I finished "From Dusk Til Dawn" earlier tonight. I admit I was mostly building Lego every time I watched the show on TV, but I saw enough to be absolutely surprised, on how much I enjoyed watching it. I wasn't expecting anything when I watched the first episode, the more I was baffled, that it had some interesting stuff in it. I'm considering to get it on DVD or something to watch it again; but this time in English and with a little more attention. EDIT: I was talking about the first season. I only just learned that a second season even exists.
Began "The Defenders" tonight, first episode only. It's slow, but I think on purpose. We're being introduced to all the characters separately, no overlap, and getting an idea of what they've all been doing for the past unspecified-length-of-time. I can see that an introduction like this would make sense for a four-way mashup, so I'm hopeful. In other words -- episode 1 doesn't suck.
Poked my face at The Defenders I'll try to type without spoilers. (my tab has disappeared) Within the first few minutes, the photography and the fight choreography was already miles better than what was done for nearly the entirety of Iron Fist. I'm trying to not rag on Iron Fist (again) but he has serious character flaws, unnecessarily angry at everything and all his mythical talk just ends up sounding like a MAP troll. (with the other characters shooting him down). Sigourney Weaver is the big bad and she does menacing quite well. But everyone else seems to be moody, for the sake of being moody. The entire series is 8 eps long.. I'm 50/50 if this fit just right or could they have fit an extra episode for a bit of plot flashing.
I was very surprised when you said that, so I had to check -- and you're right. I finished #4, and it was only then, in #4, that they become a team. So it took fully half the season for the team to become a team ... whoa! But these initial 4 episodes work for me. The pace is slow, but it actually works. The story that is being developed is an interesting story. It's not as good as Daredevil by itself, no, but it's good, and for that, I actually give Sigourney Weaver a lot of credit. She has a majesty about her -- something very magnetic and very powerful. She steals every scene without even trying. But now I'm concerned that the story cannot be properly resolved in four more episodes!!
I finished it on Tuesday. The structure of the whole series was much more like a movie than a show, with kind of a 3 act structure (group work separate threads of the same problem individually, group meet and develop as a team, group work together to defeat the big bad), which I think helped it and may well have been what Iron Fist needed). I thought the third act was slow to start but delivered at the finale. Also plenty of MCU easter eggs for the fans.
Do I even want to look up what that is? Speaking of painful -- on Netflix there is (or was) a show called "Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir." It's about a teenage girl who turns into a crime-fighting ladybug. Yes. Her powers come from a magic yo-yo. Her heartthrob is a teenage boy who, coincidentally, has his own magic yo-yo that turns him into a crime-fighting cat. They know each other in their hero roles, and they know each other in their normal-person roles, but they don't know that the other person is the other yo-yo superhero. (sigh) I couldn't finish one episode.
Finished it last night, and I agree that it feels like a 7-hour movie. I think, actually, that it would make for a *fantastic* binge-marathon pizza night, all 7 hours at once, because of the movie structure. It works so well that I bet future "Netflix Originals" will adopt that format. I might still be riding the buzz, but I enjoyed this series the most of all of the superhero tv shows, whether Marvel or DC. Granted, Defenders works only if you've watched the four component series, so in that respect I'm not making an equal comparison, but regardless -- I really loved the human side to it, the human story. Daredevil season 1 was all about the human side of Matt, and of course Jessica Jones is entirely about a broken human being, but this script raised the bar. To weave five unrelated stories together (4 heroes plus the Fingers) and make them solidify as one, is hard. But they did it and they did it well. :happy: :applause: And Charlie Cox is such a badass as Daredevil. OMG, his posture, his body language, his "bring it on" smirk -- oh, man, I love that guy! I've replayed his fight in episode 6 several times because he was sooooo cool: "No, I really don't want to do this. But you're not leaving this room."
All of the Netflix series for marvel have a film like quality to them. In that regard they are by far better than any of the regular TV comic series. It was a good blending of the 4 series but I never watched Jessica Jones and didn't care much for the Luke Cage series and barely if at all paid any attention to several episodes but I had no trouble following and enjoying the Defenders. I think the first episode picks up in the aftermath of each individual series so it would leave questions in the heads of those who hadn't watched but from that point on it wouldn't matter. I can't remember and couldn't care less what my questions about Jessica Jones and Luke cage were. Yes and that's more or less how Iron Fist should be as well. Too bad they insisted on making him a childlike braggart who likes to announce himself as "The Immortal Iron Fist, Living weapon of Kun Lun" to anyone that would listen. It worked in his solo series for the first 3rd of the season since he was sheltered from the outside world while at kun lum but after that it got annoying and you started to ask "how stupid is this guy". If it weren't for Colleen Wing I couldn't see this show getting a second season. The Defenders seems to have picked up all the things that people laughed at from his solo series and made that the whole of the character for this series. very disappointing.
Half way through "Van Helsing" from 2016. It has no relation to the Hugh Jackman/Kate Beckinsale movie, other than humans are trying to kill vampires. Briefly, a volcano in Wyoming blew out all of Wyoming, and its ash blocked out the sun over the entire western USA (and presumably over Canada, too, though that hasn't been mentioned). The story takes place in Seattle. The dark sky coincided with an outbreak of vampires. The bites of these vampires turn a person in a few minutes, and immediately the turned person starts biting other people, so within a weekend vampires were everywhere, and they spread as the ash in the sky spread. The tv show opens three years after that outbreak: the western USA is completely overran with vampires, and our heroes are holed up in a Seattle hospital. The opening credits say it's based on a graphic novel that I never read, so I'm watching it blind in a sense, and I can't decide if I like it. It's very, very, very, very slow. Lots of talking and sitting around and looking at things. That's not necessarily bad. "Rear Window" is one of my all time favorite movies, and 99% of that movie is a guy sitting in a chair talking. But the problem with "Van Helsing" is that the dialogue doesn't always progress the story. Like, after 7 episodes you'd think I would understand these vampires, right? I don't. I don't know where they came from. I don't know if they're anywhere outside the western USA. I don't know why some of them have brains and walk around like humans, and some of them don't have brains and galumph around like the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz. I don't know why the collective power of all western countries hasn't attacked the vampires and reclaimed the western USA. Specifically -- where have the US Marines been for the last 3 years? The US Marines. Axel makes a big deal about being a Marine. Every episode he reminds the viewers that he's a Marine and he was ordered to protect these two women at this here hospital. Okay, where have all other Marines been for the last three years?! You're telling me that the entire United States Marine Corp, the entire Corp, except for Axel, is dead? Okay, what about the US Army? Seven episodes in, and I still don't know what the story really is -- why Seattle, Washington is cut off from the rest of world, and why nothing outside this one hospital poses a threat to the vampires. Nothing threatens them except our tiny band of heroes in this one hospital. That's why I haven't decided if I like this show. I do know that I hate John, though. He's a threat to the group and should have been kicked out or killed. Why does Axel let him stay? See -- more confusion in the script. Big bad Sergeant "I-have-a-mission-to-keep-these-two-people-alive" should have realized very quickly that John is a threat to that mission, because that's, like, one of only three things that are clear in the storytelling. Whatever.
Just finished the Tudors and loved the whole series. Nice to watch a series to its completion rather than having Netflix cancel after 1/2 seasons (I download them for my night shifts). Watching Olympus at the moment, Pretty good and an easy watch although I hear there wont be a series 2. Waiting to see if Netflix will be producing the next season of The Last Kingdom as the BBC won't be making another season but Netflix have shown interest in making it...Last decent thing on the BBC gone.
Few days, been watching The Mist. I honestly can't see how this goes past season 1. There's only so much..."we stuck in here, we going mad situation, lets look at personal relationships" scenarios that can last long. I can see this doing a Lost though.
One of the girls I train apparently watches that too. I had my Star Wars earring in, the bird of prey symbol from the resistance, and she started going on about: "Oh! A lady bug! Just like in..." I'm still shocked how she could see my bird of prey as a lady bug. Had me traumatized. On the telly I'm watching Castle; makes me want to get the show finally on DVD/ BluRay. Especially the first seasons.
I was watching Shiki on Crunchy roll. I have like 4 animes outstanding i am watching, The expanse, the thick of it and i think thats all i recall.
And thats on the list to watch on netflix. I seem to have stumbled on the anime martial arts community.
Halfway through season 1 of True Detective. It's very well shot and acted but it is really meandering.
