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Post by skekSil on Jun 16, 2021 18:27:03 GMT
In a bit of a funk, not sure what I want to watch. What are some obscure or lesser-known sci-fi/fantasy shows you'd recommend? Omniscient www.netflix.com/se-en/title/80220334Set in a near future were city security is outsourced to company that has every person being constantly folowed by a minidrone that sends footage to main computer that analyzes it and calls cops whenever crime is commited. To address privacy concerns all footage from drones is inaccessible to anyone (except when a crime is actually committed). Main heroine, who works for said company, find her father killed but security system does not register it and she decides to hack in it figure things out. Part detective mystery, part heist movie, but mostly a psychological drama about a girl who has to overcome her fears to get things done. Some ploteholes, silly and convenient vulnerabilities for main heroine to exploit, not all acting is great and special effects are from last decade but overall an enjoyable show, binge watched it in one go. Warning! Explicit sex scenes are present.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 19, 2021 7:08:04 GMT
Don't judge me. Okay maybe a lil... Nice. I love the Roughnecks.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 19, 2021 7:11:06 GMT
Trying a Chinese drama; Rational Life. Story of a 33 year old woman who prefer rational thinking and practical approaches in her life. I at her mom who's blind to everything else except getting her daughter to marry because she's 33 and getting older. She doesn't try to understand her daughter. Every time she opens her mouth; marriage. She rails and rages at her daughter when she rejects a guy she was going out with for three months.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jun 19, 2021 13:46:04 GMT
Back to ST:D. I don't know why I'm even doing this to myself. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. We'll get through this.
Episode 5: Choose your pain Discovery, I choose you! I'd rather be watching pokemon. I don't remember what these people are called anymore. What was the Orc's name again? I forget. Episode's just started and we're already high. Michael Burnham had a dream about putting nipple clamps to herself. Hey, we've all been there. No kink shaming. Tardigrade is depressed. Probably because it's stuck in such a shitty show. Nothing that 5 grams of cocai-uh, spores and a Tardigrade hooker can't fix, but hey, what do I know? Tilly is a terrible character. Have I said that yet? Not even five minutes in. Oh God. No talking about feelings, please. Fuck, Jason Isaacs is good. Wait, where was Jason Isaacs going with that shuttle and why? Why didn't the shuttle's long range scanners detect the Klingon ship? How did it break from the front lines? How did it sneak up, in warp, undetected? I guess none of these questions will be answered and none of it is plot relevant. It happened because the plot demanded it and because Alex Kurtzman allowed it. If the shuttle has a top hatch and the Orcs want to take prisoners, why not just gas the shuttle? Why open the door and the hatch, when one is right in front of the other, which gives no advantage, why are they standing right in front of door ... this scene is a mess. Moving on. Why task a ship, whose commander is missing, to take back Lorca, that's Jason Isaacs' name and not a ship that is more up to the task, with a full crew? There's crews better qualified to the task, than the science vessel of Discovery. Because fuck it, that's why. And it'd be different if this had happened during a mission where the Discovery was the only ship present, but this is a Starfleet issue, now. Whatever. Thank you, show, for reinforcing my point that the Discovery's crew is not fit for the task of recovering Lorca. And also congratulations on undermining Saru, I guess? Nothing makes me like a show more than knowing that its characters are incompetent. Harry Mudd? What are you doing here, buddy? You look a little different to what I remember you, but I guess that's expected, considering it's been ... 50 years since TOS? Eh, we'll manage. What a waste to return in such a shitty show, tough. I'm only twelve minutes in this episode? Fuck. Why would the Orcs capture Mudd and not execute him on sight? I mean, Mudd is quite the bullshitter, but I doubt he'd have the chance. That was quite Orc like, in the prison cell. Not very Klingon like, though. So I'm wondering, if the Orcs wanted to kidnap Lorca, why didn't they just blow up the shuttle, to make it look like a random Klingon attack? That way, the federation wouldn't be after them. Was it intentional? To lure out the Discovery? Then Starfleet should not have put Discovery in charge of finding Lorca, doubly so, now. It's pretty obvious that it's a trap. It is a trap, right? For the writing's sake, I hope it is. Otherwise, it makes no fucking sense. Anyway, moving on. Alright, you're ruining Harry as well, show. You know, Harry was a scoundrel, Harry knew that, Harry knew he was doing things he normally shouldn't be, but did them any way, in search of an honest illicit profit. Harry bore no ill will for Starfleet. He was a coward, an opportunist , but never malevolent. Never wanted other people's harm and would certainly not be as manipulative as shown here. I understand that writing for shows means that 50 years later, you're not going to get the same level of innocence as back then, but this Harry Mudd is downright evil and passing the blame of his own admitted failures to others. Which Harry Mudd would never do, in TOS. The spore drive is still bullshit. None of it makes sense. Tilly is still a terrible character. Man, these Orc designs are really out there. Hard to reconcile with the Klingons and the almost human like Klingons of TOS. Which ST:Enterprise did explain. 22 minutes in, 24 more minutes to go. Can't get over the Starfleet approved yeezys either. This She-Orc sounds Scottish. That's a lot of murder, for one episode. Oh, sure, there's plenty of starship explosions with full crews in Star Trek, but people going around breaking necks? Not so much. What was the most brutal shit? Worf shanking Gawron in a duel? The Jem'Hadar murdering their own with phasers? Not neck snapping. This isn't a Steven Seagal film. I've been trying to get through this episode for 3 hours now. 15 more minutes. So this Tyler guy, can't walk one moment, perfectly capable to fight the She-Orc the next. He's going to lose, of course, but he's fighting like there's nothing wrong. Bravo Kurtzman. Oh, he didn't die. Man, things got weird, real fast. Michael, Saru does not require your validation, you went behind his back and undermined his authority, you are lucky you haven't been court martialled a second time. BTW, the shuttle being left intact was not a trap. How fucking dumb. Mikey gave the tardigrade a big gulp of spores and sent it into space, because it was dying. You know, I just realized, we;re 5 episodes in and we know nothing of the bridge crew and the high officers of the ship. The diverse cast of not Uhura, not Sulu, not Data and not 7 of 9. So diverse, so inclusive and so original, oh my God, I can't even.
You know, it's not a single thing that makes these episodes bad. Not to say that the other shows didn't, but when Voyager got boring was mostly because the premise of the episode was of low interest, filler stuff, or the characters weren't particularly interestimg, or you could see the production problems etc. STD gets so many things wrong, in-world that it's just incorrect and out of place. And I know, get a life, basement dweller etc. but you watch Trek, to watch Trek, if I wanted to watch something that isn't Trek, I would watch something other than Trek. I wouldn't watch Trek, because I want to see wrong Trek. Whatever, episode's over, I guess. I don't know if I want to stick with it.
You know, if Kurtzman wanted this to be an original IP, he could have done it that way and I'd be OK. Like, none of the characters require them to be Sarek or Spock or Pike etc. for the show to work in any conceptual level. Is the concept of the federation requirement? You could have any stand-in and it could work. Like the ... what was it in Andromeda, the Confederacy? Call it, I don't know, the Collective. or whatever you want. Hell, call it Cerberus. It doesn't matter. Alex Kurtzman obviously doesn't want to write Star Trek. Why not make a new IP? You got Akiva Goldsman and JJ Abrams backing, not to mention that Kurtzman has started many new IPs before, so why did he need this to be Trek? No reason. In fact, I'd argue a new IP would have worked so much better, for this endeavor. Would have received a whole lot less backlash and probably could have built it up to something.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 20, 2021 13:24:49 GMT
Finished Rational Life I like the story in this drama. No wishy washy female protag. Just a tactful, compassionate female protag who knows what she wants, does not compromise her principles, is not afraid of failures, works hard, determined, does not allow opinions / comments to affect her. Of course, she becomes what she is as she has more than 12 years of working experience under her belt. She reads people's intentions clearly and through the story, she develops further after a new discerning boss arrives and provides opportunities for her to grow. She reminds me of a friend. It has a happy ending. I'm a sucker for happy endings so this gets an excellent rating from me.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Jun 20, 2021 16:59:16 GMT
I'm nearly done THE EXPANSE! I'm on Season 5 Ep. 9....and I don't want it to end! This has been one of the best TV series I've enjoyed pretty much without complaint in a very long time. I will be anxiously awaiting Season 6!
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Post by dazk on Jun 21, 2021 4:32:49 GMT
I'm nearly done THE EXPANSE! I'm on Season 5 Ep. 9....and I don't want it to end! This has been one of the best TV series I've enjoyed pretty much without complaint in a very long time. I will be anxiously awaiting Season 6! Read the books in the meantime.
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Post by bierkrug on Jun 21, 2021 19:32:42 GMT
Katla on Netflix. Pretty easy to tell what's going to happen next most of the time.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Jun 22, 2021 1:05:32 GMT
Goign to start Season 2 of RAGNAROK, a Danish miniseries about a young boy who is given the powers of THOR
It's basically, a Norse version of the BBC series MERLIN where the characters are young but they follow the same adventures. It's just reimagined.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 22, 2021 4:36:32 GMT
Japanese crime drama; Emergency Interrogation Room
Follows the story of Megabe Yukiko who was initially a negotiator but was transferred / demoted after her boss wrenched a situation from her control. Although the hostages were safe, she was marked down. She was transferred to a special unit called the Emergency Interrogation team that takes over after normal police procedures fail to procure an absolute confession / determination of a suspect's motives.
There is no long term case through the season but stand alone cases in every ep, providing opportunities to slowly reveal Megabe's character and her team who are all much older than her and not welcoming to having a woman.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 22, 2021 12:17:49 GMT
Finished Season 1 of Emergency Interrogation Room, moving on to Season 2. S1 is tight packed into nine eps, building up the characters of Megabe, her team mates and two detectives of Divsion Two. it also covers her relationship with her children and her on-going effort to find the truth behind her husband's (also a cop) murder. The truth about her husband and the culprits were uncovered in season 1 but there're still some lingering left overs which would probably be covered in season two. It's an enjoyable drama with an interesting protag, of which the uncovering of motives and secrets of suspects thought provoking though I could guess the truth of some cases faster than they're resolved.
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Post by sjpelke on Jun 22, 2021 13:13:21 GMT
Goign to start Season 2 of RAGNAROK, a Danish miniseries about a young boy who is given the powers of THOR It's basically, a Norse version of the BBC series MERLIN where the characters are young but they follow the same adventures. It's just reimagined. Saw the second season and the plot thickens!! Very decent show, looking forward how things will progress.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 24, 2021 2:31:45 GMT
Netflix did it again ; skipping seasons. It wasn't S2 of Emergency Interrogation Room I was watching, it was S3 as I came to realise later. They didn't get S2. I finished S3, S4 is due in July this year so I'll see if Netflix gets it. The drama isn't bad so there's no reason not to get it unless they're quibbling about the price. Moving on to Go Ahead. A Chinese drama on three families. Presently in ep 3, at the part where there's a parent meeting with the teacher on the performance of their children. The parent of the student who ranks first is asked how she teaches her kid. Naturally, she says all the polite stuff and praises the teacher but who does not know the pressure (tiger moms) parents pressed on their kids? Additionally, this sort of meetings always come with the rubber stamps; #1, last. Parents and kids marking down who is who. Snobby parents discourage their kids to associate with lasts, often deeming them akin to a disease their kids should not come in contact with. Even if everyone does well, still, someone is last and is stamped. This is a no win scenario for some.
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jun 24, 2021 9:53:38 GMT
I'm watching On Becoming A God in Central Florida, and it's actually way darker and weirder and kinkier than I could have possibly imagined.
Watching Kirsten Dunst femdom the absolute shit out of a guy when I mostly only know her from like... Jumanji and the Sam Raimi Spider-Mans is... something, that's for sure.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Jun 24, 2021 20:45:11 GMT
Finished Jupiters Legacy last night. It was...kind of OK. But honestly, I would rather have just watched 6 episodes about nothing other than the quest to reach the island and get the powers. The modern day stuff where super powered beings were everywhere and The Union was more bogged down than a hung parliament/Congress, followed by a 'villain reveal' that will never be paid off was just...meh. Also - the show was cancelled, in part, for being over budget???? Other than the island, the special effects were very 2005 TV show. It can't have been the talent, Duhamel and Bibb are known names, but they aren't exactly on anyones 'must have' list of actors. Anyway - it was 'fine', but not much else can be said about it.
Loki Ep 3 - *sigh* I'm bored. I'm watching MCU content, and I'm bored. 'Lady Loki' is cool, an interesting reveal about the TVA workers (although not necessarily surprising) and that's about it. Even Hiddleston's usual charm isn't helping. I had my issues with WandaVision's finale after an excellent build up and Falcon and The Winter Soldier was pretty good - fun to watch, at least, but I never felt bored with either of them. I was always entertained. Loki is only 6 episodes, so I imagine I'll stick with it, regardless, but damn - before any of these MCU shows came out, Loki was my most anticipated. Now I can't wait for it to be over.
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Post by mousestalker on Jun 24, 2021 21:29:39 GMT
I'm watching On Becoming A God in Central Florida, and it's actually way darker and weirder and kinkier than I could have possibly imagined. Watching Kirsten Dunst femdom the absolute shit out of a guy when I mostly only know her from like... Jumanji and the Sam Raimi Spider-Mans is... something, that's for sure. We've just started watching it. Back in the day, there was a sense of horror that swept the neighbourhood when someone started selling Amway. So far, the show's creators have the whole multi level marketing culture nailed.
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Post by ArcadiaGrey on Jun 24, 2021 22:07:16 GMT
My other half convinced me to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was nostalgia for him, and I was sure I'd hate it. Well it's ended up being my comfort tv, I watch it almost every day when I'm knackered. It's so delightfully eighties... I've surprised myself I'm also in the 'how could that cute kid turn into Wil Weaton' journey
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Jun 24, 2021 22:44:36 GMT
My other half convinced me to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was nostalgia for him, and I was sure I'd hate it. Well it's ended up being my comfort tv, I watch it almost every day when I'm knackered. It's so delightfully eighties... I've surprised myself I'm also in the 'how could that cute kid turn into Wil Weaton' journey Aside from the Original series from the mid to late 1960s......STAR TREK TNG is the best of the series, so many great acting moments from many of the cast: Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Levar Burton and Brent Spiner. Such great characters with, really, a ground breaking segment for TV back in the 80s. There was talk, hushed whispers...and yet no one ever thought it could be done again, after the truly ground-breaking yet too short lived Original Series......And not to mention this was a new show with state-of-the-art SFX from Industrial Light and Magic, showing of new special effects techniques and things not seen on a (sci-fi) TV series. The Original Series was pioneering in many, many ways, it's special effects with limited technology.....But equally for its time was TNG. In many ways it became the benchmark for shows of the late 80s and early 1990s, evidence of what could be achieved on Television. AND THEN they announced the principle Cast, which included a trained London Theater actor (Sir Patrick Stewart), a young movie star from from his days at USC (Levar Burton who had previously starred in ROOTS while attending USC at the age of 21), a Broadway actor who also had moonlighted in TV serials (Brent Spiner) and a former costumed employee of Marvel Comics who got paid to be seen at Conventions (Jonathan Frakes). In my mind no other STAR TREK series since The Next Generation has come close to capturing the same magic. In that way, it's not unlike the Original STAR WARS Trilogy. The new materials are fun, but they're not the same.
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Moving through Roughnecks still. I love the series format of Campaigns, almost like mini-seasons. Would love to see a similar series done today. Doesn't have to be Starship Troopers IP either, the concept works great for WH40k for instance. Maybe The Astartes Project GamesWorkshop recently made official will fill that niche. *** I'm loving Loki and thought episode 3 was the best yet. *** Just got almost all of TNG, haven't rewatched it in a very long time. Going to give it a try after Roughnecks possibly. I love DS9 and rewatch that every five years or so, but TNG I have a tougher time getting through. I'm more of a Babylon 5 fan, rewatch that probably every 2 years averaged out. I loved seeing shows start to adapt a serialized story-telling format instead of episodic. *** Also watched a bit of a random animated show called Onyx Equinox. Mature rated mostly for the gore, bit of nudity. It's alright, the story was okay. What drew me was the setting. It's derived from Mexica/Aztec mythology. South American fantasy basically. Haven't seen a lot of shows that delve into that setting. I found that aspect pretty interesting to watch, partially due to honest novelty. I don't know much about those gods or concepts. Animation is decent but the backgrounds/cityscapes aren't quite up to par with other animated shows. Still has some very pretty, stylized shots. Voice Acting is pretty good. Don't think I recognized any names which was refreshing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 0:15:04 GMT
Finished Jupiters Legacy last night. It was...kind of OK. But honestly, I would rather have just watched 6 episodes about nothing other than the quest to reach the island and get the powers. The modern day stuff where super powered beings were everywhere and The Union was more bogged down than a hung parliament/Congress, followed by a 'villain reveal' that will never be paid off was just...meh. Also - the show was cancelled, in part, for being over budget???? Other than the island, the special effects were very 2005 TV show. It can't have been the talent, Duhamel and Bibb are known names, but they aren't exactly on anyones 'must have' list of actors. Anyway - it was 'fine', but not much else can be said about it. This article actually paints a great picture of all the shit that went on behind-the-scenes to screw up the show. Seems like it was almost all business-related SNAFUs that compounded on each other, rather than artistic failings. (Here's most of it copy/pasted) The show, however, seemed to be a victim of several factors, some of its own making, some not, and illustrates the birthing pains of building from a highly publicized acquisition.
The series was plagued with issues from the start, with then-showrunner Steven DeKnight initially asking Netflix for a budget of at least a $12 million per episode, according to sources. The streamer, however, backed him down to under $9 million.
It wasn’t long into shooting that the show found itself overbudget and running behind, with DeKnight, never one to shy away from speaking his mind, according to people who have worked with him, clashing with Netflix over “creative differences.” The production was shut down about halfway through its eight-episode shoot; DeKnight was replaced by Sang Kyu Kim, who then had to retool the first batch of episodes.
Issues didn’t stop there, however, as even after wrapping production, the show spent an inordinate amount of 2020 in postproduction. Louis Leterrier, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s acclaimed Dark Crystal and Lupin series, was brought in at the eleventh hour as a consultant, according to sources, but the move was too late to save the troubled show.
With episode spends now reaching above even what DeKnight originally asked for, show insiders say he was proven right in some respects.
“Marvel shows are $15 million to $20 million per episode,” notes one producer working in the comic book space. “If you’re going to make a big superhero show, you need at least that much.”
It is unclear in what range the final budget landed. A Netflix insider pegged it closer to $130 million for the season, but with the cost of shutting down production and the long post time, several sources peg it at upwards of $200 million.
To compound problems, Netflix then underwent an executive shuffle that saw Jupiter‘s greenlighter, vp original content Cindy Holland, and its two original executive overseers exit the company. Holland was replaced last fall by industry veteran Bela Bajaria, who took the mantle as head of global TV. As is the norm with many a shuffle, any project not part of an incoming exec’s portfolio will be scrutinized. “Unless the show is an undisputed hit, it’s going to fall under the microscope,” says one Jupiter insider.
When Jupiter was canceled, some observers presumed bad metrics were the cause. But a day after the cancellation, Nielsen showed Jupiter atop its streaming chart, generating 696 million minutes of view time in the week of May 3-9, better than Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (690 million) and other original series from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and Disney+. And Jupiter was, for a while, a fixture on Netflix’s own public top 10 chart visible to subscribers, although that metric is vague as it is not clear if it’s measuring fully-watched episodes or smaller samples or just acting as a visibility booster.
Millar and Netflix spun the cancellation by saying Jupiter is going to be a universe, with a new live-action series — based on an unrelated Millar comic titled Supercrooks — given a series order and put under the Jupiter umbrella. Several rival executives questioned why you would lasso yourself to a failed launch, but others noted it does allow the company to gauge the initial awareness winds generated by Jupiter while still allowing Bajaria — between Supercrooks and reviving previously sidelined project The Magic Order — to put her own stamp on Millarworld.
Some say the fate of Jupiter’s Legacy has revealed that Millarworld, despite having a creative IP factory in Millar, lacks a seasoned producer or executive that can really steer the division. A Netflix insider insists that the company is invested in Millarworld for the long haul, noting building franchises takes time and that even vaunted brands such as Star Wars and DC have stumbled.
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jun 25, 2021 0:26:40 GMT
I'm watching On Becoming A God in Central Florida, and it's actually way darker and weirder and kinkier than I could have possibly imagined. Watching Kirsten Dunst femdom the absolute shit out of a guy when I mostly only know her from like... Jumanji and the Sam Raimi Spider-Mans is... something, that's for sure. We've just started watching it. Back in the day, there was a sense of horror that swept the neighbourhood when someone started selling Amway. So far, the show's creators have the whole multi level marketing culture nailed. I, um. I actually got sucked into something similar once. >_>
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jun 25, 2021 0:29:35 GMT
Finished Unbelievable
A drama based on true crimes; a series of rapes that happened in Washington and Colorado. The story starts with a teenager who was raped by an intruder while she slept. However, her account was eventually dismissed as a lie due to her history as a troubled teen, her reactions during the interview and the evidence gathered. She was charged with making a false report and she faces vilification from friends and colleagues.
Several months later, detectives in Colorado began investigating home invasion rapes and finally nailed the suspects after weeks of investigation. The detectives who investigated the teenager's rape were notified as evidence pertaining to the teenager was found in the suspects' possession and they realised they FU royally. However, the damage was already done.
The drama is short but it's tight paced. The first part focusing on the teenager and her attempts to deal with what happened to her and the reactions / judgement of those around her. The middle part is focused on the investigation and the final when the detectives searched for the teenager and the resolution.
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