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charlest wrote: I tend to agree. I don't mind Holden much in the books but really dislike the actor in the show. Naomi is the only character I feel they really cast perfectly.
So I started watching over from the beginning as too much time had passed since I watched season one. There is a particular scene in season one where the UN secretary lady visits Holden's mother. In that scene it comes to light that Holden was basically raised by a cult as the chosen one. In light of that revelation much of his behavior and weirdness makes a ton of sense.
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Disgustipater wrote: I’ve found Season 4 (and to some extent Season 3) of The Good Place to be boring. I realize that the direction it has taken is basically the only way for it to end, I just don’t care about most of it.
It is definitely time for The Good Place to end. I still find the cast to be enjoyable and effortlessly charming, but the show isn't funny anymore. The same thing happened to Silicon Valley in its last season. It's all plot, no character. It's too bad, because this was a great show early on.
Speaking of shows not being funny, I watched the pilot episode of Avenue 5 on HBO. Hard to believe this show is by the same guy who created the always hilarious Veep.
All these high-concept comedies seem to be forgetting the "comedy" part.
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So I am re-watching Star Trek on Amazon Prime. The original series. As a kid, my mom and I started watching while season 3 was originally airing. The syndicated re-runs were the background noise of my youth, always available, but less exciting with each repeat viewing. I'm fairly certain that I saw every episode several times during the '70s. Then I went decades without watching the original series. So I am trying to watch with fresh eyes, to appreciate again what was good, and to recognize with clear eyes what was bad about the show.
It's a bit of a revelation to finally watch these episodes in order. I don't know if the syndicated re-runs were shown out of order, or I just viewed them on such a random basis that I never saw them in order. Either way, it's interesting to see the early episodes in order and see what changed. For example, it took a few episodes before they settled on certain uniform colors. Spock and Uhuru originally wore gold, Scotty had a light brown shirt, and Sulu wore blue. There was no Ensign Checkov early on, but there was this skinny white guy with huge eyes who was called Mr. Farrell. But this is superficial stuff.
The bigger surprise is that the first few episodes are all quite good. Shatner is charismatic without becoming boorish. The pacing of the stories is good, and there is a decent amount of action. Some interesting ideas are raised, and the characters are interesting. I even noticed that Richard Matheson wrote one of these early episodes, and his writing has also been the basis for more than a few Hollywood movies. But the episode Naked Time was a disappointment. It's a pretty good episode early on, but drags in the final stretch and then resorts to the invention of time travel to undo everything that went wrong in the episode. And time travel was so easy that they should logically use it for nearly every episode after this one, but of course it was just a one-off gimmick that wasn't allowed to change the setting. The next episode, The Enemy Within, features some hammy Shatner acting, but it's reasonably appropriate for the story.
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I've finished Babylon Berlin which was my wife-not-home show and need a new one.
She's been watching Call The Midwife when I'm not there which ain't exactly science fiction, but damn it looks intense. I may start that next if I can't find a space ship to sign on to.
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We're two episodes into The Expanse season 4 and... ehhh. I dunno, man. As I noted in my rather exclamatory thread, we went from complex socio-economic, political struggle to Star Trek-level grand events in a couple episodes and now we're doing Lost in Space. I could be watching the actual Lost in Space second season, if I wanted that. Bobbie and Amos are the only real saving graces of the show right now and while I sympathize with Naomi's outlook on many things, I really wish she could express something other than angst. Safe to say that I'm losing interest rapidly.
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