I like to think the helmsmen of the battleships started plotting jump coordinates as soon as the Minbari arrived so all they had to do was press a button and that would be that.Yeah I loved that line, because it's easy to forget that the Mimbari were framed as being WAAAAAY out of Earth's league militarily. And that one Earth Force guy is all "Negative, we have jurisdiction here, do not force us to fire on your ships!"
Delenn : "Why not?" Humans : ".....shit, that's right, they totally fucked all of our couches, we have zero chance here." *turn and run for the jumpgate*Just such a great line and delivery.
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Ok, finished Riverdale season 2, and it was quite watchable in a trashy way. A lot of really stupid people wandering off alone to look for violent criminal types, which is not ideal.
Also, what was up with Cheryl? The writers can't seem to decide if she's their evil enemy and they hate her, or if she's their friend they drop everything to rescue and vice versa...not just in a saving someone way, in a saving a dear friend way. Odd.
And it took me until the last ep of season 2 to realise that the southside and northside thing was because a river runs right through the town dividing it in half.
Also, what was up with Cheryl? The writers can't seem to decide if she's their evil enemy and they hate her, or if she's their friend they drop everything to rescue and vice versa...not just in a saving someone way, in a saving a dear friend way. Odd.
And it took me until the last ep of season 2 to realise that the southside and northside thing was because a river runs right through the town dividing it in half.
So, onto The Magicians. Which is like a bad US version of Harry Potter.
Just seen up to ep 4, which is where the main character dreams he's in a mental facility and everyone is a bad stereotype and none of the series was real and it's rubbish in all the predictable ways. Except for the main character calling for help by getting everyone in his dream to sing "Shake it off" really badly,, which is a painfully bad scene. But there's a psychic who hates Taylor Swift who gets annoyed at how painfully bad all this is and who then comes into the dream and gets annoyed because the dream version of him is a bad racist caricature. The first part being weird and awkward though somewhat clever, but the latter being actually funny.
Not a good show, but not giving up on it just yet. Better than the Fantastic Beasts films, but, low bar there.
Just seen up to ep 4, which is where the main character dreams he's in a mental facility and everyone is a bad stereotype and none of the series was real and it's rubbish in all the predictable ways. Except for the main character calling for help by getting everyone in his dream to sing "Shake it off" really badly,, which is a painfully bad scene. But there's a psychic who hates Taylor Swift who gets annoyed at how painfully bad all this is and who then comes into the dream and gets annoyed because the dream version of him is a bad racist caricature. The first part being weird and awkward though somewhat clever, but the latter being actually funny.
Not a good show, but not giving up on it just yet. Better than the Fantastic Beasts films, but, low bar there.
Been watching a lot of Columbo recently. It's free on the Peacock app
It's *really* good. No worries about "who dun it", because every episode starts with showing you the murder, but the twists and counter plays on having him figure it out is great
It's *really* good. No worries about "who dun it", because every episode starts with showing you the murder, but the twists and counter plays on having him figure it out is great
He's terrible, I love it. And I don't feel conflicted about his chicanery because all the perps are rich bastards who're absolutely guilty in very hard to prove ways, so he basically harasses them until they crack.Columbo is a horrible cop. Like honestly, one of the fucking worst
He's basically Sherlock Holmes but shrubby. Scrublock Holmes
Ok, finished season 1 of The Magicians. The series started off shaky to the extent that if I hadn't bought the DVDs, I'd have stopped watching after about ep 3 or so. Picks up a lot about ep 6 or 7, it's never great and there's a lot of bad and/or stupid stuff, but gets quite decent.
And then in the last ep, they throw everything in the fire except for edgy grimdark rubbish. Worst thing I've see in a while. There's just so much fail and flat out awful in this.
I take backall much some of the things I said about Spiderman: Homecoming. That was much better.
And then in the last ep, they throw everything in the fire except for edgy grimdark rubbish. Worst thing I've see in a while. There's just so much fail and flat out awful in this.
I take back
There's a really weird episode called Last Salute to the Commodore where Columbo is absolutely crazy. He keeps touching Robert Vaughn all the time. It's verging on sexual harassment. You feel like shouting "stop touching him, Columbo, he doesn't like it!"Columbo is a horrible cop. Like honestly, one of the fucking worst
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Watching Blood of Zeus on netflix. I assume it's by the same studio that did the Castlevania series since the animation looks the same.
It's pretty good. I like Castlevania more. The animation in this looks like it didn't quite have the budget that Castlevania did, but this is head and shoulders over the Dragon's Dogma anime which was absolutely terrible.
It's 8 episodes (around 30 min per episode) so not a huge time investment and worth checking out.
It's pretty good. I like Castlevania more. The animation in this looks like it didn't quite have the budget that Castlevania did, but this is head and shoulders over the Dragon's Dogma anime which was absolutely terrible.
It's 8 episodes (around 30 min per episode) so not a huge time investment and worth checking out.
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I watched that was well, and yes the after credits scene is great.
Overall though, I think this was the weakest season of Fargo. To me each season of Fargo was better than the previous one, so season 4 being the weakest feels like a massive step down even though overall it's still a pretty good season, it's just a pretty good season in a great show and it was following up what I thought was the best season of the show.
Also, Chris Rock being one of the lead gangsters just didn't really work for me. He feels too wholesome and non-threatening. I can't unsee Chris Rock when I look at him even though I could tell that he was really trying.
Just watched His Dark Materials, season 1.
There's a fantasy world in which everyone is paired up with an animal, and there's random magic stuff that nobody should care about (including it seems the writers who don't seem interested in developing or doing anything with them). The church/government runs everything (except the stuff they don't run for some reason), and is up to no good because of course they are.
There's also our world, in which a mentally ill single mum is a terrible burden on her kid. Nothing remotely interesting happens with our world in the entire series, it's just annoying padding, and there's enough of that in the fantasy world.
Based on a series of book by Philip Pullman of which I read the first and didn't bother with the later ones, I don't think I'll bother with the later seasons of this show.
Meh. Some big names, and some decent bits, but meh.
There's a fantasy world in which everyone is paired up with an animal, and there's random magic stuff that nobody should care about (including it seems the writers who don't seem interested in developing or doing anything with them). The church/government runs everything (except the stuff they don't run for some reason), and is up to no good because of course they are.
There's also our world, in which a mentally ill single mum is a terrible burden on her kid. Nothing remotely interesting happens with our world in the entire series, it's just annoying padding, and there's enough of that in the fantasy world.
Based on a series of book by Philip Pullman of which I read the first and didn't bother with the later ones, I don't think I'll bother with the later seasons of this show.
Meh. Some big names, and some decent bits, but meh.
it certainly felt like the most meandering season so far. Lots of disconnected story lines that I enjoyed but did not necessarily add up
ITMT: I got the impression Tommy Olyphant was supposed to be the dad of Billy Bob Thornton from season one. Likely just my imagination. But that would have been cool.
Olyphant's death came out of no where. Surprised the heck out of me but I guess in context it made sense.
Was it weaker than season 3? Again, much more meandering. Seeming to go along without a point. I look forward to season 5 and hope it is great.
I've started watching Galaxy Express 999 for reasons I've long since forgotten. I'm on episode 5 and the show is kind of strange. It's a pretty depressing show, and most episodes are either downers or bittersweet. It's waaaaay too heavy handed with it's message. The goal of the main character is to get a mechanical body and become a cyborg and live forever, but every episode has the obvious message that having a mechanical body and immortality sucks. Like, we're only 5 episodes in out of 113, they could have waited a little longer before revealing that twist. How can we feel invested in the main characters goal when the show is so obvious in its disapproval of it? I kind of dig the atmosphere and the strange hostile universe the show portrays though, so I'm going to keep watching for now.
Also every woman in the show looks the same but with a different hair colour, I don't know why. I'm guessing budget? It's weird.
Also every woman in the show looks the same but with a different hair colour, I don't know why. I'm guessing budget? It's weird.
I haven't seen the show yet but I suspect the "Our world" stuff is setup for the events of season 2, since Book 2 had a character from our world who learned how to cross dimensions.
Also, having read the trilogy. the first book is the best, the 2nd is good and the 3rd feels like Pullman lost the plot....literally. Also, I'm not fond of organized religion, but Pullmans anti-christianity rants in book 3 felt a bit much even for me.
And then there was the film version, which was both screwed by it's devs and pissed off a bunch of the religious rightee types who ironically hated it for the wrong reasons(overlooking the massive flaws it did have). Ironically, the devs changed the movie ending, presumably to please these types, and it ended up not mattering because the movie didn't make enough for a sequel to be made.
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For me, it's 2>3>1. That said, I fully agree that book 3 kind of went off the rails, or at least, it's where Pullman abandoned all pretense of subtlety, or at least allagory. Yes, Phil, I get it, religion is bad, m'kay?
Oh sure, but if (like me), you just watch season 1, there's a lot of stuff there which is tedious, and no real pay-off that season.
Bad enough that it just ends up as pointless filler in individual episodes it's in, but if they don't do anything with it the entire series, that's really not good.
Finished watching season 1 of Swedish Dicks and it was a fun time. I'd pretty much watch anything with Peter Stormare in it and seeing him in a lead role is nice.
Starting season 3 of Riverdale, not very far in yet though.
Dungeons and dragons cult crossed with Jonestown (I think using Warhammer 40,000 models, hard to see), and I think Archie's going to be forced into a prisoner gladiator thing.
Yeah...ok. Always a bit silly, but now...apparently in the comics, a Predator visited Riverdale on several separate occasions, so anything goes?
Dungeons and dragons cult crossed with Jonestown (I think using Warhammer 40,000 models, hard to see), and I think Archie's going to be forced into a prisoner gladiator thing.
Yeah...ok. Always a bit silly, but now...apparently in the comics, a Predator visited Riverdale on several separate occasions, so anything goes?
Seen all of season 2 of The Magicians.
There's a lot of bad, or really terrible stuff in this show. Part of the bad is because the show is "mature", which in practice means it's very immature. Part of it is just plain awful.
OTOH, it averages out at least decent, and there's some legit very good stuff in occasionally.
There's a lot of bad, or really terrible stuff in this show. Part of the bad is because the show is "mature", which in practice means it's very immature. Part of it is just plain awful.
OTOH, it averages out at least decent, and there's some legit very good stuff in occasionally.