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Way behind the curve on this one but the second season of The Boys was thoroughly enjoyable. Gory, disgusting and faintly nauseating in places for sure, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it.

I had to nope out of Teen Wolf when it got to Derek the child predator, with his hands on a teenager's legs.

I assume the chance he dies at some point is pretty high, can someone tell me in spoiler tags the episode number after that happens, so I can maybe pick it up again (fine if there are other characters that do terrible things, it's that kind of show).

I guess that also means that so it's not spoiling if he never dies, someone should make a spoiler tag with elevator music or something inside so that fact is still secret if true.

Noticed The Expanse is on here and after hearing about it for years I think I’ll give it a shot. I know it starts rough, but I hear great things if I power through it.

I’ll post thoughts here untied it’s worth finding/making/resurrecting an Expanse thread. I assume there is one somewhere.

On the first page of Everything Else right now.

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UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Noticed The Expanse is on here and after hearing about it for years I think I’ll give it a shot. I know it starts rough, but I hear great things if I power through it.

I’ll post thoughts here untied it’s worth finding/making/resurrecting an Expanse thread. I assume there is one somewhere.

I don't think it starts rough at all. They do a great job of establishing the setting and the characters, the effects start off great. Its just a lot to take in all at once. And the action kicks off right away too so you dont have a ton of just raw exposition or anything.

Yeah there's no rough start. Probably the best original sci-fi show in 20 years, from the jump

The first few episodes are pretty dense with worldbuilding and throw out a lot of names and concepts without really taking a breath to explain what things mean. The fans of the show I know that weren’t already fans of the books didn’t really get on board until episode 4, but from then on were hooked.

I didn't read the books until after season 1.

It is a show that you have to watch. No browsing your phone or other distractions while you watch. Pay attention and it's great.

My problem with the show is it is just too dark. Not like grim, literally too dark. Lots of dim scenes and muddy brown and gray and black saturated scenes. I only watched I think three episodes, maybe it gets better.

I watched the first couple episodes and the world seemed cool but I didn't understand which of these characters I was expected to give a sh*t about so I bounced off.

It's pretty definitely answered by the end of the 4th episode.

Mermaidpirate wrote:

I had to nope out of Teen Wolf when it got to Derek the child predator, with his hands on a teenager's legs.

I assume the chance he dies at some point is pretty high, can someone tell me in spoiler tags the episode number after that happens, so I can maybe pick it up again (fine if there are other characters that do terrible things, it's that kind of show).

I know how that scene plays, and I wasn't a fan of that either, but he's not into that with her. At this point in the series he's a little desperate to build a pack, and he's well aware that the bite can kill someone too old to adapt. That and a big reason you set a series in high school is to force your characters to be in proximity to each other regularly, without the complications and rules of a workplace, so those are the characters you mainly work with.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Noticed The Expanse is on here and after hearing about it for years I think I’ll give it a shot. I know it starts rough, but I hear great things if I power through it.

I’ll post thoughts here untied it’s worth finding/making/resurrecting an Expanse thread. I assume there is one somewhere.

You need to get through the first three episodes of season 1 of the expanse…but it gets GOOD!

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Noticed The Expanse is on here and after hearing about it for years I think I’ll give it a shot. I know it starts rough, but I hear great things if I power through it.

I was hooked from the first episode, so have to disagree with the "starts rough" opinion.

I was pretty hooked from the get go with Expanse but I can see how it might take some a few episodes to get into.
The other complaint I hear is that is gets weird. But its just cryptic with what is going on behind the scenes when humans encounter what they don't understand. Nothing stranger than anything in Star Trek, Stargate, the Alien series, Dr. Who or Farscape. And if anything, it is quite a bit more grounded in physics than most of those.

fangblackbone wrote:

I was pretty hooked from the get go with Expanse but I can see how it might take some a few episodes to get into.
The other complaint I hear is that is gets weird. But its just cryptic with what is going on behind the scenes when humans encounter what they don't understand. Nothing stranger than anything in Star Trek, Stargate, the Alien series, Dr. Who or Farscape. And if anything, it is quite a bit more grounded in physics than most of those.

One of the things I really like in The Expanse is that the aliens are properly alien.

Their motivations and desires are utterly unknown to Humanity who have very little understanding of what they are dealing with. For the protomolecule, it's difficult to understand if it's actually the alien or just alien technology run amok. Not even the books make that distinction terribly clear.

Put me in the group that didn't think The Expanse was all that great at first. I only really got into it between seasons 2 and 3.

Regarding the last season, I'm not really into the intro sequences. They seem really disconnected with the rest of the show.

slazev wrote:

Regarding the last season, I'm not really into the intro sequences. They seem really disconnected with the rest of the show.

Oh, it's connected. Or at least it will be.

MikeSands wrote:
slazev wrote:

Regarding the last season, I'm not really into the intro sequences. They seem really disconnected with the rest of the show.

Oh, it's connected. Or at least it will be.

Yep! Just wish they had a better kid actor

MikeSands wrote:
slazev wrote:

Regarding the last season, I'm not really into the intro sequences. They seem really disconnected with the rest of the show.

Oh, it's connected. Or at least it will be.

Yes, I was (and now am after that confirmation, of course) expecting it. Still, I think the execution could probably be better.

Being the Ricardos is excellent. Well worth giving a go. I vaguely remember seeing episodes of ‘I love Lucy’ as a kid.

It is a great IP. So I am hopeful.
Though if it does not have Ron Perlman in it, boo!

Interesting.

No Dogmeat, no watch.

It'd better have Dogmeat!

Watched Colombiana and liked it. This is your basic super lady killing bad guys because they murdered her family. The recent films of this nature were better like Kate and Atomic Blonde but I still dug this.

Uhura traveled back in time to get her revenge. Morgan took a break from killing zombies to try and stop her. Both actors did a good job. The weakest point was the quick cuts in the action. A better fight guy could have made this pop. Oh and they had this kid at the beginning that was really good. I watched the uncut version which is 30 minutes longer than the regular version. The kid might not be in the normal version.

And wow this came out 10 years ago. I thought it came out like maybe a year ago.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

And wow this came out 10 years ago. I thought it came out like maybe a year ago.

Yup, was a fun one at the theaters

Finished episode 1 of Vox Machina and I'm really liking it so far.

I watched the first three episodes of Vox Machina, I am liking the characters so far. I think the way they interact will be able to carry the show for me for a while. The animation is pretty good too. I may have to look up the podcast.