Topic: The TV Show Thread

@ralphdibny 😂 That’s brilliant! You’d never guess Lucas is a billionaire by the looks of him. That could be anyone just moseying around and doing some shopping. Where’s his entourage and his fur coat? 😄

@Voltan
I've just started watching Shadow & Bone, enjoying it so far.

@LieutenantFatman I finished it over the weekend. Pretty good. It's no Game of Thrones but most fantasy shows are way worse than this

@Voltan
I appreciate the brilliance of Game of Thrones as much as anyone. The quality of the writing and acting was excellent. But those final couple of seasons, the huge drop in quality.. tragic.
I guess we should have seen it coming with no more books to work from though.

@RogerRoger @Th3solution 😂 so jokes!

Really enjoyed the previous seasons, so am looking forward to this!

@Jimmer-jammer Oh man, I’m excited too. Between this and Y: The Last Man, it feels like they actually might pull off some decent adaptations of some of my favourite comics.

@Jimmer-jammer Trailer looks intriguing. What's next? Sweet Tooth: The RPG?

First look at Ms Marvel’s outfit for the Disney+ show from set photos! Have to say I’m loving the costume designer for Phase 4 so far, they’ve definitely nailed the comics accuracy and kept the camp without it looking cheap.

@RogerRoger HBO are doing The Last Of Us, so hopefully that is in good hands. Although I know almost nothing about the adaptation. I think most video games are better suited to the TV series format then film. There has been small increase in quality recently, with film based on video games not all being rubbish and rising to merely ok!

Oh dear. Line of Duty has pulled a Game of Thrones Season 8. My mum is not amused 😂😂

@Jecht_Ultima I haven’t seen this much universal disappointment in a while!

@Jecht_Ultima We’ll probably see James Nesbitt with some brand new hair plugs in his next show 😂

Falcon and the Winter Soldier was legit.

Not feeling Ms. Marvel's mask, but the rest looks good. Gonna be hard to live up to the video game version of her though.

It looks very cool. In fact, they create exactly what you need. Hurry to see the show itself.

@RogerRoger, I'm looking forward to it, but will be working my way through the entirety of the Clone Wars first, so probably won't get to it until later this year at the earliest.

Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (HiDive via VRV) - Anime set in a fantasy world where human adventures obtain blessings from the gods (who've decended to Earth to live amongst humanity in exchange for most of their divine abilities) in order to fight monsters, it follows the adventures of young Bell Crenel, a soft hearted adventurer who wants to be a hero and is the only member of the Familia of the goddess Hestia (a Familia being a group of humans blessed by the same god or goddess, a guild of sorts).

Based on the name I assumed it was going to be fanservicy schlock, and while it does feature some (as well as harem tropes), it's actually much tamer in that regard than I imagined it to be, and it ended up being a genuinely good fantasy series. The animation has a general high quality to it with some of the key fights having absolutely beautiful choreography, it has great character growth, can get surprisingly dark, and the politics/rivalries between the various Familia that were starting to be explored more in the second season were really interesting. I wasn't at first too big on the idea that the world essentially operates as a video game dungeon crawler (without being a video game), but the character arcs ended up being so good that I ultimately didn't care.

I only watched the first two seasons with their accompanying OVAs (light hearted affairs which are a bit heavier on the fanservice), but I know there's a third season, a spin-off, & a movie as well, so it's definitely a series I'll be returning to.

The Falcon & Winter Soldier (Disney+) - Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, it follows the titular pair as they get involved in a plot set forth by a group of international anti-government "terrorists", and it must be decided who (if anyone) should be next to take up the sheild of Captain America.

It's not revelatory, but solid enough. There are a handful of great action scenes, the narrative works in some topical elements and works in a grey area where they expect the viewer to ask which side is really in the just? It kind of falls apart late into the final episode though, where the writers either assume they didn't get their themes through well enough (or that the audience wouldn't understand them) and have they key character blatantly preach the themes they were trying to get at.

Sam's Captain America look is really cool though, so I'm interested in seeing where he pops up next.

I'm watching something called Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - a Netflix original, I think. Elijah Wood is in it.
It makes absolutely no sense and I'm digging it, lol.

@Voltan Ooooh, I really liked that. Still didn't make much sense by the end, but I enjoyed the ride.

@JohnnyShoulder It's random AF and I'm into it.