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@EdH Dude, I really liked the live-action Cowboy Bebop. It's a far cry from the source material, but I thought it was entertaining in it's own right.
It's nearly impossible to compare manga/anime/cartoon/videogame adaptations to live-action. I've found it's best to leave my expectations at the door and consider it an almost entirely separate thing.
Having said that, I'd like to exercise my right to double-standard - the new Little Mermaid was way off base. When children immediately proclaim "That is NOT Ariel!", then you have goofed up, Disney.
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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@WhiskeySandwich said in TV:
Dude, I really liked the live-action Cowboy Bebop. It's a far cry from the source material, but I thought it was entertaining in it's own right.
It's nearly impossible to compare manga/anime/cartoon/videogame adaptations to live-action. I've found it's best to leave my expectations at the door and consider it an almost entirely separate thing.You're not wrong, Mrs H enjoyed it, but then she hasn't seen the anime (and has this weird bias against anime that she doesn't hold for Western adult cartoons). I do try to leave my expectations at the door in most cases, but occasionally whatever it is I'm watching makes such a hash of things I can't help but feel I'd rather be watching the original.
I suppose what I was trying to say in a very clumsy way was, when there is so much choice on what to stick on in the evening, why settle for an inferior adaptation when the superior original is also available?
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@EdH I get what you're saying and it's a great point. This applies to so many spin-offs, sequels, and reboots too. At some point you just decide "I've seen enough", and that point is different for everyone depending on how much material they crave. There are also times when shows have gone on FAR too long just because they've become popular/profitable. I can appreciate when a writer has a story to tell and gets it done in 3 (arbitrary number) seasons, and doesn't draw it out. Source material/original versions generally are superior though, and I fully agree, adaptations are usually inferior.
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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For a recommend, on Apple TV+, go with The Crowded Room.
Tom Holland is brilliant in it and shows off with his range quite a bit. I'll try to avoid spoilers but the story is centred on a young man, Danny (Tom Holland), in jail following a shooting in the middle of NYC. With his trial approaching, and detectives at a loss, an ambitious young academic psychologist Rya (Amanda Seyfried) is brought in to interview the suspect. Danny recounts his life story leading up to the shooting, slowly revealing his troubled past to Rya and us, the audience. There's a twist (that by the time it comes, I think you're supposed to see coming a mile off), but what was interesting was that the story doesn't end once the twist is revealed, and you get to see the fallout of the revelation for all the characters.
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@WhiskeySandwich said in TV:
I can appreciate when a writer has a story to tell and gets it done
Fully agree here. I greatly appreciate mini-series these days. A full season gives you long enough to tell a tight plot while examining all the characters fully.
Plus there's nothing worse than a cliff-hanger ending to a show that gets cancelled due to, for instance, Netflix's arcane engagement metrics.
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Started Monarch (the Godzilla show with Lirt Russel) on
+ and am loving it. Had to go back and watch the movies as I’m a sucker for cinematic universes. Highly recommend for sci fans. Be sure to look up “MonsterVerse” on Wikipedia for a roadmap to all the shows and movies involved. -
Watching “Love Has Won” on HBO about a mentally ill malignant narcissistic sociopath (armchair shrink opinion here) who somehow got others to buy into her thesis that she is god. Hippie cult of mentally ill drug addicts and conspiracy theorists right here in Colorado.
It’s glorious. I can’t understand the nonsense they’re spewing and keep wondering if they can hear what they’re saying.
But it’s also sad that vulnerable people get snookered into these things.
Basically, think of it as “The Karen Who Thought She Was God.”
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@mclaincausey the wife and I are watching this one as well.
These people are stoned out of their minds most of the time
"Mother" also loves buying trinkets off Amazon??
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They definitely embrace being in altered states at all times but I blame mental illness first and foremost.
The Karen is a full blown alcoholic who abandoned her children and goes through men and calls each fling the reining “Father God” most of these have been hippie types but she decided to bring in a somewhat menacing fella off the street who’s more of a Pantera-jamming meth head and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
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@mclaincausey said in TV:
They definitely embrace being in altered states at all times but I blame mental illness first and foremost.
Agreed - the manic vibes are hard to ignore
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My wife and I are kind of laughing at them in disbelief and I have to keep reminding myself that these are vulnerable people who are being exploited and abused to temper my instinct to mock them. Which is hard to do. But man are people … interesting.
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Marcia has been watching this train wreck, and I made her put the headphones in so I didn’t have to listen to them any more. Of course, now I’m still reading the subtitles…
What’s most interesting to me is that since they live streamed themselves 24/7 there’s so much bonkers footage. I can’t imagine what they had to sift through to make a coherentish narrative.
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They make Keith Rainere sound comparatively lucid, which I would have never imagined possible.
