Good TV
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Jessica Jones is excellent. I haven't watched the entire season yet (I'm currently at episode 6 I believe?) so I won't try to judge it as a whole but for now it's easily the best Marvel series I've watched simply because it goes from strength to strength. Its characters grow in a realistic way, its plot is solid and doesn't rely on superheroing gimmicks too much - if anything it's pretty low-powered for a universe where cities are being lifted to the skies then dropped as bombs, and the cast is top notch.
Furthermore I need to give kudos to the Netflix format. Without having to care about dragging viewers along and stretching plots there are no filler episodes, no monster-of-the-week distractions; the writing just goes for the jugular and doesn't let go.
Now, eventually it'll be more diluted - we know there'll be a Defenders series, Daredevil crossovers, etc - which can be a good or even great thing based on how it's pulled off but it'll still loosen the single-minded cohesion of the story focused on the impact Kilgrave has had on people's lives.
Speaking of the Purple Man, I really like him as a villain. His power is so simple, extremely easy to understand. And he's... wonderfully petty and psychopathic - he doesn't care about ruling the world, eradicating mankind or building underground lairs. He just wants what he can't have just to feel what it's like. Maaarvelous.
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Ramsay won. Now he's up against Sherlock's Moriarty. I WILL VOTE FOR RAMSAY FOREVER HE IS LITERALLY THE WORST I HATE HIM SO MUCH.
Actually, I feel kind of sad now that this whole bracket came out before they could include Kilgrave. Who would surely get to the finals at least.
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Kilgrave would find it hard to lose against non-superhuman opponents. Unless someone's sneaky enough to do it before he can talk to them first.
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Watched the documentary Soaked in Bleach last night, because Netflix had my attention. If any of you were interested the death of Kurt Cobain, it's a fascinating watch in realizing just how inept the Seattle police department was at that time.
If any of you were a fan grunge and mid 90s bands(one of my favorite genres), I suggest go watch it. I guess I watched it because with the recent death of Scotte Weiland, just making me realize that more and more of the singers who I used to listen to so much are gone.
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I'm a rodeo clown.
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@Cobaltasaurus said:
@tragedyjones said:
Man, I haven't even watched Season 2, yet. >.<
Man, I haven't even watched Season 1, yet.
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Y'all need some post apocalyptic pretty people in your life.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones said:
Y'all need some post apocalyptic pretty people in your life.
You must think I'm so shallow.
I don't need them to be post-apocalyptic, sir. Being pretty suffices.
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@tragedyjones said:
Y'all need some post apocalyptic pretty people in your life.
I need to watch this, being a devotee of The Last of Us and other post-apocalyptic games.
Also, Rebuild 3 is an awesome Steam game. Wrong thread, I know.
“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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@Ganymede said:
@tragedyjones said:
Y'all need some post apocalyptic pretty people in your life.
I need to watch this, being a devotee of The Last of Us and other post-apocalyptic games.
Also, Rebuild 3 is an awesome Steam game. Wrong thread, I know.
WRONG THREAD GANY. WRONG THREAD.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Wasn't someone trying to start a The 100 MU* a bit ago? I think I heard of this, but then by the time I checked it out it had already become vaporware. Shame. It tempts, as a setting.
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I love The 100 but I dunno if there is enough unique background to make it a setting beyond generic post apocalypse
I'm a rodeo clown.
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A setting full of pretty people? That would be a vast departure over the usual MU* average joe characters.
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@tragedyjones
The end of Season 2 was kindof... well, surprising to say the least. There's world there to play around in, as long as people are willing to actually take the ideas and run with it. The various tribes of survivors and wildmen out in the woods, the various 'holed up government survivors' like the Mountain Men, the people in space, crazy Fallout-style whackadoo robots... you can go all over the place.@Three-Eyed-Crow said:
Wasn't someone trying to start a The 100 MU* a bit ago? I think I heard of this, but then by the time I checked it out it had already become vaporware. Shame. It tempts, as a setting.
It ran for a while. It was kind of terrible. They took the idea of it and then had the Grounders be 'oh so pretty Gaia happy tree huggy' people.
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The Expanse.
It's still a bit early to tell but so far I'm rather enjoying it. It feels very old school science fiction, hearkening back to the days of Asimov and Heinlein. The solar system has been colonized. There's a rebellious Mars who feels it's time to be independent from Earth who wants to retain control at all cost.
There are Belters, living out on Ceres in the asteroid belt. There's water rationing and a generation whose physiology is adapted to low/no G with long limbs and brittle bones. There are miners who mine the asteroids for ice in spaceships that obey the laws of physics.
Not sure I care about the plot yet but the setting is awesome.
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@TNP said:
The Expanse.
It's still a bit early to tell but so far I'm rather enjoying it. It feels very old school science fiction, hearkening back to the days of Asimov and Heinlein.
It is a smart sci-fi show. Which gives me the impression that SeeFee will cancel it after a season and a half.
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Here's hoping they don't cancel it. They've been pulling through with some good shows lately, rather than all that reality tv bs. I haven't seen anything but the first episode of Expanse, but I'm excited to see where it goes. Fingers crossed!
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Somebody's clearly passed a memo down at Siffy about making actual TV shows again. Not all the new stuff is great, but at least I watch The Expanse and Twelve Monkeys and feel like they're sort of trying to do science fiction television again. I think it'll get a second season, at least. It looks hella expensive, but Defiance was also stupid-expensive, and they got three seasons out of it.
