I concur, but I think each season is a different stand alone narrative.
At least, I hope so, because what else is there really left to do with Nadia & Allan, even as much as I enjoyed them?
Their part of the story is done…
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My thoughts exactly. I assume new story with the same plot device. 
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Maybe it’s a different kind of time loop with different characters?
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Any impatient fans of the The Boys should check out
Great cast, pretty good writing
“Canceled” after two seasons but they wrapped it up OK and that’s usually a good place to stop anyway
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The writing on season 1 was smart so yeah, let’s hope they mix things up in someway so it isn’t just a retread of season 1 with new characters. I will remain hopeful.
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Seen already; another series with a kernel of a good idea, but lax execution.
I dunno about all that.
They left more than a few loose ends, and I remember being underwhelmed.
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It may not even a time loop this time. The writing was top notch - hopefully they have more than one trick up their sleeves.
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The fourth season of B5 is well-known to be the 4th and 5th season compressed into one, as PTN/Warner did not reveal if it would be renewed until the last second. So a lot of what was meant for the 5th season was already told by the time the 5th rolled around, leaving only filler behind.
I still have fond memories of B5, as at the time it was the favourite series of NASA engineers. The Star Fury fighters were the first to look like they were designed for actual space use, and not some WWII dogfight rehash. Earth ships used centrifugal force to make artificial gravity. Having a scene take place in the men’s toilet (and the Pak’ma’ra coming out of the alien toilet and shuddering with relief was a cute touch!), for crying out loud.
Too bad some exec at Warner has a deep hatred of the series, as that one man has prevented all remastering or re-releases.
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I read about the re-release issues regarding aspect ratio, and it seems that no deep hatred but a sad fuckup long ago seemed to be the case.
That said, I don’t need higher resolution or better aspect ratio. To me, the story and the little things count. B5 was way ahead of its time with scenes like the one you described. Gender stereotypes are interesting, e.g., because while still being a product of its time in many situations, it is mostly not cringeworthy, and sometimes offhand progressive.
Friends, which roughly started around the same time, is just terrible in that regard.
Just watched s2e10 yesterday. Dodger and an insecure Garibaldi, and not used in form of comic relief. Slightly wooden acting aside, this is why B5 has a relatable realism to it.
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The creator stated on a couple of occasions that there is one executive at Warner who is blocking it, and until that person dies or somehow is forced out, there won’t be a re-release of B5. The sad part is that the series was filmed in 16:9, the FX were only rendered 4:3. There are rumours of the original company losing all of the source CGI files, but also that they weren’t lost but erased on purpose.
As for the acting, one anecdote I recall was that Jerry Doyle would put his hands in his pockets, as he felt that was how Garibaldi would stand. Directors hated it, as one age-old rule is no hands in pockets, and they tried having his costume trouser pockets sewed shut. Jerry refused to act until they gave him usage of his pockets again.
Me, I am re-watching Archer, and laughing my ass off.
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Never saw a single one.
If I had to describe it in one sentence, it would be rapid-fire raunchy one-liners set in a dysfunctional private espionage agency, in a world that’s a mix of 1979 and 2015.
Really, it’s quite good. The voice acting is some of the best comedic timing around.
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There is going to be a second season of that!!! Hell yeah!
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I really like the Magicians. For some reason it grips me like few other shows have. It has the trappings of a YA wish fulfilment show in the beginning but that’s really not what it is at all. I think that was pretty much Lev Grossman’s original idea: to explore how a Harry Potter or Narnia scenario would play out in the real world.
I don’t know how far into it you are and whether you care about trigger warnings and such but just so you know it gets really dark, with some disturbing scenes, including graphic sexual assault.
That does happen a bit but I don’t think it’s a spoiler if I say it never ends well.
More like 1965. The first few seasons at least.
I’m far enough along that I made up my mind; I don’t like it enough to keep watching it. To begin with, ALL the characters are flat and two dimensional. I kept waiting for some character development, but it never came to fruition.
I don’t mind dark, or even violent IF there’s a valid reason to do so, something that enriches the narrative.
What happened to Julia was gratuitous torture porn, IMO; after the underwhelming defeat of the Beast/aka Martin, it pissed me off enough to go look up spoilers of the outcome, especially the fate of Reynard the Fox.
That was enough to make me stop wasting my time watching the show all together.
Nutshell; it’s yet another good idea that was poorly executed and only ended up being a disappointment to me.
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Fair enough. I didn’t see it as torture porn because it totally blindsided me and it does set up a lot of what happens later (not just to Reynard. I absolutely hate gratuitous violence in media so I definitely wouldn’t have continued watching if that’s how I’d interpreted it.
The characters do get fleshed out a bit more in later seasons but I agree that they are not as complete, as real as in other shows. For some reason that never bothered me. Probably because it contributes to the sense of unreality, of detachment from the world of the whole show. But I’m not trying to convince you to continue watching, I can totally see your points.
The desktop computers put Archer in the mid-'80s. There was nothing real with an integrated keyboard and phone like that, but otherwise they look like Macintosh XL’s (originally called “Lisa 2”).
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Discovery next season will plot speculation.
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But the fashion is straight out of the mid 60s. Almost as if it was deliberately anachronistic
