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It's pretty much a miracle that Andor turned out the way it did. I have no idea how the hell that could happen, considering the quality of everything else Star Wars.

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Slow Horses season 3

Another good season. But the mercenaries being worse than Stormtroopers made no sense.

 

The 3 Body Problem

I watched two episodes and it's pretty good so far. Who would have expected that from Benioff and Weiss?

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3 Body Problem being good isn't that much of a surprise. The parts of Game of Thrones B&W did as an adaptation of the books was excellent. While the ending does tend to retroactively stink up the series as a whole the praise they got for the adaptation part was justified. Since 3 Body Problem is also an adaptation it ought to be closer to GoT S1-4 quality than GoT S8.

Plus, no Star Wars films on the horizon any more that they want to rush off to.

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DC League of Super-Pets. My son was glued to the screen like never before and my wife and I really enjoyed it as well.

  On 3/25/2024 at 6:59 AM, Lexx said:

It's pretty much a miracle that Andor turned out the way it did. I have no idea how the hell that could happen, considering the quality of everything else Star Wars.

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I'm kinda curious to check it out but also not. I know that doesn't make any sense.

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Watched 1st episode of Netflix's 3 Body Problem.

I didn't hate it. I didn't like it overmuch, either. More specifically it didn't catch my interest enough to care.  Much more typical current US series style/methods, which I'm no longer very fond of. It's not that it's bad per se, it's just boring. At least that Chinese version was above average interesting visually for a while and started out intriguing, even if it became over extended re: run time to sell more adspace or whatever. 😛

Maybe it becomes more interesting in a few episodes. Probably won't watch more to find out.

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3 Body Problem

Watched all 8 episodes. I think it's well adapted, even though they changed the characters, ending up with very different protagonists in most cases. Dumbing down the story is understandable since they would want to make a show for a wider audience. My biggest problem is that the events in the present time don't really look like a global problem since, except for the last episodes, almost everything happens in London and of the 8 or so protagonists, 6 know each other and 5 are a part of a group that studied together.

 

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The Gentlemen

Guy Richie's show on Netflix. Not as good as most of his movies, but still entertaining and full of surprises. I watched four episodes so far and I'm looking forward to the next four.

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Watched the first two Fallout episodes. As a big fan of the game series all the way back to its roots in 2008 and having played all of Fallout 3, 4, Shelter and 76* I am fairly pleased so far. Definitely looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes, and that is not as common as I'd like.

TLDR: 1st episode is disjointed (it's a Prime TV show, after all), 2nd is a lot better. Probably comes about as close to capturing the mass market fallouts as anything could, and has some encouraging signs of 1/2/NV too.
 

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*I feel vaguely dirty typing that, but feel vaguely compelled after the number of "played all the games: 3,4 and 76!/ Captured Bethesda's genius!" that I have read.

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  On 4/12/2024 at 8:41 PM, Zoraptor said:

*I feel vaguely dirty typing that, but feel vaguely compelled after the number of "played all the games: 3,4 and 76!/ Captured Bethesda's genius!" that I have read.

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For what it's worth, it did raise my hackles 👍

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Nothing important, but since HBO is now MAX, I noticed they had some of those true-crime shows I liked from whatever channels they were ages ago.

So I'm working my way through some seasons of Homicide Hunter/Lt. Joe Kenda. I remember liking a couple seasons of that, and there's a lot more seasons. They use a persistent actor to play young Joe Kenda during re-enactments. Sometimes it's rather cheesey, sometimes less so, the music is always way over-dramatic, but they're shortish and Mr. Kenda himself has this dry delivery and occasional sense of humor I find watchable. Just one of those good for casual viewing while eating/exercising shows (which seems to be almost the only time I watch video media anymore).

There was also apparently a semi-recent Forensic Files 2, which I didn't know existed. I loved the old original one from the late 90's, back before such shows were quite so cheesy/over-dramatic. It was probably mostly what got me on that whole kick in the first place (well that and CSI...). FF 2 isn't as good but it's still better than most modern shows. The first few episodes the new narrator (Bill Camp) was totally overboard and I thought "oh no" but they must have told him to take it down several notches and became at least tolerable. The original Forensic Files narrator (Peter Thomas) had the most awesome voice for such, but he passed.

 

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Finished the Fallout TV show. TLDR: not as good as the Amazon Marketing Blitz™ has it being, but still pretty good and gets a fairly strong recommendation from me. Mostly consistent with the games too- some issues with Fallout 1 especially, unsurprisingly it's less consistent with the west coast Fallouts than east coast given it's set near LA.

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  On 3/25/2024 at 6:59 AM, Lexx said:

It's pretty much a miracle that Andor turned out the way it did. I have no idea how the hell that could happen, considering the quality of everything else Star Wars.

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Yes, easily the best of their live action series, although their animated series were decent at times.

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Hubby: (who has never played any Fallout) "Ppl keep telling me it's good, were you going to/do you want to watch it (together)"  (asks several times, eg he's impatient and I keep forgetting)
Me: "Ok, ok, I'll try it." - (I've played 1.5 games/know of the older games and a lot of memes but I'm not a Fallout deep lore person)

...we also did 2 episodes. I kind of liked it. Kept my attention, mostly, anyway.  I liked the short prologue bit almost better then the rest, perhaps, but the rest was fine/felt as Fallout as a TV show probably could. The episodes felt a little long and maybe a little laborious but not in an annoying way/it's fine. There's nitpicking I'd do re: world and situation buildup (not main plot, I mean loose thread type stuff). Doesn't really hurt the show I guess, it just left me scratching my head about some background things, here and there, especially the 1st episode.  :lol:

...dog is cute. Of course it is.
...anyway, it's ok for Prime. Music,costumes, and camerwork/scene settings were nice. Not an instant binge-watch for me (but not much is anymore) but it's decent for what it is/I can understand general praise. I might finish it if I remember. I told hubby it's fine if he wants to finish it without me. 😛

 

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My friend roped me into watching Rebel Moon 2. He knows damn well that I hate Zack Snyder, but I made him watch Things, and this is my penance. I deserved this, no one should ever be made to watch Things.

Anyway, here's my review of RM2: 200w.gif?cid=6c09b952wqboddbz248q6brdk5g

I'm already looking forward to the Snyder apologists telling me about how the 7 hour long director's cut is going to make this pile of $#!+ make some sort of sense.:wowey:

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  On 4/21/2024 at 4:36 PM, Keyrock said:

My friend roped me into watching Rebel Moon 2. He knows damn well that I hate Zack Snyder, but I made him watch Things, and this is my penance. I deserved this, no one should ever be made to watch Things.

Anyway, here's my review of RM2: 200w.gif?cid=6c09b952wqboddbz248q6brdk5g

I'm already looking forward to the Snyder apologists telling me about how the 7 hour long director's cut is going to make this pile of $#!+ make some sort of sense.:wowey:

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impressive how much snyder fail upward for decade

what happened to that horrible zombie movie universe netflix also wasted money on

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Binge watched my way through half of Shogun over the weekend.

Interesting some of the changes they've made, and the actors are putting a lot of heart and soul into it all. I'm enjoying it for what it is, and trying to not let my book reading spoil it.

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  On 4/22/2024 at 7:50 AM, Raithe said:

Binge watched my way through half of Shogun over the weekend.

Interesting some of the changes they've made, and the actors are putting a lot of heart and soul into it all. I'm enjoying it for what it is, and trying to not let my book reading spoil it.

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the whole lazy name change thing is a little distracting

it is not difficult to insert any oc into actual sekigahara background

why make such weird tiny and irrelevant change

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Hm, after wrapping up the first season of Fallout I'm not completely sure how to take it.  It looks good, it's got good actors, not sure quite how I feel over some of the changes / adaptions they've made  with the lore.  I'm probably going to end up watching season 2 just to see what Walter Goggins does with the Ghoul.

 

Edit: Also for the random interest : https://www.ign.com/articles/the-big-fallout-interview-todd-howard-and-jonathan-nolan-answer-our-burning-questions-about-season-1

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