Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 19 Jul 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 19 Jul 2023
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With the whole Hollywood strike going on it got me thinking - there is SO much content that if something weird were to happen whereby no more movies or TV shows were to ever be made, I'd be fine with the sheer amount of content that has been generated up to this day. Like, if some weird, I don't know, space temporal displacement happened whereby Hollywood (or hell, anyone - BBC, Australian TV, etc.) were able to make anything else then there is enough content available for a lifetime regardless.
Obviously in saying that it would mean an entire industry would be out of work permanently... so this hypothetical situation has massive economic pressures as well. But still... this strike could go on for years and I'd still be playing catch up.
The sad truth is there isnt much interesting coming out these days either. The current season of the Witcher is almost unwatchable. Secret Invasion is "Meh" at best. Silo was disappointing. I couldn't tell you the last thing we loved, beyond probably Picard? But even that had a horrible first 2 seasons. Grand Tour Eurocrash was ok. I am excited about Thank God You're Here though.
Happy Valley is very good, if you like gritty crime shows with well written characters.
I hate how much Disney have churned out their TV shows. They fell into the same trap that Netflix did with the Defenders - it started out so promising only to become a bloated, overdrawn mess.
I really don't care about investing more time on the Witcher since Henry Cavill left. If he felt it was worth ditching the show because the writers were getting it wrong, then why the fuck would I bother with it either?
Meanwhile there's shows I haven't see in forever that I'd love to re-watch. Sopranos, Breaking Bad (and I haven't seen Better Call Saul yet), Daredevil and Jessica Jones... there's too many to list actually.
And yes - I'm with you on that as well about TGYH. Aussie TV can be so frustrating sometimes since they'll be on a winner only to can it for no real good reason. Chanel 7 are dickheads for buying it only to can it after what, two seasons?
I wish they'd bring back Good News Week.
Bloated is the right word for it. Can anyone remember who the bad guy was in Ms Marvel? Can you tell me what happened in She Hulk beyond the Wong cameo? Cause I sure as shit cant. Kenobi SUCKED.
GNW was amazing! Have You Neen Paying Attention can be ok, but the dumping on Tom thing is getting a little old. And at its worst its super disrespectful to its guests. Its all fun if everyone's in on the joke, but there's such a thing as taking it to far.
I did enjoy the new episodes of Spicks and Specks.
New Jack Ryan isn't that bad. Strange Worlds is fine. Prime seems to be doing the best shows at the moment.
I didn't even know the new Witcher season came out. Giving it a miss for reasons.
I didnt even know Jack Ryan had a season 3. Thats queued up on.... things. For the Witcher do you want me to recap the season for you? I'm only 3 eps in but so far its a bunch of sour looks and characters shouting "Ciri!" "Geralt!" Yen!" and the occasional quip for Jask. There you go, now you've missed nothing!
S3 was my favourite one. Really good cat and mouse setup with betrayals all over the place.
S4 is more action than anything only six eps. Probably could have used 2 or 3 more to flesh out the story, cause the entire thing is massively rushed. Still worth a watch.
I've done so many rewatches of things, that I've missed out on a heap of newer content.
It's not a bad place to be. And I figure, should this strike continue, I'll be ready to rewatch stuff again.
Or go back to reading. Actually making progress through 2 different books right now and watching less during the week.
We're re-watching Supernatural. Had watched the original seasons 1-5 years ago and shat on the idea of the show continuing after the show runner was like "nope, my plan was always 5 seasons so I won't be staying on", only to turn around after the show's continued success and go "actually this is really cool I want back in." So yeah, 15 seasons at about 2-3 episodes a week is going to take us quite a while. And that's just one show. I saw the thread on Monday where you were talking about that show Justified and I was like "shit, that sounds like a cool show" so that's now on the list. Good thing that list is digital as I'd have to fell a whole forest for the parchment required to write the list out.
Took me a bit to get into Justified honestly. First season is essentially 'case of the week' with a bit of an overarching plot and recurring characters. After that it gets really good.
I still have seen 0 episodes of Supernatural. Might give it a crack one day. Always seemed like a kiddie X-Files for me and not very interesting.
Good to know about Justified - I don't mind too much the idea of a "case of the week" so long as it's not its staple. I love shows that evolve in that way, rewarding longer time viewers with a payoff for the foundation/structure of the earlier part of the narrative.
Supernatural is more akin to Buffy and Angel, I think - at least the first three or so seasons Overarching bad-guy with an episodic baddie of the week kind of thing. But the further you go the more you realise the key moments interwind towards something much more. The show runner, Eric Kripke, wrote a plan for how the who story arch of the first five seasons would play out and it's easy to appreciate that kind of forward planning - even if the third (?) season was hit with the last writers' strike.
That said, yeah, it's definitely not as serious as X-Files. It has a lighter tone for the most part, with some episodes which are put together really well from a comedic perspective.
It's ART. Content is a product you find in cereal boxes.
Sadly I'm on rewatches because I watch way too much content and have gobbled up just about every half decent show/movie in each genre I like. In good news.. new Justified today woo!
Rewatches are also great - I want to go back and watch things like Legion, as that's definitely a show that I feel would give a huge amount of benefit the second-time around. I'm also on my third run of Shorsey which I watch when doing cardio, and that's only after running through Letterkenny a secondtime.
I saw you mention Justified the other day and hadn't heard of it, but I'm going to start that soon. Looks like a really cool show, and I love the idea of a neo-western, too.
I just did a Legion rewatch a couple of months ago. That show was art. I honestly pity those who watched it on a low-quality screen or with low-quality non-surround audio, especially the audio. Those people didn't get the entire audio-visual experience. It's like when people downloaded rips of Avatar and hated it when it came out rather than going to watch it in 3D at a cinema. I will only watch Legion using my Sony WH1000XM3s for that surround and rich sound, because I don't have a full surround sound system on my PC or TV. Hearing every maddening whisper, music cue, tone. So good.
God, wasn't it! For me it's one of the few shows where you can examine a LOT of it on so many different levels. The art and direction, the choice of style which in of itself is intentionally timeless. The acting was on point. The sheer chaos of some moments... I actually used it for some of my masters' thesis on exploring the use of the unreliable narrator in speculative fiction.
Justified is brilliant, I just finished a binge watch of the original series. Justified: City Primeval starts soon (today I think actually). Really looking forward to the new series, set in Detroit this time. Raylan is back but I think the rest are new characters.