Good TV

[Arkandel]

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/09/comic-con-2015-firefly-stars-nathan-fillion-and-alan-tudyk-spoof-themselves-con

The cameos. Oh, the cameos.

[Arkandel]

The Shannara Chronicles

[thebird]

@Arkandel
So excited.

[HelloRaptor]

@thebird said:

@Arkandel
So excited.

I dunno if I'd say I'm excited, but I'm defs interested in what they do with it. While I didn't like the first book all that much, I liked a number of those that followed, and have generally found the setup of the world, it's lore, history, magic, etc to be pretty cool.

My housemate despises it because she can't see it as anything but a Tolkien ripoff, but even when I read both as a kid it never really felt that way to me, even though as an adult there's obviously some easy parallels to make. But then there's easy parallels to make between Tolkien and basically any epic fantasy that came after him.

[Arkandel]

Let the boomstick do the talking. Ash vs Evil Dead.

[Miss Demeanor]

FUCKING SWEET!

[Insomnia]

If anyone likes slasher movies, Scream is shaping up to be decent with the right amount or scares and suspense I didn't expect to see on TV.

Also Movie to TV: Last year's From Dusk Till Dawn is good too.

[Cobalt]

@Arkandel said:

Let the boomstick do the talking. Ash vs Evil Dead.

Bruce Campbell AND Lucy Lawless? Ohyeah.

[Karmageddon]

I'm a bit surprised that no one's yet mentioned Mr. Robot. It's pretty damn Fight Club-ish, with traces of American Psycho, but I'm digging it.

[Wizz]

@Coin said:

@Roz said:

Finally finished Sense8 tonight. There was something so heart-wrenching about -- I don't know how to say it, the optimism of it? Not naivite, but the overwhelming sense of all these different, disparate people, all broken in their own places, reaching out to help each other. I AM VERY OVERWHELMED WITH FEELINGS.

You pansy, he said, knowing he'll probably tear up or some shit when he watches it.

Sense8 is goddamn amazing. I sprayed tears all over the place like a cracked fire hydrant.

[Bobotron]

@Wizz
I started watching Sense8 this morning. I'm on episode 3 right now. I just want to cry over the Nomi stuff in episodes 2 and 3. so far.

ETA: Fuck that. This Nomi thing, all I'm going to do is cry my eyes out.
ETA2: OH SHIT. LET'S GO KICK SOME ASS OLD LADY!

[The Tree of Woe]

@Cobaltasaurus Lucy is making noises about wanting to get the ownership issues settled so she can get the band back together and do more Xena. A TV movie, at least.

It won't be the same without Ares, though...

[Wizz]

@Bobotron
Hers are definitely the hardest segments to watch during the first part of the season. The 4 Non Blondes scene in particular...it is really, really difficult to make you feel that many feels at once. It's still sticking with me like a month later.

[Bobotron]

@Wizz
As someone who grew up terrified that this type of thing would be what I'd have to do and go through, by being gay (because honestly, that's what the section I'm on right now feels like for Nomi, gay therapy bullshit that you hear about from the 50s), it's horrible to watch.

So it's striking a chord that I thought I'd left behind a long time ago.

[Roz]

@Wizz Yeah, my roommate is trans and genderqueer, and I totally recommended the show to them, but I was also like BUT HERE'S A FUCKING HUGE-ASS TRIGGER WARNING BEFORE YOU START. I am not trans and I've never been the victim of any forced hospitalization, but it squicked me hard.

[Wizz]

I relate to it differently, in that I went through an enormous paradigm shift in my late teens-early twenties. I was basically Nomi's mom prior to that, culturally speaking, because of some deeply held religious beliefs. Although I never personally inflicted that level of pain on another person, it's only because I never had the opportunity. I still have a lot of family like her, though, and they have had it in the time since, and the hospitalization stuff definitely brings their hate and the hate I used to feel to mind in a way that is deeply uncomfortable, but powerfully compelling. I hope that anyone with even a shred of human decency would be powerfully affected by Nomi's scenes, regardless of orientation or experience, so this shit is stark, but totally necessary and definitely good TV in my opinion.

[TNP]

@Wizz said:

I hope that anyone with even a shred of human decency would be powerfully affected by Nomi's scenes, regardless of orientation or experience, so this shit is stark, but totally necessary and definitely good TV in my opinion.

Problem is, I doubt the people who actually need to see this are the ones watching it.

[tragedyjones]

Has anyone else been watching Mr. Robot? Currently airing on USA, it is a modern cyberpunk hacker-drama. I am actually really impressed with it thus far.

[Coin]

@tragedyjones said:

Has anyone else been watching Mr. Robot? Currently airing on USA, it is a modern cyberpunk hacker-drama. I am actually really impressed with it thus far.

It's so Demon.

[tragedyjones]

@Coin said:

@tragedyjones said:

Has anyone else been watching Mr. Robot? Currently airing on USA, it is a modern cyberpunk hacker-drama. I am actually really impressed with it thus far.

It's so Demon.

Don't you fucking dare make me want to play Demon, asshole. It may inspire a firebrand hacker Carthian Mekhet.