaur guy" later in the series

Clancy Brown would've also been a shoo-in.

 

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Clancy Brown would've also been a shoo-in.

True, but at least his voice feels really good for Kregg.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Ted Lasso Season 1 wasn't belly laughingly funny, but it is genuinely wholesome and I had a great time with it. Was surprised it was only 10 episodes.

Latest episode of Invincible started out REALLY strong, but once the evil Invincibles are out of the picture, I felt like the quality took a hard drop. Oliver is perennially annoying.

 

[gorfias]

Paradise on Hulu 7.5/10
I'm loving this streaming thing where we get a complete story in a single season. Movies are but around 2 hours. A multi season series can lose its way (Lost/Game of Thrones). But a limited series? Maybe 10 episodes? That can be about 10 hours of story arc and character development unparalleled in other formats.
Sadly, Paradise has a Season 2 set up. And its last episode really kinda undermines what the entire previous season was about.
But I had fun. Reconstructing what the show is even about by the end of Season 1 allows for some fun possibilities in Season 2. I look forward to seeing it.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

Paradise on Hulu 7.5/10
I'm loving this streaming thing where we get a complete story in a single season. Movies are but around 2 hours. A multi season series can lose its way (Lost/Game of Thrones). But a limited series? Maybe 10 episodes? That can be about 10 hours of story arc and character development unparalleled in other formats.

I have mixed feelings about that when it comes to all these "limited series." For example there is a new Apple TV+ limited series called Dope Thief that looks like a cool action-y heist flick- but it's like 6 or 8 episodes and that just feels too long for something like that.
Series like Big Little Lies (which was supposed to be only 1 season until HBO smelled money), Zero Day, The Changeling- these are series or limited series that should have been movies. And I think they would have been 10-20 yrs ago, but the market for "movie that isn't Disney, IP, or Oscar bait" has shrunk so much that these kind of stories are given to Netflix or Hulu and their business model benefits from drawing them out then breaking them up into episodes.

Paradise seems like it was intended to be a multi-season thing. The reveals at the end also expand the world of the show enough to make another season potentially good.