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Look, screw you all cynical burned out nerds.
Ted Lasso is where it's at. Every episode is wholesome as fuck. It reeks with good will, especially for being as dirty mouthed as its dialogue often gets.
What a fun show!
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I am really loving season 2 of Evil.
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The new season of Rick and Morty just isn't doing it for me. I am having a really hard time pinning down why; I think there's been a fairly steady decline in quality since the second season, but even though there were still some rough gems in the third and fourth seasons, I haven't even cracked a smile in the last few episodes. Maybe it's just run its course for me, I dunno.
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It's my understanding they sort of...changed the theme, for this most recent season? The connecting measure between all the episodes for this one is Rick's stupid ass shit finally coming back to him as consequences. Every episode is basically dealing with the repercussions of him being a selfish asshole. Which...is a fairly dramatic difference from previous seasons.
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That was the theme of the second season finale, and the fourth season finale. And arguably a few episodes in between? I don't think it's a new element to the show, the writers have always made it pretty clear Rick is a piece of shit and not always able to stay ahead of the consequences of his own selfishness.
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I am really loving season 2 of Evil.
I'm jealous because I can't watch it. (Don't have Paramount+.) I have to wait for Netflix to get it.
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I am really loving season 2 of Evil.
I'm jealous because I can't watch it. (Don't have Paramount+.) I have to wait for Netflix to get it.
Paramount+ is one of the best investments I have made. Between Evil, Lower Decks, and Star Trek Discovery, it's more than paid for itself, and it's the cheapest one that I have at like ... what, six bucks a month or something. Quiet place 2 I think is on there now. Well worth it.
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Been seeing a lot of hate for Masters of Universe on YouTube lately and frankly, I don't really get it. Like, people are losing their damn minds it. And it makes me wonder if the She-Ra remake got this kind vitriol.
Sure, it's not groundbreaking or anything, but I don't think it's that terrible by any stretch of the imagination.
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She-ra reboot? @Ganymede what is this.
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@silverfox The one made by the people who did the recent Voltron remake?
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I dunno if it's the one that @Ganymede is an advocate of or if it's another one.
And let's be honest here, I'm ~lazy~ and instead of googling I'm taking twice as much time to post my ignorance here.
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@testament said in Good TV:
Been seeing a lot of hate for Masters of Universe on YouTube lately and frankly, I don't really get it. Like, people are losing their damn minds it. And it makes me wonder if the She-Ra remake got this kind vitriol.
You mean the show that reduced the sexualization of its classic main character and introduced more diversity into the cast?
Oh yes. It most definitely did.
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@silverfox said in Good TV:
She-ra reboot? @Ganymede what is this.
To recap shit I have been saying for months, Netflix rebooted She-Ra. This is a complete reboot, right down to the art. The newer Master of the Universe show is more of a sequel to the original series. The new Voltron: Legendary Defender is also a reboot, rather than a sequel, but the art studio, story-writing, and just about everything about it is different from the new She-Ra series.
The hate that the new Master of the Universe series is getting is different than the hate that She-Ra got, but it pretty much comes form the same source: veiled misogynistic criticism from people who can't wrap their heads around anything new. It's sad and on the level of MAGA bullshit. I may not have particularly liked it, but my criticism is aimed at the pacing and story development; when you put it up against the storytelling of The Legend of Korra, for example, there's no comparison.
As an example of the hate, I have a friend who says all of the right things, claims to be woke and progressive, but "just can't get into" She-Ra "because of the art." Here's what She-Ra's creator, the legendary J. Michael Straczynski, had to say about that. Adora looks young in the beginning of the series because she is young. Glimmer goes from an awkward chonk to a curvy woman because she grows up. And this is the fucking point of it all and why the show is brilliant because of all the little details that you get to pick up on when you go back and look at it again.
Sometimes, you're even lucky enough between the tears to watch the story come so beautifully full-circle.
Anyhow, Master of the Universe, I have concluded, is worth the watch. These reboots and sequels are worth it.
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As an example of the hate, I have a friend who says all of the right things, claims to be woke and progressive, but "just can't get into" She-Ra "because of the art."
Some things are just subjective. Art direction is the primary reason I haven't gotten around to watching She-Ra.
As for Revelations, I've watched the three first episodes so far and my judgement is it's ok. It's not bad but it's not something I'm ever likely to recommend someone either. That said the decision to kill off He-Man and Skeleton in the first episode and focus on the other characters is probably the only reason I kept watching, as someone with no nostalgic connection to the original He-Man has only ever come across as silly to me.
A Lord of the Rings series based on events from The Silmarillion.
A Wheel of Time production that's apparently already renewed for season 2 but has stopped twice due to Covid-19.
I... think House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones spinoff is also in the works although I don't know if it wasn't the one being cancelled? That whole franchise was poison-pilled by GoT's last season, damn.My default position is to have zero faith in book to TV adaptions until I actually get to see them. The fact that Game of Thrones and Witcher were actually good was a welcome surprise in the ocean of incredibly dull fantasy TV adaptions.
There was hundreds of pages' worth of content about how the One Power worked for example can't be quite transferred over as-is without it being boring, but they could spread it out across multiple seasons in a simplified form.
One advantage Wheel of Time has when it comes to high budget visual adaptions is how Robert Jordan was really big on visual metaphors for how the power works. Rather then explaining it through exposition they could just show it.
The new season of Rick and Morty just isn't doing it for me. I am having a really hard time pinning down why; I think there's been a fairly steady decline in quality since the second season, but even though there were still some rough gems in the third and fourth seasons, I haven't even cracked a smile in the last few episodes. Maybe it's just run its course for me, I dunno.
I think the Writers of Rick and Morty ran out of their best ideas a couple of seasons ago and are now practically running on autopilot.
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As an example of the hate, I have a friend who says all of the right things, claims to be woke and progressive, but "just can't get into" She-Ra "because of the art."
Some things are just subjective. Art direction is the primary reason I haven't gotten around to watching She-Ra.
I do believe the art is subjective thing. This more or less my reason for not watching it. It's also why I've never watched Adventure Time or Steven Universe and why I was only able to stomach Rick and Morty for two seasons before opting out. I don't know, if a visual style isn't my thing, I just can't get into it. And that's a me thing. By no means am I downplaying a shows message.
To note, my fiance is frustrated that I don't really want to watch Adventure Time for the same reasons I don't bother her when I want to watch The Expanse.
But I could watch Gravity Falls and Voltron and Avatar.
I dont believe that not liking a show because of its visual style should somehow say something about a person's ethical or social beliefs.
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I am really loving season 2 of Evil.
It's so good. It's everything I was hoping it would be so far. Moving at a good enough pace to keep the story going with the built-up momentum but not just dumping it all on you at once as the world adjusts in all these little ways.
Augh, I have to catch up.
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@testament said in Good TV:
I dont believe that not liking a show because of its visual style should somehow say something about a person's ethical or social beliefs.
I think that not liking a show because of its visual style says something to me. Not liking a visual style is a different message entirely. And refusing to watch a show that means something emotionally significant based on a visual style sends another message.
I wouldn't judge either of you for your decisions, but you also don't use me as an emotional crutch in tough times.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that neither of you would watch Hannah Gadsby's Nanette just because I told you how awesome it was or how it literally changed my outlook on many things, you probably wouldn't tell me to my face that you refuse to watch it because you don't care for comedy by autistic women.
“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.
