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@phase-face said in Good TV:

Would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys urban fantasy content, with the significant caveat that the first couple season in particular do include references to/instances of sexual assault which are fairly major plot points; that element of the show was perhaps my least favorite by far, but it's something that diminishes as time goes on.

It's also something that is tackled in a mature and realistic way, with nuance and respect for survivors and how that trauma can affect them and what it can make them do.

I would recommend to anyone binging it to definitely watch the last episode of the first season and then immediately watch the first 2-3 of the second season. Don't wait. I had to wait and it was a really bad time.

Ex-President of Argentina Carlos Menem. Die mad, fucker.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@coin said in Good TV:

In Superman & Lois they have teenage twins they have raised together. Just a tiny bit of a technical difference.

Which was also hilarious because... those kids must be as blind as their mom, it must be a genetic thing, since they didn't realize his secret identity either.

What the hell, they had never seen Clark without glasses on their whole lives?

Look man, if you're gonna watch Superman -- ANY Superman -- and not be able to suspend that particular bit of disbelief, you're gonna have a bad time. XD

Also, there are studies that show some people's faces change SO MUCH with/without glasses/bangs/whatever.

@jibberthehut said in Good TV:

Binged it, it's lovely, the costumes are gorgeous. It did however leave me confused and realizing that you probably need to have a basic understanding of the world it's set in, as it lacks some worldbuilding. They seem to expect that you'll have understanding of different races/peoples of the setting.

That said, I enjoyed it. I'll give it another watch and having never read the series, I'd probably give the books a go just so that I can better understand the world as a whole.

@groth said in Good TV:

@jibberthehut
Its basically faux Russia, faux Yuan(Mongol) China and faux Netherlands.

More specifically:

Ravka is heavily influenced and inspired by Tsarist Russia of the early 1800s.

Novyi Zem was inspired by the American colonies and Australia, with other influences.

Kerch was inspired by the Dutch Republic of the 18th century, with some influence from New York (New Amsterdam), Las Vegas, and Victorian London.

Shu Han is based on Mongolia and China. The name is taken from one of the Chinese states of Three Kingdoms period.

Fjerda is based on Scandinavia.

The Wandering Isle is based on Ireland.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

I often wonder if racists ever know what they're implying when they argue that the most moral man on Earth can't be black.

I can't say, but Superman falls within the Starfire clause; he's a freakin' alien. Humans on his earth should be happy he doesn't have tentacles for fingers and bug eyes, let alone the pigmentation of his skin.

@groth said in Good TV:

@arkandel

If you ignore his previous visual incarnations for a moment and just go with 'A human form alien thats powered by the light of a yellow sun', wouldnt his most natural skin color be Blue(blue is what remains if you remove yellow from light) or atleast heavily tan/dark skinned?

Ironically, or perhaps deliberately, Icon, the Dakotaverse's analogue for Superman, is a character who isn't human-seeming in his natural form, but takes the shape of the nearest human specimen: a black man. So not only do they manage to make a black version of the general Superman archetype; they manage to do it without one of the dumbest issues that Superman originally has (re: he's an alien from another planet that is essentially a white human man).

@wizz said in Good TV:

I've been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the six billionth time because I've had a super bad nostalgia streak, and this time I've been following along with the Buffering podcast, which does episodic commentary, just so I can get a different perspective on what I saw.

Anyway, they recently posted this meme and I NEVER MADE THIS CONNECTION, EVER

Holy shit, ANYA'S BEST FRIEND WAS ORIGINALLY CECILLY, THE LADY WHO REJECTED SPIKE WHEN HE WROTE HER A GOOFY POEM AS A HUMAN AND LEAD TO HIS DEATH

Then he gets vamped, something really shitty must have happened to her and she became a vengeance demon, and then 150ish years later they get to have this fun awkward little moment.

Hahaha man. Fan for like 15 years and tons of rewatches and I never caught that, because it's so subtle!

... dude...

I never caught that either.

DAMN.

Dude, I really liked it. I don't know what people are complaining about. I think people went in with some serious expectations that they had no reason to actually have.

@testament said in Good TV:

@coin I think a lot of people's gripes was the fact that the trailers gave the expectation that there'd be a lot more He-Man when the first half the season is based more around Teela. Which is fine. Besides the fact that they only released half the first season, I think people should calm down a bit before getting out the pitchforks.

I mean, I guess?

I thought it was VERY telling that they called it Master of the Universe rather than the original title...

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@coin I haven't watched it yet, but it's legitimate to be peeved if the protagonist of a show you really like becomes (or seems like it) part of the support cast in a reboot.

I don't think that's necessarily a gender thing.

I mean, a couple of technicalities in that it's not the same show and not a reboot; it's more of a sequel, or continuation.

And I mean, people can be peeved, but like, I didn't say a single thing about gender; in fact, I think you're the first one to bring it up.

If people are complaining because the main characters are the women of the show, then it definitely is about gender in at least some way or another.

Like I said: it's very telling that they named it Masters of the Universe: Revelations instead of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Revelations. I think it was on purpose, and a lot of the people who are gonna rage and feel bamboozled are also the kind of people who will sit and nitpick tiny little details and rant about them on YouTube.

So. >.> Whatevs. They can die mad. XD

Titans Season 3 is coming out August 12.
Doom Patrol Season 3 is coming out September 23.
Young Justice Season 4 is coming out October 21.

Excite.

@EmmahSue said:

Hemlock Grove has one of the better 'watch a dude turn into a werewolf and out again' images I've seen in quite some time.

ES

And apparently they have one within 90 seconds of the first episode of season 3, so there's that!

I don't know how I managed to keep my shit at work during that Jessica Jones trailer. But I did.

@ganymede said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

@coin said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

The only things that have ever bothered me, really, were the whitewashing in Avatar by Shyamalan * * *.

Really? This is the only thing that ever bothered you about the movie?

I didn't get past the first fifteen minutes because I may watch Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries but I still have some standards.

HE'S A SHARK, HE'S A SHARK HE'S A FUCKING SHARRRRRRRRRK.

God, I loved that that week. It made my otherwise shitty day so much better.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin: Deadpool stuff.

A lot of the time it's the confusion wherein people think that "strong female character" means "badass woman that kicks ass all the time". This is a fallacy. Not all strong female characters kick ass all over the place. A lot of them don't. A lot of them are just women that are portrayed realistically, with their characterizations based on who they are, not what their gender is.

No one is ever going to expect Felicity from "Arrow" to put on some tights and start kicking ass all over the place, and if she did, it would ring hollow; it wouldn't make her stronger as a character or a woman, in my opinion. This does not mean she is not a strong female character.

Also, fuck, @Kireek, don't tell women what they should and shouldn't like. Seriously, this is Being Decent 101.

@Derp said:

@Coin

I'm so jealous, you bastard.

Sooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

@Bargle said:

Don't worry, it's actually good. Not just good while doped up. But for shame! Going to the theater with the flu? Didn't you see Outbreak?!?

that movie is worth making a couple hundred other people sick.

That's not how the Force works.