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That makes more sense than anything else floated so far.
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It looked so horrible in the trailer(s).
Raven was smiling.
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So Star Trek Discovery is being chased by the cancellation bear. Season 2 may not lead into a 3.
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I am behind, nearly done Season 2, but how the fuck is Riverdale some of the best Vampire the Requiem inspiration? If you picture the various parents and children as, well, sires and childer, and the numerous and complicated groups as Covenants and/or coteries, it is great. Basically the main characters are the rare kindred in a larger setting.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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The Bodyguard kicked ass.
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It's probably beating a dead horse but I truly don't understand the people behind Iron Fist.
I'm watching Daredevil S3 now. It's built on the same network, with what I imagine is a similar budget and know-how - yet six episodes into the season it's had several scenes in which the Murdock is far cooler than any in Rand's two full seasons.
For starters just his first fight with his seasonal nemesis alone was far superior; in all of Iron Fist it always seemed he never got to fight the Big Bad - it was always someone from his supporting cast. No one cared that much to do it either; none of his own villains (to the extent he had any!) were actually taking him seriously - in his own show! He was just, kind of, in the way.
But Daredevil's supporting cast actually compliments his story instead of competing with it. Foggy has a life, Karen is a strong character, Maggie is intruiging - yet it never felt disjointed. Even the stuff that doesn't work as much for me were choices I could understand.
Dammit, if they had only given one convincing scene like a prison escape or Rand fighting against several SWAT team members at the same time in close quarters. One. Not even a boss fight.
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@arkandel
My understanding is that, because Daredevil's face is masked, he's a LOT easier to stunt double for. Between that and the rushed production schedule for Iron Fist, I don't exactly forgive Finn Jones all his performance sins, but I can see how he was put in a situation where he couldn't really do great work. -
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This. I think that S3 Daredevil was the best of all three seasons so far. And I loved the Punisher arc in S2. I am going to admit I think that D'Onofrio stole every scene he was in. He owned the Kingpin identity and has ruined any other actor attempting the role anywhere else for me, for the foreseeable future. -
@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
@arkandel
My understanding is that, because Daredevil's face is masked, he's a LOT easier to stunt double for. Between that and the rushed production schedule for Iron Fist, I don't exactly forgive Finn Jones all his performance sins, but I can see how he was put in a situation where he couldn't really do great work.If only Iron Fist had a mask in the comics, right?
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@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
My understanding is that, because Daredevil's face is masked, he's a LOT easier to stunt double for.
My understanding is that Iron Fist is, and has always been, a shit character idea.
Like: let’s make Batman, but with a super ninja power he inexplicably received from an insular culture, because, fuck, Iron Man isn’t enough of a fucking Batman clone.
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Iron Fist was peak White Savior bullshit. That said. They could have just made Danny Rand Asian and solved a number of the character's problems. (Primarily Finn Jones and his terrible acting.)
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@admiral said in Good TV:
Iron Fist was peak White Savior bullshit. That said. They could have just made Danny Rand Asian and solved a number of the character's problems.
Wait, you can't do that, man.
I mean, you can make the Ancient and Major Kusanagi white, but you can't make white Danny Rand Asian, yeah?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I can only imagine some of the mouthbreathing outrage.
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I would have loved to see someone like Byung-Hun Lee playing Danny Rand as Iron Fist.
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Speaking of appropriately diverse casts...
The third season of Into the Badlands in the first part of Season 3 has been absolutely marvelous. What's weird is that I find myself missing Veil, because I didn't really find that she had much to do beyond be Sunny's McGuffin and baby mama.
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Totally just finished binging Sabrina. Loved it.
Also watched Élite, which was more satisfying than I thought it would be. What seems like your average teen drama is more of a murder mystery, except those assholes show you who dies and then tell the story leading up to that, so you have to see the dead person throughout the entire first season and get to know them and like them and be very brokenhearted when it all goes to hell. Also, everyone in that show is deeply flawed, which is refreshing. But they tackle a bunch of issues head-on, such as HIV and sexual orientation and all manner of other things in ways that make it very clear the times have changed, which I appreciate. Watch it. It has a terrible english dub, or subtitle options, unless you are decent with european spanish.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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Just finished Sabrina.
I need Season 2 now.
