Topic: The TV Show Thread

After watching through it off & on throughout the past year, I myself have finally finished the entirety of the Clone Wars. I wouldn't say it was overall fantastic (such as the patchwork continuity in the first 3-4 seasons, and the more political centric episodes tended to slow things down for me), but it was a decent watch overall & the final season in particular was great.

Right after that I went right into the Book of Boba Fett. First few episodes were slow (though it was neat from a lore perspective for them to shine a light on Tuskan culture), but the last three or so were fantastic (even if I thought the most Mandalorian centric one was the overall best). I'll agree that the "mod" gang with their bubblegum colored mopeds were a complete mismatch for this era of Star Wars, and I'll throw in the chop shop where he had Fennec Shand fixed up at too, which had the same vibe (though the speeder gang with the traditional black leather biker gang look didn't mesh to well either, IMO).

To finish up the Star Wars talk I've also started up the Bad Batch recently, but have only put one episode into it thus far.

Peacemaker was easily the best DC TV show and one of the best superhero shows in general. Can recommend.

@Voltan
And I heartily second that opinion.
...even the opening dance never failed to cheer me.

@Voltan I saw that they’ve just airbrushed Cyborg from ever existing. Disgusting.

@nessisonett I actually didn't think about it (I'm not big on DC so I forget who the Justice League is) but you're right, they did - not too cool.

Actually I just rememberd Doom Patrol is also DC so I might have to reconsider the "bet DC show" thing

@Voltan Just watched the final episode yesterday. The series is pretty good and definitely the best DC TV show I've seen so far.

On the other hand, Titans (Season 3) is one the worst DC TV shows. Stopped watching after episode five. Couldn't believe it got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

@WanderingBullet I liked Titans in general but this season was way worse than the others.

@Voltan I thought the first season was okay (probably give it 5/10). Didn't finish the second season, since I thought it wasn't that good either. Also, the way Raven defeated her father in the first episode of Season 2 was so anticlimatic after that cliffhanger in Season 1).

Cool, just read that HBO has already renewed Peacemaker for Season 2.

There's also a potential new Suicide Squad spin-off series. I'm hoping it's either Deadshot or King Shark.

The Fallout show is going to be a car crash but Walton Goggins is a perfect fit 😂

@RogerRoger, I originally wasn't going to watch Rebels (something about the art direction makes it look even more of a kid's show than Clone Wars), but I may get around to it one day (probably not for a long while though, as I'll need a long break from Star Wars shows after Bad Batch).

I finished of The Legend of Vox Machina on Amazon Prime. It's an animated series based of Critical Role's Dungeon and Dragons.streams. Alot of familiar voice actors here reprise their characters from the table top game, Travis Willingham (Full Metal Alchemist, Marvel's Spider-man), Laura Bailey (Fruits Basket, Marvel's Spider-man, World of Warcrat) Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us, Infinity Train), Liam O' Brien (World of Warcraft) Sam Riegel (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Phoenix Wright) Taliesin Jaffe (Street Fighter IV, World of Warcraft) and Marisha Ray (Persona 4, Far Cry New Dawn).

First off this show is not for kids, the F bomb is dropped alot, there is nudity and sexual scenes and of course blood and gore.

The first three episodes basically tell the story on how the group is formed and there first big victory as a group of adventures and then sets the stage for the rest of the season.

I thought they did a great job on the animated series the animation was great, voice acting of was awesome of course. Alot of action particularly the second episode. Definitely worth a watch. One nice thing with the series, they did it so you don't even have to know anything about Critical Role's web series you can just watch Vox Machina.

If you enjoy fantasy type shows like Game of Thrones, Witcher, Wheel of Time etc this will probably be worth your time.

We binged The Book of Boba Fett this weekend and overall, really quite liked it. Nowhere near a perfect shoe or anything but was a lot of fun.

Was watching Magic User's Club on Funimation, got through the 6 episode OVA just fine, but about "halfway" through the 13 episode TV series I realized the episode order was somehow jumbled up & they don't even have all the episodes (ex. both episodes "2" & "8" play the contents of episode 8, with no way to actually watch episode 2, and it's not the only early episode to be missing in this manner, as episodes "3" & "9" play episode 9, etc.).

Not a huge loss as even though the show was cute it wasn't particularly stand out, but it's an absolutely ridiculous flub for a paid service.

Finally finally finished Tom Baker’s run on Doctor Who. 7 seasons and I honestly only skipped a couple of serials as they were truly dire. For the most part it was great though, there was a real golden age in the mid 70s and then I actually really enjoyed his later stuff despite the bad reputation. City of Death is a classic though and definitely lived up to that. It was genuinely sad when he regenerated, I can imagine it was crazy for kids seeing that if they’d spent 7 years of their lives watching him as their Doctor. Onto Peter Davison now and I’ve really enjoyed his first season actually! It’s a very different tone but there are some real interesting ideas and genuine heart. Currently on Earthshock, which anybody who knows anything about Classic Who knows is a corker with a twist!

@RogerRoger I think I’m going to wait until the whole season drops before watching Picard! Actually quite liked the first season tbh, I know a lot of people had their own issues with it but it was just a bit of decent fun for me.

Okay more about The Leftovers, it’s going to some surreal, interesting places.

Also we’ve been rewatching The Sopranos, I think we just have one episode left. Just as good the second time around, it’s been since it was new.

@robhr How far into "The Leftovers" are you? It's an absolutely incredible show - particularly once it advances beyond/diverts away from what happened in the book.

@LN78 is right also, its one of the few "book-to-TV" shows that actually gets even better once it diverts away from the original source material and branches out.

Christopher Eccleston is a stand-out in it for me! Carrie Coon also is phenominal

@LN78 @CJD87 We just started season 3.

@LN78 Good to know about Leftovers.

I’ll be getting to the end of Sopranos tomorrow evening probably. I remember I appreciated it more than audiences did the first time around.

Yes I’ve seen Many Saints, it’s what inspired us to give the Sopranos another viewing. I enjoyed that too. When the Sopranos theme played at the very end it was almost goosebumpy.