Topic: The TV Show Thread

@LN78 Dark Crystal is very much one of those films people grew up with on video. As a technical and artistic undertaking, Age of Resistance really is superb. I think it'll do well enough. Probably well enough for adaptation of the follow up Labyrinth comics.

I think season 4 of Preacher is going to wrap it up yeah. More of the comic storyline shows up later after season 1 - which I think was a bit of a 'proof of concept' in way to open up the audience to how 'blasphemous' the rest would be.

@LN78 The casting is pretty spot on - absolutely no complaints from me. The quality of accents especially from such a regionally not-American cast is superb!
Yeah, no studio really wanted to touch it back then - not surprising given how very religious most of America seems to be.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy have fun! I haven't watched the making of documentary at the end, saving that . That's spoilered as it's pretty common internet knowledge, but people who don't frequent entertainment sites/haven't looked through the Netflix listing may not be aware of it. Nice surprise i thought.

@LN78 Give Preacher another go, I wasn't keen at first but it soon won me over. The second season has more stuff from the comic books in there. The cast is spot on.

I'm also watching Titans on Netflix. It feels very un-DC in some parts with some supernatural elements and more Marvel type super heroes. Which is a bit weird at first. It can also be quite violent in places and is not afraid to show a bit of blood and gore when the needs arise. Which is a good thing in my book.

@LN78 Same here with Prime, I will probs go for it once I've finished Legion and my current NOW TV sub expires next month. The one day delivery thing is good and all but I know some people rely it far too much, and some of the couriers they use are a bit unreliable on weekends.

What If..? leaked scenes.

I think the art style looks amazing. Hopefully they look great in motion.

@JohnnyShoulder Have you watched Doom Patrol? It's another one of DC Universe's shows, and I thought it was very entertaining. Great characters, constantly inventive with it's structure and some really good acting to boot, especially from Diane Guerrero. I'd definitely recommend it if you're into that sort of thing. I haven't seen Titans personally, but judging from what I've seen in promo material Doom Patrol has a darker tone however.

@Tjuz I heard people mention that but have never checked it out, but will do now. Cheers!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy The film was always something that freaked me out a bit when I saw it as a kid. I wonder what kids these days make of it, would they be able to get past the puppets being mainly brought up on cgi and animation?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
Not sure if you're there yet, but a particular bit of dialogue from Deet had me and the Mrs actually laughing: Seladon (I think): "When was the last time you washed your hands?" Deet: "Why would I 'wash' my hands." It was a just really nice, character appropriate moment that could easily have been left out.

@Tjuz Titans is pretty far from being great. It's difficult to recommend and it's certainly an inferior show to Doom Patrol. I'm hoping the second season matures a bit - because the first is journeyman-like 'gritty' and extremely adolescent in the scripting. DP is darker in the general themes of the show as a whole, and wears those themes very well - but Titans never wants you to forget that it's 'not for kids'.

I hear really good things about Swamp Thing too.

@JohnnyShoulder For my money, it'll very much depend on the kid. If they have parents who grew up loving The Dark Crystal, I'd say they're going to be a lot more open to the show in general concept as well as production style.

Daniel Henney cast as Lan in The Wheel of Time Amazon series! I can totally see it!

@KALofKRYPTON That's honestly what I expected Titans to be like judging from all the promotional material. A step up from the CW superheroes, but still nowhere near "prestige" television. I hope that for people who are following the show it will follow in the footsteps of Doom Patrol a little in it's sophomore season. I've heard great things about Swamp Thing too and was initially interested. It's a shame about that whole funding fiasco resulting in it's immediate cancellation and episode count being cut short.

Urgh, saw more of the Wheel of Time casting... #diversitythatmakesnosense

I've not been watching much TV or film recently, but I finally managed to finish the latest season of Handmaid's Tale, which was superb as usual.

I've been countering this bleakness by watching Shaun the Sheep, series 2 and 3 of which are now on Netflix (where's series one??). I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Shaun the Sheep is one of mankind's greatest ever achievements. Bitzer the Dog's eternal struggle to balance the demands of his master with looking out for the farm animals is a metaphor for life itself.

Starting watching The Boys. Great stuff so far, think they have the tone pretty much spot to the source material.

I watched the 3 episode mini series Criminal (UK) yesterday. Still mulling bits of it over, but mostly it's like a series of really disappointing Law & Order episodes without the meat of the police or court procedural dressings.

I think we're meant to not guess glaringly obvious 'twists' and be very convinced that the writers are incredibly clever. Unfortunately, the crimes and indeed, characters - are rote at best and the pace and construction of each episode leaves nothing to get invested in.

There are some nice performances - and perhaps we're meant to fawn over those rather than the content, but the format is a really weak concept. Felt like the entire thing was largely pointless by the time I'd finished.

Anyone watch the Between Two Ferns YouTube series? Now there's a movie of it.

@RogerRoger A Pingu/Shaun the Sheep crossover would be quite something, but geographically I guess it would be a bit of a stretch...

@RogerRoger Ha, I love the way I'm fine with Shaun the Sheep driving cars around and stuff like that, but when we mention him going to the pole I'm like "Hmm that's a bit of a stretch"

@RogerRoger I think you've cracked it here. A crossover between every claymation series ever. Wallace and Gromit want to take Shaun to space, but the ship crashes in the Antarctic and they have to team up with Morph to get home.

@RogerRoger This writes itself!

@RogerRoger Oh golly, you just brought waves of nostalgia on me by mentioning Trap Door!