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I haven’t written a blog post in five months! So there is a lot of catch up going on here. From metal, prog, goth, electronica, shoegaze, alt rock, techno and a surprising amount of folk, there’s something for everyone. Possibly. 😆
Funny picture time!
I’m watching season 2 of The Sandman, with the kind of mixed feelings you’d imagine.
I didn’t love season 2, but the last episode is perfect, the adaptation is spot on.
An early appearance of woke?
It’s funny that these days, an indie comic gets made into a TV show and we don’t even talk about it here. World’s a different place.
Oh, I liked that comic! Didn’t know it was being adapted. Not a fan of Murphy at all though.
Taylor can keep his libertarian guff, but I’m down with the others.
It’s Andrew Robinson, Garak in DS9!
I was on the fence about watching this. Now I’m not.
A Dublin pub is making a stand against A.I.
They’re a GBOL anyway.
I just watched the last Widow’s Bay. Pretty good, they keep up the mix of horror and comedy nicely all the way up to the end.
I’ve really enjoyed it. It was just refreshing TV and horror comedy rarely works well, so to see it done this well was a delight.
There were so many good bits, the hotel in ep 3, the cocktail party in 4, accually, almost anything to do with Patricia was gold. They kept the pace up and the scares / mystery / laughs coming at a good clip.
Looking forward to season 2 and I hope they can keep quality up.
Damn it Paramount, I’m watching this for Pike and his crew, not Kirk!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2l352z2do
Kind of amazing that it’s from the BBC.
How are goverments not stomping on this kind of thing? I know Trump and the Tories have gained from it, but everyone else should be doing everything in their power to stop this kind of influence.
Wow, crazy to see him actually admit it was all bollocks
Reddit are taking this well.
Christmas special cancelled, RTD out, and the show put out to tender. Disastrous news.
Dead as a door nail. Bringing RTD back was always a terrible idea but this is just a mess.
Leave it alone for a few years and lets get that Blake’s 7 reboot going.
Hard to mess up, you would think.
The later episodes of Atlantis say otherwise. :D
The Sun are reporting that they can’t find an actor to play The Doctor for the Christmas special, so might cancel it and do something starring Billie Piper next Easter instead:
The Scum lie. All the time.
Can you get banned from this site?
Colbert very succinctly spelling out what will happen with the Trump IRS slush fund.
Sweet jesus!
And then a few years later, we all look back and go, yeah, that was pretty shit.
Give me until it hits Disney plus.
Some amazingly unsettling moments in it too. That brief panning shot of the mirror shook me up.
That was incredible! So subtle, but so freaky.
Watched episode 4 of Widow’s Bay and it was one of the best bits of horror TV I’ve ever seen. Kate O’Flynn has been great so far, but this EP focusing on her was outstanding. Watching her losing her mind as everything gets more and more fucked up was a delight.
Great show, well worth your time. (It’s on Apple)
I was pretty meh on series 2 and this is literally the first thing that has me considering watching the finale
It’s much better than S02, but it’s still pretty meh.
Wow, what a series. Though, if they hadn’t confirmed the second season ahead of time, that ending would be immensely irritating. But with it? A perfect set-up.
I thought there was a lot of filler in there, and I hate Two Booots, but that last episode is a master class in peak Star Wars.
You would hope that after voting Tory for 14 years that the English would have learned about voting for grifters. 😔
Oof!
There is no juice here.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2051291580066156552?s=20
Is anyone reading the Tom Taylor Batman book?
Is it any good?
There’s a part of me that is really, really disappointed with myself for being 50 and moaning about Star Wars on the internet.
But this is the clip they’re hawking around the chat show circuit.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2046841396930232741/video/1?s=46
“It was a bit of a surprise to us, but it was only their personal situation that mattered to whether they expected to have children,” Hayford said.
I’m really not surprised. We don’t have kids, both my wife and I have reasonably good jobs, nothing too impressive, but comfortable enough. I don’t know how we could have afforded child care.
It’s almost like airing shows out of order is never a good idea or something.
I watched the first season when it aired and gave up because I had no idea what the fuck was going on.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Still couldn’t care less.
I’ll probably watch it when it hits D+ but I’ll be amazed if it does any sort of big numbers, box office wise.
Trek does feel dead. The fans want TNG nostalgia and/or The Orville (I’d argue they’re the same thing) and have no real interest in the show going forward. Add the owners of Paramount to this and it feels like we’re in for The Mandalorian but Star Trek from here on out.
Maybe I’m wrong, but even thought I haven’t loved all of the new Trek, it felt like the took a swing, now it’s going to be fan service from here on. And not in a fun Lower Decks kind of way.
Hey, is Daneel in this?
Not that I can remember. Hari is an ongoing main character and it has time jumps. It’s very different.
Well, maybe I’ll look into Foundation at some point, too. I do love Jared Harris.
That one’s a bit tough because I was a huge fan of the books when I was like sixteen.
You need to put the books waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind you if you’re going to watch Foundation. They’re almost completely different. Which was a problem in season three, where they mess up the Mule.
Foundation looks a bit shit, so I might start on For All Mankind.
Both are very good for the first two seasons and then fall off a bit.
The chuds win again.
Was Gen v season 2 worth watching?
I really enjoyed it. Academy has been a good show, it’s a pretty strong first season. Let’s hope they can land the ending.
This month’s blog. As usual, there’s post rock / metal, goth, electronica and some melodic black metal.
You have to wonder if Israel has some kompromat on Trump,
Why not both? The man is a scumbag.
But a whole lot of people get rich and that’s all that matters.
A whole lot of Rich people get even richer.
I’m betting it’s going to be an adaptation of the manga where they’re vampire hunters in school
I’m sorry, what the fuck?
That sounds like the maddest story pitch ever. Is it any good?
There’s going to a new Neon Genesis Evangelion series!
https://x.com/d0nut2x/status/2025919964444557448
It’s all very standard.
Yup, it’s fine and I had fun with it, but would have liked a bit more bite to it. I did like that it avoided some CW love triangle nonsense with Caleb and Genesis, they teased it, but had the sense not to.
Also, is it in Caleb’s contract to have his top off every episode? Just wondering.
Tig Notaro continues to be a joy.
I was thinking it was going to go Event Horizon with how creepy the ship was.
The Greatest Trek podcast has Tawny Newsome on talking about how they wrote EP5 and it’s a delight of a listen. I didn’t know she was so hardcore trek!
That Death cult is really invested in Dear Leader to more and more frightening levels.
Yea, I enjoyed this episode. This is exactly what star trek is. If people can’t get over star fleet academy being a young adult show, because it’s set in a university, they’re being dicks.
So, when do we get Number 0?
Let’s go with Slayer’s reign in blood.
Always good for a chuckle.
Yup. Agree with that. Nothing amazing, but don’t hate it. Hopefully it will pick up.
Looks good. Hope it doesn’t meander of like the Bad Batch did.