@zupertramp you are definitely not the only one, I occasionally butt in on convos too!! I probably shouldn't be so mysterious about it, it's not that big of a deal 😅. Im only being mysterious because I don't want to post the full details and by extension a picture of my face on to a public forum if you know what I mean. I know that's weird to even say considering anyone can see my face in the film itself but there is an anonymity to both being a face in a crowd on screen and also being a voice on a forum. Tying the two together would reduce the anonymity and potentially result in some level of recognition, which I don't think I'm comfortable with necessarily.
I'm caught up on Loki too now! I actually quite like Lady Loki/Sylvie. It might just be the accent but I am getting some Jodie Whittaker/Doctor Who vibes from it.
With the gender swap being so notable, I reckon they wanted other aspects to be as similar as possible such as the British accent etc. Even if it's a different region of Britain that the accent comes from!
@ralphdibny Totally understand wanting to maintain some anonymity. Plus sure we could see you in a film but we really would have no idea it was you. So I get it.
Yeah, my family was making fun of me that this entire time I've never noticed Loki has a British accent. Idk, it just doesn't sound that British. Sometimes I'm slow I guess lol.
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Finally caught up on the third episode of Loki. It was kinda rubbish. Maybe it was the lack of Owen Wilson or the exclusively green-screened episode or the lacklustre fight scenes but there was just something missing.
@RogerRoger I think I might try it, out of sheer curiosity. Notwithstanding the fact I’m currently drowning in animated Star Wars shows, not to mention Marvel and everything else in my TV backlog. I think I’ll move this up the list though because it strikes a peculiar note for me.
Still have several seasons of Clone Wars on deck, and perhaps Rebels. I actually think Bad Batch looks really appealing though and I know you’ve enjoyed it. Do you recommend my watching it out of order from the other SW shows? I’m prone to watch things systematically in release order for this kind of thing. It’s partly why I’ve resisted starting Loki because I need to finish Falcon and the Winter Soldier, even though I know the two have no dependent narrative threads and I have more interest in Loki.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@RogerRoger Thanks for the info, and for the offer to help with the navigation. I think I’ll try to go through the shows in their entirety for now. But yes — even me being a Star Wars nerd by most measures, I’m having trouble keeping up with the encyclopedic narrative! 😃
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I watched Father’s Day, the Ninth Doctor episode as I very slowly make my way through New Who’s golden years. I forgot just how good it was. Easily one of the best Who stories since 2005, which makes sense as it was written by the bloke who was responsible for a lot of the best Big Finish audio plays. I think I’ll watch up to Ecclestone leaving and then maybe get my free trial of that BritBox and finally attempt to get into Classic Who.
@RogerRoger I feel like attempting to go through in order would be a very bad idea! I think I’ll dip in and out of different Doctors’ most well thought-of stories and then see which style I like and watch as much of that run as possible.
Classic Who seems to be… honestly a lot better than I expected. I’ve watched the first couple of serials with the First Doctor. The Daleks in particular was quite good, despite being a little lengthy. The incidental music/groans and assorted electronic noises weirdly reminds me of Eraserhead which is fitting. It’s incredibly eerie despite the dodgy sets and props. The Doctor himself seems to not exactly be the main character though. Ian and Barbara, the two main companions alongside Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, do a lot of the heavy lifting on account of them being younger. Ian is a pretty cool guy, challenging The Doctor on a lot of his nonsense. Might just stick with going through the First Doctor’s stories for now, didn’t think I’d enjoy it this much.
@nessisonett I never went as far back as the first Doctor but if you do end up continuing through the back catalogue, keep an eye out for a Tom Baker mini-arc called City of Death. One of the co-writers was Douglas Adams… and while not quite as out there as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy it definitely has that Adams ‘feel’. Still my favourite Who story to this day.
@colonelkilgore Yeah, I’ve only heard good things about that one, and to be honest a lot of Baker’s run. Pretty cool that Douglas Adams wrote it as well!
@RogerRoger Yeah, I enjoyed SHIELD for its first few seasons but you could totally tell they thought they were going to be cancelled. I struggled through the 6th season and then we didn’t even watch the last one. It properly peaked in its first couple of seasons but they did have some great episodes spread throughout.
@RogerRoger Agents of SHIELD sounds great, but wow — 136 episodes… not sure I can make that commitment. Hopefully they are half hour episodes at least. Roughly 70
hours doesn’t sound too bad, I guess. Spent twice that getting through Persona 5. And that only took me about 3 years. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@RogerRoger If there is a backlog larger than my gaming backlog, it’s my TV backlog. It’s quite ridiculously immense actually. I have like what… 3 or 4 streaming services and it’s like each has a dozen series I’d like to see, which each series housing anywhere from 10 to 140 shows each. See — this is my issue with Microsoft GamePass. At this point - it’s like me subscribing to Hulu when I already have Disney+, Netflix, Apple TV+, and HBO Max. I can’t even watch the shows (… or play the games…) I already have. 😅. Why would I ask for a drink of water when I’m already drowning in the ocean?
Anyways… I was wondering if you’ve watched any of the Netflix Marvel shows. I can’t remember. Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, The Punisher, … etc. Previous people have said there is a pretty wide range of quality present and about half the stuff isn’t worth the time, but some of it is quite good. Just wondering what your take is.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
And that’s me finished the First Doctor’s episodes! Missing episodes and a couple of dire stories that I skipped aside, it was better than I thought. Sad to see the best companions of the show go though. Onto the Second, who’s supposed to be a good one but with a lot of missing stories.
@RogerRoger There wasn’t really much sexist or racist stuff from the First Doctor himself. There were disclaimers on some episodes like the Aztecs one because they were played by people in dodgy brownface. There was some ‘savages’ language and such but I wouldn’t say it was any worse than other programmes of the time. By all accounts, it was the actor himself more than the character who was a big old racist, and so it’s kinda an odd one for them to write it into the script in that Capaldi one. The bit where he says he’ll smack Clara’s bottom also feels a little unfair given that he originally says that to his granddaughter and while it’s a weird line, it makes so much more sense with his granddaughter and just sounds outright awful when said to Clara.
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