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02 Jul 2024 10:33 #342574 by cdennett

Shellhead wrote: I also watched the diabolical cartoon segments for The Boys, but found them mostly disappointing and had to nope out of the one featuring a sentient piece of poop.



Mr. Hankey in the Boys universe would actually be pretty great...
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03 Jul 2024 08:50 #342576 by hotseatgames
I've finished season 3 of The Bear, and while it was good, it was also a far cry from season 2. There are moments of greatness; usually a bit or two per episode, with episodes 5 and 6 standing out as the high points of the season.

I think the biggest issue is that seasons 1 and 2 had a direction, something they were working toward, and this season... doesn't. The term "Rudderless" comes to mind.

Warning: Spoiler!


Also, put Uncle Cicero in every episode. He steals every scene.

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11 Jul 2024 20:31 - 11 Jul 2024 20:34 #342601 by Cranberries
I'm rewatching The West Wing for about the fifth time, as comfort tv, except it feels very different to me now. Jed Bartlett and most of the staff seem insufferably smug, with the mandatory moments of kindness. The sentimental, crescendo-ing sound track feels heavy and sometimes maudlin. Really, if I weren't liberal, I would see most of the cast as terrible, elitist people who are as convinced of their virtue and ability to plan for the future as Stalin was. Donna is pure, as is Charlie and Mrs. Landingham. The thing is, they are so charismatic that I also love the characters, although I can no longer tolerate Jed and his wife. The pomposity, the comfort with and desire for power. I should read the Robert Caro series on Lyndon B. Johnson and rewatch this. That would be an interesting exercise. I realize this is probably a cold take, and that I am a little naive.

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12 Jul 2024 09:40 #342602 by Shellhead
I'm a liberal and I can't stand Aaron Sorkin's writing.
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12 Jul 2024 10:58 #342603 by dysjunct
Watched the Netflix show SUPACELL which is basically Heroes -- normal people get powers -- but the twist is that it's set in black British subculture, which I basically know fuck all about. This made it pretty compelling to a standard-issue white bread middle American. The characters are well-written and the whole arc is six one-hour episodes, so it doesn't drag. Wraps things up while leaving a big hook for a second season.
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15 Jul 2024 11:38 #342618 by DarthJoJo
Season three of Warrior is a lot weaker. The cast has doubled with everyone forced into a romantic pairing whether there’s chemistry or not and taking screen time away from Ah Sahm. The first worked as well as it did because Andrew Koji could carry being the fulcrum for near every story. Now it’s just so diffused.

Lee got it the worst. He liked a black woman once. Let’s set him up with the only other black woman on the show despite the circumstance of their first meeting.

Production design and fights are still strong enough to keep me going, but I’m not giving my full attention until someone gets kicked.
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15 Jul 2024 14:43 #342620 by hotseatgames
Yeah that last season was not great. Side note, the Irish cop is on House of the Dragon. His role seems quite unimportant, as do most of the roles on that show.
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21 Jul 2024 11:55 #342635 by Cranberries

Cranberries wrote: I'm rewatching The West Wing for about the fifth time, as comfort tv, except it feels very different to me now. Jed Bartlett and most of the staff seem insufferably smug, with the mandatory moments of kindness. The sentimental, crescendo-ing sound track feels heavy and sometimes maudlin. Really, if I weren't liberal, I would see most of the cast as terrible, elitist people who are as convinced of their virtue and ability to plan for the future as Stalin was. Donna is pure, as is Charlie and Mrs. Landingham. The thing is, they are so charismatic that I also love the characters, although I can no longer tolerate Jed and his wife. The pomposity, the comfort with and desire for power. I should read the Robert Caro series on Lyndon B. Johnson and rewatch this. That would be an interesting exercise. I realize this is probably a cold take, and that I am a little naive.


Aaron Sorkin says if he were scripting Biden stepping down, he would have the democrats nominate Mitt Romney.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden...ng-aaron-sorkin.html

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21 Jul 2024 20:55 #342637 by jason10mm
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Aaron Sorkin says if he were scripting Biden stepping down, he would have the democrats nominate Mitt Romney.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden...ng-aaron-sorkin.html [/quote]

Yeah, I'd buy that for a dollar.

Sounds like the Democrats will pick the second worst possible candidate besides Hillary Clinton though, go figure.

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22 Jul 2024 09:00 #342639 by hotseatgames
House of the Dragon continues to be boring as fuck. I'm the idiot for continuing to watch it. At least the dragons themselves have been fucking shit up lately.
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22 Jul 2024 11:02 #342643 by Joebot

hotseatgames wrote: House of the Dragon continues to be boring as fuck. I'm the idiot for continuing to watch it. At least the dragons themselves have been fucking shit up lately.


I read a comment referring to it as House of the Draggin' which feels right.

I'm so over Daemon and his visions. That is one of the dumbest narrative decisions I've seen in years. They took their best, most dynamic character and stuck him on the shelf for the entire season?! Daemon is now the Bran of HotD. When the show cuts over to him, I let out an audible groan of boredom.
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22 Jul 2024 12:38 #342646 by jason10mm
Agreed. I guess they didn't have the time or budget for some of the battles (2 years though, seems like they coulda done more) but the decision to pop in on every character EACH episode, and introduce Hugh, Ulf, and Addam/Alyn so early, was an odd choice. I think we are seeing the lack of Michael Sopochnick this season and a general lack of "each episode must POP" directive in favor of a more languid show.

All the more frustrating because I could plot out 8 eps with a lot more pizazz and cliffhangers. And depending on where they actually want to end this story (only 1 more season left, I think, maybe 2?) there is SO MUCH to get through that it's odd they are spending so much time on this prelim stuff
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24 Jul 2024 14:10 #342651 by Joebot

jason10mm wrote: Agreed. I guess they didn't have the time or budget for some of the battles (2 years though, seems like they coulda done more) but the decision to pop in on every character EACH episode, and introduce Hugh, Ulf, and Addam/Alyn so early, was an odd choice. I think we are seeing the lack of Michael Sopochnick this season and a general lack of "each episode must POP" directive in favor of a more languid show.

All the more frustrating because I could plot out 8 eps with a lot more pizazz and cliffhangers. And depending on where they actually want to end this story (only 1 more season left, I think, maybe 2?) there is SO MUCH to get through that it's odd they are spending so much time on this prelim stuff


I felt like season 1 was 7 episodes of throat-clearing, followed by 3 episodes that actually started telling the story they wanted to tell. I'm wondering if season 2 is going to follow a similar pattern. Although with only 8 episodes this season, that would mean the good stuff needs to start happening, like, now.

I started reading the Westeros fake history book, "Blood and Fire." It's hilarious to me how far George Martin has crawled up his own ass with this stuff. He's clearly way more invested in what King Whoever Targaryen was doing 200 years prior, than he is in writing book 6. Filling in every possible nook and cranny of the lore has taken over writing narrative fiction. Regardless, it's kind of interesting to read, although it's a bit dry.
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25 Jul 2024 15:08 #342660 by Jackwraith
Several years ago (and, yet, still several years after Dance of Dragons was published), I picked up the coffee table book, The World of Ice and Fire. It was written by GRRM and the two people that operate Westeros.org and is a pretty comprehensive look at the history of the whole setting, from Year 0 up to current times. It was a solid long-term look, a lot of which I already knew from reading the novels, and some that I didn't that was cool to explore.

Then he released Fire and Blood and I was like: "Well, if we can't get a book (meaning novel) about current times, at least we can get one about older times." And, yet, as you say, it's not a novel. It's another detailed history, just like the one I'd read in The World of Ice and Fire, but even more detailed because it focuses on the history of the Targaryens. You know who's also a central player in the history of the whole Westerosi world? The Targaryens. I got 50 pages into Fire and Blood and put it down because I was rereading the same material I'd read in the other book. I wanted a story and they were just selling me an updated version of the Britannica.

So, yeah. I'm off the train. I don't really care if he ever finishes Winds or Time of Summer or whatever it's supposed to be called. It's not a work of novels anymore. It's not a story. It's an RPG world and a massive collection of sourcebooks where you can make your own stories because he's not interested in writing them anymore. And if people want that, hey, have at it. But I'm done. The fact that House of the Dragon was a waste of time was just further reinforcement of that.
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25 Jul 2024 15:26 #342661 by n815e
And here I am, still enjoying it.

LOL
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