Watching the last season of Torchwood, Miracle Day… which was better than I remember, but still isn’t as good as Children of Earth. I think they problem is that they are trying to mash together a British/Welsh sci-fi show and an American crime show… Still. Captain Jack! And I forgot that both Nana Visitor and John de Lancie show up!
Also just wrapped up the first season of Legend of Korra, which I’m actually a fan of…
Q! His episodes were my favorite on ST:TNG.
I wanted to get my partner hooked on that, but couldn’t find it streamed anywhere. Perhaps I should look again, as I haven’t seen the last season or two myself.
That there TeneT is a long old film huh? For those lucky enough to see it yet. I saw it in an IMAX and it’s quite the spectacle, maybe more spectacle than actual substance sometimes but what spectacle.
The not so good stuff:
Missed so much dialogue over the deafening score at times.
The plot just confused the hell out me at times probably because half the dialogue is getting drowned out and the reverse time stuff is a head spitter trying to follow and if you look at it too closely it probably all falls apart.
The film is basically all MacGuffins - get to the place and steal the thing which gets you to the other place and steal that thing and make sure the bad guy doesn’t get all the things etc.
The good stuff:
Holy shit, the set pieces. I’d go back just to watch the set pieces again, not just for the spectacle but to make sense of them. The planning of the thing is just insane, the reverse fight scene is one thing but then you add in a reverse car chase and that astonishing final act with one temporal team going forward in time and the other backward in time and you can see the years of work gone into it.
sadly, what we won’t be watching:
Sorry if this is OT, I was just sourly disappointed by this decision.
I assume you mean Torchwood? Brit Box might have it. Korra is on Netflix now, if you mean that.
Yeah, meant Torchwood. I’m terrible about watching things way too slowly, as the more I enjoy something, the more I wanna savor it, make it last, etc. This is an aspect of my personality that is thoroughly incompatible with current streaming licensing practices.
Well, I don’t know how much you’ve watched of it, but the first season is not great, only a couple of really worthwhile episodes, honestly. The second season is pretty solid, only a couple of meh episodes (also SPIKE!). Children of Earth is the BEST, but so depressing… and Miracle Day is alright, but uneven at times, and also depressing. Both CoE and MD are very 2020, IMHO.
Not what I expected. (Because I hadn’t been paying attention and didn’t notice it was by the guy that had made The Trials of Henry Kissinger.)
Why isn’t stuff like this on the History Channel? (Rhetorical question.)
Happy Birthday, Bugs!
Saw it last night…and wow! Nolan certainly spent a lot of money on the movie. I really enjoyed it. It didn’t have the emotional or psychological depth of Inception, but the action scenes were fantastic.
Nolan’s films, apart from Dunkirk and maybe Memento to a lesser extent, lack a certain humanity and i found Tenet to be no exception here. I agree with the criticisms of it that it’s a cold and humourless film but the spectacle needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible. I can’t even attempt to wrap my head around the planning and logistics that went into this - an actual 747 they used in that one scene for example - just mind blowing.
Watched the first 3 eps of S2 of the Boys.
For those who aren’t hip, here’s the Honest Trailer for S1:
I’ve been enjoying that show too, but I kind of feel like the writers are trying to have it both ways with the Hughie character, portraying him as a sensitive, earnest protagonist while also being a cold-blooded murderer who killed someone when it wasn’t necessary and also enabled the mercenaries who are murdering others. Plus all the deception and taking advantage of Annie then relying on his innocent charm to keep her from getting too mad at him. it’s fine for characters to be complex and multi-faceted, but something about the way they’re doing it with this character is rubbing me the wrong way. But I did like that he made that comment about being secretly good at his job like Katniss in Hunger Games (but forgetting her name) when he himself had a minor role as a villain in that movie.
Starlight’s name is ‘Annie.’
I never watched any of the Hunger Games movies; the books’ lack of world building irritated me too much.
Right you are, corrected.
when recording equipment was shit, actors knew speaking clearly was more important than naturalism
now if we can’t understand something, it’s supposedly our own fault for not being familiar with the dialects or not having seven speakers or not having the patience to watch it four times
grumble
But hey, they’re in talks to continue it elsewhere, so that’s a positive.
I think animation, as a way to produce content in a largely socially distant form, has good chances of being greenlit these days.
