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Picard S3 really is the nostalgia bomb that the show should have been all along. I’m not going to say the plot is the most amazing or anything, but individual character moments to bring the old TNG people together and kind of give some characters resolutions they should have had long ago… that shit has been stellar.
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@Rucket Counterpoint: I am worried they are going to faceplant the landing about as bad as Rise of Skywalker, but we’ll see. Also there is potential for the Lower Decks tie-in, but they probably won’t even attempt it, either, and it upsets me.
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@Rucket said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Picard S3 really is the nostalgia bomb that the show should have been all along. I’m not going to say the plot is the most amazing or anything, but individual character moments to bring the old TNG people together and kind of give some characters resolutions they should have had long ago… that shit has been stellar.
The nostalgia really gets me.
I am kinda shocked they didn’t lean right into it from the start. I don’t and never cared too much for most of the new characters they’ve introduced - and to be clear, that’s not because they weren’t interesting or anything like that.
But I wanted to see Deanna, Riker, Worf and the gang get into debates with Data about what it means to be human again. Maybe play some classical music that’s somehow integral to the plot. Try to engineer the gismo that saves the day. Understand an unfamiliar culture instead of getting in there to fire their phasers at some enemy.
You know, Star Trek shit.
And since in S3 they are giving this to me, I am a happy person.
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I’m probably the weirdo here, but I didn’t want to see more nostalgia. I mean, TNG already had two finales, decades before this new show was ever announced. How many finales does a show need? I wanted new stories and new adventures.
Unfortunately, the new stuff just wasn’t very good (badly paced, written to be unnecessarily convoluted, not terribly well shot), which is a shame but it happens.
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@GF said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I’m probably the weirdo here, but I didn’t want to see more nostalgia. I mean, TNG already had two finales, decades before this new show was ever announced. How many finales does a show need? I wanted new stories and new adventures.
We’re all weirdos here.
Yeah that’s a valid point of view. We can want different things!
My ‘counterpoint’ doesn’t invalidate yours either - if we’re not being nostalgic why not make an original series with different characters instead of reusing Picard, Seven, etc in the first place? But that’s what other Star Trek shows get to do.
I liked having one that looked back and gave me my childhood/early adulthood favorite characters back for a while longer, while the actors are still (mostly
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@Arkandel Sure. I’m not trying to argue or change your mind. I was mostly putting it out there to see if I was the only one who felt that way.
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While Picard had debatable success with all that nostalgia, Strange New Worlds has been a delight. It zooms back and forth between silly, timey-wimey, and intense psychological examination of the cost of war has on your humanity while breaking out into song.
Also, more horny Vulcans.
Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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I was a little ehhh on season 2, in comparison with season 1, but then those last three episodes came one after the other.
Holy shit.
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I cant believe I’m saying this but–
Twisted Metal.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
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@Cobalt IT LOOKS SO FUCKING DUMB! That fight in the casino trailer…I LOVE IT. I hate myself for it, but I love it.
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@Cobalt said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I cant believe I’m saying this but–
Twisted Metal.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
I’ve only seen two episodes but I am down for it all.
Also Star Trek SNW is amazing.
In Occam I trust.
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@Coin said in TV series, news, recommendations:
@Cobalt said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I cant believe I’m saying this but–
Twisted Metal.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
I’ve only seen two episodes but I am down for it all.
Also Star Trek SNW is amazing.
EVEN THOUGH I’M SO MAD AT IT RIGHT NOW.
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@Coin said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Also Star Trek SNW is amazing.
It is really making me want to start looking for TrekMUs again, and as much as I love SPACE SIM, I also kind of want them to use the Modephius rules, and I do not think anywhere exists.
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I am loving One Piece so far. On EP 2 of the live-action, oh my! It feels excellent, I mean it’s one thing! But it still has lots of the feel, no spoilers here for now! The changes they have added, do great things for the story!
Love how they introduce Zoro this time!
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I don’t watch television in general, and I’m not someone who ever really watches anime but I randomly tuned in to the One Piece live action this weekend and finished it, it was great.
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I am also really enjoying it! the only complaint about it I have was that my kiddo was so excited to see it, he’s a big fan of the original, but like…man, that’s some TV-MA violence for a TV-14 show, just imo. he’s 11, gonna have to wait.
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Maybe it’s confirmation bias on my part, and obviously the following is very subjective… but in my opinion there is a significant difference between a adapted series the showrunners care (and like) the material, and where they are just using it as a vehicle.
It’s part of the reason you adapt a book, comic etc in the first place. You inherit its fan base. There are folks who’ll watch it because of what it is, and they want it to succeed; they have favorite characters, arcs, badass moments, whatever they’d love to see depicted. It can elevate the series’ quality even further than it has a right to, just because of that synergy.
For example Ahsoka is not perfect, but damn if you can’t tell the folks who made it liked the cast of characters and their history. They keep making references to their past. It’s written to evolve and progress their storylines, and they’ve definitely made changes compared to Rebels, but those are expected both because it’s set in the future and the different cadence of a live-action work versus an animated series.
Then (and apologies to anyone who likes those, this is just my personal opinion!) I watched Wheel of Time or The Witcher… man. I can’t say the same thing. I don’t know the showrunners liked the original material much at all. They’re using it to tell some other kind of story kind of similar but with different beats, different directions, just… something else.
If they had the talent to write something of their own, and I’m sure they do, just do that, dammit. If it’s good enough then maybe I’ll be a fan of your original new work too.
Anyway. Ahsoka. It’s fun!
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@Arkandel said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Then (and apologies to anyone who likes those, this is just my personal opinion!) I watched Wheel of Time or The Witcher… man. I can’t say the same thing. I don’t know the showrunners liked the original material much at all. They’re using it to tell some other kind of story kind of similar but with different beats, different directions, just… something else.
Creating a character wholecloth for the series just to fridge her in the opening episode to turn generally the most optimistic (until things happen) character into a dark, twisted, regretful, self-loathing figure full of pathos for unknown reasons was one of the worst “changes” I’ve seen in an adaptation of anything in a long time.
I ended up watching all of Season 1 anyway, begrudgingly, but don’t plan to watch more of it. That really soured me on the whole thing.
(This is re: Wheel of Time)
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I’m very late to this party, but I watched Our Flag Means Death on @Selira’s recommendation and loved every second of it.
It’s largely known as the gay pirate show and I’m not a gay man, so I’ll leave better equipped individuals to express what that representation means to them. (Other than just, from my perspective, the romantic storylines are all wholesome as heck.)
What I wanna say is that for a show with (expectedly) very few women characters, it’s kind of amazing that every single one who shows up, without exception, is genuinely three-dimensional, interesting and fun. My favourite character ended up being Mary Bonnet and I didn’t expect to like or even care about her. She could’ve easily been sidelined as a joke character, and instead ended up a dark horse frontrunner for me.
Also as someone with a male ex who came out as gay, and whom I remain very close friends with, the hug at the end was heartwarming and relatable as heck.After an endless parade of gritty shows like Game of Thrones, at every turn I also expected shock value and trauma, and was pleasantly surprised by how it subverted expectations by … not trying to subvert expectations so hard? Man it’s just a nice show to watch. It’s endless smiles. I feel like we need more of that, actually.
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YouTube helpfully summarized my childhood.
30 '80s TV Show Opening Themes
Missing Battlestar, but otherwise pretty thorough. Eerie how many of the theme songs I can still hum despite not having seen the shows in decades.
