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Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Blake's 7: always meant to check this out.Anyone else watched it? ..."
I’ve not seen it."
It's one of those shows I'd always heard mentioned, but never saw.
Finally getting around to it.
I get why it's seen as a big deal, but not sure if I love it.
I love it. It's a great show, and part of what makes it work so well for me is its dark tone. Yes, it's a slow burn, but the stories go in some unexpected directions and the finale is jaw-dropping. I promise it's worth the trip.
Ivan wrote: "I love it. It's a great show, and part of what makes it work so well for me is its dark tone. Yes, it's a slow burn, but the stories go in some unexpected directions and the finale is jaw-dropping...."Now that we have our 7 and are finding a rythym, I'm starting to enjoy its more.
Good cast and I'm enjoying the weird sci-fi stuff more than the 'oh no! the Federation!' stuff.
Just discovered Jonathon Groff who played Rogue also played King George in Hamilton...!The same actor who played one of my least favorite Who characters played my favorite Hamilton character...?
Life is strange.
Oh, the presidential debates are on...Think I'll watch some scooby-doo instead.
Do that. The moderators are letting Donny the whiney baby lie, misinform, and propagandize until he’s red in the face.
Travis wrote: "Oh, the presidential debates are on...Think I'll watch some scooby-doo instead."
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This is my shocked face
Doolittle: better than I expected, but man it's a bit of a mess.Too many modern references/slang/jokes.
Lot of famous actors wasted and way too busy and reliant on CGI.
I will say RDjr is actually excellent and when it relaxes and just focuses on telling an adventure story, it's alot of fun.
Seriously? RDjr spends most the film half-heartedly mumbling his lines. It’s like he tried to do it while sleep walking.
Rick wrote: "Seriously? RDjr spends most the film half-heartedly mumbling his lines. It’s like he tried to do it while sleep walking."I didn't like the 'oh, he's sad...!' bits, but once the story kicks in, I enjoyed the odd Doctor Who meets Jack Sparrow vibe.
He's a better Doolittle than he was Sherlock Holmes , in my humble opinion
I thought he was terrible as both. Although I never saw the second Sherlock Holmes film he made. The first one was too awful.
Hated his Sherlock Holmes.And Doolittle is decent, where it could have been great, but RDJ is not the problem.
somebody looked at this script and decided we need it to be funny, to off set it being odd and quirky and gave it to a couple sitcom writers.
On the bright side, this movie reminded me how much I loved these books as a kid, so I'm off to amazon to track them down.
RDjr may not have been “the” problem, but he was one of the problems. You’re correct about the writing, but I can’t help feel like he got so disgusted with the direction the script was taken that he just “phoned it in” as they say. Because he just felt completely removed from and disinterested in everything else happening in the movie.
Mulan: the live action is very different from the animated, but once you realize that and make the mental adjustment, it's quite good.I really enjoyed it.
Great cast.
Not that there's a ton of competition, but one of the best of the live action remakes.
I just finished rewatching Disney Doctor Who season 1, WandaVision, and Percy Jackson season 1. Good stuff all around.
I had Covid again this past week. Second official bout with it. Back at work now, doing better. But jeez, I really hate that damn virus.
Rick wrote: "I just finished rewatching Disney Doctor Who season 1, WandaVision, and Percy Jackson season 1. Good stuff all around."Good picks.
Rick wrote: "I had Covid again this past week. Second official bout with it. Back at work now, doing better. But jeez, I really hate that damn virus."That sucks.
Sorry to hear.
Hope you're doing better.
Much better. I was only really sick (this time) for about 3 days, but it took almost a week to get a negative test result. The really bad part was that when I got sick, I tested negative, so I thought it was just a cold. The next day it was a lot worst, but still negative. So I went home early. The next day I was feeling a little better, but then I actually got a fever AND then I tested positive. So the virus is being real tricky now, trying to avoid detection so it can spread.
The first time I had it, I was out of commission for about two weeks.
Raya and the last dragon: Good, but could have been great.The 'woke' isn't what's hurting movies, it's the fact that writers will waste screen time with fart jokes, unfunny comedic sidekicks (this movie gives the heroine 7 of them. Only 3 are actually funny) and quirky, modern dialogue in a fantasy setting.
Plus, the evil girl's redemption involved no actual acknowledgment of the damage she caused....!
It's like Stephen Moffett helped write it.
Shame, as it's a beautiful looking movie with lots of good stuff buried under the crap.
Yeah I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t GREAT.
Just finished the first two episode of Agatha All Along. LOVED IT!
Blake's 7 update: Finished the first season.Really solid cast, and it's working really hard to overcome its budget limitations.
Writing is decent, like the sci-fi ideas, but I'm losing interest in the big bad federation as the main plot line, as it's pretty blah.
Maybe, I'm biased, as one of the main bad guys is a psychotic cyborg named 'Travis'.
Enjoying it and curious how they deal with the season finale in season 2.
Listened on audio to Bonnie Langford’s Doctor Who book that just came out, Death in the Stars. No surprise she does a great job narrating! Enjoyed it, but it gets pretty dark. No darker than some Big Finish so not off tone for Doctor Who, I’m just usually a cozy mystery person when it comes to mystery stories and it’s definitely not that. But there is a lot of humor in it too to keep it from being too grim. Do recommend especially on audio!
Tali wrote: "Listened on audio to Bonnie Langford’s Doctor Who book that just came out, Death in the Stars. No surprise she does a great job narrating! Enjoyed it, but it gets pretty dark. No darker than some B..."With how big a deal Mel has been in New Who, you'd think Nick Briggs would be camped out on her doorstep.
Would love to see/hear/read some adventures of her in space, trying and probably failing to keep Glitz out of trouble.
Cheerful, perky Mel meets the Judoon would be brilliant.
Target has announced novelizations of nearly all of Ncuti's first season are available for preorder.I'll have to buy the '73 yards' one.
See if that helps.
Rick wrote: "Just finished the first two episode of Agatha All Along. LOVED IT!"It's a solid start.
I have a few quibbles and concerns, but it's a pretty decent cast, an impressive amount of easter eggs and naked Catherine Hahn, so I'm willing to go along for the ride and see what happens.
Blake's 7 season 2: It's a mess, but an entertaining mess.Like the cast, but the writers don't know what to do with half of them or remember that we have a telepath and two super computers that might be able to help us.
Lots of good ideas and it's fun to play 'spot the Doctor Who actor', but I only like the show, not love it.
Agatha all along: I can't tell if this show is trying too hard or it doesn't know what it's doing...?Solid cast, wasted bad guys, whiplash tone, and could that reveal in episode four been fumbled any worse...?
Love Katherine Hahn and Patty Lapone, and there are some good ideas here, but the presentation is a mess and I'm not sure if they had a plan past 'Agatha is crazy popular! Give her a show!"
Oh they had a plan. And after the fifth episode it’s only just starting to get revealed. 😼
Hound of the Baskervilles: Tom Baker is a solid Sherlock Holmes, though it's odd to see him with his hair all slicked down.Production is decent but very stagey. Must have been done for TV rather than a movie, like I thought
Forgot to mention: Caroline Johns is the cast!There's a scene featuring Liz Shaw and the 4th Doctor.
Shame Tom didn't do more of these.
Rick wrote: "Oh they had a plan. And after the fifth episode it’s only just starting to get revealed. 😼"I don't hate the show, but I don't love it.
Great cast struggling to keep some really uneven writing going.
If they pull off the finale, I'll be more forgiving.
If nothing else, 'Agatha all along' did right by Patti LaPone.Her spotlight episode is probably the best thing this show has done.
Halloween viewing: Day of the Triffids: good, not great, but Carol Ann Ford shows up and I swear Nick Courtney is one of the aircraft pilots.Plus, the Triffids look like a Doctor Who monster.
Travis wrote: "If nothing else, 'Agatha all along' did right by Patti LaPone.Her spotlight episode is probably the best thing this show has done."
Well, I’d disagree with some this, but the sentiment on her episode? Yes, she was brilliant.
Happy halloween!!Not a lot of kids this year.
Maybe 15.
My daughter is gonna be thrilled at the amount of candy she's getting when she stops by this weekend.
Watched a couple old B+W monster movies and finished Agatha All Along.
Agatha thoughts: the two penultimate episodes were the best of the bunch and probably where the show should have ended.The actual finale felt like an after thought, that didn't do much besides muddy the waters further.
Really solid cast helps bolster the writing, which seesaws between really clever and no idea what it's doing.
Weird that the two new characters it establishes: Wiccan and Jennifer Kale: the first is nicely comic book accurate, while the second couldn't be more off model if they'd tried...
I absolutely LOVED Agatha All Along. Definitely one of the best shows Marvel has done. And I strongly disagree with the notion that the final episode is an afterthought. Yes, the penultimate episode had a BIG climax, but the background and reveal in the final episode (even if you saw it coming) changes the entire series. This is on the level of The Sixth Sense twist. Such good stuff.
Rick wrote: "I absolutely LOVED Agatha All Along. Definitely one of the best shows Marvel has done. And I strongly disagree with the notion that the final episode is an afterthought. Yes, the penultimate episod..."Liked it, didn't love it.
And while I agree, the final episode changes the entire series, I don't agree that that was nessicarily a good thing.
Really interested to see more with Billy, but don't love him stuck with Agatha, as a bitchy Obi-wan force ghost.
Despite her not being my favorite character, I'm equally interested in where Jen Kale shows up next.
Lots of good pieces to this show, but they never quite came together for me.
One more day.Just want to go to bed and wake up tomorrow with this over.
I’m having some really serious personal issues right now and with the election results as well, things are not looking good.
Rick wrote: "I’m having some really serious personal issues right now and with the election results as well, things are not looking good."Sorry to hear it.
nobody is having fun right now, and all we can do is worry about things and try to watch out for each other.
I'm glad for my little corners of the internet where I can just go and talk about the fun stuff.
Think we need those more than ever.
Interesting theory: is the watcher from Logopolis an example of bi-regeneration?
Thought for the day: Will the 2nd Tenant Doctor just remerge with the main Doctor when his time is done or will he regenerate too?And if he can regenerate maybe that's how we get the Curator, the Valyard and the Shalka Doctor...?
amazon has all the Avengers seasons available.Just what I needed.
Witty, fun, breezy with the occasional murder.
Think I'll start with the Tara King seasons.
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is the watcher from Logopolis an example of bi-regeneration?"
An interesting idea. Hmmm.
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Hi Rick. Sorry I've been away too long. Hope you are doing all right and please know, I am not a happy camper either.
Would people like a separate thread for a place to vent and let out some anxieties? Let me know.
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Anyone else watched it? ..."
I’ve not seen it.