Egann
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Post by Egann on Mar 16, 2017 17:04:41 GMT
*Kick*
I just finished the Netflix Series of Unfortunate Events. Well, what's up, anyway. While I won't call it amazing, it's certainly enjoyable if you like dry humor. I am also a big Patrick Warburton fan--I love his deadpan deliveries--and the series keeps piling on weird revelation after weird revelation. The direction and scripting are also great examples of how you convert elegant prose--the Series' major selling point--into cinema.
Also, the Secretary can't get back from Peru fast enough.
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Post by DarkJuno on Jul 3, 2017 3:15:36 GMT
-cough-
All right, so it's like a month later and I completely tanked writing the individual articles on the site proper, but I did eventually go and finish all the non-Arrow DC CW shows on Netflix. You can skip the next few lines for actual new stuff.
The fact that I waited to watch it there rather than try to watch the streaming re-runs on the CW should say enough.
Arrow was actually good this year. Like, really good, it completely surprised me that it was hands down the best of the four shows, considering it was the one I was about ready to leave behind when this past season started. Some issues with writing here and there, but for the most part, it's the opposite of season 4 - everyone seemed like real people and didn't stand around holding the idiot ball because the plot dictated it, and while the cliffhanger finale was a little over the top, it served as a great way to break from the first five seasons of the show. I am genuinely anticipating where things will go from here, and whether or not Stephen Amell will grow the goatee.
The Flash wasn't BAD persay, but ti sorta tripped and fell flat on its face across the finish line. Some genuine moments of sincerity, but it was wedged between some awfully coincidental or convenient situations to come through. I really hope it finds its footing again because while Arrow stumbled by being too overly grim and serious, you can just as easily overdo the sentimentality and emotional core to the point of it getting tiring. Also, that musical episode with Supergirl was a total damn cop out by having it be a dream where all the actors portrayed different people. Bleh.
Supergirl was just weird this year. There's such an obvious different in visual quality between the CBA season and this year that you can't help but notice. Melissa Benoist is perfect as the lead character, and I eventually actually liked Mon-El, but I didn't buy their romance at all, they had no chemistry and it all felt like the relationship was there because that's what the script said. Hell, Kara and Lena Luthor had way more chemistry and I was way more interested in their platonic relationship than anything between her and Mon-El. The let's say heavy handed social issues written into the show are decent enough and their heart is definitely in the right place, and I'd rather it be ham fisted than not in there at all, but they needed another pass by an editor to not make it come across quite so finger wagging at times.
Legends of Tomorrow sucks. It's fun when they stop giving a shit and just throw everyone together, but even then it's just blah. It took a bunch of characters from Arrow and Flash, turned them into wooden ass cardboard cut out versions of themselves, and the sooner this show dies the better since they can return to their home shows and become three dimensional human beings again.
-ACTUAL NEW VIEWINGS-
GLOW on Netflix is entertaining. Obviously, I already semi-regularly hate myself and force feed watch wrestling, so I'm kind of in the bag, but it's not bad so far. It helps that each episode is only half an hour long, and it's quick so it doesn't dwell too much on getting stuck on plot points, but it's still amusing. It's definitely fictionalized from the real life GLOW, but it does address the question about whether it was female empowerment or exploitation...or both.
Spoiler: I can pretty much guess it's both.
I do like how the main character is seemingly sympathetic, but then you kinda realize, no, she might actually be not a great human being. I assume it'll end with "Hey, she's a flawed human being," which is fine, but still, interesting since they don't turn her into an outright monster like a lot of "villain" protagonist shows go.
Attack on Titan Season 2 is...more Attack on Titan. I mean, I haven't turned on this show like seemingly everyone else has, but I'm also not super hyped and excited for it like the reaming people still are like Season 1. It's more of the same, which is fine, though I maybe wish I hadn't read the manga after the end of the last series, since even with all the changes I've kinda got a good idea of where things are going. Unless they pull a hard left, which honestly I'd be okay with.
We finally get Code Geass: Akito the Exiled by -ahem- proper channels, and hoo boy, do the dub actors go for it with the accents. They're not bad, not at all! But MAN, do they lean into the French, German, and even English accents for the characters, with various regional differences to boot. I can't even tell if they're being over-the-top or doing a bad accent since there's enough variety and Reality is Unrealistic going on that I can live with it. The OVA itself is fine, but it doesn't seem all that remarkable as of episode two. Though, the whole thing with Julius Kingsley seems so incredibly obvious that I'm waiting for it to be a red herring, so we shall see. Also remembered that Code Geass proper is getting a new season, so we'll see how that goes.
...and for some weird reason I've found myself watching Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman on Amazon Prime. Now, LOOK - when I was a kid, I really liked two things beyond cartoons - martial arts movies and westerns. Without cable, the only place I could get those were from Blockbuster Video (For those who don't know what that is, ask your parents) or re-runs of random shows or movies on the local channels. So when stuff like The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr, or Dr. Quinn or Walker: Texas Ranger or Martial Law starring Sammo Hung came on, I watched them because it's where I could get my fix, all right?
That said, I liked this show as a kid but I never watched it again since then, even the re-runs I saw on sick days were during middle school. It's also incredibly depressing how the overly ham fisted preachy lessons in the episodes still apply today, to the point where even being basic as it is it still works, all things considered. I mentioned it elsewhere, but the episode where the goddamn Klan shows up in Colorado Springs would never get made today because someone would complain that it's an unfair portrayal of that group. That, and more people would be complaining that they straight up use the n-word once in the episode instead of everything else going on. Anyway, I actually enjoy how the show starts off way more like a straight up western early on, though a time passes things change a bit more. It lulls when Sully and Dr. Mike are courting, but once they get the marriage out of the way it's fine again. I'm oddly enjoying myself, which makes me want to go re-watch Walker...?
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