The TV and Streaming Thread: Series 5

[Keyrock]

I do love me some Ancient Aliens. I find the show highly entertaining, and while I find their arguments interesting and I like to keep an open mind, I don't consider their evidence particularly conclusive.

I do agree with the show that the mainstream view on the dawn of civilization is wrong. My personal view is that civilization started MUCH earlier than we've generally been taught and that ancient man was a lot smarter than we generally give them credit for. I'm not convinced that these megalithic structures were built by and/or with the help of aliens, what I do believe is that the people that built them were a lot more advanced than we generally believe.

[kanisatha]

And early man would've had plenty of reason and incentive to build these crazy things, because if I were living thousands of years ago I swear I would have gone mad with boredom. I mean, no computers to play videogames?! Seriously?! Well, at least give me a pyramid to build with my spare time!

[Keyrock]

34 minutes ago, kanisatha said:

I mean, no computers to play videogames?! Seriously?!

Avoiding wolves, tigers, scorpions, and snakes was the video games of the Neolithic Age. 

[Amentep]

13 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

Avoiding wolves, tigers, scorpions, and snakes was the video games of the Neolithic Age. 

Artist interpretation of what Neolithic life was like:

[kanisatha]

9 hours ago, Keyrock said:

Avoiding wolves, tigers, scorpions, and snakes was the video games of the Neolithic Age. 

Ah piece of cake. Plenty of time leftover.

[Raithe]

Netflix’s Wednesday Casts the Addams Family Parents | Tor.com

[BruceVC]

On 8/11/2021 at 3:20 PM, kanisatha said:

And early man would've had plenty of reason and incentive to build these crazy things, because if I were living thousands of years ago I swear I would have gone mad with boredom. I mean, no computers to play videogames?! Seriously?! Well, at least give me a pyramid to build with my spare time!

Kanie how did ancient man play RPG....no one thinks to ask this question 

[BruceVC]

Im watching several entertaining shows like Chicago PD, Med and Fire. The new Law & Order Organised Crime and a few others like Helstrom 

I am also watching again the entire True Blood series, one of the greatest shows of all time in the fantasy and supernatural genre 

[Raithe]

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[InsaneCommander]

Welcome to The Wheel of Time : Take a magical first look at Amazon's new fantasy adaptation

A few pictures released. The main characters on costume, Logain, Shadar Logoth...

Edited August 18, 2021 by InsaneCommander

[Keyrock]

^ I like that the outfits look very utilitarian. It's not all shimmering robes and leather corsets with so much ornamentation on the bosom.

[Zoraptor]

But how can you continually smooth those skirts? RIP in peace any thoughts of a faithful book adaptation.

Guess at least we may still get some braid tugging.

[InsaneCommander]

1 hour ago, Keyrock said:

^ I like that the outfits look very utilitarian. It's not all shimmering robes and leather corsets with so much ornamentation on the bosom.

Yes, as it should be. They live in a small town. One is a blacksmith, another a sheepherder and the others don't do anything fancy either.

55 minutes ago, Zoraptor said:

Guess at least we may still get some braid tugging.

Hopefully we can still get some sniffs and snorts.

Edit: no Warder cloaks. I guess it would be too expensive and it isn't really necessary.

Edited August 18, 2021 by InsaneCommander

[InsaneCommander]

 

[Maedhros]

The White Lotus, miniseries on HBO.  One of those rare shows where I wouldn't change anything about it. Loved the music, loved the self-absorbed shallow characters.

 

@Wheel of Time pics. Mat's costume is the only one I like, the other ones look like they've never been used. What's with Lan's outfit? Looks like a weird comic-con costume. Sadly getting an MTV series vibe here.

@Foundation trailer. Looks good! I like the cast.

[Lexx]

I just watched Rambo 5: Brown People Bad.

First let me say that this movie is much more entertaining than Rambo 4, which had horrible cuts, super bad pacing and was just generally really boring.

Now to Rambo 5... This movie is hilarious. It tries to be serious, but it made me laugh hard in multiple occasions. There is so much dumb **** in it.

The prologue is clearly a homage to Rambo 1, but with a twist to it. So far so good. Then it's all about mexico = bad. Of course the worst things happen right away. And then in the end Rambo is just insta-gibbing (brown) people. His ending dialogue was so cringe, it felt like a completely different movie again.

I have no idea how many he killed, but it was more than they could have realistically fit into the cartel cars. It's also hilarious how the mexicans cross the border. Only thing missing was a red carpet in their tunnel. Now that I'm thinking about it, why are they using a tunnel anyways? Rambo is just driving through a small wire fence to get back into america.

All in all, this whole movie is a jerk-off fantasy for maga doomsday preppers. Especially when considering the release date and the political crap about mexico at the time of its release... it's just hilarious.

[Amentep]

TNG - Tapestry

Picard gets killed and Q gives him a mulligan. Instead of using his years of wisdom to resolve his youngerself's problems, he instead acts like an idiot and his problem solving solutions amount to rejecting anything like his past choices as if he's a two-year old who just learned the word 'no'. His Q-reward is to become Lt. Barclay.

This episide is only entertaining because of Q-Picard. Otherwise it's mega-dumb, with Picard acting clueless, the Enterprise crew shown to be condescending jerks and an implication that if your not captain of the ship, you're a loser. If it wasn't for the fact that we can dismiss the alternate timeline Enterprise stuff as a Q-creation (Qreation?) It'd be more annoying than it is.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, Lexx said:

I just watched Rambo 5: Brown People Bad.

First let me say that this movie is much more entertaining than Rambo 4, which had horrible cuts, super bad pacing and was just generally really boring.

Now to Rambo 5... This movie is hilarious. It tries to be serious, but it made me laugh hard in multiple occasions. There is so much dumb **** in it.

The prologue is clearly a homage to Rambo 1, but with a twist to it. So far so good. Then it's all about mexico = bad. Of course the worst things happen right away. And then in the end Rambo is just insta-gibbing (brown) people. His ending dialogue was so cringe, it felt like a completely different movie again.

I have no idea how many he killed, but it was more than they could have realistically fit into the cartel cars. It's also hilarious how the mexicans cross the border. Only thing missing was a red carpet in their tunnel. Now that I'm thinking about it, why are they using a tunnel anyways? Rambo is just driving through a small wire fence to get back into america.

All in all, this whole movie is a jerk-off fantasy for maga doomsday preppers. Especially when considering the release date and the political crap about mexico at the time of its release... it's just hilarious.

I watched it like a year ago and it really is one of those movies that's so bad it ends up being funny. The premise is pretty much some talk radio fear mongering put into a script, the effects are horrible, and the actors are pretty much asleep. If it wasn't for Sylvester Stallone I would have thought it was some money laundering scheme or some vanity project. Though I guess it could still be that lmao.

[Lexx]

Exactly. This is just pure mexicans = evil propaganda in a hilariously bad form. It gets even worse because in order to not look racist, they gave Rambo a mexican girlfriend and daugther (see, not all mexicans are bad! Some are fleeing from the bad people into the land of the free!).

 

[InsaneCommander]

‘Cowboy Bebop’: First Photos From Netflix’s Live-Action Adaptation

More pictures in the link.

[Lexx]

I don't know what the point of life-action adaptions is. Did anyone ever made an actually good one?

[Amentep]

6 hours ago, Lexx said:

I don't know what the point of life-action adaptions is. Did anyone ever made an actually good one?

The best motivation I guess is to try and bring a good story and characters to a different audience - one who may never watch an anime series but would watch a live action SF series.  But that's really true of any adaption, whether its from animation, or a book, or a tv series.

The worst is a cynical cash-in to create new widgets with an existing IP so that fans keep buying widgets.

[rjshae]

On 8/24/2021 at 4:36 AM, Amentep said:

The best motivation I guess is to try and bring a good story and characters to a different audience - one who may never watch an anime series but would watch a live action SF series.  But that's really true of any adaption, whether its from animation, or a book, or a tv series.

The worst is a cynical cash-in to create new widgets with an existing IP so that fans keep buying widgets.

I suspect you get both. The existing Anime audience is more likely to attend, so you get a helpful bump at the box office that can trigger others to show up through word of mouth.

[ShadySands]

Heist on Netflix - The series only has three two-part episodes but we really enjoyed them even though such things, crimey things, aren't usually our jam.

Kim's Convenience on Netflix - Finally gave it a try and found it to be pretty funny. Currently on the last episode of the first season.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Reservation Dogs. So far it's been amazing. Yuuge recommendation.