Topic: The TV Show Thread

@ralphdibny @nessisonett Good choice of Black Mirror episode, especially with our main man Toby Kebbel appearing in it!

So today is the day that the missus and I have been waiting for, all the Loki eps are up and we’re gonna blitz them while consuming M&S party food offerings followed by an assortment of ice-lollies (as it’s that one time per year where the UK is actually a little too hot). Can’t wait.

@colonelkilgore that's probably the best way to watch. Anyway hope you enjoy it. And I hope you've steered clear of my recent posts. I got kinda lazy with spoiler tags.

@zupertramp no worries, I've avoided this thread for that very reason. Still haven’t started it yet as we’ve had a few chores to get done etc and now there are a couple of rugby matches that I feel compelled to watch. Maybe we’ll do three eps tonight and three tomorrow or something.

Love Island - all contestants must be destroyed as soon as possible.
In fact, anyone to do with this crap.

Loki (Disney+) - Binged this over the past couple days. Pretty good & clearly setting up the multiverse theme for some of the upcoming movies. I do have a few nitpicks, though. While clearly not as strong as characters like Thor, Loki was insinuated to still be quite a bit stronger than regular humans (in the first Avengers he was holding his own, and I think even had the advantage, against Cap before Iron Man arrived), yet here he seems to have his hands full with any more than two run of the mill guards at a time (even when his powers aren't sealed).

Star Wars: the Clone Wars season 3 (Disney+) - The start of the season seemed to be filled with a lot of more boring politics episodes (like they were sitting on a pile of them they needed to get out of the way), but it picked up after that. I'm really interested because they're clearly starting to tease the return of Darth Maul.

Sword Oratoria: Is it Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon!? On the Side (HiDive via VRV) - Spinoff of Is it Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon!? that takes place concurrently with that show's first season, following the "Sword Princess", Ais. The animation isn't quite as good as that found in the main show (which becomes clearly apparent when the story crosses over with the main series and they insert scenes from it), but it's more of the same so if you like the franchise you'll like this.

First trailer released for next season of Doctor Who and it’s moving back to a serialised format like the older show! It could either work great…. or could be a modern Trial of a Time Lord, which also came at a creative nadir for the franchise and probably killed it.

So it wasn't my intention to sit down and watch all of Mare of Easttown today but that's exactly what I did. Amazing show. Really thought it was being over-hyped but I was definitely wrong.

@zupertramp Mare of Easttown was unexpectedly (I know it's HBO but I still thought I'd be bored) awesome! There were definite weaknesses in the script but on the whole it had me sucked in more than most shows have for a while. I don't know how to blacken text out so I won't go into specifics, but I had no idea Kate Winslet had that kind of performance in her locker!

@zupertramp @BowTiesAreCool great show, Winslet was another level!

@BowTiesAreCool @colonelkilgore agreed. there were some bits that seemed to crib a little from some Dennis Lehane stuff but any sense that it was even marginally derivative could be forgiven as the performances were just so good.

@RogerRoger Honestly most of what I’ve seen has been ‘Hooray, Chibnall’s gone’ and ‘Shame Whittaker doesn’t get a series under a new show runner to see what she’s really capable of’. Most people seem to be waiting on her getting a redemption when Big Finish get the rights to make audio plays with her Doctor. It’ll be an interesting one though, if it finishes in 2022 then the new Doctor and show runner will be airing in 2023 and that’s the 60th anniversary. So either that’s one hell of a baptism of fire or they’ll incorporate previous Doctors in one big story to set off the new take on the series. I saw someone online saying that a great idea would be to cast several ‘Doctory’ actors and actresses in undisclosed roles and then have the whole anniversary episode be working out who’s really the next Doctor!

@RogerRoger If they did a proper movie then hopefully it isn’t as dodgy as the Peter Cushing ones or the Paul McGann one! And saying that, I would absolutely love for McGann to come back, his audio work is fantastic.

@RogerRoger Honestly, the Paul McGann one really isn’t as bad as its reputation. Eric Roberts is just so incredibly hammy as The Master that it’s hard to take any of it seriously. It’s good fun though, even if not much of it makes sense and it’s very American.

@RogerRoger I’m onto Jon Pertwee’s third series now, so he’s still stuck on Earth but it’s not long until he’s back out in the TARDIS. I have to say, the earthbound element has somewhat overstayed its welcome so it’ll be sweet relief to go to other planets and time periods. The Master has been the baddie for an entire season (literally) and now he’s back again so it’s been a bit samey. Still, the extended cast are great and have good chemistry together.

@RogerRoger I totally get that they did it for budgetary reasons and stuff, it just feels like the stories are quite similar now. I think I miss the more interesting companions too! It’s definitely getting into the ‘sole female companion’ stage of things that we’re used to in New Who.

"bring back manly muppets"

That's my post.

@zupertramp

@nessisonett rofl. Exactly!