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What TV SHOWS are you watching?
hotseatgames wrote: The only thing that bugs me about it is that everyone, including his best friend and ex-wife, calls him by his last name. His first name is Sam, which is not only worlds better than the horrible name Loudermilk, it's two less syllables. Then again, he is usually being a dick, so perhaps they do it to irritate him.
My family was good friends with a Loudermilk family. But you're right, nobody used the Loudermilk name except when referring to them collectively. They even encouraged kids to call them by first name even back when kids were supposed to address adults more formally, like Mister Loudermilk. Anyway, just wanted to note that Loudermilk is a real name.
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It is okay, like 3.75 out of 5. It is upsetting nerds who want it to be exactly like the animated series. That is not the point. The effects are great. The casting is stellar, like legitimately top-notch. They really seem to inhabit the characters and bring them to life. The pacing is breakneck, and that's my biggest gripe. One of the nice things about the show is that there was room to breathe, and sometimes you'd have slice-of-life episodes where the characters were just being people trying to figure stuff, and themselves, out. Here, everything is an emergency and everyone is racing from one end of the world to the other.
But the broad strokes are correct. It's close enough that it doesn't really need to exist -- the cartoon is better, and widely available -- but since we live in a world where everything will be remade, this is a pretty good treatment of the remakes.
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Also watching Delicious in Dungeon, which is a funny take on the D&D mindset. When exploring the deeper levels of the dungeon, why worry about food? You can just eat what you've killed. The one that usually has the "I'M NOT EATING THAT!" is the Elf Mage, but once she tries the Dwarf's cooking, she scarfs it down.
Lastly, started House of Ninjas, where modern times still have ninjas, the main protagonist group of ninjas just want to live normal lives after a family loss, and a big threat coming to loom over them. Just started it, but I'm hooked.
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The haiku:
"The band was a bust.
Met a girl and fucked it up.
It's a job, I guess."
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The show has become less predictable and even more interesting in the second season. A couple more survivors have been revealed. An apparent master villain surfaced, but subsequent revelations indicate that she is no more in control of the situation than anybody else. Elijah Woods has joined the cast, in a role that leans into previous flashes of dark humor on the show. At the same time, the scarier aspects of the show have also been ramping up. There was a nice chilling scene where a character with dissociative identity disorder is staring in the mirror. She turns away, facing completely away from the mirror, but her reflection is now glaring at the back of her head. Music selections still range from good to great, in terms of emphasizing whatever is happening on screen.
The only thing holding me back from recommending Yellowjackets to everyone is that it is planned to run for five seasons, and season three won't land until 2025. Might be better to wait a couple years before jumping on board.
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Pondering the various Captains across the whole franchise, I have been striving to capture the distinction between each Captain with a single noun:
Archer, the diplomat
Georgiou, the pragmatist
Lorca, the opportunist
Pike, the idealist
Kirk, the adventurer
Picard, the intellectual
Janeway, the ???
Sisko, the realist
I posed this to my Trek trivia team last night, and one of them said Janeway, the iguana, in reference to a notorious episode of Voyager.
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