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Post by Bravo on Feb 28, 2024 21:14:57 GMT -8
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 4: A Different Approach
More of Crosshair and Omega escape, crashing on a fortunately habitable world, having to hustle at cards in grungy city to get bribe money for shuttle passage, because of course she's good at gambling, too. Corrupt fat local Imperial officer getting in way. Basic plot is Omega doing things her way and Crosshair wanting to do it his way. But it all works out.
6/10...maybe generous, it's all predictable.
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Post by Felix on Feb 29, 2024 13:11:12 GMT -8
I finished the first series of Fullmetal Alchemist.
Now I see there is an alternate series that is more faithfull to the comic magna, called "Brotherhood,"...has about 15 more episodes and a movie too.
Although, the first series was what I was really wanting to see.
But I am interested to see the alternate story, it is supposedly the same until about halfway through the series.
This is where the series overtook the comic.
I do want to give it a watch, but also need a break from it.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 11, 2024 20:10:56 GMT -8
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 5: The Return
Crosshair and Hunter patch things up while dealing with a giant monster at an abandoned Imperial depot. I mean, it's so bad the dumbest character, Wrecker, is saying "Why is there always a giant monster?" Saying it doesn't excuse it, writers! And it wa s planet one of them visited before...and there was no giant monster then.
5/10
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Post by Felix on Mar 12, 2024 8:56:18 GMT -8
I just finished watching the Game of Thrones spin-off series "House of Dragon". While I was looking forward to more Game of Thrones, I did not like this series. #1) It was just boring....the whole way through. With some gore thrown in for shock value. #2) I hate the opening, they couldn't come up with their own theme music, so it is just copies from the original series...I can accept that...but the opening is blood pouring all over the place, and kind of makes me nauseous, so I just skipped watching that part. Also, they changed the House of Targaryen emblem...not much...it's still a three headed red dragon, but now the tails make three sixes. There were only two on the old logo. I really can't stand to look at satanic imagery. #3) Every episode seems to jump at least two years to 5 years...the main actress had to be replaced for an older version halfway through the series. There are scenes where the King debates marrying a 10 year old child...they love to get the idea of pedophilia into our minds. #4) Did I mention how boring it was? Summary, including spoilers because the show is so awful I do not care. Make sure to include the pain and suffering of child birth as often as possible. Make sure to show white people...I mean white MEN are all evil. Make sure to show the white male king is pathetic and weak in every scene. Make sure the queen and/or princess is the one who has balls to command power. Oh yeah, and dragons. Make sure everyone gets a dragon. More pain and suffering with child births, so women won't want to have children. Make sure to thrown in some more pedophilia and rape, so white men look more evil. Black men are all honorable, and don't forget to make them gay, and make sure they are either killed or ruled by an evil white man. *Edit* Forgot to add maybe 3 or more episodes are dedicated to watching the King age from old weak man, to a bedridden invalid...quite exciting. Yeah, way too much woke agenda nonsense for me. No more Game of Thrones for me  |
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Post by Felix on Mar 12, 2024 21:15:10 GMT -8
Started watching Rings of Power...the amazon.com Lord of the Rings spinoff prequel. So far, it's not as bad as the House of Dragon. Woke agenda is in full effect though. Galadriel is always pissed off. I think she reflects my attitude towards the show. She is much prettier to look at than the main star on House of Dragon. So, points for that. SPOILER ALERT! Gandalf is a bumbling idiot old man. Probably the cruelest thing they could have done.
I do like the Harfoots though despite the woke agenda. It's just nice to have some characters that don't have to be fierce warriors and killers to be entertaining. I will continue on this journey and see where the story goes. Is it wrong to root for Sauron? |
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Post by Felix on Mar 14, 2024 18:22:03 GMT -8
Nearing the end of Rings of Power. Some more thoughts...opening is better than House of Dragon, no blood rivers. SPOILERS!!!
Episode 6 there is finally a kiss for a romantic scene. Between the black elf and human woman, but still. Not a lot of "action" in this series.
Galadriel really seems like she could use some. Hints at a romance between her and another human male.
We see how Mordor gets created.
Confused about the main villain we see...it seems like he is Sauron, but he is not.
The elves are building a tower...reminiscent of the Tower of Babel. I think this will end up being Sauron's tower with the eye.
Kind of hard to watch prequels when you know certain things are going to happen for sure.
Gandalf is still a bumbling idiot homeless man. So sad. Probably my biggest problem with the series.
It also bugs me the young female Harfoot he has a "relationship with". Hints to me at normalizing pedophilia, so that sucks. They just had to try and ruin Gandalf in every way.
Galadriel avoids the portal to the Valinor when sailing west. In ancient texts of the Book of Enoch, it says there are portals to other realms and heaven. So, this is kind of cool. Was surprised to see them do this.
Numenor (Isildur's home) is not part of "Middle Earth". And is hinted at actually being very similar, if not actually the ancient lost city of Atlantis.
There are a lot of references to flat earth in this series. Although both series, House of Dragon, and Rings of Power tend to use the word "world" more than "realm" now. This annoys me, but whatever.
Galadriel is still very nice to look at.
Elrond and Dwarf negotiations for mithril...the elves need it to save their people. Black goo is poisoning the lands, trees and their light.
The main villain doesn't like to be called an Orc, but an "Uruk".
He contests that although they are evil, are the elves and men not evil too for wanting their destruction?
No dragons, but a better story. There's plenty of violence, but not too much gore. More more enjoyable and entertaining than House of Dragons IMHO.
Although I still have one more episode to go with Rings of Power, I have no plans to ever rewatch either this or House of Dragons. |
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Post by Bravo on Mar 14, 2024 21:16:37 GMT -8
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 6 & 7: Infiltration and Extraction
Blah-blah some senators plotting against Empire, some brainwash super clone assassin after them, because who wants cool bounty hunters? Rex is back. They capture the super assassin. For some reason BAD BATCH has to go to good clone hideout with Omega. Crosshair is distrusted. Will he earn their trust by the end of this two parter? DUH. Of course he got a secret homie signal. Second assassin arrives at good clone hideout and sees OMEGA, of course. It's all about trying to capture her again. Bad clones and early stormtroopers arrive, but under command of Commander Wolfe (callback) who isn't as diehard an empire loyalist as should have been sent on this mission, I mean, really. Was he just the closest asset? He stands down. Surviving good clones flee (recurring ones, the one shots all died by this point, most from one shot). Evil super assassion clone #2 survived ridiculous fall from water fall, because...reveal later, probably.
6/10 I mean. It's not boring, but it's all predictable. And after part one's senator opening, mostly the same voice actor talking to himself.
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Post by Felix on Mar 14, 2024 21:26:28 GMT -8
Almost halfway through the last episode. SPOILERS!
Gandalf is still a bumbling idiot...so sad.
He is also unable to fight off an enemy of three warlocks who thought he was Sauron at first, and he can't beat them until he steals their staff. I hate it when they make the power come from a stick.
The Harfoots represent homeless people. It works.
The Elf scientist guy is evil, you can see it in his eye. This is really Sauron I think.
He convinces the elves, along with Elrond to get his help at convincing the dwarves to help them to make the rings, and convinces the former king of the Southlands to help him. Definitely will turn out to be Sauron.
I was confused by the dark elf they made you think was Sauron...but he is just a servant. Although the orcs(uruk), refer to him as father. It's never fully explained.
Black queen of Numinor gets blinded from the Mordor volcano in the Southlands. Yeah, things aren't working out too well for her.
She's just got bad luck it seems.
Isildor is missing, believed to be dead...*sigh* we know this isn't true.
There's a dying king in this series too, but it's not the main focus.
So far 5 stars out of 10. I am expecting the ending not to solve much and leave it cliff hanging for another season. |
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Post by Felix on Mar 14, 2024 22:50:17 GMT -8
Well they fooled me yet again. I have no idea what's going on. Sauron is the King of the Southlands.
The elves make their rings to fight Sauron.
Kind of cool actually.
Sauron is a real jerk. Great story there though.
Little girl runs off with strange old man Gandalf in the woods together.
The Harfoot's all totally supports this too.
Don't think die hard LOTR fans will ever support this.
Ending fooling me, gets bumped up a couple of stars 7 out of 10.
A lot of those stars are just for Galadriel looking cute.,,at least 4. One for the Harfoots.
Black elf side story, kind of boring compared to what's going on with Galadriel at any given moment, lol. Final score Rings of Power: 7 out of 10 stars. If Gandalf had a better origin story, could have had 10 stars. House of Dragons 3 out of 10. Maybe less. |
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Post by Swindle on Mar 20, 2024 10:20:00 GMT -8
If you want to see a good show, I'd highly recommend ShÅgun (FX mini-series). You will have to read alot of subtitles. Five episodes are out so far. It deals Japan in the 1600s and an English sailor, John Blackthorne, who becomes a prisoner of a lord. There is a larger threat of civil war that will break out over competing interests by different lords (as five lords were all made regents of equal power for a far too young heir as a means to create a stalemate). It also shows the impact the Portuguese traders are having on Japan, with their Catholic faith converting the locals and some lords indebted to the trade. Blackthorne is Protestant and at odds with the Portuguese. He finds himself service to one of the lords and is teaching his men tactics with cannons to give them an advantage once civil war does break out.
Acting, direction, script, world building, all on point. Different characters see things differently. There isn't a group think that burns me when watching tv shows. Blackthorne many times learns the hard way he can't bend a society to his way of thinking. This is a people who firmly believe in honor.
So far, best thing I've seen in 2024.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 21, 2024 20:12:36 GMT -8
X-Men 97 - WOKE GARBAAAAGE. Just kidding. It's not much more political that X-Men has been over the decades. It's actually better than I expected. To be fair, I wasn't a huge fan of 90's X-Men show. It was just okay. This moves the story forward using some comic arcs. Yes, it's more adult than the original, but not too jarringly so thus far. (Wolverine says pissed in one line.) Some original voice actors are back (some died since it's been nearly 30 years), oddly I thought Rogue had a new voice, but no, it's the same woman. Jubilee is still left behind from most mission. YOUR POWERS STILL SUCK. Wolverine brooding over Jean even though she married and preggers with Scott's baby is like GET OVER IT, ARSEHOLE. There are some questionable continuity bits...but I'm too lazy to research the original show's continuity.
First episode 6/10
Second episode 7/10
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Post by Bravo on Mar 22, 2024 16:48:09 GMT -8
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 8: Bad Territory
More like bad episode. The team wants more information about what an M-Count is, in regards to why the Empire wants Omega. And also want to know what the letter M is in a galaxy that doesn't use a English alphabet. They learn that bounty hunters are after high M-count targets for the Empire. So instead doing something useful, Hunter and Wrecker go to find Fennec Shand, that forced-upon-us-Disney-female-bounty hunter who reminds us to to make in a man's profession, a woman has to be a total bitch. She offers them information, if they work for her and apprehend some mantis alien we've never heard of. She'll keep the whole bounty on the bug and they'll get maybe a one sentence explanation. They go to poorly lit swamp planet, where there's *sigh* lots of dangerous monsters to get in there way. I fell asleep somewhere along this part. The b-plot is Crosshair's shaky hand problem that might be psychological. Thrilling. They get their mantis but Fennec is like "I don't have the information, but I can get it." At which point I'd have shot the bitch and maybe not on stun setting. Instead she flies off and contacts someone unknown about Omega. YOU REALLY SHOULD'VE SHOT THAT BITCH. to paraphrase a line from "XXX 2 State of the Union".
4/10
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Post by Swindle on Mar 22, 2024 16:51:10 GMT -8
Ok, I watched ep1 of XMen 97 and for all the internet controversy, its pretty much just more of the old X-Men toon.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 22, 2024 17:37:19 GMT -8
People have turning bitching about pop culture into internet careers, so...it's almost expected. Episode 2 is more interesting. When Magneto takes over. It also has the most questionable thing in terms of continuity with the 90's show. Rogue and Magneto have a past relationship...and it reignites. I recall in the toon stuff she was connected to Mystique...like she was Rogue's foster mother, but not much beyond that. |
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Post by Swindle on Mar 22, 2024 18:20:01 GMT -8
Yeah, the anti-SJW/woke movement and I agree that alot of the forced agenda stuff is cringe, but the problem with the critique is grifters who will pounce on anything because of YouTube/Superchat bucks. There is also a larger scope of media critique than woke stuff anyway as well that many of them are incapable of delivering.
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