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@surreality said in Good TV:
I have never been impressed by the recent Guardians of the Galaxy animated stuff. Until their last four episodes, apparently shown over the past two weeks.
Which Circle of Hell must I tune into to see this show?
“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 The husband sent me a dubiously legit streaming link to it, so... I do not actually know. <cough> If someone does, tell me, too!
ETA: And apparently my husband is a twit, because it's on Disney Go, which... we can access normally. Oh, that sweet summer child...
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His Dark Materials season 1 trailer
I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIiPcv4_iY
Ruby Rose Batwoman Trailer
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Watched Chernobyl so I had the taste of Good TV in my mouth before this evening's GoT episode.
First episode is a bit gruesome, but I still highly recommend.
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@Lisse24 It really is phenomenal. Painful to watch, at times, but an amazing study in dramatic irony.
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His Dark Materials season 1 trailer
I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all
A++. Will watch for tank-bears.
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@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.
Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.
Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.
The man is goddamn talented. He was ridiculous in Split.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.
Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.
The man is goddamn talented. He was ridiculous in Split.
Yeah, McAvoy is in my small list of male actor mancrushes that I'll watch anything they're in. (McAvoy, Timothy Olyphant, Joel Kinnaman, Ethan Hawke). Solid group of actors, there...which is a perfect segue into....
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...with GoT done and a short wait until the Deadwood movie, I'm actually watching Deadwood for the first time starting now.
On Ssn1Ep1 right now on my TV. I don't normally go for westerns, but I like it. McShane and Olyphant are wonderful in this so far. McShane is actually so good in this it's mesmerizing.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost YEEEEEEES. Deadwood was where I fell in love with Ian McShane. There are some seriously hilarious cussing compilations from Deadwood. AND, my all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U Deadwood Pancakes.I should note: NSFW language. Deadwood.
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@AeriaNyx I heard that every other word used on this show is c*cksucker.
They weren't lying. lol.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man -
@Ghost And most of the dialog is written in iambic pentameter.
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...with GoT done and a short wait until the Deadwood movie, I'm actually watching Deadwood for the first time starting now.
On Ssn1Ep1 right now on my TV. I don't normally go for westerns, but I like it. McShane and Olyphant are wonderful in this so far. McShane is actually so good in this it's mesmerizing.
I've actually been thinking of doing the same thing.
I missed Deadwood the first time round due to lack of cable. Then I refused because I know the story just...stops since it got cancelled. But now that it's getting a movie, I've been thinking of diving in.
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His Dark Materials season 1 trailer
I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all
A++. Will watch for tank-bears.
I love those books.
Okay, more specifically, I downright love The Golden Compass. I don't mind The Subtle Knife; it's a perfectly fine book, and I reasonably enjoyed it. And The Amber Spyglass is... a thing that I read, I suppose?
But the trailer looks like a much better adaptation of The Golden Compass than that movie was; just the imagery and characterization reminds me more of the book, whereas the movie felt more like they were trying to do the story in the vein of a Narnia or LotR-style epic fantasy... which is not what The Golden Compass is. It looks like this adaptation gets that, and I'm mightily looking forward to it.
Plus, the casting choices we've seen so far are just phenomenal.
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Add me to the train of "now watching Deadwood because it actually is getting an ending."
I'll admit my religion has me sort of lukewarm to His Dark Materials. The ending just seems needlessly and hamfistedly antitheistic (which of course is the point), much like Lewis throwing Susan under the bus (or out of the way of the train, I suppose) seemed needlessly preachy.
I think it might actually just be bad writing, though, because even in my atheist years I was pretty unimpressed with the ending. The setting as a whole, though, is great.
Speaking of YA adaptations to the screen: Sabriel when
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I'll admit my religion has me sort of lukewarm to His Dark Materials. The ending just seems needlessly and hamfistedly antitheistic (which of course is the point), much like Lewis throwing Susan under the bus (or out of the way of the train, I suppose) seemed needlessly preachy.
I think it might actually just be bad writing, though, because even in my atheist years I was pretty unimpressed with the ending. The setting as a whole, though, is great.
Like I said, The Amber Spyglass is... a thing which I have read. I feel like it actually has some potentially very interesting things somewhere at its heart to say about the common interpretation of the Garden of Eden story, but they're buried kind of deeply beneath a veneer that mostly comes across as a (slightly embittered and almost clumsy) attack on faith in general and Christianity in particular. In a manner which seems to be borderline uncomfortable even to atheists.
Plus, I think it gets so wrapped up in trying to drive home that point that it kind of fails as a good conclusion to the trilogy, even just on narrative grounds.
But The Golden Compass itself, the first book of that set? That's a book that will always be near and dear to my heart; the setting and concepts are wonderful, and the cast in that first book is so rich and varied.
1000% behind a Sabriel adaptation, though. Because dang, that would be awesome.
