Mrs C_S bought me the first 3 books of The Expanse for Bâday (just before Xmas) as weâd watched the 6x series on tâtelly box (weekly episodes) a while back when it first came out
Just finished The Leviathan Awakes (#1 in series)
Just found Prime had all series so am watching 1st episode again- cracking stuff to revisit.
After Marvel egotistically thought they ould do better than Netflx, we have had to endure a steady stream of dross from MCU often with The Emperorâs New clothes" comments attached.
But finally proper Marvel TV looks to be back
I finished Creature Commandos. Itâs well worth a watch, especially if you like stuff like Invincible. Itâs an excellent show - with a lot of twists and turns. The character back stories are as great as they are heartbreaking.
The character of the Frankenstein monster is handled particularly well. A childlike mind piloting a body of considerable strength. His flashback episode is disturbing.
Silo S2
Then.
OMG
Donât tell me, someone turns the lights on. 
If only
As Mrs P_F said.
Wow this is very DarkâŚ
I saw the new Captain America film on opening night. My youngest was very proud of me because I went knowing it had lukewarm reviews. I didnât mind it, but the missus gave me an earful in the car over the quality of the fayre on offer. She doesnât normally moan and I am not sure sheâs wrong.
The biggest problem with this film is that itâs a sequel to a lot of other Marvel things that in most cases, it doesnât really have a relationship with.
The Falcon and the Winter Solider is relevant, but they spend half the film having Sam doing the âIâm not worthyâ thing, again, even though it was done to death in that show. Oddly enough, the film looks a lot like that show.
The other two big influences on this film are The Incredible Hulk, where this movie bizarrely chooses to pick most of its characters from, and The Eternals, which hasnât really been mentioned much since release, save for a âWhat Ifâ episode or two.
It doesnât really do a service to either film. I get the feeling that they didnât have a Captain America plot, knew that Harrison Ford was keen to step into the MCU (and his old pal William Hurtâs role) so they did this.
Itâs not terrible, but it really is a profiligate use of talent, story-lines and goodwill.
The Netflux Marvel TV SHOWS APART FROM ifon Fist were gritty and dealt with life
Charlie Cox was superb as Daredevil.
Well, finly Feige has brought it back. This is real Marvel with real actors and real scripts
Daredevil is Born Again.
Marvellous
Once upon a time, I refused out of principle to ever watch any Marvel TV shit. Then came lockdown and Netflix.
I started with Jessica Jones and liked it a lot, simple, tight, gritty set around a small neighbourhood in New York. She didnât wear a Cape so it wasnât shit.
Then came Daredevil. It was good, but the reason it was good was Charlie Cox who owned the role. Other shows came and went, but Matt Murdoch was a character the MCU wanted back.
Stubbornly Kevin Beige went in other directions producing some utter shit with plastic actors (outside the Avengers story.
But then Matt reappeared - in a much loved Spiderman cameo, then something I havenât bothered to watch.
And now Daredevil is born again. It is rebooted if you like for the new MCU and the difference between this and Netflix? Darker, and Charlie Cox is even better - tormented if you like.
THIS is what Marvel should have been making for the past 6 years or so. Stories with Characters we get to care for not some damned Ant. Even the beige character/actors like Kingpin have more to t hem than even Agatha.
Now bring the others back and stop producing Beige plastic shit. This is a GOOD SHOW
Charlie Cox is superb
Apple Plus
The Gorge
Supposed to be shit
Actually wasnât thanks to Anna Taylor Joy (and to a lesser extent Miles Teller)
It is not a Franchise
It is a new premise
It is a light SciFi Horror
It really was not shit, and a good time filler
(Way better than Brentford v Villa & Everton Wolves at least)
watched Brave New World the night after The Gorge. I cc
an dismiss the Gorge by saying âgood to see Groot making a comebackâ
I can dismiss the Marvel offer with meh.
In the 1st the tight set, script and actors have room to develop and you end up feeling some interest in their characters. MU is some geezer in the dark has the hump. I found myself distanced from it simply not caring.
MCU spent more Gorge were wiser.
I have a film set I can sell to Kevin Feige (I need a pension)
And why waste Bucky.
It is not good, it is an arrogant waste of money on a now outdated money grabbing pig trough.
t needs you to care about the stories and the characters
What a waste of money
I watched it it didnât need that budget or CGI Scale -
I would have been annoyed if I paid to watch it
I found myself thinking of the plot holes in Gorge not the CCGI Pixelation errors
I was not a huge fan of The Wheel of Time when it started. Found it a bit slow tbh.
But I stuck with it and it became a story.
Season 2 became a story, and tbh held my attention better than game of drones (sic) or power rings did, but it still hadnât got me saying Wow.
Then the final S2 episode dropped and, OK yeah.
But that seemed like decades ago, so when I saw S3 had dropped I did a fast forward through S2 to remind myself.
So tonight was S3 night.
20 minutes in and already it has repaid my faith and perseverance
This is fucking good shit.
So say the critics.
Amazon Prime.
Iâm enjoyed WoT too.
Really should finish the books some time.
I mentioned I am watching The X Files from the beginning.
There is so much that series gave us, and so many superb guest writers/stars.
For me, I get the big story now, weekly TV in the noughties wasnât conducive to my work life balance back then.
So my surprise is Season 8.
No Mulder.
He worked from home much of S7 tbh and in S8 is replaced by Robert Patrick - yep old Terminator 2 himself.
He is a damn fine actor, S8 has some excellent episodes but the Chemistry is missing.
Itâs watchable, thereâs a couple of memorable episodes and then there is Ep9
Salvage
Agent Duggart and Scully.
A beautiful irony in X Files fashion - nightime & raining who are investigating a Dead Man infected by Smart Metals.
Yep Terminator 2 plays a Cop chasing a âTerminatorâ.
Very clever.
(William Gibson, Tom Maddox, Stephen King and many more wrote episodes)
We are six episodes into daredevil born again and I think Iâm loving it.
The show has done well to focus on a few main characters. It really honestly in on Matt Murdock the lawyer, Wilson Fisk as the elected mayor of New York.
They have a heat style conversation in first episode where both agree not to embrace their alter egos.
As the season progresses both are having increasing difficulty in staying within the newly established lanes.
As a child I never thought I would see the day where I would think that something has to many ninjas. However that was the precise problem with the second season of daredevil, leaving it to be a rather unfocused mess.
Third season but this is even more focused on that, while still maintaining the complexity of a huge city like New York.
I will not go into any specific spoilers but I will say that Born Again is a very impressive resurrection.
Matt & Wilson are superbly written and acted.
It is not popcorn TV it needs to be watched.
Just shows what MCU could have done on some other stuff.
Meanwhile Jean Luc is gonna be an Avenger 
Fantastic Four and X Men join the canon along with the newbie Thunderbolts
Mickey 17
The marketing shit I saw said Robert Pattinson. Astronaut. Fying, Reprinted.
It may have said more but thd picture was some cheap Korean movie, Saturn V rocket going to Jupiter or something
Nope. It is a clever film. There are so many Easter Egg type nudges in it without ever losing itâs own identity.
You could say the film is a marvellous portrayal of the Donald Trump style of leadership. Or Avatar. Or a million other B Movies Star Trek episodes (Tardigrades)
I think it was cringe worthy and a cult classic and legendary for Mark Ruffalo being Trump,
This was high class shit. Clever yet simple
Still in cinemas
Oh helloâŚ
October is booked up then
With a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, might even top Daft Punk 
And itâs still got Jeff Bridges in itâŚ
Oh the days of beating the master computer with my frisbee in the Arcades on Boscombe pierâŚ