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    I just watched a series called "Action Figure Adventure" on tubi. Quite enjoyable and something a little different. A little bit of Transformers stuff including a vintage G1 Prime and Megatron featuring.

    Was a good little trip down memory lane seeing all these toys from my youth, since I only pay attention to Transformers myself. It did make me want to get more into M.A.S.K again, even though it hardly featured in the series!

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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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kranix View Post
    I just watched a series called "Action Figure Adventure" on tubi. Quite enjoyable and something a little different. A little bit of Transformers stuff including a vintage G1 Prime and Megatron featuring.

    Was a good little trip down memory lane seeing all these toys from my youth, since I only pay attention to Transformers myself. It did make me want to get more into M.A.S.K again, even though it hardly featured in the series!
    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.

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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)

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    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.

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    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot View Post
    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.

    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.

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    Watching Season 2 of ST: Picard.
    So far enjoying it more than S1. And more than Discovery.
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    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.

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