Posts made by Sockmonkey

@Aria said in Good TV:

Please excuse me while I ugly snot-cry at The Good Place finale.

Oh my god, that show was perfect from beginning to end. I can't believe it is over..

Okay, neither of these count as YouTubers but I love these videos and they're on YouTube so it sorta counts?

WIRED Expert Breakdowns -- my favorites in this series is when the dialect coach breaks down movie accents.

The Try Guys -- always a delight and educational too!

@Kestrel It took me a while to buy into his Fleabag character since my only exposure to him previously was as Moriarty on Sherlock. I kept waiting for the priest to do something really fucked up and evil.

I know I am super late to this but...

Fleabag was frickin' amazing.

Princess Caith Thrax, the Best Hugger in Arx*, and Maja Darling, apprentice to Whisper House!

*Definitely a better hugger than Sabella.

Everyone who doesn't put The Last Jedi at the top/near top of their ranking lists is wrong.

You can't fight universal truth so don't bother trying.

@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Sockmonkey said in Good or New Movies Review:

And since we are on the topic, here's my final ranking:

Ugh, this is not complete. Where is Caravan of Courage (this is the Ewok one with the random kid actors .. the marauders lose here before they show up in the Mandalorian, spoiler alert) or The Holiday Special.

The holiday special is on there! It is #8. Unless there is another holiday special that I am not aware of!

I forgot about the Ewok one. Hmm. Probably somewhere in the range of 'Star Wars kid in his garage' but above 'Cats'.

Alright, apparently I can't get the spoiler tags to work(??) so here's a link to my super super spoiler-filled Twitter rant on what I did not like TRoS:

https://twitter.com/ninae/status/1208145442799681536

And since we are on the topic, here's my final ranking:

1. Empire
2. New Hope
3. Last Jedi
4. Return
5. Rogue One
6. Force Awakens
7. (three-way tie) the prequels
8. The xmas Special
9. Star Wars kid in his garage
10. Every single scenario that I played out as a kid with my toys
11. Cats
12. Solo
    ...
    999,999,999. The Rise of SKywalker

I thought Rise of Skywalker was horrifically and absolutely terrible and I cannot think of one single moment, beyond the initial titles (but before the scroll) and fanfare, in the entire 2 hours 22 minutes that I enjoyed.

JFC.

@Wretched I kind of skimmed through Arrow out of necessity because I was drawing on an Arrow sketch card set once. I couldn't get into it; it really bugged me that that his facial scruff grew down his neck. Just .. shave, man. Shave that neck.

@The-Sands said in Good TV:

I will give one 'quibble' to Carnival Row, they introduce a sort of steampunk aesthetic early on and it runs through the series in the background but then never really seems to do anything beyond being window dressing.

I know this is really old but ...

It's that exactly what steampunk is? All appearance, no function.

@Dreampipe said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

I started using "coke" exclusively since that time I asked for an "Ice Cream Soda Float" at a restaurant and they brought me soda water with an ice cream scoop in it.

What the fuck is this fuckery??

@Three-Eyed-Crow My husband and I started watching it on a whim when we were in a lull for new tv. I am SO glad we did because it's crazy good. I love cousin Greg.

Hopefully the series will improve the characters because RJ's inability to mature his female characters was one reason I abandoned the books. Having them be petulant children who didn't communicate their feelings ('If you don't know why I'm mad, I'm not going to tell you' HRMPH braid tug) in the beginning was fine because they were children. But having them behave EXACTLY the same after time and experience and increasing responsibility made me be like 'fuck this shit'.

In other news...

Succession is awesome and I loved Euphoria. Zendaya's acting was heart breaking.

The best comment in a GoT thread that I have read so far:

Since neither Arya or Sansa want the iron throne and almost everyone else left kinda sucks now? #TeamStarbucksCup

These two fuckin' people...

***I just can't.***

@Roz said in Game of Thrones:

***Spoilers***

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@Kodiak said in Game of Thrones:

@Sockmonkey. It was a build up for all those years and what did we learn about the White Walkers? Nothing. We didn't learn why the Night King wanted to kill Bran, we didn't learn what his real motivations were.

Well, they did talk about why he wanted to kill Bran in the episode prior, and there was a bit of back and forth. About the Night King wanting to destroy all of humanity and its history, and Bran holds all of that history within himself.

***Siiiiiigh***

***All those ladies..***

@Selira @Arkandel

***I agree with***

Well.

***UGH***