Topic: The TV Show Thread

@FuriousMachine I’m not super qualified… but kinda.

@Ravix There is Mind

Fonejacker was awesome! Sometime me and a mate in work will greet each other like we are Brian Badonde! 😂

There is also Midnight Mass. Probably my favourite horror tv show of the last few years. Only bettered by Haunting of Hill House in my eyes.

Since you’re replaying to @Ravix , you should be more mindful of your wording. Here, I’ll rephrase one sentence for you: “There is Mind 🫠🫠🤪😝🤔😱🤤🫨🥲😂😅🤣😁😇🧐”
Hopefully this is helpful.

@Yousef- This is what happens when a bloke tries to multi task 🫠

So damn true lol 😂 😂 🤣

@Th3solution
All the DC shows are disconnected from one another. Watchmen isn't connected to the DC universe at all and is it's own thing. Pennyworth is alternate history, hell even Doom Patrol and Titans exist in their own seperate universes. It's not at all like an MCU tv show situation.

@PegasusActual93 I wish DC could get their stuff together in terms of, well one quality, but also some sense of continuity over some of their different properties. That said I do appreciate that they have standalone stuff. The MCU at this point is exhausting. Maybe a happy medium between extreme interconnectedness and no throughline whatsoever would be nice.

@zupertramp Will be interesting to see how James Gunn's new DCU connectivity shakes out. Will be interconnected between movies, series and games, with the "Elseworlds" brand set for standalone or separate projects such as Matt Reeves "The Batman" universe (which actually now may be folded into the connected DCU according to rumours), Todd Philips' "Joker" abominations movies, etc

I think inter-connectivity can work as long as it doesn't feel like a requirement to see everything in order to enjoy the various entities. Comics have been doing it for decades, having characters visiting each others series without there being a compelling need to read every single comic book released.

@FuriousMachine I’ve had the feeling James Gunn’s verse may be a weird afterthought, like they made Shazam, the new suicide squad and joker all while going “oh crap how do we fit this into one world like with Snyder”.

I am on the other hand quite welcoming of his input! And it breathes fresh new life into Snyderverse and makes it more interesting, even if Peace Maker has essentially overwritten Snyderverse’s existence all together. Not that that’s a negative, per se.

Well said on the second paragraph. 👍

@FuriousMachine Feels like it will eventually become an incomprehensible mess.

So I finished watching season 1 of The Wire this week. The first episode felt very slow, but then it gradually became more interesting and the last couple of episodes were very engrossing. Although I do have to say that it was rather hard to follow the plot. It could be because English isn't my first language or because they talked in a way that made it hard to follow along. Also, the last episode didn't make any sense to me. I didn't really understand why everything turned out like that.

All in all, I like the show and it was fun watching something from the early 2000s. Although I think I'll be taking a break from it and picking it back up at a later time.

@JohnnyShoulder think I missed some notifications. Salem's Lot... hmm I have a very hate, hate, tolerate relationship with Stephen King and adaptions of his tbh, and the user rating for that is about a 5??? Some stuff is very good, maybe, but he is an absolute wind bag of a writer and I never got on with his books because of the tangents and ridiculous level of minor detail he bangs on about (oh, the irony 😅) and he is just too prolific for his own good.

And as for adaptions, I think they will pretty much adapt anything with his name on it and most of the time it is done in a "straight to video" way. As if to say... using absolutely sh*te actors 😅

I mean, The Shining is the very pinnacle in King adaptions, right? And that is mostly because of what Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson brought to it, even though it basically skips out a chunk of actual Shining related stuff and does it's own thing, and that kind of feels weird when you watch it. Even to someone that hasn't read the book, it feel like it just veers off and forgets what was set up earlier.

For his TV adaptions I do remember quite liking The Outsider, and that's about all I can remember that are actually decent in that space 👀

Moving on from that. As I now know you are a resident LotR appreciator, what did you make of Rings of Power? I know there was a lot of mixed reactions when it debuted, but maybe the dust has settled and there is more of an acceptance of it now, or maybe not. There is one segment and a culminating scene in s2 that is basically better than any Shakespeare (exaggerated hot take) it certainly has a 'play within a show' feel with one pairing of characters.

@LtSarge it’s an incredible show and one which the missus and I watch through in its entirety every 5 years or so. The last episode… for me at least… might be the single greatest episode of tv ever made.

@Ravix Ah I've been found out as a filthy LOTR casual! 😬 I've not actually seen any of The Rings of Power. I was going to try and watch this winter, but Amazon introduced adverts into Prime and that has put me off using the service.

I've yet to finish a Stephen King book as I find they ramble on about nothing to much for my liking.

@colonelkilgore That's cool that you like it that much! Does the show get better over time?

@LtSarge tbh I thought it was the best show ever made even during season 1. As with anything though, enjoyment and appreciation will vary from person to person.

@colonelkilgore Sounds promising then! Looking forward to watching season 2, hopefully sooner than later.

@JohnnyShoulder uh oh, I assumed. That's my bad 😅 I would have thought someone that had ended up watching the trilogy every Christmas might actually be a mega fan, or something like that.

The adverts are no too bad. In something like a Clarkson show they will have, say, one advert in the middle. But I'm pretty sure RoP was sponsered by Warcraft so it just had that one advert at the very start, pre titles, and the rest was uninterrupted. I'm pretty sure that is right, anyway 😬

I think I only ended up watching the first season because I happened to have Prime at the time and I'll try out any fantasy tv show. Wasn't that into it, but it was alright enough to warrant a casual watch. But this year it has had me wanting to go back and watch some more LotR stuff that I probably didn't appreciate at the time, despite having seen the trilogy. Other than a general idea of who is in it and the story overall, it doesn't resonate with my memories enough to geek out about it in any way. I kind of regret passing on the Mordor games, but doubt I'll go back to them. And we all know what happened with the Gollum game 💩

@Ravix Oh I've not wathced the trilogy for ages as i gave most of my DVD's away when I got my PS4.

I did try out watching stuff on Prime, and some progammes and film have adverts a few times during the run time. They did start only at the start, but that soon changed. Unless it depends on what you are watching.

Anyone been watching Uzumaki by any chance? It is genuinely one of the most bat---- crazy shows I have ever has the fortune(?) of watching. I can't say it's good in the slightest. The pacing is absolutely horrible, the plotting is all over the place, the story is mostly nonsensical and doesn't seem to be going anywhere and the characters are rather undeveloped caricatures. That said, it manages to be highly entertaining in spite of all of that simply by how it's throwing so much crazy stuff in your face. It just... never stops escalating. When you think you've seen it all after you saw snail people snuggling up together, you see some weird lovestruck tornado the next episode. By all accounts the manga is great, but then this anime must be a genuinely terrible adaptation of it. The only value this has is that it enters "so bad it's good"-territory, as well as some great sense of style with its artwork. And so, if you'd enjoy watching something that is just incomprehensible in its constant need for upping the ante (badly), do give it a try.