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[surreality]

@tragedyjones When I ask to run a haunted vajayjay plot on BITN, just remember that it's @Coin's fault.

[Arkandel]

What's good for the summer now that GoT is over?

I've watched just a couple of episodes of Preacher and it's okay but I'm still lukewarm about it. Does it get better later on?

Anything else new-ish that might not be on my radar? I remember @EmmahSue saying something about some sort of ear-spacebug thingie for example.

[surreality]

@Arkandel I've been impressed with Preacher thus far? Not remotely the same vibe, but it's been good. There's a similar one I'm blanking on the name of off-hand that seems interesting but isn't as fun, IMHO. (It is not fun. Preacher is fun.)

Summer has a bad habit of being the official television doldrums, and time to shuffle off to Netflix for things you might have missed over the colder months.

[Arkandel]

@surreality FINE what did I miss in the colder months!

... Other than Marvel stuff and The Last Kingdom (surprisingly good, especially given I didn't care for the first episode at all) I haven't binge watched anything in ages.

[Coin]

@surreality said in Good TV:

@tragedyjones When I ask to run a haunted vajayjay plot on BITN, just remember that it's @Coin's fault.

Just don't ask me to run it. I have an affinity for tentacles and Lovecraftiana, and I'm not sure I could refrain from going Full Hentai for the lulz.

[Coin]

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Arkandel I've been impressed with Preacher thus far? Not remotely the same vibe, but it's been good. There's a similar one I'm blanking on the name of off-hand that seems interesting but isn't as fun, IMHO. (It is not fun. Preacher is fun.)

Summer has a bad habit of being the official television doldrums, and time to shuffle off to Netflix for things you might have missed over the colder months.

Maybe you mean Outcast? I watched the first episode and found it so fucking dull.

Preacher is good, Wynonna Earp is great (first season's over, waiting for renewal), Brain Dead is very fun, uhhhhhhhhm, Cleverman is actually really really interesting (and good) too. There is very little on television, although Marco Polo is back July 1, and both Dark Matter and Killjoys are back soon.

[surreality]

@Coin Remind me to send you the log of the reluctant tentacle monster refugee scene from Shang. I suspect you will appreciate it. (He just wanted to find a nice girl who didn't want him for his tentacles. Is that so wrong?!)

Also, yep on Outcast. It really has not been grabbing me. I'm trying, but it's not grabbing me. It reminds me of all the 'bleak bleak bleak bleaker mild supernatural incident bleak' that makes WoD eventually boring as heck to me, unfortunately.

@Arkandel Sadly, a whole lot of 'not much', from what I can tell. Or not much that's showing up yet. From what I gather, their next season of Marco Polo starts up soon, so if you saw and enjoyed the first season, that's coming up on the 1st. I'm picking my way through the first season out of sheer desperation, frankly, but it's interesting.

[Coin]

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Coin Remind me to send you the log of the reluctant tentacle monster refugee scene from Shang. I suspect you will appreciate it. (He just wanted to find a nice girl who didn't want him for his tentacles. Is that so wrong?!)

@Arkandel Sadly, a whole lot of 'not much', from what I can tell. Or not much that's showing up yet. From what I gather, their next season of Marco Polo starts up soon, so if you saw and enjoyed the first season, that's coming up on the 1st. I'm picking my way through the first season out of sheer desperation, frankly, but it's interesting.

@Eerie and I loved Marco Polo, otherwise known as The Adventures of Kublai Khan and his Idiotic White Bestie.

[surreality]

TURN is good, if you haven't caught that one, @Arkandel. They just wrapped up their season, and the first few seasons should be up somewhere.

I tend to re-watch a lot when summer hits. Rome and Carnivale are good for this, thank you, HBO. I'm also not above watching a truly random selection of documentaries on Netflix as background noise while working on other stuff. Since that's how I usually watch more or less everything with few exceptions, that means the standards for awesome factor are not as critical. (It also means anything with subtitles is right out unless I have dedicated no really I have to watch watch this time, which I almost never do. )

I have been informed I am to begin watching Hell on Wheels for historical research (sigh) and I am admittedly not sure how that's gonna go, but we'll see.

Slasher is up on Netflix now, and it's... sometimes a little weird but not awful. It's not bad for a drama horror series that isn't aimed at the typical tween audience.

[Arkandel]

Oh, while we're at it, Silicon Valley is fantastic. Funny as hell, with spot-on performances and a so-close-to-the-truth look at the IT industry it hurts.

[EmmahSue]

Braindead is the less serious West Wing meets sci-fi space-bugs in ears, yes. I didn't like Wynona Earp as much as I wanted to. I'm enjoying Preacher but I find it confusing now and again; I'm not a huge fan of surrealism for its own sake.

If you want animes to watch Ark, you can look my big list over:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z7bopO0U4iD0xMp-gNQwFPF3-_Q-v7gzDQbBh77fVaI/edit?usp=sharing

That list is my comments, HR's comments about my comments, and Glitch's comments about both of our comments. Keep in mind that I hate Slice of Life with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and despite RPing it myself a time or two, I find bro/sis-con animes totally off-putting and won't watch them.

I'm told Outlander is fun, but I hates the time travel too much to really consider it. If you haven't watched Penny Dreadful yet, you're a monster who needs to get on it tout de suite. And if you're at all a fan of silly reality shows, Alone (on the History channel) is entertaining fluff about people living solo in the wilderness of Vancouver Island for as long as possible with limited supplies, with the longest-lasting getting 500k.

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[Arkandel]

@EmmahSue With Preacher I'm finding myself committing the ultimate sin... I constantly compare it to the original comic. So it keeps being a boot I'm waiting to drop ('when is <X> going to happen?' 'oh, maybe that's how <Y> will be introduced') although they are very, very different storylines.

[EmmahSue]

I downvoted you for that sin, Ark.

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[Arkandel]

@EmmahSue Can I hate you any more?

[surreality]

@EmmahSue I normally hate time travel everything, with Doctor Who being the exception. (It's too much campy fun to hate on, I just cannnnn't.) Outlander is pretty good in spite of it, though. It isn't the constant theme of the show itself, and though it's more prominent in the second season than it was in the first, it's not overbearing about it.

In the first, it's more 'a thing that happens'; the second season deals more with some of the ramifications of it.

I will admit, it's a little less irritating somehow since it's not someone from today going back to a distant era, but someone from an already distant era going further back in time. 'Jane Everyman of Today' going back in time... meh. So much meh. But somehow, that it's a war nurse from another era does actually help me get past my standard gag reflex.

It's more like a period piece within a period piece, in many respects.

It's definitely worth giving the first episode or two a glance, since it is very much not a typical time travel story. (Being honest... it's a historical romance novel with a weird mystical woo woo time travel element in it. It does not even pretend to science it up and the lack of dwelling on it is almost classic MUX handwavium. )

[Arkandel]

@surreality I love time travel when it's used well - Donnie Darko is one of my all-time favorite flicks, Groundhog Day is a goddamn masterpiece, Terminator is a classic series and of course... Back to the Future, come on. Come ON. Even @EmmahSue can't be the type of misguided monster who rains hate on these.

As long as it's not an empty gimmick though. If it's just a modern guy participating in medieval antics or whatever - unless it's meant to be a comedy - it's kinda meh.

Outlander worked for me for a while but the accents throw me off. The lady is quite easy on the eyes which makes it better though so I watched part of it... the story isn't bad. I'm told (typically ) the books are better.

[surreality]

I got through the first book, and then part of the second (before I lost it and promptly forgot I had them at all and then had already moved on to something else... ) and what I read really was pretty good. I was reading a pile of romance novels at the time because a friend insisted I should look into writing them -- don't judge! -- and that one stood out about a mile from the rest as being better-written and generally more realistic in spite of its fantastical elements.

(I can suspend belief on mystical woo woo time travel stones. I cannot suspend disbelief about day-long bedroom romps that don't leave people achey and sore afterward, dammit, and the books won a thumbs-up from me after a mention that four hours in, they had to nope the idea of hour five in the bud because friction burn is a thing. POINTS FOR THAT, it earned it.)

[Arkandel]

@surreality said in Good TV:

don't judge!

You must be new here.

[surreality]

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@surreality said in Good TV:

don't judge!

You must be new here.

Tangent: So, at the time, my father was working for the local paper. They had a book reviewer on staff and they would get piles and piles of promo copies of almost everything. To save us some cash on the research, he decided to go in and ask if they had any backlog piles of romance novels they could part with, "It's for my daughter, I swear!"

Am reasonably certain don't judge was also uttered at the time.

[Arkandel]

@surreality I've no idea if this is relevant or on topic or even if anyone else will find it funny but I was reading it on my commute this morning.

Sperm donors of Reddit, what kind of porn do they give you in that little wanking room?