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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 8, 2017 6:56:04 GMT -5
Game of Thrones season 7 episode 3 "The Queen's Justice" This episode felt a little slower than the previous one but it was still interesting. I really enjoyed seeing Jon Snow meet Daenerys and was glad to see he didn't bend the knee. It is kind of weird now that the audience knows they are half siblings and they don't. I also liked seeing Ser Jorah cured of greyscale disease and am curious where his story will go if and when he reunites with Daenerys. Another reunion this week with Bran returning to Winterfell. I'm kind of sad to see Diana Rigg's character get killed off. Her scenes with Charles Dance earlier in the series were some of my favorites. They're nephew and aunt. Diana Rigg's character will be missed, but it's not like we'll have much time, for the kind of scenes she excelled at.
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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 8, 2017 6:51:31 GMT -5
Best episode of GoT in quite some time IMO Don't EVER cross Cersei! If you're talking episode 3, it had great dialogues.
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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 8, 2017 6:50:36 GMT -5
Game of Thrones season 7 episode 2 "Stormborn" I like how thing are coming together so far. The giant dragon heads looked really cool. The Samwell scenes continue to be some of my favorites and the special effects makeups for Ser Jorah's greyscae disease were gruesome. Arya's reunion with her Direwolf was a bit sad. I liked that they ended with a battle and it seems they aren't wasting any time this season. That was a hell of an ending. I little bit hasty, but ok.
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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 8, 2017 6:49:50 GMT -5
I thought this season of Silicon Valley was funnier than the last one especially the finale. [...] The Leftovers continued to be one of the more interesting shows out there. I enjoyed this final season and thought they wrapped things up well enough but I'm kind of sad to see it go. Agreed on both fronts, although I must say that all seasons of Silicon Valley are gold.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 19, 2017 5:56:08 GMT -5
Conway's Peter Parker may have been a whiner but Bill Mantlo's version was an out-and-out dick: selfish, manipulative, cruel. He was the first writer to actually make me dislike Spidey. Cei-U! I summon the Raid! Thinking about any particular issue?
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Post by Ozymandias on May 18, 2017 10:35:58 GMT -5
In the 80s I was busy reading DC's renaissance and starting to look at the indies. Marvel did nothing for me and when I saw Spidey covers they did even less. He was also going through the black costume thing and that seemed like a dumb gimmick, at first glance. It looks like it wasn't just meant to happen, trying again right after Stern's run... couldn't possibly imagine worse timing.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 16, 2017 5:13:32 GMT -5
When i read Spidey, it felt like, "Mary Jane wants to go out and I have no bread!" "Aunt May is sick again!" "J Jonah Yelled at Me!" "The rent is due!" I didn't care about any of that, i wanted adventure. I liked the smart aleck stuff and the fights were usually good; but, the soap opera kept filtering in. meanwhile, Spidey builds some contraption to defeat the villain, yet he can't pay the rent. Where did he get the money for the components? If he can do that, why can't he cobble together something to sell to pay the rent? I just couldn't buy into the logic of it (or suspend logic, as it were). Serves you right, for jumping on the bandwagon at the worst possible moment. (I'm guessing you're talking about Conway's tenure as "writer").
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 11, 2017 8:21:39 GMT -5
And being a TV show with limited resources compared to a film is no excuse either. Look at what they've done with "Into the Badlands" over at AMC. They should have gotten Daniel Wu to play Danny Rand, or at least gotten him as a stunt double. Called dibs on "Into the Badlands" first Honestly, I just watch the show because of the fights. Ok, visuals in general are great too, and a couple of pretty girls doesn't hurt either, but the story sucks. I get they're saving that for Defenders, but at least come up with a plausible excuse. The fact that the generic characters get popping up (Claire and Hogarth), but they never make the connection, is really annoying. You have to fight the Hand? Shit, I know a bunch of people who can be helpful. Did they even had the idea of getting Cage its own show when it debuted, or was just out of necessity that he appeared in someone else's turf, looks like forbidden now.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 7, 2017 16:26:53 GMT -5
Or, to pull a classic Homer: "It was like that when I got here"
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 6, 2017 1:33:47 GMT -5
I was disappointed by what I saw as lack of internal/development change in the last few episodes. Mariah's strategy to arm the police with super-weapons in Luke Cage is illogical, too. Harold Meachum to be an interesting character though. Ward was two-dimensional at first, but I thought his character became more interesting as the story progressed. I like Joy, but I don't think the situation she was in at the end made sense. What? Going from a guilt-ridden character (over his parent's deaths) to a guilt-ridden character (over the destruction of K'un Lun) isn't development? Cage, ugh. Harold was interesting, up to the point where he tells Danny that he had wanted to kill his best friend, from the beginning. The good thing he had going for him, was how he became gradually unhinged, as he kept resurrecting. If he was a loony to begin with, where's the fun? Ward went from wanting to kill Danny to frame his picture, to be hanged just alongside his. Last time he tried to explain his changing sides, he still sounded like his more usual self, looking out for his best interests, nothing more. But at the end, they suggest a change of heart that was motivated... by him killing his father? Are we still so Freudian? Joy was switching between merciless businesswoman and childhood friend of Danny's, and at the end, she makes a final twist by considering to have him killed because of what exactly? Compared to the Meachums, Danny's so well written
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 5, 2017 5:50:52 GMT -5
I'm four episodes into Iron Fist. I think the critics are way off base. It's really of comparable quality to the other Marvel shows. I think I actually like it more than Luke Cage so far. To me, Jessica Jones is the best of all the Netflix shows, in part because I think Krysten Ritter has the best acting chops of all the title characters. Just her acting chops? Joking aside, I guess you changed your opinion on the show as it progressed. Agreed up to that point in the series. the fight scenes are really poorly choreographed (c) the idea that "the board" could just eject Rand and the Meachums from the company, when Rand owns 51% of the stock, is just nonsense Yeah, I was expecting something along the lines of Into the Badlands. Agreed too on points a) and b), but c) was just hilarious. he's just this whiney hippy who gets repeatedly beaten to crap. And I cannot believe they seriously brought in Drunken Monkey style for an opponent - that was stupid the first time I saw it about 30 years ago It was like every fight, he was given some sort of handicap, to level the playing field, but at some point they stopped caring. I took the drunken monkey bit as a parody, anything else boggles the mind. uber-ridiculous rooftop scene in the last episode where IF barely holds his own in a fight with a 60ish Howard Meachum, who knows a bit of boxing Harold also manages to shoot him exactly in the one place which doesn't matter, because we all knew it would heal with the next "power up". By the end of the season, that was how hard they were willing to look for excuses, so IF could have a long fight with Harold. Overall, the Meachums were the most erratic characters, and the baby Hand, the most annoying concept.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 3, 2017 8:08:57 GMT -5
The one thing that surprised me: Carol being so comfortable killing again, what where the past several seasons about?
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 20, 2017 8:33:02 GMT -5
I'm sure he didn't sound the alarm, not to give them a chance to flee, so much as to avoid immediate danger.
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 13, 2017 10:46:25 GMT -5
Last stop: Oceanside. All aboard!
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 7, 2017 13:16:24 GMT -5
Yeah, but without Season 6 Episode 3, it would've had a much better chance at fooling the audience.
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