Think I must have missed the beginning/end credits for the 3x completely unrelated episodes of Kevin Costner’s high-budget Western because they seemed to play in one big single lump today without a pause. Very high production values, but the first 3 episodes were all beginnings of stories that will be told in future episodes, and infuriatingly we got an unannounced Coming Next Time trailer at the end of the showing.
For some reason completely unknown to me, I was obliged to watch this 10000000%-a-TV-series-and-0.00000000%-a-movie in the cinema rather than on the streaming platform it belongs on. Maybe Kev got confused when he signed the distribution deal.
Started watching The Boys, currently watching season 2 and well… I had no expectations and still I don’t know what I am watching it’s entertaining but I am questioning my own humour with every episode coming
Personally, I’d like them to revamp the whole Terminator franchise, basing it off of Kyle Reese’s most significant line after he first rescues Sarah: “You’ve been targeted for termination.”
Imagine people traveling to various different points in time, informing certain people, who don’t have a big role as far as they know, that they have been targeted for “termination,” and the possibilities that opens up. You see, as Reese was first explaining it, about the nuclear war and such, I envisioned SkyNet sending Terminators back through time to kill certain people because it had calculated the best way to avoid humanity’s extinction through the elimination of particular people are certain points in history, and dispatching terminators to do it. But to avoid a possible worse outcome due to altering history, humans are also traveling to try and stop SkyNet’s plan.
This makes the series not about any specific individual humans and can make each entry its own story, playing to a larger overall narrative. It leans more heavily into the narrative of a computer sending cyborgs to kill people than trying to stop the computer’s rise.
I think that would be a more intriguing way to approach the series if it were to reboot completely.
Guys, if you want to watch a 10 hours peplum, go for it.
It follows the ambitions of a betting office manager at the Circus Maximus, who understood that he had to either rise in Rome or die there — which is the baseline of the series.
He will create a new faction for chariot racing, helped by his champion and the support of a very powerful politician. Then, he will become the master of the games to inaugurate the brand new Flavian amphitheater where blood must flow to entertain the plebs and prevent them from revolting…
At the same time, we follow the corridors of power, first with the emperor Vespasian, then with Titus who will reign after his death. Unfortunately, his younger brother Domitian can’t stand having to stay in his place…
Finally, a Numidian mother joins Rome and tries the impossible to save her children who have been enslaved: her two daughters as servants and her son as a gladiator. The latter, to survive, has no other choice than to win all his fights in the arena…
The light is beautiful, the colors are vibrant, the settings are magnificently recreated, the costumes are realistic. I find that there was an effort to immerse oneself in the pagan Roman culture, with its gods, its rites and its customs. Historical events follow one another, such as the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
If you want to see a drama with micro-plots, love stories and more, fight scenes, against a backdrop of Roman culture, you will be served. The lack of morality of most of the characters is compensated by the humanity of the family who wants to find each other.
A big show, with as much emphasis placed on chariot races as on gladiators. The challenge of entertaining is successful.
So Season 2 of House of the Dragon had its season finale, and boy it was disappointing having my excitement for the season slowly trickle out as the episodes progressed. The pacing in the season was just too slow, where many characters do have arcs but they only progress an inch each episode. And I wouldn’t even call it bad, certainly not on the level of the final Game of Thrones seasons, and there are some really amazing moments in it too, but it just feels so slow and drawn out and had me thinking “This is what I waited two years for?”
Episode 8 had some of the biggest blue balls I’ve seen in a TV show. It builds up a lot of stuff but barely resolves anything. Gotta wait two more years to see it continue, at which point most people won’t remember what happened. This felt like they made Episode 8 still expecting to get 10 episodes this season but then left it as is when they found out they were only getting 8. At least in one aspect they were really faithful to GRRM since A Dance with Dragons also has major blue balls and feels incomplete!
I’ve watched the new Batman: Caped Crusader Show on Amazon Prime and its quite good, pretty cool.
Lady Penguin was a real menace, loved her in the first Episode, Catwoman is boring as usual and overall there’s too much “normal Gangsters” for my liking, Clayface looked fine but i expected him to… I dont know - become an near unstoppable Monster - instead of just getting arrested?
He’s a far cry from what he was in BTAS
Matt Hagen is still the GOAT.
Maybe he’ll come back in Season Two.
Nah, I don’t really wanna watch the five hundredth Batman related TV show. Plus I usually don’t watch shows based on other media unless the promos really sink their teeth into me and nothing about the show really appealed to me.
Wait is the BCC Clayface Matt Hagen? You would think they would have done Karlo, it fits the period that show was going for much better.
Oh that kinda sucks Karlo is basically the ultimate Clayface since he has none of the drawbacks the first two had and the popularity the third Clayface didn’t have.
it’s entertaining but I am questioning my own humour with every episode coming 
… in January… 
