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Greatoneshere

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  1. The fight scene between Mark and Anissa the Viltrumite was pretty great, otherwise a very heavy and character building episode to lead in to the finale. It's been a weird break for this season as neither half feels like a lot has happened, but when you remember that season 2 was split into two and you combine them, a lot has happened this season. The universe continues to expand as we learn more about the Viltrumites. Here's to hoping the season finale next week ends strong.
  2. I finally wrapped this up today. Stylized as "3 Body Problem", I enjoyed the show. I agree with the A.V. Club review that basically says it wears the clothes of prestige television but at the end of the day this is a nerdy sci-fi show more akin to Fringe or The X-Files than it is some harder sci-fi show or film like Gravity or Arrival or Sunshine or something. It's very plot-heavy, with only so much character development mingled in (but enough at least). I recommend everyone should check it out given it's a new sci-fi show with at least some thought and depth to it. I'm surprised more here aren't watching it given it seems like it would be up peoples' alley around here. The VR segments were really well done and the concepts introduced in this show reminded me a bit of the animated show Pantheon (which is no surprise given that Pantheon was based on the sci-fi short stories of Ken Liu, the English translator of the Three Body Problem book trilogy). I hope we get a season 2 (and 3) adapting the next two books. I am curious how the 2023 Chinese TV show compares to this. Thirty episodes to adapt one book seems like a bit much, but I felt like the Netflix show moved a little fast with just eight episodes, but 30 episodes seems too slow to unravel the mystery. Still, I'm curious.
  3. I love Seinfeld (the show), I loved Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, I love Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up specials, I saw him live once and it was great and Bee Movie sucked. With all that being said, I can't tell from that trailer (I usually don't watch trailers but was curious here) if this will be any good or not but I did enjoy the absolute absurdity of it all. It's the same four writers (including Jerry Seinfeld) that wrote Bee Movie, so there's that . . .
  4. If you haven't played the first Alan Wake (and its two DLC's) and I'd also argue Control (and its two DLC's), you will be fairly lost as the game's story is already very obtuse and heavily based on what has happened in those games, particularly the first Alan Wake.
  5. The real question is will we ever get Collection of Mana on PC and will they ever do a Dawn of Mana remaster or remake? It's the final one that needs to be done in the mainline series. They even did a great remaster of Legend of Mana.
  6. Agreed. With so many diverse kinds of porn out there for adults to seek out I'm not really sure why this softcore/fan service demand is still around and to demand it and criticize positive normalization of gender portrayals in regular (non-porn) media. Says more about the person than anything.
  7. I had this exact same reaction - it's like an entire demographic of gamers don't understand their sexism is so ingrained it's subconscious and they don't even realize they're reacting negatively to positive changes for all genders in media protrayals.
  8. The screencap to the video alone says all there needs to be said about the video. That's some rage clickbait right there, or what certainly looks like it.
  9. Man, another absolutely fantastic and compelling episode of TV. They are doing the best they can to nail the surreal poetry and romance from the book of scenes like praying in two different languages at the same time with a wall between Blackthorne and Mariko or everything with Kiku at the Willow World. Four more to go.
  10. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it was highly unlikely that they were going to do it with Halo. You're naming a one in a billion exception. I'm not saying Master Chief doesn't emote just fine in the games, I'm saying you need to look at it from a producer's perspective - they're stupid and will assume audiences can't connect to the character and so here we are. It's the same stupid reason why we have a human character for the Covenant POV or why the Transformers movies or the American Godzilla movies have random, usually uninteresting human characters as the main POV rather than just focusing on the monsters or robots with no need for a focus from a human perspective. I don't agree with it at all, but that's how studios and producers think. He does have his helmet on a decent bit, if that's any consolation, but it's nowhere near all the time.
  11. I agree in that you have to have your tone match the overt sexualization of the character(s), for sure. Hence people's issues with Quiet in MGS5 by comparison (a game I loved but yeah).
  12. I mean, it seems leering at or ogling women, fan service, and pushing the male gaze is strong with this one, regardless of game quality, it should be amusing to see the online discourse on this when it drops. The best part is when he says: "this is entertainment for adults" to justify the teenage boy fantasies. Just be honest my dude. Stellar Blade dev, also known for butt-jiggling game Nikke, says he "put special attention" into the female lead's back because that's what players see most of the time | GamesRadar+ WWW.GAMESRADAR.COM "This is entertainment for adults"
  13. I mean, unfortunately one has to accept this is a show, not a movie, and to cultivate any sort of character arc for John-117 over the course of the show you have to have his helmet off to emote, etc. This isn't a one off movie like V for Vendetta, Dredd, etc. That being said, I agree with you, to make all this child soldier/spartan stuff be at the forefront of season 1 (he's moved on from it in season 2) is strange, as if they wanted to bridge the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn web series and the current timeline. The Spartan program stuff is some of the better stuff on the show because at least that stuff lines up better with the Halo games but yes it's weird the show focuses on that. It doesn't come off as Bruce Wayne-like or comic book-y, but it is there.
  14. Imagine assuming governments evolve within a vacuum like a science experiment rather than, ya know, in the world, affected by other forces like capitalism, foreign countries, other economies, etc.
  15. Say what you will, the movie is fucking hilarious. But yeah, not great.
  16. I'd fallen behind on this season and finally caught up - man this season is really firing on all cylinders, first eight episodes of ten have been excellent. Edit: It was also nice that we've finally come back to the two years later opening flashforward from the pilot episode of season 1 where Ken Watanabe and Jake talk to Tozawa's second in command in that hotel high rise place. I was worried the show would never get to that point so that we could enter truly uncharted territory story-wise but episode 8 finally caught up to the Michael Mann-directed pilot. It will be interested to see where things go from here.
  17. I agree with you - they did not set the stage well at the beginning of season 1. They basically hint that the outer colonies and humanity at large are not that aware of the existence of the Covenant, as if they haven't already been fighting them for 27 years like in the games. The revolutionaries consider it UNSC propaganda to quell unrest. But the Spartans and UNSC are fully aware and have already been fighting them for some time (for how long is never mentioned, but it doesn't feel like 27 years, that's for sure). And yeah, I don't know why but the show loves the UNSC is bad and McKee plot threads a lot.
  18. You really don't choose your neighbors if Ridley Scott lives near P. Diddy. How strange.
  19. I mean, after the appeals court granted Trump a lower bond amount, are we at all surprised by this? And yet, it stings every time.
  20. Well, season 2, episode 4 does cover the fall of Reach and the season 2 finale we finally land on Halo but I imagine you'd be disappointed with how they portray both, though at least with those two things it's much closer in look and feel to Halo as compared to the non-Halo stuff on the show. They do lay down groundwork in the backstory of Halo 4 and onward stuff because they kind of have to if they're going to incorporate all Halo lore but it's not come up too much so far. The Covenant are there, look good, speak their alien language, the Spartans act and move and look like Spartans, etc. It's a show at war with itself. Definitely nothing like Band of Brothers though nor is it of the level of quality Halo deserves. I don't mind the 343i additions in theory, I'm assuming you're referring to things like the Precursors, Ancients Humans, the Prometheans (part of the Forerunner rates/castes), etc.? If so, it's fun but definitely comes off as fanfiction, especially when done poorly.
  21. You would be right, it's not really Halo. There are moments where it is pure Halo, but they are few and far between (but well done when they show up). Despite season 2 having an entirely different writers' room compared to season 1, it still does seem like the show is written by people who don't like or get Halo. The season 2 finale did course correct a significant number of things so I'm wondering if the season 2 writers were contractually bound to use the actors set up from all the terrible plotlines from season 1 because if they do a season 3, there is a pretty clear opportunity to finally make Halo and it can mostly be done given the finale killed off a lot of the not-Halo stuff while finally bringing us to Halo with Cortana and Master Chief so that's something. There are still things that would bother any Halo fan that can simply not be corrected at this point short of just ignoring what's been established in the show so far (which is possible) but I'm curious what a season 3 could look like if they get writers who care about Halo.
  22. Kwan Ha is at least more likeable than McKee but both need to be jettisoned from this show since both make Halo far more stupid and far less like Halo. It's not the actors' faults, it's just how unnecessary they are to Halo.
  23. Yeah I only saw the third once at home but what I thought was going to be a disaster was actually fairly funny and entertaining, particularly the generational difference angle. It was nothing memorable (I only remember a few bits of it now) but it wasn't a bad or mediocre film either.
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