I’m not sure familiarity with Asimov’s Foundation makes any difference at all. Let’s say the show is “loosely adapted.”
1 Like
I’m reading Foundation Book 1 right now, and even though I’ve only seen 1 episode of the show, I have to think that the show is, if anything, showing us what actually happened between the first and second sections of the book. These events are only referred to in the book at best.
2 Likes
3 Likes
Bodies. I am tenuously interested after the first episode, as multiple investigations in different times appear to cross paths somehow. I am also well-prepared to kick it overboard because while the idea is okay, the execution also needs to be up to snuff.
3 Likes
About to start episode 7. Worth every minute.
2 Likes
Invasion S2. Golshifteh Farahni’s tired, exasperated mother, and Shioli Kutsuna’s driven scientist make this series for me. Naian González Norvind is a good addition. Stylistically excellent, carefully co-ordinated, ambitious. An alien invasion without being stupid is hard to do, because the tropes are so firmly established.
Is it worth watching? I was meh on S1 for reasons unremembered.
1 Like
I suspect you’ll find S2 the same. I went back and forth on S1, but ultimately the atypical alien invasion and the interesting characters outweighed the poorer aspects.
2 Likes
Also Bodies. Basically good, with some nice twists and reveals.
Two thoughts:
It was a bit unclear in its philosophy of time travel - is time unchangeable, cf the first season of Dark, or is the past mutable. It could just be that the point is that Defoe is wrong in his speech to Iris as turns out to will have been the case.
That tacked-on twist ending. On the one hand, it was deliberately added as a hook for a hypothetical season 2 and has no thought-out connection to the story just told, which is a bit cynical. On the other hand, it makes sense as the 2023 at the end is not the 2023 with Harker/Mannix‘s century-long conspiracy in its past. The conspiracy is powerful and extensive enough to infiltrate at least the police and build a nuclear(? maybe) bomb in central London undetected. Given how many lives will be different between 1890 and 2023, it makes sense that the present would be more radically changed. Arguably, the hooks are already built in, for example if the Throat is not created by the time loop. Also we know that for every person sent from 2053 to the past, there’s an equivalent in the future‘s future. I wish there had been a bit more thought behind it.
1 Like
Rick & Morty might be growing up.
Attack on Titan finally finished after 10 years. I’m going to be melancholic for the rest of the week. My life was totally different ten years ago, and reminiscing with friends who have also been watching the whole time has been a, somewhat bittersweet, trip.
Looking forward to this one. Loved Band of Brothers, of course, and enjoyed The Pacific as well. Plus, my grandfather (top row, furthest to the right, with the white collar) was a B-17 navigator with the 303rd Bomb Group, so this is close to home.
7 Likes
Invincible S2. This mfer still vincible af, as the kids would say, but otherwise the series is a quality look at being a superhero, with a lot of the consequences you don’t normally see.
2 Likes
Outlander, on Netflix.
Tons of nudity notwithstanding, how is this televised romance novel trash so highly rated? The premise of time travel and Scottish accents pulled me in but good lord fuck almighty, this is hot trash. Literally heaving bosoms and throbbing members and unwatchable tropes all over the place.
7 seasons and over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, am I missing something?
4 Likes
Methinks you’re not the target demographic.
5 Likes
It’s middle aged woman fodder isn’t it?
2 Likes
Seems decidedly so.
1 Like
Netflix algorithm be damned!
1 Like
My wife loves it, reads tye books and all.
I sit and game.
1 Like
Sassenach! Yeah, I was forced to sit through the first season. A little to rapey for me.
3 Likes
RIGHT?!?
2 Likes