OT: Consolidated Entertainment Thread (TV, movies, books, games) part VI - use spoiler tags!

[Ripshot 43]

Arcane season 2 ... oof, what a disappointment after act 1. Season 1 was THE BEST SHOW I've seen in ages, in any genre, hands down, goated, show or movie. Maybe it gets better with parts 2 and 3 but the way Netflix shows go I'm not hopeful, f*** me.

Curious to if you finished it. I loved season 1 and the first 3 episodes of season 2 I thought were pretty good. The remaining 6 episodes were a big disappointment overall unfortunately. Definitely seemed rushed but I didn’t care for how the storyline in the other world or whatever that was just completely dominated the rest of the season. When they focused on Jinx and Vi it felt much like season 1 to me but all of the other supporting characters seemed to get thrown into the spotlight and the show suffered for it.

 

[JK3]

Curious to if you finished it. I loved season 1 and the first 3 episodes of season 2 I thought were pretty good. The remaining 6 episodes were a big disappointment overall unfortunately. Definitely seemed rushed but I didn’t care for how the storyline in the other world or whatever that was just completely dominated the rest of the season. When they focused on Jinx and Vi it felt much like season 1 to me but all of the other supporting characters seemed to get thrown into the spotlight and the show suffered for it.

Yeah I finished it, ugh. It's not that it's terrible it's just such a departure from season one. It's super rushed, with so much crap crammed in I could barely process it, they needed another season. The worst thing is most of the main cast is separated with barely any meaningful dialog or interaction between characters.

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I hated the flashback with Vander, Silco and Vi's mom. So you're telling me, Silco (along with Vander) who's now on the hook for protecting Felicia and her kid, is on board and invested in her, the very same woman who dies on the bridge for HIS cause, ultimately decides that he's happy with killing Vi. GTFO with this garbage.

The Black Rose stuff was a waste of time. I didn't like that they put in some multiverse crap and time travel stuff. I hated Isha, just an annoying cheap way to humanize Jinx (but the parallels with Powder and Vi, blech). Sevika is on the counsel now hahaha cmon. They did Heimerdinger dirty, one of Piltover's greatest citizens, they didn't even mention him at the end lmao. There's some other stuff that annoyed me but yeah lol.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Yeah I finished it, ugh. It's not that it's terrible it's just such a departure from season one. It's super rushed, with so much crap crammed in I could barely process it, they needed another season. The worst thing is most of the main cast is separated with barely any meaningful dialog or interaction between characters.

Spoiler

I hated the flashback with Vander, Silco and Vi's mom. So you're telling me, Silco (along with Vander) who's now on the hook for protecting Felicia and her kid, is on board and invested in her, the very same woman who dies on the bridge for HIS cause, ultimately decides that he's happy with killing Vi. GTFO with this garbage.

The Black Rose stuff was a waste of time. I didn't like that they put in some multiverse crap and time travel stuff. I hated Isha, just an annoying cheap way to humanize Jinx (but the parallels with Powder and Vi, blech). Sevika is on the counsel now hahaha cmon. They did Heimerdinger dirty, one of Piltover's greatest citizens, they didn't even mention him at the end lmao. There's some other stuff that annoyed me but yeah lol.

It’s not that it’s terrible…. But then it’s pretty terrible . Just kidding… I’m completely understand and agree with what you said. Expectations were sky high because of season 1. Season 2 came nowhere near close.

 

[JK3]

I meant to say on a surface level it's not terrible. If you don't know much about it you could be like wow look at all this cool stuff going on and the animation is amazing, this is great.

Oh the last thing, stop with all the music videos, waaaay to many of those. I get why they did it, they're just big exposition dumps of info but I'd rather see those things actually play out on the show but they didn't have enough time.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

The Fishes dinner episode gives me PTSD memories of going to LBI with my wife's family.

I thought Jamie Lee Curtis deserved awards for that guest appearance. Everyone was amazing but her performance was stuff theater instructors write books about.

 

[Hisch13r]

Really enjoying Dune: Prophecy through the first 2 episodes

I think the series did a great job of making you root for a guy you know is an evil bastard, but at the end of the day he's still an evil bastard that the hero is going to have to take down. But I'm also just kind of over the sympathetic villain thing right now and I'm okay with just a purely evil monster that needs to be taken down. Might have something to do with things that have happened recently.

I think there’s room for sympathetic villains but also yeah Oz shouldn’t be that guy.

 

[Oneiro]

Started The Penguin today and can't lie. Pretty f***ing boring so far. It's not like the writing is exceptional either.

Gonna give it one more episode (3) and then drop it.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

Been watching Day of the Jackal on Peacock. Pretty good show.

Akso new Dune show, which I am liking, but hopefully there aren't going to be plot holes.

 

[My3Sons]

Started The Penguin today and can't lie. Pretty f***ing boring so far. It's not like the writing is exceptional either.

Gonna give it one more episode (3) and then drop it.

I think it depends upon your perspective when you watch thr Penguin. It’s a crime show about the rise of a complex mob guy. Forget it’s the Penguin and has anything to do with Batman. If you like gritty crime drama it should pan out for you. I found the black of Batman a little distracting but it was a good watch for me as a very casual Batman fan .

 

[Oneiro]

I think it depends upon your perspective when you watch thr Penguin. It’s a crime show about the rise of a complex mob guy. Forget it’s the Penguin and has anything to do with Batman. If you like gritty crime drama it should pan out for you. I found the black of Batman a little distracting but it was a good watch for me as a very casual Batman fan .

I'm not super attached to the comic aspect of it, I get what they're going for. It's not bad or anything, just not sure if I'll stick it out. Time is sort of limited for me currently.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Wife and I have been throwing on random Christmas movies on in the background lately, mostly shit that's on Netflix. The one that stuck out the most to me was Hot Frosty. I know the term "fake movie" gets thrown around a lot, but I've found that the best definition is if you can answer the question "would this movie be a cutaway gag on 30 Rock?" with "yes." There's even a scene where you can insert Jenna Maroney in place of one of the characters and it would be a perfect gag for that show. It's not good, of course. A stupid concept can only get you so far.

We're ending some of our streaming service subscriptions and I hate the fact that we're sticking with Netflix because of my wife and her family. It's significantly more expensive than everything else and you're paying a lot more for less quality. But my wife loves her background slop, and her family uses our account for Spanish language stuff (their international fare is actually top-notch), so it's staying with us.

 

[MadDevil]

Skeleton Crew is off to a pretty solid start. It's definitely geared towards a younger audience, but as somebody who grew up with Goonies, E.T., Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, etc. it scratches that nostalgia itch for me.

 

[MadDevil]

Just to bump this thread, if you'd have told me a year ago that I'd like the Star Wars show with a bunch of kids more than a story set during the High Republic era about the Sith, I'd have said you're nuts, but here we are. Also, Nick Frost voicing a pirate droid is fantastic. I want a road show with SM-33, K-2SO, and Chopper.

 

[Devils731]

Just to bump this thread, if you'd have told me a year ago that I'd like the Star Wars show with a bunch of kids more than a story set during the High Republic era about the Sith, I'd have said you're nuts, but here we are. Also, Nick Frost voicing a pirate droid is fantastic. I want a road show with SM-33, K-2SO, and Chopper.

I didn’t get to episode 3 yet but I did enjoy the first 2.

It is weird, because it’s definitely targeting kids aged 8-15, I think, but it’s still more enjoyable to me than a few of the recent “adult” shows.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Just to bump this thread, if you'd have told me a year ago that I'd like the Star Wars show with a bunch of kids more than a story set during the High Republic era about the Sith, I'd have said you're nuts, but here we are. Also, Nick Frost voicing a pirate droid is fantastic. I want a road show with SM-33, K-2SO, and Chopper.

I've never been much of a Star Wars fan, but over the past year I realized that it would be better served by letting people get weird with the IP like what happened all the time in the 90s. I feel like it has two problems under Disney management:

1. It's mainly driven creatively by people who don't really respect or like the franchise.
2. It's mostly mandated to stick to characters and events in the established canon.

IMO, you can do one and still make a quality show or movie, but not both. Andor had the first aspect but not the second, while X-Men 97 had the second aspect but not the first. And both of those received widespread praise.

Anyway, I'm glad that thinking outside the box is working well for this new show. More of that.

 

[Darkauron]

I am not a fan of the new star wars show. I think the setting is interesting and the show has a good market, but I just really cant stand child actors and they seem just ok.

 

[Oneiro]

Just fanboy spitballing, but I'd love to see something that strikes a balance between the darkness/grittiness of Andor and Rogue One and the intrigue and magic of the originals. The Jedi are sort of irrelevant in Gilroy's stories and I understand why - they introduce a level of fantasy that easily comes off as contrived and is hard for even a good actor to sell as we saw in a lot of these failed shows. Dave Filoni will never do it, he's too busy chasing the originals' tone, though parts of the Clone Wars came close.

Even though they're the most important figures in the universe, I feel like a truly heavy, meaningful Jedi-centric story hasn't been told. I'd love to see someone do the Jedi stuff without the comic relief, with a lot more visual beauty. I love Denis Villeneuve but his scripts are bland and the actors' performances in his movies are a little plastic. But someone with that visual sense but better writing and acting...that would be f***ing perfect.

 

[Darkauron]

Just fanboy spitballing, but I'd love to see something that strikes a balance between the darkness/grittiness of Andor and Rogue One and the intrigue and magic of the originals. The Jedi are sort of irrelevant in Gilroy's stories and I understand why - they introduce a level of fantasy that easily comes off as contrived and is hard for even a good actor to sell as we saw in a lot of these failed shows. Dave Filoni will never do it, he's too busy chasing the originals' tone, though parts of the Clone Wars came close.

Even though they're the most important figures in the universe, I feel like a truly heavy, meaningful Jedi-centric story hasn't been told. I'd love to see someone do the Jedi stuff without the comic relief, with a lot more visual beauty. I love Denis Villeneuve but his scripts are bland and the actors' performances in his movies are a little plastic. But someone with that visual sense but better writing and acting...that would be f***ing perfect.

They could have told a really cool jedi story in Acolyte about the darkside of jedis/sith and their corrupted power. But the stupid story about the sisters was garbage and ruined it

 

[Oneiro]

They could have told a really cool jedi story in Acolyte about the darkside of jedis/sith and their corrupted power. But the stupid story about the sisters was garbage and ruined it

Totally agree. The base story had so much potential. Also they seem afraid to really explore seeing things from the Dark Side perspective, which I feel like is a bit of cowardice.

 

[Saugus]

I keep getting taken by surprise each time they put out a new Star Wars series. I shouldn’t, because of course they’re going to milk that.

But damn guys, slow down! I’ve barely gotten all the way through the Mandalorian.

 

[Satans Hockey]

I know it's just a poster but so happy to see it full of color and the music is hopeful. Teaser trailer is coming out Thursday, hoping for all the doom and gloom and gray from the last bunch of movies involving Superman to be gone

 

[MadDevil]

I'm cautiously optimistic. My only worry is Gunn's movies tend lean into humor, sometimes too much, so I'm curious to see a more serious (obviously not as grim dark as Snyder) movie from him.