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Currently watching The Apprentice: ONE Championship cause I'm a tragic ONE superfan.
And re-watching FIREFLY, because 20th anniversary. And because its brilliant. And because I'm a browncoat.
My daughter and I are going to start All Of Us Are Dead as well.
After your recommendation, I am 2.5 episodes into this show on Tubitv. It's nice to see the guy visiting brick and mortar comic and collector shops, which provides an element of surprise because I certainly just tend to search using the same keywords when looking to buy online. With physical shops, you're presented with stuff you're not looking for but might still appeal to you. Which reminds me i need to use my X'mas present $50 Minotaur voucher. :DQuote:
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I've been watching the Amazing Race Australia and quite enjoying it.
I was heavily into the US Amazing race when it first aired, but got tired of the formula after about the 6th season. lol. This one seems fun enough and being based in Australia has helped improve the enjoyment.
I also think it has sparked a bit of homesickness in me (after 7 years of being overseas).
Oh finished the second season of Discovery as well, which left me wondering a few things, which it would seem I am not the only one wondering. I ended up googling some of my queries and many people thought the same thing.
Like at the end, the big bad get defeated, but they still continue with the time travel plan. Why? The big bad is on the time travel-able ship, but they proceed to travel to the future regardless. Why? The time travel suit can be made in the middle of a battle for life and limb quite easily. Why/how? The captain of the ship and an (now ex) Admiral go to disarm an armed photon torpedo's. Surely there are better qualified people for such a risky job. Like, Oh I don't know, someone who specialises in the ships weapon systems. The sub-captain's Sister and people suddenly being able to fly spaceships and stuff. WHa?
Plus some of the actors/Characters were just annoying. Like the engineer lady they picked up from some wrecked place, she's meant to be the grizzled veteran type character, and is, but is not engaging at all. And the genius alien princess character is irritating as all heck. For a drama based in space, there just weren't any characters I really cared about at all, mainly becuase they are either annoying, or have had no development.
I'm fine with the occasional suspension of belief, but this second season of Star Trek Discovery required a few too many of them too close together to allow me to enjoy it.
Pick up your game writers of this show!
(Goes off to watch season 3 hoping its better anyway)
Channel 10 showed the first two seasons of Discovery, which was probably a good "ending" if I don't get to see any more episodes... because (spoilers) from what I read, the "where" that they go to at the end of season two, they are not supposed to come back (at least, that's what we are told at the end of that episode), so there is no more interaction with the known universe of Star Trek, and for me it was the familiarity of the existing universe concepts that made it more interesting.
Without too many spoilers, one of the challenges of season one and two of Discovery (and Enterprise back in the day) was it was a prequel but everything, including the NCC-1701 Enterprise before Kirk commanded it, was more advanced/futuristic than any previous series (including those set 100 years later) had been. Season three ramps this up considerably but it makes more sense of the predicament Discover finds itself in and the unfamiliarity of existing concepts, what and why things have changed, makes them interesting than a prequel that couldn't really change anything (and spent Season 2 trying to reset the Klingons to something more familiar).
It's a very different kind of show in season three but I fear some of your concerns Tets will continue. You might struggle a bit with some of the new cast. And you don't like Jett Reno? She's one of the best additions. You might also have missed the Short Trek that introduced the alien princess character? At least the space battle at the end of season two was pretty epic stuff although the number of fighter craft available...
One thing that was marginally better in season three was there was a little more focus on the rest of the bridge crew (who aren't Saru, Burnham and Tilly), I can still barely name any of them but I could describe each of them which is better than I could do at the end of season 1!
Ah, I did indeed miss the Short Trek with the Alien princess. That explains my confusion about that character. I just assumed she appeared earlier in the season and was another forgettable character.Quote:
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Jett Reno, yes, that's the one. When she first showed up, I thought I would like her, but the scenes where's she been just haven't really done it for me. Mind you I found season 2 very lacking in character exposition. So maybe I will find it a tad more bearable.
The prequel issues I also thought about too. I rather enjoyed Enterprise, but it was blindingly obvious the tech and stuff looked more advanced than TOS. A quick google though tells me that apparently the Enterprise ship was built before Discovery, so that could make some sense in a way.
As season 2 came to a close, I thought that it was a reasonable explanation as to why there are/were no other ships with spore drives in later series.
I also rather like the design of the Discovery ship.
Watching Season 2 of ST: Picard.
So far enjoying it more than S1. And more than Discovery.
Watched both seasons of The Boys while in my COVID isolation. Holy cow.
I've never read the comics, but I really enjoyed this series. It's much like Watchmen, only updated for the current age of social media (while Watchmen is set during the Cold War). Another difference between Watchmen and the Boys is that the Watchmen were run by the government, whereas in the Boys the supers are run by something worse than a corrupt paranoid government - an extremely greedy private mega rich corporation.
Highly recommended.
This show is rated R18+ for a jolly good reason too. And I don't mean like Logan or Deadpool MA15+, I mean proper R rating. This show is absolutely not suitable for minors.
great show. Can't wait for season 3. Homelander is played by a Kiwi as well. I thought he brought the character to life very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
As is William Butcher. :) There must be some mad on the set moments where the two actors would've been yapping at each other in their native NZ accents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
Also, was it just me or did Karl Urban's Cockney accent occasionally slip? I thought I could hear a touch of his NZ accent slipping through on occasions. Which is odd, because he used the same Cockney accent for Skurge in Thor Ragnarok. Although he had far less screen time as a minor character in a movie as opposed to a main character in an ongoing TV series, so perhaps there was just more moments to notice these slips?
But even worse was Abraham Lim's Japanese. I struggled to understand him at times and had to rely on the English subtitles. :eek: He seemed to be making an effort to act in Japanese but just couldn't stick the landing. I don't mind that they didn't use a Japanese actor, but at least hire someone who can speak Japanese if his character is meant to be a speaker of that language. Oddly enough, the actress who played his sister (Karen Fukuhara) can speak Japanese but her character is a mute! :D Reminds me of the Black Widow movie where all these non-Russian actors and actresses are speaking with fake Russian accents, and the only actress who can actually speak Russian (Olga Kurylenko) plays a mute (Taskmaster). :D
The funny thing for me is that the only other role that I've known Karen Fukuhara for is Glimmer from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power... so seeing her play the bad-sparse Miyashiro Kimiko was weird. Oh wait... apparently she was in Suicide Squad, but uh... I honestly remember nothing about that movie. :p
Well, MAFS is over for another year.
If anyone else has any recommendations for car crash trash TV, drop me a line.
I taped an episode of The Goldbergs the other day and watched it today, and it was a new episode for us here (I looked it up and it was the first episode of the 9th season - I didn't realise it had been around that long already... if they complete another season, they would have lasted longer than the decade that they are celebrating).
Anyway, it was a sad episode, as it was the first one filmed without the grandfather (George Segal died a year ago from complications from surgery, which I didn't know or didn't remember, so it was very sad for me to watch as well, as I really liked him in Goldbergs in the last decade and Just Shoot Me from the previous decade).
I think this will probably be the last season of Goldbergs anyway, because while I was reading up about George Segal, I read that the actor who plays the father in the show was let go mid-season due to personality clashes with most of the cast and crew, and since this show is based on Adam's life, they won't kill off the character or send him away, and it will be very difficult to have a show that centres on every member of a family then not include one member who is supposed to be living there.
It is probably best to end it now anyway, as it has covered just about everything significantly 80s already... and dragging out the show into a regular drama/sitcom no longer makes it special to the theme of the 80s (the whole point of the show in the first place).
I watched the most recent episodes for Picard season 2, and Halo. Currently watching these series, latest episodes seem to pick things up a bit. Last week's episodes were both not quite there, I found them boring, or maybe I just wasn't in the mood. The Wheel of Time series, I could not get into, always found myself fast forwarding through scenes. I have been binge watching Star Trek series, and Stargate series, all through my laptop with Amazon Prime video.
Still struggling along with Picard S2. Started out ok, but its kinda faltering a bit IMO.
Halo started out promising, but damn its slow going. Think I was expecting more action and less drama. Visually nice tho.
Also watching Moon Knight. Not going to recommend this to anyone.
Is anyone going to watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds? Think I might give it a try.
Picard season 2 finale, was good to finish. Finally some things wrapped up so we can move on, actually disappointing they didn't arrive to the ending sooner, but I guess time was needed for the individual characters and relationships. I think I enjoyed season 1 a lot more. I watched Strange New Worlds, the first episode reminds me of the older Star Trek series and for me this is a good thing. I tried watching Discovery, just couldn't like it, an I compare this with Stargate Universe which also didn't hold my attention.
Halo episode 7, not liking the subplot. It will likely play a role in the bigger story, but I still don't care lol.
Stranger things 4. It broke netflix lol.
Some very nice emotional moments like the kate bush song moment, dealing with the loss of someone. It explains a lot with what has been happening over the seasons. Some situations are far fetched like the Russian prison escape.
What will happen in the next and final season?
Over all a good season. I like this show :)
No moon knight? :( at least I cant watch it any wayQuote:
Originally Posted by klystron
Moon Knight was sick! I have no problem recommending it, it's bat shit crazy as it should be given the characters DID condition. Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke were in top form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
Yeah, I agree with Xman, I rather enjoyed MoonKnight. Thought it was all right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
Some bits seems kinda silly, but the kinda stupid bits were not enough to stop it being an enjoyable series. Would watch again.
Really enjoyed The Terminal List (Amazon).
Nothing groundbreaking or revolutionary. Just a good, solid, entertaining show with a nice balance of action, drama, and emotion.
I'm so glad the tv show "Hunted" is over...
I only watched parts of some episodes, but it was a bit disturbing how easily someone could be tracked (if the show was real). It felt like some of it would have had to be faked just for entertainment (being able to access phones and CCTV cameras without a warrant... and broadcasting the footage publicly).
One of the reasons why I think it was fake (or at least some of it), is that the Hunters in HQ wore the same clothes for 21 days. It suggests that those scenes were filmed all at once, to a script (or based on what was actually being done, but that couldn't legally be publicly shown).
Started watching the Witcher Season 2, but eeeeh, it's not quite gripping me. The first season was a little hard to follow with the jumping around chronologically, but I managed to make my way through, but so far this second season.... I dunno, it's just not doing it for me.
The boys season 3 though, DANG. Only watched the first two episodes so far, but I like it. Very enjoyable and creepy.
Same, season 2 of Witcher I couldnt get into so took me a while to watch it all.
Hating missing out on the Boys, enjoyed S1-2
Damn Channel ten is really pushing their new show "Brain Esteddford" - they must have paid Shaun Mccallif a lot of money (it is kinda weird having a 2-3 minute overlap with his ABC program, as they are both new programs, meaning that he must be currently working for both networks at the same time).
They keep repeating it 4-5 times in the week... the first week they replaced a first-run program the following night, in addition to the later repeats over the next few days.
And I don't quite get who the show is aimed at, because it is a quiz show with year 11 students, but I can't image that there would be too many high school aged students out there wanting to sit through an hour of school-level questions. Kids younger won't get the questions, and adults older may find the questions too much like a school exam and bring back the bad memories of being at school.
Since it is being repeated so many times during the week, I end up sitting through segments of it, and I like a lot of the questions subjects... except the language ones, as they don't really give us (the audience) something learn-able, as most questions are about translating words that aren't even in our daily lives.
Then there is the slap-stick humour, that kinda wastes Shaun's talent, as he seems to be playing to the contestants more than the audience, so much of what he does is eye-rolling, rather than amusingly funny.
Between this and the constant commercials of their latest reality show in EVERY commercial break (I am not kidding or exaggerating here - in the last two weeks I have been able to channel surf between the four Network 10 channels during a commercial break and sometimes each one will start a commercial break within seconds of each other with the same "Masked Singer" advertisement). It is so bad that they don't even advertise any of their recent first-run movies... it's no wonder Network 10 has been a financial mess and is never competitive in the ratings, as they put all their advertising space into one or two of their in-house programs, and completely ignore all of their imported programming which then fails to attract viewers. A few weeks ago they had premiere screenings of the latest Rambo movie and "Fallen" movie (Angel is Fallen), and I had no idea they were on until after they had started... and yet Nine and Seven are advertising their first-run movies up to a week in advance... and even their re-runs get a good amount of advertising, like Seven plugging Harry Potter movies every week.
(that was really annoying - those two previous posts of mine had no links or any formatting... it was all plain text, and yet, I couldn't post it all into one post without getting the 403 forbidden screen)
Have seen the trailer for The Rings Of Power and looking at the kid with the wraith sword, I'm willing to wager that's Khamul the Easterling.
This was unexpected, so I missed the first two episodes - the new Star Trek Prodigy animated show is screening weekdays on channel 12 (Bold) at around 5pm. There are only 10 episodes so far released on Paramount+ so it is likely to only last until the end of next week.
And I noticed last week, that the ABC channel 22 is playing the British version of Ghosts, while Channel 10 is playing the US version (it is like The Office and some other TV shows, in that an American TV studio preferred to copy a British show, instead of just playing the British show). After watching several episodes of the US version, it was interesting to then find and watch the British version, and see how it was interpreted, and what was modified from the British version to make it more American.
I've been watching Rings of Power and I must say that I'm really enjoying it. :)
The scene where we first see the Island Kingdom of Númenor sent happy chills down my spine, and I really love the theme music for Númenor. When comparing it with the score for The Argonath in The Fellowship of the Ring, I can hear the first few chords being repeated in theme of Númenor, particularly when we hear the choir singing in Quenya Elvish:
Et Eärello (Out of the Great Sea)
Endorenna utúlien (to Middle-Earth I am come)
Sinome maruvan (in this place I will abide)
ar Hildinyar (and my heirs)
The theme of Númenor has no words, but sounds like a more uplifting and epic version of the theme of The Argonath, which thematically makes sense as we are seeing Númenor in its prime, whereas the Argonath are the long abandoned and ruined remains of what used to be the symbol of the power of Númenor. The two giant statues of Isildur and his brother Anárion (who is mentioned in Rings of Power but has yet to be seen). As such, the theme of The Argonath has a more melancholy tone, shifting to one of dread as the choir sings, "tenn' Ambar-metta" (unto the ending of the world), and this is indeed the main more forboding theme for The Lord of the Rings itself (and is heard in other scenes such as the beginning of the Prologue etc.).
"Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old, my kin." - Aragorn (The Fellowship of the Ring)
But I think it's cool to hear a very different tone used in Rings of Power, particularly for the theme of Númenor. This is the Second Age of Middle Earth; three millennia before the Third Age which is when the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings happens. It is supposed to be a new golden age after the defeat of Morgoth and Sauron, but of course, there is a looming darkness as we know that Sauron will return, disguised as the Elf Annatar where he gift the rulers of Middle Earth with the Rings of Power (while secretly forging the One Ring).
Who is Meteor-Man?
He's clearly a Maiar, but beyond that there's not enough to conclude who he really is. I initially thought that he was Gandalf, but now I'm more incline to think that he might be one of the more sinister Maiar; possibly Saruman? Some people have speculated that he may even be a Balrog, but there are no records of Balrogs ever existing in the Second Age... and Balrogs are creatures that are too significant that their existence would not be recorded. But perhaps with some clever writing, he could be a Balrog and perhaps some event would happen where, for some reason, his existence isn't recorded for future generations to know of (it may frustrate some Tolkien purists though). I think it's too early for him to be Durin's Bane, the Balrog who battles Gandalf in Moria.
Some clues that he may be a malevolent Maiar include:
* His flames do not burn. Suggesting that he has some inherent evil that even makes fire cool; reminiscent to how the One Ring was resistant to heat, such as when Gandalf threw it into Bilbo's fireplace to reveal the text, but then placed it in Frodo's hand revealing that it was still cool to touch.
* The fireflies dying. Gandalf interacts with animals such as moths, but never kills them.
* Meteor-Man being quick to anger, and the way that his surroundings became dark is similar to how Gandalf looked when he showed a sliver of darkness to Frodo, warning him to keep the One Ring away from him.
Started watching She-Hulk, as I am a bit of a fan of all things Hulky. Up to about episode 3.
It's nice to see RuffaHulk in there, but I am not too sure what the show wants to be overall. It seems to have moments of 4th wall breakiness and the occasional moment of self awareness. Is it a comedy? There are comedic aspects, but I feel like the writing isn't quite good enough to pull it off properly. It's kind of interesting watching the cameo characters in the law section, Wong needs to have his own show I think, his bit I found very amusing and character appropriate.
It's all right, and I'll keep watching to see how it goes, but I just wish these Marvel shows had a bit more to grip you at the start. They seem to rely a lot on people pushing through because its "part of the Marvel cinematic universe" instead of actually having a good story and characters to make you want to watch it because it's interesting.
I felt similar about when I watched Ms. Marvel.
FOr anyone keeping up, I've given up on the third season of Discovery. I just don't care for many of the characters and I'd rather watch something more enjoyable.
So I started Obi Wan. Up to ep 2 and I like it, nice simple plot point and not excessively convoluted and overwhelming with Star Wars terms and bla bla. Simple, enjoyable scifi fun.
I really like Border Security Australia on 7+
In particular Season 16 Episode 9 around 15 minutes in.
People that used to go to the old Parramatta Fair meet ups might recognise someone on that episode 😉