[paran falcon]

Briar King, on 12 September 2020 - 10:27 PM, said:

Watched ep 1 of Cobra Kai....holy shit that was epic. What a blast of nostalgia straight to the face. WOW.

I was pleasantly surprised by Cobra Kai as well. Good nostalgia for fans of the first movie, as you said. I liked the juxtaposition of the 2 guys from the karate match on; I hadn't expected that but thought it was well done. I've finished S1 and will get into S2 soon.

[QuickTidal]

What I like about COBRA KAI is that it very much shows you that Johnny was a complete victim of circumstance not only in his home life, but under a total asshole like Kreese as a karate teacher. It helps him be the hero EVEN while we also have Daniel as a hero too.

The show treads the line of goodness between the cobra Kai dojo and the miyagi-do dojo style...

I also feel like (spoilers up to the end of season 2)

Spoiler

they are purposely setting up Johnny and Daniel as brother-like heroes, flip sides of the coin. Batman and Superman as it were...as the end villain (after Kreese) will be Miguel’s dangerous, absentee father from Ecuador (who has been posited is the villain from Karate Kid 3 Terry Silver)...and they need to team up against him.

I also feel like they will get their Rocky 3 Creed VS Rocky in a friendly sparring match moment tat they talked about while drunk.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 September 2020 - 05:21 PM

[Malankazooie]

Watched the series Perry Mason on HBO. It has some cool film noir vibes, but overall it isn't all that captivating of a show. I'm not really keen on the story line with the religious cult aspect. It didn't really mesh well with overall aspect of the trial. There are some good performances from ‎Matthew Rhys (as Perry Mason) during the trial. And his side-kick / PI helper is excellent. As well as the African American police officer who has to make difficult (and right) decisions, at the peril of his family (setting is early 1930s California). Actress Tatiana Maslany's talent is wasted. Although I've never see her in anything, I heard that show were she takes on a bunch of different characters is supposed to be a tour de force. If Perry Mason continues a second season, not sure if I will watch.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 15 September 2020 - 07:17 PM, said:

Finished Cobra Kai. I loved almost every bit of it. The last episode was a bit much but you couldn’t really ask for a better follow up show then what we got here. It’s not mind blowing tv but it is utterly fantastic tv for original 70’s and 80’s kids.

Season 3 is coming in 2021!

[Malankazooie]

Holy crap! I just saw a commercial for an upcoming show on Netflix called "Ratched", and it looks unsettling and disturbing AF. Uh, it has to be based on the nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, right?

Fun fact :: in high school I took a Psychology class in the 11th grade. Our teacher showed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and then we had a discussion afterward. It was uncomfortable but interesting from what I recall. My teacher had an unsettling amount of knowledge about electro-shock therapy.

[QuickTidal]

4 Part Limited series about the 1986 Challenger disaster is on Netflix.

It's called CHALLENGER: THE FINAL FLIGHT.

Watch all 4 parts. It's interesting because 4 big things have occurred in my life that I remember VIVIDLY, The Chernobyl disaster (also '86), 9/11, The Fall of the Berlin Wall ('91), and The Challenger Disaster ('86).

I remember the Challenger vividly becuase I was 9, and our school thought it was such a big deal that an American Teacher was going into space that they gathered us all in the auditorium and played the live launch footage for us...only for the accident to occur and traumatize the lot of us.

What I learned from the docuseries is that a perfect storm of events and delays made sure that the launch happened on a weekday so schools could broadcast it...it was supposed to go up on a Sunday.

The documentary doesn't shy away from NASA's responsibility for the O-ring fault and cover up attempt (which was revealed by badass nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman of all people!)...the fact that they KNEW there were issues with the o-rings in the solid rocket boosters for YEARS and especially when cold temperatures hit (which they did the day of launch)...blows my mind. They literally manslaughter 7 people who didn't know that the Solid Rocket booster engineering company Morton Thiakol had a bunch of people TELLING them not to launch....and NASA did it anyways because the naysayers in the room could not GUARANTEE that the rocket boosters would explode...they just said they very well could (one of them said it would explode outright)...and NASA took that as a chance they would take.

Which is fucked up.

It's a very good series and I THOUGHT it would sing the praises of NASA, but it is VERY critical of the choices made by the men and women who sent her up knowing about the flaws.

EDIT: Oh and it should come as utterly no surprise that Reagan was part fo the cover up attempt by telling people not to "embarrass NASA"...

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 18 September 2020 - 12:03 PM

[paran falcon]

QuickTidal, on 18 September 2020 - 11:44 AM, said:

4 Part Limited series about the 1986 Challenger disaster is on Netflix.

It's called CHALLENGER: THE FINAL FLIGHT.

Watch all 4 parts. It's interesting because 4 big things have occurred in my life that I remember VIVIDLY, The Chernobyl disaster (also '86), 9/11, The Fall of the Berlin Wall ('91), and The Challenger Disaster ('86).

I remember the Challenger vividly becuase I was 9, and our school thought it was such a big deal that an American Teacher was going into space that they gathered us all in the auditorium and played the live launch footage for us...only for the accident to occur and traumatize the lot of us.

What I learned from the docuseries is that a perfect storm of events and delays made sure that the launch happened on a weekday so schools could broadcast it...it was supposed to go up on a Sunday.

The documentary doesn't shy away from NASA's responsibility for the O-ring fault and cover up attempt (which was revealed by badass nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman of all people!)...the fact that they KNEW there were issues with the o-rings in the solid rocket boosters for YEARS and especially when cold temperatures hit (which they did the day of launch)...blows my mind. They literally manslaughter 7 people who didn't know that the Solid Rocket booster engineering company Morton Thiakol had a bunch of people TELLING them not to launch....and NASA did it anyways because the naysayers in the room could not GUARANTEE that the rocket boosters would explode...they just said they very well could (one of them said it would explode outright)...and NASA took that as a chance they would take.

Which is fucked up.

It's a very good series and I THOUGHT it would sing the praises of NASA, but it is VERY critical of the choices made by the men and women who sent her up knowing about the flaws.

EDIT: Oh and it should come as utterly no surprise that Reagan was part fo the cover up attempt by telling people not to "embarrass NASA"...

I'll have to watch that. Challenger is a vivid memory to me as well. I lived in Tampa at the time and was finishing my senior year of high school via homeschooling and also working at a "chicken" restaurant. I was at work when a customer came in and said he'd heard on the radio something had gone wrong with Challenger. Everyone in the place ran outside where we literally saw the smoke trails of parts of Challenger coming back down. While that was horrifying and shocking enough, it didn't really hit me until I got home and turned on the news and really remembered the individual lives lost. That hit like a gut punch all over again.

[Slow Ben]

FYI. Letterkenny was even better on the re-watch.

[Malankazooie]

Did not know that Power Book II: Ghost was airing. Gonna have to wait until they run them all and binge it. If you guys haven't watched Power, you gotta give it a try. Really violent, so be forewarned about that. But damn, its got some compelling character development.

This post has been edited by Malankazooie: 20 September 2020 - 09:38 PM

[Tsundoku]

Just watched Ep 5 on Season 2 of The Boys (awesome) and there was a - non-spoilerific - stand-in for Homelander on a film set with A-Train who says "Hey dude, that was awesome". Dammit if he looks familiar, but I can't find anything online.

EDIT: IMDB says he's one "Anthony Bewlz" who has been in ... nothing I've seen. Must just have one of those faces.
Although apparently he's also the in-real-life stand-in for Antony Starr as Homelander.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 21 September 2020 - 11:26 AM

[Abyss]

Watching AWAY on Netflix.
It's.... unsubtle. The cast is doing their best, the production (sets, sound, fx) are well done, but - so far, 4 eps in - this is a very by the numbers show. The main plot, following the crew of the first manned space flight to Mars on their three year journey, is engaging to a point. But since they're basically sitting around on a decently roomy set, and not an alien or Trek-type anomaly to be seen, we get... PERSONAL DRAMAAAAAAAAA... and it is very, very, by the numbers, basic tv 101. It's well done basic and they sell it, but we could have stuck most of the cast in a Starbucks across from the apartment building they all lived in and had the same plotlines. I'm in for now because this is about as sophisticated tv as i have time and attention and awake for. I hope it gets better tho'.

Nat Geo's MARS lost me because it shifted focus to the technical to the detriment of the personal. This is going the other direction.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 21 September 2020 - 04:16 PM, said:

Watching AWAY on Netflix.
It's.... unsubtle. The cast is doing their best, the production (sets, sound, fx) are well done, but - so far, 4 eps in - this is a very by the numbers show. The main plot, following the crew of the first manned space flight to Mars on their three year journey, is engaging to a point. But since they're basically sitting around on a decently roomy set, and not an alien or Trek-type anomaly to be seen, we get... PERSONAL DRAMAAAAAAAAA... and it is very, very, by the numbers, basic tv 101. It's well done basic and they sell it, but we could have stuck most of the cast in a Starbucks across from the apartment building they all lived in and had the same plotlines. I'm in for now because this is about as sophisticated tv as i have time and attention and awake for. I hope it gets better tho'.

Nat Geo's MARS lost me because it shifted focus to the technical to the detriment of the personal. This is going the other direction.

Yes.

This is EXACTLY my take on AWAY as well.

Within the first episode I felt it was REALLY boilerplate "The Right Stuff" NASA-branded content without the heart? Like the space stuff is mildly interesting and decently done, but the earth-based stuff is boring AF. So I want it to get back to space, because the earth drama is boring, but the space stuff if not giving me much either. Like do we need a whole back and forth scene of whether Swank is going to come home because of her ill husband and lost-without-her daughter...no...why? Becuase the show is like ten episodes about going to Mars...so in no way do we ever think she's not going....but we get a fucking 15 minute overwrought juxtaposed back and forth with most of the cast weighing her leaving to come home...only for Dead Poets Society to tell her "Go"...like fuck you for making all that content that is not remotely needed. Then even the space-bound-moon stuff about the accident is the most heavy-handed shit about "not trusting your leader" bullshit I've yet seen...including all the talking heads being interviewed for their take...only for a spacewalk to settle the notion...like just fuck off with this pedestrian writing.

Fuck it, watch COBRA KAI instead. It's amazing.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 21 September 2020 - 04:24 PM

[Malankazooie]

I know the good portion of you don't give a shit about sports, and I would usually post this in the NFL discussion thread, but I thought this was noteworthy for you all. Tonight, try to tune in to the beginning of the game between Las Vegas Raiders v New Orleans Saints. The game is in Las Vegas and the Raiders' new stadium is supposed to be bonkers. It's all black and I heard that the lights from the Vegas strip against it is supposed to be something to behold. It's also been dubbed the "Death Star", so that should get you booger eaters to check it out, right?


I'll never get used to the 'Las Vegas' Raiders it's so weird to hear that.

[Slow Ben]

Why do people always think labeling something the Death Star is a good idea?

[Tiste Simeon]

Slow Ben, on 21 September 2020 - 07:18 PM, said:

Why do people always think labeling something the Death Star is a good idea?

Being a fascist is very "in" at the moment.

[Tsundoku]

But they have the best uniforms!

Come on Simmo, you know deep down that if they changed the bobby uniform to a Clone- or Stormtrooper you'd be all about it in a flash.
And it wouldn't matter that they can't shoot for shit because you guys don't carry firearms.
We could change your name to TS-6969.

Win-win!

[Malankazooie]

Watching some of the pre-game and they are going over the stadium. This shit is crazy. I guess what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but also is done more extravagantly? Damn, they rocking natural grass that is 'retractable', da fook? That's mental! But from a practical standpoint, black absorbs heat, yeah? And Vegas aint exactly Sheboygan, WI, so how they gonna keep it cool?

[EDIT] Oh my, they lit a huge ass Al Davis torch, which I guess is one of the conversation pieces if you visit the stadium. You can't miss it.

This post has been edited by Malankazooie: 22 September 2020 - 12:18 AM

[HoosierDaddy]

QuickTidal, on 21 September 2020 - 04:22 PM, said:

....

Fuck it, watch COBRA KAI instead. It's amazing.

Yar. Although the teen drama is... meh. Johnny is a great character though. Good on William Zabka.

[Malankazooie]

[UPDATE] - Raiders got the win. Which is nice. It would be a Vegas buzzkill if they would have lost, while christening their new home. You just know fools gonna be doing their version of the movie Hangover tonight.

The Killers played during half time, did their big hit, uh is it called Mr. Bright Eyes, or Bright Eyes? Never have really been into the Killers myself, so dunno. It was that familiar hit though. They are from Las Vegas, yeah? I'm guessing that is why they played the half time show.

As far as the stadium, not sure why they nick named it the 'Death Star'. It looks more like a big hockey puck to me. I guess 'Death Star' is on brand for the Raiders tough guy, men in black, menace of the league reputation? dunno.

Fun fact: when I worked at a golf course, one of the oldsters who worked there said his son handled the concessions at the old Oakland digs. He said that his son would have stories about how brutal the Raider's fans were. Like if you were wearing an opposing jersey and they caught you in an ideal place for a beat down (out of site of security), that was your ass, you were getting a beat down. His son also said that if you sat in any near enough proximity to Raiders fans in your seats and you had opposing team colors, might as well have brought a rain coat, cause you were going to be spit on throughout the game.

[Tsundoku]

Mr Brightside.

Apparently that Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance got the best kid's show Emmy ... and then got cancelled.

Man, Netflix really are ruthless when it comes to renewing shows.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 22 September 2020 - 11:22 AM