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

[Bob_McMillan]

-So what's Delphi's plan, exactly? Get a time turner, sure, but then entrust it to two 14 year olds to change time that will somehow bring about Voldemort's return. Which it does, but only through dumb (bad) luck, before she hears about it, then takes the time turner for herself. FFS, why not just use the time turner by herself from the outset? This is sort of handwaved aside by the fact that she's 20+ years, so can't really blend in with the other students, but the time turner only allows you to stay in the past for five minutes away, that isn't really long enough for anyone to really do much about her either way.

I still think its hilarious that despite Rowling realizing how much she fucked up by introducing seemingly consequence-free time travel into her universe, to the point she waves it off in a single line in later books, she decided to dive straight back into the frying pan for the first post-Deathly Hallows bit of Harry Potter content.

EDIT: But I guess the Cursed Child is far from the first example of Rowling being incapable of leaving things well enough alone. Woman's ego must be so huge, every single criticism her books got is probably haunting her dreams every night.

 

[Casual Shinji]

So HBO Max finally put season 2 of Infinity Train up (in the Netherlands), and it's really, really good. I remember the first season not doing too much for me, but the second season gripped me by the scruff real good. Reason for this being that Mirror Tulip is a vastly more interesting character than actual Tulip from season 1. Also showed me how solid of a voice actor Ashley Johnson is when she's doing a cartoon.

 

[gorfias]

I finished the Terminal List on Amazon Prime. This movie is getting horrible scores from critics, great scores from regular people.
I can't grade it. It is like "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer".(1986). That was a very well done film about a monster. How do you tell people to watch a show that is morally irredeemable but very well made?

This is a very well done show about a monster. At least in Henry, you knew he was a monster. This guy? You can sympathize with his cause. He is avenging those who have been wronged. Like Batman. But Batman doesn't slaughter entire squads of police to make his way to a bad guy.

Watch if you like. It is an amazing visual experience. But you have been warned.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Ms Marvel finale. Fuck this show. Really can't be bothered to say much more.

 

[sXeth]

Finished Wheel of Time. A solid recommended-pass on that one. Even in its own non-book vacuum, every performance feels very holow ringing. None of the people who are meant to have chemistry have any. And it manages to be both plodding and too rapidly moving at the same time. Also their FX budget was crap apparently, which makes it interesting they add *more* One Power battle scenes then were ever in the entire first book (despite cutting out 90% of the books content lol).


Good Omens was a fun little romp though. If you're into Terry Pratchett and that kind of silly british humor too. Also I get the impression they were intentionally evoking bad British sci-fi FX rather then forced into it. (Although the ending arc with *spoiler* and his friends challenging the *spoilers* felt super random cause they cut out most of their buildup.

 

[BrawlMan]

I haven't seen this TV series, nor do I want to. I'm just watching the review and that's good enough.

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[thebobmaster]

Finished Ms. Marvel. Finale was better than I expected. Still the worst Disney+ MCU show to me, and a real disappointment overall. Imani as Kamala did really good, but the show didn't support her very well.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

You're not the only one who's had that feeling. This is something I noticed recently with the YoVideoGames crew. Steve said that the problem with Marvel movies and TV shows that you have to see them out of obligation comedy so enjoying it. If that's the case, I'd rather look this stuff up on Wikipedia. Not the first time I've had to do that, as I skipped out on Ant Man movies.

I think we're headed for a critical mass of obligations in our lives. Not just in our media but in all forms of life it seems like there's an unsustainable number of things we're expected to keep up with.

 

[BrawlMan]

Not just in our media but in all forms of life it seems like there's an unsustainable number of things we're expected to keep up with.

And I'm going to tell those in media or non-media what I said back in 2012: Screw you! I have no obligation to follow every single piece of bull crap you got out on display, on store shelves, streaming, or in a cinema. I got my own life just like everyone else, and there's only so much time a person can do and use it wisely. I sure as hell don't look up every show on a streaming service. Not worth the time and effort. Sometimes I just like to sit back and read, and other times I like to watch things on my own terms. Exactly why I'm physical forever. Don't need internet to watch a DVD or most Blu-ray (HD-DVD should have stuck around) films.

 

[Agema]

Coroner (C4) - Season 1

I say C4, that's what I've watched it on in the UK but it's a Canadian production.

It's about a coroner - so it's at the "Bones" forensic pathologist end of police procedural. Like many Canadian shows, it's obviously a sort of slightly low-budget imitation of US TV with traces of Canadian culture. It's not good.

The main character can't just be a coroner, though can she? She's got to have baggage. So, recently widowed, panic attacks, problematic son, dark event from childhood. This is all too much. The idea is to make her three dimensional, and mostly it just makes her still two-dimension in too many annoying, cliched ways. Maybe some of this could be approached over time? She's got a new love interest, who is ex-military. Of course he's fucking ex-military, because despite the fact Canada barely has a military and it barely ever goes anywhere and does anything, there is of course this need to mimic US shows where someone's got to be ex-military. He's got PTSD from his time in service, of course, because lazy US-copying cliche. Her son is weird. I'm just waiting for the point they reveal he's got some mental health problem or personality disorder which his medically trained mother somehow failed to notice. Season one largely revolves around the death-per-episode and a linking plot about a serial killer (because of course cliche!) which resolves in a grotesquely unconvincing manner.

Her psychiatrist is also shit. He's given her a benzodiazepine (panic attacks) and she's overusing them. He takes her off them and gives her SSRIs instead. Holy fuck, dude. You're supposed to try SSRIs first, because benzos are addictive, cause withdrawal, and - definitely at the rate she was taking them - generate tolerance. (Did she say she was taking six a day? One every six hours for the one she was on is a lot.)

The lead, Serinda Swan, is also unconvincingly young. I know the camera can subtract years, but (season 1) I'd bet she is 35, max. With a child around 18, she got that bun in the oven pretty early. She's also deeply unconvincing to have a senior role in the coroner's office: I think in Canada medicine is postgraduate only and so takes about 8 years in total. Plus time as a junior doctor and learning a career specialisation, it is really hard to believe a 35 year old is much more than a newbie.

So, glossy trash, basically. Oh, Canada.

 

[Elijin]

I finished the Terminal List on Amazon Prime. This movie is getting horrible scores from critics, great scores from regular people.
I can't grade it. It is like "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer".(1986). That was a very well done film about a monster. How do you tell people to watch a show that is morally irredeemable but very well made?

This is a very well done show about a monster. At least in Henry, you knew he was a monster. This guy? You can sympathize with his cause. He is avenging those who have been wronged. Like Batman. But Batman doesn't slaughter entire squads of police to make his way to a bad guy.

Watch if you like. It is an amazing visual experience. But you have been warned.

He very specifically only kills the mercenaries of the PMC that was involved? Repeatedly makes a point not to kill police, feds or other US soldiers.

 

[Piscian]

I haven't seen this TV series, nor do I want to. I'm just watching the review and that's good enough.

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I don't know if I'm just over resident evil, but cw resident evil sounds like a no for me dog.

Finished Ms. Marvel. Finale was better than I expected. Still the worst Disney+ MCU show to me, and a real disappointment overall. Imani as Kamala did really good, but the show didn't support her very well.

Yeah I caved and finished it. It finishes strong-ish. So she's basically Hisako Ichiki(armor) from X-men. Like literally copy/pasta. She's even a mutant "cause reasons".



It was just ok, not the worst Marvel show, but I doubt I'll tune in for the second season.

 

[BrawlMan]

I don't know if I'm just over resident evil, but cw resident evil sounds like a no for me dog.

If it's anything "adaption" related, I am beyond done.

So she's basically Hisako Ichiki(armor) from X-men. Like literally copy/pasta

First time I ever known about this character was from the X-Men Anime (2011).

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[BrawlMan]

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[gorfias]

He very specifically only kills the mercenaries of the PMC that was involved? Repeatedly makes a point not to kill police, feds or other US soldiers.

I did not know of the the distinction.
Still, he would have been OK if that Army girl had suffocated in a landslide he caused. To his credit, he saves her.
Not sure what makes the PMC so disposable though. It's not like even a substantial minority know of wrong doing, let alone helping impose it.
He also tells that fellow not of the PMC, "I told you to stay off my list". I do think he is willing to kill anyone that gets in his way. His reluctance to do so is commendable, but not exculpatory.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Watching The Terminal List. The first couple of episodes are pretty good as far as psychological thrillers go. The problem is the ambiguity has been conclusively settled by the third episode (you'll know it when you see it) and from that point forth it's all Tom Clancy chowder.

Reacher was dumb and fun, and Jack Ryan was dumb(er) and fun. This is dumb and not very fun. It's quite grim. What happened to Reece is horrible, and what happens to his enemies is horrible. Chris Pratt has a joyless presence - I pity the character but that doesn't make me like him. And the action is pretty cool and slick and worth replaying but I couldn't give a shit about the 6 or 7 different subplots padding the runtime.

I'll give the show credit for surprising me the way they handle the fake final boss halfway through the show but now I wonder what the hell are we supposed to do the next three episodes.

 

[Elijin]

Watching The Terminal List. The first couple of episodes are pretty good as far as psychological thrillers go. The problem is the ambiguity has been conclusively settled by the third episode (you'll know it when you see it) and from that point forth it's all Tom Clancy chowder.

Reacher was dumb and fun, and Jack Ryan was dumb(er) and fun. This is dumb and not very fun. It's quite grim. What happened to Reece is horrible, and what happens to his enemies is horrible. Chris Pratt has a joyless presence - I pity the character but that doesn't make me like him. And the action is pretty cool and slick and worth replaying but I couldn't give a shit about the 6 or 7 different subplots padding the runtime.

I'll give the show credit for surprising me the way they handle the fake final boss halfway through the show but now I wonder what the hell are we supposed to do the next three episodes.

Yeah the show did a really interesting unreliable narrator bit during the first 3 episodes that made it geniunely unclear whether there was a conspiracy or just a PTSD break from reality.

Then throws that entire bit away in a single moment and goes yaaaaaaay tom clancy

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

I still think its hilarious that despite Rowling realizing how much she fucked up by introducing seemingly consequence-free time travel into her universe, to the point she waves it off in a single line in later books, she decided to dive straight back into the frying pan for the first post-Deathly Hallows bit of Harry Potter content.

EDIT: But I guess the Cursed Child is far from the first example of Rowling being incapable of leaving things well enough alone. Woman's ego must be so huge, every single criticism her books got is probably haunting her dreams every night.

Rowling didn't write The Cursed Child she only gave her blessing to it existing after a playwright had written it.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

I think we're headed for a critical mass of obligations in our lives. Not just in our media but in all forms of life it seems like there's an unsustainable number of things we're expected to keep up with.

So many things want to be "Lifestyle brands" these days to profit off super fans or more specifically Hipster who want to look like they're keeping up with the new popular thing.

You can pretty much blame DC / Warner Brothers for this when they accidentally managed it with Harley Quinn pulling in the "Hot Topic" crowd and Disney for deciding to try and push it for Marvel but especially Star Wars.

It's all about targeting that Hardcore who care for little other media because they'll drop stupid money on stuff.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

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It was just ok, not the worst Marvel show, but I doubt I'll tune in for the second season.

Well Marvel didn't decide to integrate the inhumans into the MCU in the end just killed the show after 1 season and probably decided to streamline the whole thing and make Ms Marvel a Mutant rather than have to explain and catch people up on the whole thing with Inhumans.