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Post by muckypup on Sept 8, 2022 7:41:16 GMT
Sorry dude, cannot agree…..matts by far the worst thing he’s over acting….awful now I am the opposite to you like rings of power for all it’s problems…… after 3 eps given up on house of the dragon….drivel trying to recapture GOT vibe…..and failing……no likeable characters, predictable. Slow and really uninteresting……. I am going to try to start "Rings Of Power" this weekend.. I have seen some very "interesting" reviews to say the least..! The story is fragmented and annoying it jumps from one strand to another, but no denying it looks stunning.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 8, 2022 10:42:59 GMT
American Horror Stories S01E07 & 8 . "She-Hulk:Attorney At Law" S01E04
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Post by timleschild on Sept 9, 2022 14:23:39 GMT
The Rings of Power episode 3 Adar. This is real epic fantasy TV.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Sept 9, 2022 21:07:29 GMT
She-Hulk:Attorney At Law Episode 4 Damn, that was a really good one!
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 9, 2022 22:54:19 GMT
Cobra Kai Season 5.. YES..
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Post by Kestrel on Sept 10, 2022 5:52:01 GMT
Good luck with reading Jonathan strange……a book that is rich with hinted at worlds and lores…..but ultimately delivered very little, well for me at least….. I don’t hate the depiction of the harfoots…..just don’t see their point, apart from the exec’s saying oh we need mixed race hobbits, but I’m sure they have a tale to tell but for me it’s just another element in the larger story to keeping jumping back & forth too….for me I would rather have less story and better continuity in the narrative…… jacksons version worked so much better on screen as they were our view point we see the grand story from their perspective…..and stay with that view from start too finish…….that’s not what we’re getting with them here…… and to be realistic, this series has its arcs laid out over multiple season, Amazon have gone in big and the show will get less expensive for them. Even if it were a disaster (and it’s not) we were going to get 3 seasons……with a complete sporty arc to sell as box sets…. and just having watched the house of the dragon’s first episode, that suffered a worse problem…better narrative but full of bloat…..an hour episode with 15 minutes of story! And oh dear……Matt smith been too Alan Rickmans sheriff of Nottingham acting classes…or maybe it’s the shadow of morbius lingering over him…..but I found him more troublesome than the dodgy cgi dragons.[/quote] Re: Strange, I really liked the Netflix adaptation, so I wound up getting the book to read, but didn't get very far into it before I moved my attention elsewhere. I think it was a combination of the TV show being too fresh in my memory and the prose being, well, incredibly dense. But back to Rings of Power... I haven't watched episode 3 yet (and probably won't for another week at least) but w/ regard to "the point" I feel like the Harfoots are the only story element where the "point" is properly clear and established -- something is up with the (almost certainly Maiar) stranger who fell from the sky. The entire rest of the series in these first two hours is really just exposition and character introduction -- there's no clear plot yet. Which is wild, when you think about it, but exactly what one would expect from modern so-called "prestige television." No one -- no one seems to know how to craft serialized stories. (Obviously there are a small handful of exceptions, but you know what I mean.) You're absolutely correct to say that Rings of Power is planned out as a multi-season story... but it's also clear as day that they don't actually have multiple seasons worth of narrative content. So we get two episodes of treading water with our presumed-protagonist Galadriel, so that we can take her into episode 3 with her in precisely the same position she was in the beginning of episode 1: determined to hunt down the "enemy" that for whatever reason all of the other elves have suddenly and simultaneously decided not to care about. (Which is stupid, yes, but I'm currently plodding through The Fall of Gondolin and Tolkien has much the same happening there, with an Elven king happy to just ignore the messenger or a literal god showing up to say, "you know that evil god next door? You need to act now or he'll destroy your city." So... not unprecedented.) .... And on that note, I'm reminded of something I forgot to bring up before: the timeline. It feels really, really weird, right? Like crazy-condensed. I still can't get over the fact that the initial premise of the show is that, after the defeat of Melkor and loss of the Silmarils, Galadriel decides to hunt down Sauron, who escaped... and she doesn't get around to visiting the last place they knew Sauron had been for decades decades... at which point the other elves promptly decide to abandon the quest, immediately after finding a message that Sauron left them just to say, "Yup, I'm still out there." It's so incredibly contrived and just seems to exist only to fill time. So, yeah, maybe I'd feel otherwise without that element, but with Galadriel's story being such a hot mess I find the Harfoots stuff far more coherent and functional by comparison. .... Though I must say, if nothing else, I am super excited to see Numenor! ....
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Post by sherlock on Sept 10, 2022 8:27:18 GMT
Galadriel’s story is weird in that she doesn’t have much of a struggle. She makes the really big decision to defy her king and reject Valinor…and then is immediately vindicated for doing so. She doesn’t have to worry if she’s made the wrong decision because she happens to run into someone who can tell her the thing she’s obsessed with does exist and exactly where to find it. So I guess she’ll just go there and be proven right (haven’t done episode 3 yet either so maybe a complication presents itself here). If their angle on Galadriel is she’s overly fixated on the fight, as seemed to be episode 1’s point, it seems odd to write her story in a way that so rapidly vindicates her. I think the Harfoot storyline has a slight advantage in that it’s telling the story we expect from Tolkien works. The sweet innocents getting embroiled in large scale events which they have to step up to face, mixed with sense of adventure and discovery. It’s very similar beats to Bilbo and Frodo. But I do like it actually has a sense of unknown to it. We know the basics of the Elves and Dwarves so there’s not much surprises in how they’re portrayed in this series, but this proto-Hobbit society mixed with the Stranger are something new.
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 10, 2022 9:48:04 GMT
I signed up to Warhammer + . I wanted to get the new subscribers miniature (cool old-school Chaos terminator= Blood for the Blood God!) and I was also interested in their animated series. Started on the "Interrogator" series, because I just love the inquisition and their fluff. Dark, depressing, brutal, haunting- a "noir" style detective drama about a broken drug-addict Interrogator (assistant of an Inquisitor) who is battling his demons and on the hunt for shadows in his past. The art style is black and white minimalistic, which fits the story, but also forces the audience to fill out all the grand scenery of the desolate Imperial hive world in their heads. The voice acting is also not half bad. I even think I recognized some of the voices. I think there is even Richard Armitage in this! But they do not really do credits- apparently, violent idiot fans have issued death threats to creative talent in the Warhammer universe, so they want to avoid that. Finding this out caused my daily "WTF" moment and serious whiplash from shaking my head.
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Post by timleschild on Sept 10, 2022 10:56:15 GMT
She-Hulk, another fun episode. This is my favourite Marvel show.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2022 12:05:48 GMT
Cobra Kai Season 5 loving it.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 10, 2022 13:37:56 GMT
Cobra Kai Season 5 loving it.
Oh yes!!.. No spoilers from me... !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2022 16:49:28 GMT
Cobra Kai Season 5 loving it.
Oh yes!!.. No spoilers from me... !
Just started Ep 6 Terry Silvas a awesome villain.
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Post by Kestrel on Sept 12, 2022 4:28:14 GMT
Not to deviate from the always-fun LOTR talk, but I managed to find time to spin through the first three episodes of the new Lower Decks season. I still like it, but the parody is wearing a bit thin, I think. Here's hoping we get a Tendi-focused episode soon. Galadriel’s story is weird in that she doesn’t have much of a struggle. She makes the really big decision to defy her king and reject Valinor…and then is immediately vindicated for doing so. She doesn’t have to worry if she’s made the wrong decision because she happens to run into someone who can tell her the thing she’s obsessed with does exist and exactly where to find it. So I guess she’ll just go there and be proven right (haven’t done episode 3 yet either so maybe a complication presents itself here). If their angle on Galadriel is she’s overly fixated on the fight, as seemed to be episode 1’s point, it seems odd to write her story in a way that so rapidly vindicates her. I think the Harfoot storyline has a slight advantage in that it’s telling the story we expect from Tolkien works. The sweet innocents getting embroiled in large scale events which they have to step up to face, mixed with sense of adventure and discovery. It’s very similar beats to Bilbo and Frodo. But I do like it actually has a sense of unknown to it. We know the basics of the Elves and Dwarves so there’s not much surprises in how they’re portrayed in this series, but this proto-Hobbit society mixed with the Stranger are something new. It's absolutely accidental -- or, rather, serendipity -- that Galadriel's storyline is all about metaphorically treading water and actually spends a fair chunk of time literally treading water. It's like if Peter Jackson had decided to film Thorin's barrel flying over a shark in the white-water sequence in The Hobbit. Just incredibly on-the-nose. From a purely dramatic perspective, all we really needed was the offer conveyed, and then a cut to all the other elves departing while Galadriel watches from the shore. Doing that things actors do -- you know, act -- to convey her indecision, her uncertainty, etc. Pretty much everything Galadriel's done so far could easily have been condensed (and improved) in fewer than 10 minutes, total. Including the (frankly rather clumsy and ultimately unnecessary) opening narration. We keep treading water like this and the series finale is gonna conclude with Galadriel "revealing" that Sauron is back, and totally-not-Sauron popping in to say hi to Elrond and Celebrimbor in a post-credits stinger. Because what is modern television if not a single episode worth of story drawn out over a dozen? I mean, I hope I'm wrong, but the more I think back on what I've already seen... the more cynical I become.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 12, 2022 19:17:56 GMT
She-Hulk, another fun episode. This is my favourite Marvel show.
But the big question - {Spoiler} *whose* wedding? Are Wong and Madisynn sharing more than just their favourite tv shows?!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 13, 2022 15:24:07 GMT
Red Dwarf Series 1
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 13, 2022 20:29:00 GMT
House Of The Dragon S01E04. WOW..
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Post by elkawho on Sept 14, 2022 2:09:52 GMT
I've been catching up on Doom Patrol and there is Michelle Gomez being awesome. And then and whole episode with Ty Tennant!
I do like this show.
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Post by Digi on Sept 14, 2022 2:15:55 GMT
House Of The Dragon S01E04. WOW.. Yeah I had it on while I was chatting with someone (online) who hasn't seen any of the show yet, telling them that I've liked each episode more than the last. And as I'm in the midst of typing that I had to pause (typing) and go "oh, wow, things definitely just happened in this one"
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 14, 2022 2:29:25 GMT
House Of The Dragon S01E04. WOW.. Yeah I had it on while I was chatting with someone (online) who hasn't seen any of the show yet, telling them that I've liked each episode more than the last. And as I'm in the midst of typing that I had to pause (typing) and go "oh, wow, things definitely just happened in this one" Oh.. it was on like Donkey Kong !
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Post by Kestrel on Sept 14, 2022 10:12:28 GMT
So... what happened? Sudden character death, or something more interesting?
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