Originally posted by @Bearsy
I love the way that the cartoon of the child growing up with âpermanent developmental damage that can never be repairedâ turns into Nathan.
Thatâs excellent, Bear.
Good work.
Better Call Saul, confirmed 2nd season in Feb
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Wrapped up Jessica Jones last night. Not going to add much more to what Iâve already written, but I can tell you that itâs worth watching. Itâs far darker than Daredevil, which is largely on account of the writers having tremendous fun with the villainâs superpowers. Two more Defenders series in the works (Luke Cage & Iron Fist) and a second season of Daredevil has already been ordered. Thatâs before they officially get all of these people together for the ensemble show. Marvel and Netflix is looking an excellent fit at present.
I watched 3 episodes of Jessica Jones, pap, and then I couldnât take any more! Mostly i was just prob bored + frustrated + not enthralled, but if you want specific complaints to egender DEBATES, here is my specific complaints.
- There was quite good scene in Ep 1 where the main bird got boned hard (poss. bummed?), but it quickly became Apparent that this was not going to be Common Theme. I find this v.hateful of tv bros, cos they do this all the time, I mean put Sex & Nudity in first episode, so you keep watching hoping for more, but then they donât bother doing anymore scenes like that.
I have been watching this one show called âUr The Worstâ, and in the first episode the main bird gets boned well bad, and you get to see her boobs + everything, but now it is i.e. midway through Season 2 and there hasnât been even a single nip or anything since FFS!
b) The Only Good Character is the Bad Guy who is Dr. Who apparently, but he is hardly in the Dumb Show! We keep hearing hints of all the great things he does, like using his Mind Control to make babes have sex with him, but Iâm beginning to think that all these Delicious Rapings, if theyâre happening at all, are only gonna be happening Off Screen 
- Iâm going on Marvel Strike! They are Axis of Evil! The films & shows are all terrible, or at best vaguely adequate, and mostly just serve as Adverts for other dumb Marvel Films & Shows. I remember you pap, criticising X-Factors & Simon Cowell etc for the Damage they have done to Music industry with their weak, artless, anodyne, by-the-numbers âProductâ, but I Think that Marvel Bros have done the Exact same thing to Film Industry, and itâs only getting worse, and all these Dumb Films & Shows are supposedly building to some big conclusion to keep you locked in, but you know itâs Never Coming, and itâs gonna drag on Forever, like fucking Lost or something like that!
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Itâs not fucking LOST, El Bearberino!
I can confirm that they do end, and end well. I think your problem is stamina. Three episodes in, youâre screaming for action. As Arcade Fire so beautifully stated; we used to wait. You demand instant gratification, and in your quest to throw your remote away in disgust, you missed a lot of cool shit.
As to Marvel oversaturation, I can see where youâre coming from, but from my perspective as comic book nerd with active Marvel subscription, this is a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of that vast universe coming to light.
I honestly donât know what Marvel becomes as it is absorbed into the Disney superstructure. Historically, it has done some very brave stuff, clever enough so that I donât know who itâs pitched for. Intelligent comic book geeks, probably. The Civil War series was very good.
A lot of the problems stem from a wish to keep the big boys on the big screen, and also, a lot of the rights to individual characters being tied up with other companies. Donât think Marvel itself can make Spider-man, X-Men or Fantastic Four movies for a bit.
Iâve said before, but I honestly think Netflix originals are a slightly different kettle of fish to the traditional TV format. Most shows pay lip service to some kind of ongoing arc these days. A complete arc dropped on day one, designed to be binge-watched? Itâs a relatively new thing. I reckon itâll take time to get used to the slightly different beat.
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Am loving this season of The Leftovers, the first was good but this is excellent. HBO make some quality stuff.
It just gets weirder and weirder.
I like weird.
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Originally posted by @Ex-Trader
Am loving this season of The Leftovers, the first was good but this is excellent. HBO make some quality stuff.
It just gets weirder and weirder.
I like weird.
That show is fucked up. I like watching it but you can see how they write it with bros sitting round all day going, âWouldnât it be weird ifâŠâ and tho Iâm locked in, and this season is fucking mental, I know Iâm gonna be ultimate disappointment cos none of them bros in their script meetings ever stood up and said something like i.e. âYeah, but-â or simply, âWhy?â, and I want ANSWERS but Iâm not gonna get ANSWERS, I know Iâm not, theyâre just gonna string me along till show gets fucking Cancel. Like Lost.
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U Canât Tell Me Bout Binge Watching! I invented binge-watching! Ur quite wrong, the problem is not with me, the problem is with the show being Not Excellent, and that is that, good day.
You are aware of course that the series is written (or at least conceived) by the same guy who was responsible for Lost.
I can confirm therefore that after a really hard think he wonât be able to come up with a convincing way to end it.
And so every character in the whole thing will have all been dead all along.
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I expect Bear is regretting that LOST-inspired rant against the Marvel televised multiverse.
I regret it Already but Lost comparisons was not the Crux Of My Argument, comparing what the Marvel Cinematic Terrorists are doing with the actions of Simon Cowell vs Music, is far more On The Money.
Iâve now seen three episodes of The Man in the High Castle, Amazonâs adaptation of the Philip K Dick novel, bringing to life a world in which the Japanese and the Nazis won in World War 2. The titular character, not seen so far, is in the business of making films that depict an Allied victory to the War. Itâs seen by Hitler himself as vastly dangerous propaganda. Agents of both the Japanese Empire and the Nazi Reich are out to find the films and the filmmaker.
The US is divided into two spheres of influence, a Nazi-dominated East and a Japanese controlled West, with a strip of land known as the neutral zone seemingly belonging to no-one. Rumours abound that Hitler is about to die, the Nazis have outstripped the rest of the world in technology, including the Japanese, making for an uneasy relationship decades after their victory.
The pace is deliberately set a lot slower than a lot of other stuff on TV. Bear may find it boring. I donât mind it. There is a slow tension to proceedings, made worse by the fact that either set of authorities can pounce on the populace for no reason whatsoever. The fact that much of the brutality takes place off-screen doesnât make it any less disturbing. Three episodes in, Iâm at peace with the pace and am enjoying it. Great production values, good performances and hallelujah, people actually smoke in a period drama 
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I saw the pilot a few months ago. They made it seem pretty grim, in Nazi America. I dunno if it wouldâve been like that, i.e. ainât it the case that life was pretty sweet under Nazi rule, I mean, for regular citizens, and as long as you werenât Jew or Handicap or Whatever. I saw a documentary + normal German bros was loving it under Nazi before the war cos they had full employments, and good infrastructures, and no crime, and stuff like that. It wouldâve been more interest show for me if they made it seem like Nazi America was brilliant, and clean, and prosperous, and no crime, and Better than it is Today, like a Paradise, and only then do you find out Nazi won the war, and then slowly you start to see the cracks + darkness round the edges. That wouldâve been Braver & More Interest Show.
Damon Lindelof has previous to be honest with Lost and itâs godawful flipping ending. He kind of covered his ass by saying there wouldnât be any answers for viewers of The Leftovers and itâs a drama about coping with loss etc. Lost just ended up as science v religion, with religion being easier to get the writerâs out of a tight spot. It was never supposed to go for that many seasons. Iâm not expecting any answers, or another season (the ratings are terrible). Some of the performances are amazing (aside from Christopher Ecclestoneâs weird accent) and itâs great to watch a drama where you genuinely donât know what will happen next
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Originally posted by @TedMaul
He kind of covered his ass by saying there wouldnât be any answers for viewers of The Leftovers
ffs
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âMarvel Cinematic Terroristsâ *Tips hat smiley*
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Finished the first season. Overall, a very impressive bit of television that seems adult in a cerebral sense rather than âhey! check out these people rutting! (you are watching HBO)â. A great deal of time is spent on developing characters and building the world, which can make the first half of the season seem a bit dragsome.
One of the reviews I read after watching it reckons that the show uses hypothetical Nazi America to make a comment on the Modern Actual USA, alluding to some of the same stuff youâve mentioned. Everyone is prepared to look the other way if they think that theyâre alright, Jack. The problem is that the rules apply to everybody; as one of the Nazi higher ups discovers later in the show - and the state is brutal.
Didnât really get many answers on what is going on. If I had to guess, Iâd say that it isnât a mutually exclusive universe. My money is on ours and theirs co-existing (in their universe, if you get what I mean), but itâs all a bit LOST when it comes to doling out hard and fast answers. The last scene couldnât be more fucking LOST if it tried.
Donât get me started on Lost, when they had the 10 year anniversary and the complete series was available to download on Sky Box Sets I did just that, trouble is they expired on the 11th Feb and I only discovered them after Christmas. I had to compress 5 1/2 seasons into 1 months viewing, not so easy chez Btripz I can tell you!!
And what did I get for my dedication, apart from plenty of Elizabeth Mitchell, a fucking cop out at the end. A hurried and, frankly, ridiculous ending that beared no resemblance to what started in series 1. Fuck them and fuck JJ Abrahms (although he can be forgiven because of Fringe, except the shit 5th season).
Mind you I caught the tail end of the Wedding Ringer on Sky Movies last night, they were all having a party on a plane, being very debaucherous, the last shot is of Jorge Garcia saying âI donât have a good feeling about this flightâ, maid I LOLs
I have watched one episode of Mr Robot, which focuses on a brilliant hacker that might just have some problems with reality. The show deliberately evokes a Fight Club feel, and with the deficiencies our anti-hero has in real life, much of the more exciting stuff could really be coming out of his own head, a fact that he himself mentions in his capacity as narrator.
With very few exceptions, I donât like Computers In Films or TV. I work in the industry, so dumb shit irks me, and there is a lot of it in computer movies. Hugh Jackman is perhaps the best example.
This is alright. If I had to describe it in terms of other things, itâs like a hacker version of Dexter (he really has no scruples about privacy) and a strong hint of Fight Club, which Iâm hoping is misdirection.
Christian Slater is in it, essentially playing a forty something version of Hardcore Harry, the character he played in Pump Up The Volume. Whether heâs actually real or not, I just donât know. Interesting show.
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Iâve seen that Mr. Robot show, pap. It reminded me of Lost.
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