So... that's Hannibal.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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Defiance, Killjoys, and Dark Matter all somehow managed to have excellent season finales. Defiance's might well be a series finale, and if it is, well, it went out strong (SyFy is still waffling on renewing or canceling it). Killjoys and Dark Matter have both been renewed. I do hope Defiance gets renewed, though.
I think I've read up through either Wishsong or Druid, and I remember thinking they were very thin. Even the Landover books had more depth.
--Patrick
Helluva finale though.
GasBandit
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I think wishsong is about where I gave up, not sure if I remember though. All I know is I was going to go insane if I had to read the phrase "the little company from culhaven" just ONE MORE TIME.
Oh yeah, the scene with Bedelia was outstanding.
Evidently Fuller is now investigating the possibility of a movie to continue his version of the story. It would require getting the rights to Silence of the Lamb so still may not happen but I would love to see their take on Clarice and Buffalo Bill.
Watched all of the US Office over the past month. I thought the show ended on a good note, with a satisfying finale.
[DOUBLEPOST=1441211350,1441211288][/DOUBLEPOST]Now I need to find a new half hour sitcom to watch.
I was glad to see Michael's brief appearance in the last episode and the confirmation that he got the life he was hoping for.
GasBandit
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Parks and Rec?
Kimmy Schmidt?
Malcolm in the Middle?
Scrubs?
30 Rock?
Archer?
Bob's Burgers?
GasBandit
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You watch way more shows simultaneously than I do. I watch 2, maybe 3 tops - and those only because they're still ongoing (IE, Game of Thrones, Grimm, Venture Brothers).
When it comes to other shows, I generally watch one completely (or as long as I can stand to do so) before I move on to another.
When it comes to other shows, I generally watch one completely (or as long as I can stand to do so) before I move on to another.
Yeah, I watch a lot of TV. I tend to binge only about 2 shows at a time, one half hour and one one hour. Everything else is on a rotating cycle through the week.
Quite a bit, it's hard to actually know where to start. I'd say that the second season was actually pretty strong more often than not.
I know how you feel. I missed all of last Season of Supernatural (it was usually ether it or Agents of SHIELD and AoS won) so now I'm a season behind and not sure if I want to jump into this new season.
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I watched the first episode of it last weekend at a friend's house. Was pretty good.
So did anyone watch Heroes Reborn? I actually think it's pretty good.
- The stakes are obvious from the start: People are hunting down Evos within 5 minutes. No one is entirely certain how the Odessa, Texas explosion happened (though Mohinder in being blamed) but people trying to find out are being killed/vanished. The actual event that precipitated this is unknown (so we don't know what the end game is) so there is at least some mystery left. So... yeah, we have a workable story.
- We actually see powers! One of the weaknesses of Heroes was that NBC wasn't willing to shell out for special effects but we get A LOT of them in the first two episodes. I think the success of the Marvel stuff sold them on the expense. Some of the new powers are interesting too.
- The new characters are mostly interesting and the ones that return are mostly welcome.
Things I didn't like...
- Some of the returning characters are wasted in their brief appearances.
- The weird CGI sequences for the Japanese girl look super cheap... like they hired kids in school to do it. It's not TERRIBLE but it's definitely amateur hour.
So... yeah. Heroes Reborn could be fun, for at least this season.
- The stakes are obvious from the start: People are hunting down Evos within 5 minutes. No one is entirely certain how the Odessa, Texas explosion happened (though Mohinder in being blamed) but people trying to find out are being killed/vanished. The actual event that precipitated this is unknown (so we don't know what the end game is) so there is at least some mystery left. So... yeah, we have a workable story.
- We actually see powers! One of the weaknesses of Heroes was that NBC wasn't willing to shell out for special effects but we get A LOT of them in the first two episodes. I think the success of the Marvel stuff sold them on the expense. Some of the new powers are interesting too.
- The new characters are mostly interesting and the ones that return are mostly welcome.
Things I didn't like...
- Some of the returning characters are wasted in their brief appearances.
- The weird CGI sequences for the Japanese girl look super cheap... like they hired kids in school to do it. It's not TERRIBLE but it's definitely amateur hour.
So... yeah. Heroes Reborn could be fun, for at least this season.
See, they don't even need to do that now: people are hunting them down and killing them or exploiting them for gain. They have an actual reason to not want to have powers right now, especially since the government knows how to test for it now and has given every law enforcement agency in the world the ability to do it. They can literally just mouth swab you and know in seconds. Now the government itself isn't (openly) hostile to evos but they've basically given anyone who is the tools to make them suffer.
So having powers has a legitimate downside now: people hate you for having them and want you dead. Not even just dark groups with aims of world domination; NORMAL people.
So... How does this premise sufficiently differ from X-Men to interest me in watching it? Not that I don't like X-Men, but you made it sound very same-y IMO.
ANY show about super powered people has to deal with that baggage. Fuck, Agents of SHIELD is about the guys who DO IT. If you're looking for way Heroes is different than X-Men, I'd say it's focus on mystery and it's anthology format separate it. It's a show about different people, united by destiny, who come together eventually to save the world... and then go their seperate ways, which is different than most "super" shows, where the end goal is usually to become a team to fight crime or some shit. Compare that to Heroes, which was always about the individual lives: Hiro and Ando had their adventures, Noah and Claire were off by themselves, Mohinder is drugging out in the lab... it's usually not to the finale that they even know they are involved in the same bullshit.
I liked the original season of Heroes (watched the second one and stopped there), so I do know that story. I thought that the way you were presenting the reboot was them moving to a very different style (X-Men-y). If the new show still retains what you're talking about, then yeah that sounds worth checking out.
It's more of a retooling than a reboot, basically taking place a few years after Heroes and about a year after Odessa. All you need to know is explained in the first 5 minutes. But otherwise it's the same basic show, but with first season quality writing.
It feels like a throwback to the first season... so Seven Soldiers of Victory (the mini-series with Bulleta and Clarion, not the classic series).