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I also bounced off after about 1.5 episodes. I gave it a try since it had positive buzz, and I thought the song was pretty neat but the style of dialogue just wasn't doing it for me.

Visually the show was little hit and miss with some of the sets and props looking artificial, but they did a great job with Goggins as the ghoul.

Seven eps in and I like it more than expected. I thought the trailer looked surprisingly good, the first few episodes were a little dull despite having some moments, but the actual plot of the show is shaping up to be surprisingly solid. Really made me think of this. Finale spoiler:

I cannot believe that this show began in 2000. It’s been a while since I watched the earlier seasons but I really don’t associate it with that era.

Solid episode, didn't realize the season was over though. I do wish the show was a little less coy with what the viltrumites are actually up to. They're basically offering fully automated luxury gay space communism, but everyone reflexively knows that they're evil because of the way that they are. I just wish someone would ask them a follow up question like, hey if what you have to offer is so great why are you enacting genocidal violence to make us take your great offer. It would be really funny if there actually is no catch, life with the viltrumites is perfect and we're just such a suspicious evil species that we can't recognize altruism when we're looking it in the face. Though that doesn't really work considering Omni-man's solution to the trolley problem.

As is increasingly the case with his videos, it takes a while to get to video games, but the subject is fantastic.

Sounds promising.

I finished the season and am generally disappointed. There are plenty of nits to pick, but overall one of the best things about the books is how huge everything feels and the way the scope constantly expands. This was largely missing from the show due to the aggressive remixing of the plot and localizing all the central characters as a group of friends who already happened to know each other at the beginning of the show. It'll never happen, but considering the warring Three Body Problem shows going on, the real perfect choice would be Damon Lindelof and HBO heading up an adaptation.

You're telling me they wrote a book as a sequel to the movie Heat?

The pace feels a little too fast. For a show that plays into the mystery aspect of the books, the characters blurt out the right solutions a little too quickly. Everyone's too young and hot. I wonder what people who aren't familiar with the books will make of it.

It takes about 5 minutes to understand.

I can already tell I'm going to spend my entire time watching this being mad about the changes from the books.

The people's elbow on bug planet was brutal.

I feel like in the book the emperor was mostly a dude to whom Paul happens, and Walken really captured that most insignificant galactic ruler energy.

Kicked ass, best fantasy movie since Return of the King.

Finishing up S1.

Yeah I feel like this would get more attention if it weren’t for the server issues. It’s a bummer because I’m not going to buy the game because of this and I feel like in another timeline Arrowhead could have been convinced to ditch it.

It's a bummer this game requires a super invasive anti-cheat program. I'd like to play it when the server issues are resolved but I'm not installing that shit on my computer.

Eps 1 and 2 were interesting, and Jodie Foster, spooky vibes, and the setting did a lot of heavy lifting. Eps 3 and 4 were boring. Eps 5 and 6 were constantly escalating nonsense.

lmao

The Outsider was very True Detective but it was a Stephen King adaptation.

Reading the article, I get Pizzalatte's position, it's one thing to use the True Detective brand name and another to lay your work on top of someone else's without their permission or input.

I think pulling off a firefight between the FBI and a militia was probably just beyond the scope of the show. I do agree though that the way that scene was edited was disappointing and anticlimactic.

I dug Ep 1 more than I expected. The Thing had a place of honor on the DVD shelf in the opening scene and it's influence is clearly felt.