@Kairu Those news articles are basing it on an interview from 2019 where he says he likes the games and books. There’s absolutely zero evidence that he dislikes the direction of the show and it seems more like people who don’t like Netflix are projecting.
Just finished watching For All Mankind up to s3 on Apple TV+ (free sub with PS5).
Very entertaining what if show. Lots of drama most of which quite plausible within the narrative. Has the odd over the top moment, and episodes are often too long for my tastes, but overall a great series. If you’re interested at all in space flight you should definitely watch it.
Man, how have I slept on the Netflix show Arcane? I’ve watched the first four episodes and up to this point I think it’s really brilliant. I have absolutely no familiarity with League of Legends and I’m wondering why they even licensed it as a related product, but regardless I’ve had no issue following the story or setting. So far it’s one of my favorite shows that I’ve watched in the last few years. The wheels may fall off in the second half, I guess, but to this point it’s got everything I like in an animated show. I love the visuals and art design. The story is much better than the typical animated fare. The voice acting is great. Even the music is fitting.
Speaking of voice acting, Hailee Steinfeld is quickly becoming a favorite for me. She really won me over as Kate Bishop in the Hawkeye series and I really liked her character Spider-Gwen in Into the Spider-Verse. So far she’s pretty ‘one-note’ in her castings, but as she ages I expect she’ll take on more complex roles.
Anyways, I’m really high on Arcane, so for anyone on the fence about it you should give it a try. I was hesitant because of the LofL connections, but it seems to be pretty extraneous. If anyone knows of other animated shows to recommend to me with similar stunning animation and storyline, let me know.
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@HallowMoonshadow I know, I know 😅 - people have been praising it for a while, but I guess I just figured it was simply “good for a one-off video game tie-in show” rather than actually a “really great show” by any metric. So I was in no rush.
For example, I had heard a lot of praise (well-earned I might add) for the Castlevania animated show and when I watched it I liked enough, but after a while honestly it failed to really get to a top-tier level of story and animation. It was at the level of “good for a video game show” imo, and after the initial surprise that the show didn’t actually suck, it eventually lost its momentum for me. With all due respect to anime style shows, I have trouble really engaging in the way they portray their narrative, and often there’s just tons of filler in the episodes, which is what Castlevania reached after the third season, so I didn’t feel compelled to finish it. Arcane, on the other hand, has really had great pacing so far. And the production value is so high.
That Cyberpunk animated series is the obvious next one up, and I’ve heard great things about it, but I have a feeling it’s more of a nice novelty for gaming fans rather than an independently well-crafted series.
Without spoiling the ending, do we know yet if Arcane will get another season? I want to savor the last episodes if they will be my last.
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Ha ha I know I know just lightly teasing you @Th3solution
Yeah I recall you not quite getting on with Castlevania. A shame as that 4th and final season was a good sendoff for it (And I admit Season 3 did drag it's heels a little).
I've heard Edgerunners is good even without context. Studio Trigger is a renowned anime studio for what they put out. Do wanna give it a look myself too even if like yourself I didn't think much of Cyberpunk as a game.
As for a season 2 of Arcane? Netflix have ordered a second season yeah. That's all I'll say Sol 😏
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@HallowMoonshadow Lol, the next thing ya know I’ll be saying, “I started playing this little game called Divinity Original Sin 2 and it’s great. Why didn’t anyone tell me?!” 😜
Well, I still might return to that last season of Castlevania, so we’ll see. If you try Edgerunners then let me know how you get along with it.
And that’s good to know we will hopefully get Arcane season 2. The only other series that has reached its level of animation and punchy storytelling is Love, Death, and Robots. It’s way different, but if you’ve not tried that then you might like it. It’s not a continuous storyline, but rather each episode is standalone, yet you might enjoy nibbling on that to hold you over as well.
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Honestly not surprised. They really started to lose viewers around season 3. Season 4 was pretty good but most of the viewers who left were not coming back and it was one of HBO's most expensive shows too. We still got 4 seasons and an ending that works fine enough, Netflix would have cancelled it after 2 at most.
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I'm watching Mythic Quest, and is it really weird to actually see Ashley Burch play a live action character! 😂 It took me a few episodes for it to click which character she was playing, but then I recognised her voice.
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@Th3solution Spider-verse is still number one for me but I would probably place Arcane in second spot for best looking Western animation. The characters and story's pretty good too. Really looking forward to the next season.
I've finally started House Of The Dragon now that the first season has been wrapped up for a good few weeks.
Paddy Considine has been killing it as King Viserys but other then that it's taken a long while for me to get properly invested into the show.
It's been rather well written unlike the last few seasons of GoT was but I don't think all the timeskips helped in endearing me to any of the characters with it jumping from a few weeks or months ahead to ten bloody years.
I'm on episode 7 so I haven't got much left of the season. Here's hoping it ends with a bang!
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For anyone that prefers physical media, House of Dragon is coming, including to 4K blu ray in Dec 19th. I've already added it to my rental list, along with a bunch of other shows only available on SKY/NOW TV here in the UK.
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Finished watching season 2 of Doom Patrol. While I'm enjoying the show a lot, I just don't understand what they're doing with it. Why are we still seeing backstories for each character all the way into the second season? I feel like this show is more about learning about the characters rather than having a compelling plot with backstories for the characters on the side. It just feels pointless to learn about characters if there's no an overarching plot tied to them. Not to mention the weird cliffhanger in the season finale.
It's still a fun show to watch but it's so clearly a show without a focus.
@KilloWertz Moving the question over here for tidiness sake —
So how are you finding Rings of Power? I really enjoyed it (as you can tell with the Arondir gif). I think the Tolkien purists were put off by its wavering from established lore apparently. But I feel like they did a great job with the material they had. Now I’m just bummed it will be so long until the next season.
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@Th3solution I think I'm only 3 episodes in so far, but so far so good. I wasn't floored by the first episode, but it's picked up for me since. It's not that the first episode was bad, but the scene with them just blindly sailing the boat into the light was a bit weird. Maybe I missed something somehow, but it was weird.
I don't mind that it's different or that it will never have the characters from the movies. I knew that going in, but while I really enjoyed the movies, it's not like I watch them religiously or anything. I also haven't read a book since I was in school (so multiple decades). I could treat it like the Arrowverse shows on The CW where I could say it's set in another Middle Earth universe.
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Yeah it was pretty solid. I'm glad there's finally a constant time period now and hopefully there won't be any wild time skips/jumps.
Matt Smith was great and I didn't recognise Rhys Ifans at all til I looked up who Otto Hightower was.
The CGI for the dragons looked great throughout and there was two shots in the final episode that looked really swell.
The one when Lucerys reaches Storm's end and was almost like a shot from Jurassic Park, showing how huge Vhagar really is and when Arrax and Lucerys escape the storm into the clouds and looks rather peaceful was a stunning shot too despite being all CG
I rewatched the first three episodes last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I do like that quite a number of the cast are just voice actors like Roger Craig Smith, J.B. Blanc or Yuri Lowinthal and they didn't load it up with celebrity star power (with most of the traditional actors in the cast being more obscure ones). Everyone puts in a good performance.
I'm really quite fond of the 2D effects used it it like smoke, water and such blended in with the 3D animation that helps give it a very unique look.
... The music used at the end of episode 2 was REALLY jarring though to me and didn't fit the mood at all 😂
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