Good TV

[Sparks]

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

Which is honestly refreshing; I like when a series has a defined story arc instead of "how long can we keep going?"

[Coin]

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

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@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

No
Fucking
Shit

[Alamias]

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

Oh, I get that some shows go on and on and on longer than they were meant to (or should). I'm just saying that Luci was set for 5 years, and they (because of the grace of Netflix) got it.

[Coin]

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

Oh, I get that some shows go on and on and on longer than they were meant to (or should). I'm just saying that Luci was set for 5 years, and they (because of the grace of Netflix) got it.

One of my quibbles (which is really not because I prefer the new status quo) is that in comparison with the previous seasons, the character arcs develop so fast in the 4th season that it's a little jarring. But I prefer it, i just have to not compare it to the seasons before it.

[Selira]

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

I firmly believe Supernatural is a five season show with some really terrible fanfiction spinoff that came immediately after. Reality may say otherwise, but my version is better.

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@Selira said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Sparks said in Good TV:

Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.

It's smart. They already had to save it once.

Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.

I have a single word to say to that:

Supernatural.

I firmly believe Supernatural is a five season show with some really terrible fanfiction spinoff that came immediately after. Reality may say otherwise, but my version is better.

I have heard it was meant to end after season five. That the story was planned for five seasons, which is why it wraps up so neatly in that package. But that it was so successful they were sort of pushed into continuing and.......

it makes sense when viewed that way. I loved those first 5 seasons. The story was amazing. And I remember going into season 6 and just hating it so very much because compared to what came before it was utter drivel. I never finished six and in my mind, those first five seasons are all that exist of Supernatural. They were perfect.

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I rather liked the ending of the most recent season and think the final season will tie things up nicely. It felt a little tacked on, sure, but I'll forgive that for the proper usage of Lemmy.

[Pandora]

Confession: I've been playing 'When They See Us' (Netflix) on mute in a browser tab I don't dare accidentally click on other than to move to the next of the four episodes. It deserves to be watched, and I'm doing my best to support it by giving it views, but I just don't think I can handle it.

[Goblin]

So, about Chernobyl. This post will be a bit of a self-pity one, and a realisation that I had a trauma when I was a kid that I've kept ignoring for years and years. I mean, not the sort of trauma that has seen me in need of professional help, but now that this TV show is there, I've had a growing sense of unease and I've realised just how BAD it was back then, and how it has colored the lives of so many afterwards. Even people far, far away from that nuclear power plant.

In 1986 I was 11 (I was turning 12 later that year). I live in Sweden, my family is a farmer and forester family, we lived largely off the land, we picked berries, hunted, ate the meat off our own animals, drank the milk from our own cows. Not much was bought in a store back then, food wise. Sure, butter and things, I mean, we weren't churning our own damn butter, it wasn't the 1800s.

Remember, I was 11 at the time, I remember this through the lense of a kid, watching my parents and uncles (who all were involved in the farming/foresting somehow) be very scared. I remember we were being kept indoors a lot. We weren't allowed to go out into the nearby forest and play, until we knew more what was happening, how it'd affect us. Eating berries, mushrooms, or any meat hunted, was a big no-no. The word 'bequerel' was on everyone's lips, constantly. How much bequerel was safe? When would we be able to eat off the land again? In one year? Ten? What about our domestic animals? Would we all get cancer now?

Obviously, we weren't dropping dead. The real suffering happened by those directly involved in that accident at Chernobyl, but man. It was scary. It was terrifying.

So, I want to watch this show and I don't want to watch it. I'll probably watch it at some point. And once more get angry at humanity's penchance for ruining their own world.

Maybe this isn't the best forum for cathartic posts, but fuck it. Chernobyl was bad. That they made a TV show about it, is a good reminder for everyone. I have barely thought about that in over a decade, but now it all comes back and we shouldn't forget.

[Rinel]

@Pandora

I'm just flat out not watching it. I'm sure it's amazing and deserves everything I'm hearing about it, but the last thing I want to do after spending my day trying to get people out of jail is watch a documentary on the Central Park Five.

[Pandora]

@Rinel said in Good TV:

@Pandora

I'm just flat out not watching it. I'm sure it's amazing and deserves everything I'm hearing about it, but the last thing I want to do after spending my day trying to get people out of jail is watch a documentary on the Central Park Five.

I can't begrudge anyone an unwillingness to watch it when I'm not watching it myself (yet. maybe one day. not today. prolly not tomorrow either.) but supporting it is important, lest people think it's not supported because it's not important.

[insomniac7809]

@Rinel said in Good TV:

@Jaded said in Good TV:

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".

I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?

Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.

Yeah, I haven't seen Chernobyl yet, but I'd rather see English-speaking productions feature English-language accents, rather than make a dramatic actor perform role in decadent Hollywood Rooshan Accentski. Like you say, presumably the characters are diegetically speaking their native language anyway.

Or maybe I'm just inordinately fond of Jason Isaacs portraying Field Marshal Zhukov with a Yorkshire accent in Death of Stalin.

The show has attracted praise and criticism both from Russians. People are unanimous in their praise for how accurately it physically depicts the Soviet Union. The costumes, buildings, &c. are apparently spot on.

I'm told that there's a Russian production in response that will present the meltdown as being the fault of a CIA saboteur.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

The British accents took me out of it a little for the first episode, but after that I stopped noticing. To my knowledge most of the Chernobyl cast was British, so it was probably less jarring than them trying to do Russian accents that not everyone could pull off/was pulling off to widely variant degrees. At least this way they all just sounded the same.

[Roz]

@insomniac7809 said in Good TV:

@Rinel said in Good TV:

@Jaded said in Good TV:

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".

I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?

Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.

Yeah, I haven't seen Chernobyl yet, but I'd rather see English-speaking productions feature English-language accents, rather than make a dramatic actor perform role in decadent Hollywood Rooshan Accentski. Like you say, presumably the characters are diegetically speaking their native language anyway.

The thing I find weird is the actors who AREN'T doing British accents. I think maybe a couple of them weren't actually British (like Stellan Skarsgård) and so just weren't putting on an accent. But I'm SO CONFUSED as to why Emily Watson seemed to have some sort of Russian or Eastern European accent. Like. Why??? It was just so weird because she seemed to be the only one attempting to put on an accent.

Anyways unrelated but this article about Chernobyl was interesting. (No accents mentioned.)

[Kestrel]

I'm a little bit disappointed that Killing Eve has been renewed for a third season.

Not because it isn't an amazing show that deserves all the accolades/attention it gets; it is.

It's just that the season two finale was so damn perfect, and I really couldn't see any other way for this show to have ended, that it feels like a shame to not end on that high note at this point.

***=Very Big Bad Spoiler***

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Especially since it means they're gonna have to do the whole "Surprise! She isn't really dead!" thing which just feels like a shame and is, in fact, the opposite of a shocking twist.

I would've preferred the realistic conclusion of a psychopath/narcissist's reaction to not getting what they want, and a tale of how the moth was drawn to the flame despite all the many warning signs that this was always going to end this way.

[Sparks]

So, I've mentioned before that there are certain books that have opening lines that really stick with you; the one I cite most often is from the Dresden Files books, and is "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."

One of my other top five favorite opening lines is "Dear you, the body you're wearing used to be mine." It is the opening line of the first book of the Rook Files (called simply "The Rook"), about a woman named Myfanwy Thomas who finds herself with no memory, in an alley, surrounded by a ring of dead bodies, with a note to her from the woman she used to be until only moments earlier. Her life only gets more complicated from there.

Years ago, a little before the second book ("Stiletto") came out, The Rook was picked up to be turned into a TV series. Season one of that series lands on Starz at the end of this month. And the trailer looks fantastic. I am very much looking forward to it, and I hope it does the book proper justice.

[Selira]

So, Black Mirror. I'm a huge fan of it in general - Season 4 was fairly weak for me, though it had its bright spots that need to be recognized, and while Bandersnatch was not everyone's cup of tea, I really thought it was a unique breakthrough in what can be done with interactive media and I think there is a line between film and video game that is blurring, and it was great to see film's first major approach in finding the common ground there.

I'm starting on season 5 now, and I think episode 1 is absolutely a critical thing for roleplayers to see. It spoke to me deeply.

***=hey hey we got spoilers here***

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There are a few things that spoke to me deeply, that are elements of everyday life in this hobby that I don't ever see addressed in the media. From cross-gender play and sexual experiences to the bonds that can form between people as characters that might not even make it to the real world, to the importance of fantasy in excitement and passion, issues of roleplaying overtaking reality and affecting our daily lives, to understanding and accepting a degree of openness in our relationships in order to meet basic needs.

With the VR theme of the episode, this was presented as a future issue, but these are things that have been very active and very important in my life and ones I have seen pop up again and again among MU*ers. I really felt like this episode did a good job of shining the spotlight on them, and showing both the good and bad sides. You take a look at the game world created and it's a lot like any game where the theme has fallen aside in favor of sexual shenanigans.

It was eerie. It was good to see. It's important as more and more people will be drawn into experiences like ours.

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@Sparks

My favorite opening line from a book is still 'It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.' (First book of the Amber Chronicles)

I'm also fond of 'The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory.' (Snowcrash) because it makes me laugh still.

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Veronica Mars season 4 trailer

I admit I'm really kinda definitely looking forward to this.