I’ve been going through Regular Show, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ and finally The Apothecary Diaries. Regular Show by myself, Gundam ZZ with a friend and Apothecary with my girlfriend.
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I rewatched The Wire, what a good show, even season 5 is good tbh just not as good as what came before. I was both surprised and sad to see multiple characters show up in the Percy Jackson series which I finished recently. It’s mostly fine with some moments of being fun and interesting. Better than the movie. I think they made some smart changes from the books but I’m not sure if I’ll watch a S2.
Currently watching Scavenger’s Reign. Show makes me think of Fantastic Planet and Mad God. I’m on episode 7. I quite like it though, I was really interested in exploring a rich and diverse xenoecology and it feels like they created mainly an ecology of cruelty and exploitation? It feels very focused on predation, parasitism and at its most positive commensalism. I get how predation and parasitism would have more of a spotlight in the context of telling a certain kind of survival story but it does make it feel less wondrous to me. It narrows the potential of each new creature/interaction from “Wow I wonder what this is and what it will do” to “Wow I wonder how this will endanger them or how they can make use of it”.
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I’ve come late (very late) to Star Wars. I saw Phantom Menace as a kid and have seen 4-8 at various points in my life, but wasn’t really that into it. I finally sat down and watched 2 and 3 with my gf a few weeks ago (or more like she watched them and I was in the room). they’re OK.
much more importantly, we’re now watching Clone Wars. y’all, Clone Wars rips. I have literally never cared about Star Wars, but I care now?! like why is this kids’ TV show version of Star Wars so much better written and more interesting than the movies? (rhetorical question, I know why)
anyway it’s weird to finally “get” Star Wars after all these years of being decidedly eh about it.
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i assume u mean the CGI series but def check out the tartakovski 2D series as well, it’s basically just samurai jack again
the whole thing’s free on YT
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we actually watched this first! it’s great, and during the first couple seasons of CGI Clone Wars I was pining for Tartakovsky Clone Wars hard. but the CG one has definitely found its niche by now (albeit there’s a bum arc here and there).
man I gotta rewatch Samurai Jack. never checked out the final series. Tartakovsky’s art style is sooo [chef’s kiss]
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I’m watching Clone Wars and Rebels along with the A More Civilized Age podcast! I’m actually enjoying Rebels even more than Clone Wars though the shift was rocky at first.
I’ve never really thought of myself as a Star Wars person but then I think of all the content outside of the movies that I really like and I guess I kind of am. I have a lot of fondness for the force unleased games, lego games, kotor and battlefront 2.
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yeah I’ve never clicked with the games (although I’ve never played KOTOR, I probably will now!) looking forward to watching Rebels! think we’re gonna watch it after we finish season 6 of CW and then hop back after Rebels to watch the last season of CW.
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nice, i’ve heard incredible things about the Bad Batch too
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I feel like the final season of Samurai Jack is simultaneously good enough that I can’t ignore it and bad enough that I wish I could ignore it
the ending the comics came up with is better imo
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oh really?? I had heard good things… definitely intrigued now. I will report back!
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Just watched Supermarket Woman. I saw Tampopo for the first time some time back and it’s excellent, Supermarket Woman has been on my to-watch for a while now and I finally randomly had the urge to watch it and wow. I should’ve watched this ages ago. It’s SO funny, the cast is massive and everyone is great. Miyamoto kills it as Hanako, as amazing as Tampopo is I felt she was a little bit passive and under-utilized, but in Supermarket Woman she’s just going at 300%, she’s SO good. Such a funny underdog story about a failing low-quality supermarket turning everything around with the power of one extremely motivated middle-aged woman who has really strong feelings about grocery shopping. Every section of the store gets explored and its staff of characters highlighted and added to the ensemble. The second half pulls out some surprisingly banger and still really funny action sequences. Baller movie!!!
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X-men '97 goes hard. Its the 90s corny style and dialogue but with absurd animation budget. The detail they put on people just walking around or talking is crazy.
Fights are dope as hell too, it really feels like the CastleSuperBeast bit where they say there’s gotta be someone on the animation team with a “Cyclops Was Right” t-shirt demanding he has 1 cool moment in each episode (everyone has a cool moment in each episode, but it really feels like they tried a little hard with him to shake off the “boring guy” vibes)
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finished Rebels. it had moments and I think Hera and Sabine are very fun female characters (always a plus) but I don’t think I liked it as much as Clone Wars 1-6. going back to watch 7 now :D
Rebels s3 spoiler: when Obi-Wan just PUT MAUL DOWN THOUGH OOF I felt that. Clone Wars and Rebels have unironically made Maul one of my favourite characters lol
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Just saw Monkey Man, had a really good time with it. Does drag a bit in the middle and relies a bit too much on flashbacks, but when it hits it’s extremely cool. Really kinetic camerawork and editing. I do feel like I need some more context on the political aspects, though; I get the gist, a religious figure using his influence to promote fascist politicians, but it’s clearly drawing parallels to real events that I just don’t know about. Also probably need some context on the trans/non-binary characters, and just, like, how they’re perceived in India culturally. Also, that whole controversy with the bad guys’ political party changing colors from orange to red is super funny in hindsight, because not only is everyone at the rally still wearing orange, but there’s a later scene where they didn’t change the signs at all lmao
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watching this tomorrow, i saw some people call it the best movie they’ve ever seen lol, curious to see how good it is
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I would definitely not go that far lmao, but it’s pretty damn good
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I’ve been extremely curious about Dev Patel becoming an action movie star and so far all I’ve seen about this has been glowing reviews. I’ll be definitely checking it out when it falls off the back of a truck.
Talking about that, now that Invincible season 2 is over, I’m catching up on it an eh. Its still very much a show I watch for the sake of watching. Its not bad, but even now I still feel like the entire premise is “let’s keep piling up plot hooks and super-powered characters to take down the big bad guys” without actually doing anything meaningful until it gets to the point of calling all these contacts.
Like, I don’t even know if it will get to that point because Kirkman loves to shoot down expectations as much as he loves pointless violence, and there’s a non-zero chance that there will be a “gotcha, motherfuckers!” that takes it all off-rails or just renders this build up pointless.
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the comic is everything you just said but 8 million times worse lol. can you believe the TV show is an upgrade
same with the boys. that’s probably even worse
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Garth Ennis is a writer that I more or less respect, not for the quality of his work but for the heart of the stories he can tell. They’re often gross and repulsive, but I always feel that there is a little bit of humanity there, rather than just trying to be as edgy as possible like Mark Millar. I don’t read most of his comics - definitely haven’t, and won’t, read The Boys, but I’m glad they exist. The series was not bad, I actually thought it had more substance than Invincible, though the end of Season 2 seriously soured me on it.
Now Kirkman I actually read The Astounding Wolf-Man instead of Invincible, because I have never walked a straight path in my life, and his schtick really seems to never have any plan, only tackle what’s in the moment, promise and never deliver anything that isn’t a rug pull.
So yea, its not hard to believe both of them are upgrades, even if Invincible still feels so stale to me.
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kirkman probably has some great one-shots in him. i bet there ARE good ones out there. but i will never get the time i spent reading the walking dead back and I’m gonna be bitter about it forever
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