[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 02 November 2023 - 06:02 PM, said:

Oh I am SO watching that! It looks phenomenal!

I guess a reread is in order now!

[worry]

You don't have time for a reread.

[Tiste Simeon]

worry, on 02 November 2023 - 10:20 PM, said:

You don't have time for a reread.

Dang why you gotta own me like that?

[worry]

Just lookin out for ya!

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 02 November 2023 - 07:02 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 02 November 2023 - 06:02 PM, said:

Oh I am SO watching that! It looks phenomenal!

I guess a reread is in order now!

SOLD

[Slow Ben]

Oh hells yes.

Plus I’ll watch anything with Sanada in it.

[QuickTidal]

The FRASIER revival is excellent. Initially missed Niles and Martin, but the people who fill out the sides near Frasier are VERY good at those roles, and his lushy, drunken English Oxford friend Alan is hilarious. Niles and Daphne's son David is also really funny, and Freddy plays a great foil for Frasier's tendencies filling in a bit for Martin while still being his own person who is not quite Martin.

It's probably the best of the revivals of older sitcoms I've seen so far by a VERY long stretch.

[Gorefest]

QuickTidal, on 06 November 2023 - 02:50 PM, said:

his lushy, drunken English Oxford friend Alan is hilarious.

Nicholas Lyndhurst is comedy royalty. Haven't seen the reboot, but obviously he would immediately be the best part of it without a shadow of a doubt.

[QuickTidal]

Gorefest, on 06 November 2023 - 03:44 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 November 2023 - 02:50 PM, said:

his lushy, drunken English Oxford friend Alan is hilarious.

Nicholas Lyndhurst is comedy royalty. Haven't seen the reboot, but obviously he would immediately be the best part of it without a shadow of a doubt.

Never seen him in anything before, but yeah he's a highlight of every episode.

[worry]

Watched the first ep of Scavengers Reign on HBO Max -- pretty trippy! It reminds me of the golden age of MTV animation, like Aeon Flux and The Maxx. Lots of ideas, many of them kinda surreal, not sure if they'll cohere in terms of storytelling.
Briefly, it's about a scattering of castaways on a weird and dangerous planet, who are also mostly separated from one another -- at least at this point.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 07 November 2023 - 12:44 PM, said:

Watched the first ep of Scavengers Reign on HBO Max -- pretty trippy! It reminds me of the golden age of MTV animation, like Aeon Flux and The Maxx. Lots of ideas, many of them kinda surreal, not sure if they'll cohere in terms of storytelling.
Briefly, it's about a scattering of castaways on a weird and dangerous planet, who are also mostly separated from one another -- at least at this point.

The animation looks uniquely wonderful...like hearkening back to early Miyazaki (namely Nausicaa), with a layer of French 1970's layered overtop.

[worry]

I can see that. I don't know much about 1970s French animation -- I've seen Fantastic Planet, and that's about it -- but it's definitely drawing from Sci-fi surrealism. I wonder, did Canada get a whole bunch of French cartoons that are just mainstream kid canon for you that skipped the U.S.?

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 07 November 2023 - 02:08 PM, said:

I can see that. I don't know much about 1970s French animation -- I've seen Fantastic Planet, and that's about it -- but it's definitely drawing from Sci-fi surrealism. I wonder, did Canada get a whole bunch of French cartoons that are just mainstream kid canon for you that skipped the U.S.?

We got some French content due to Quebec....like on Sundays they ran the Smurfs....but it was Les Schromfs. LOL

I don' recall what else we got, but definitely some France-based stuff ran in Quebec.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 07 November 2023 - 02:32 PM, said:

worry, on 07 November 2023 - 02:08 PM, said:

I can see that. I don't know much about 1970s French animation -- I've seen Fantastic Planet, and that's about it -- but it's definitely drawing from Sci-fi surrealism. I wonder, did Canada get a whole bunch of French cartoons that are just mainstream kid canon for you that skipped the U.S.?

We got some French content due to Quebec....like on Sundays they ran the Smurfs....but it was Les Schromfs. LOL

I don' recall what else we got, but definitely some France-based stuff ran in Quebec.

Quebec's local channels got a metric tonne of Japanese to French translated anime in the 70/80s. You never knew when it would be on and it was usually out of order, but i as a kid watched Captain Harlock, Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets), Mazinger Z that i could identify and a bunch of stuff i randomly recognize. I watch Galaxy Express 999 for the 'first' time a few years ago and freaked rtf out at the flashbacks to something i had watched but didn't remember. Some Ontario cities near the border w Quebec, Ottawa etc, would have had access. Most of Ontario didn't have those channels but a few channels did carry some French content and would have shown a subset of the already small selection we got in Quebec.

[Gorefest]

QuickTidal, on 06 November 2023 - 03:48 PM, said:

Never seen him in anything before, but yeah he's a highlight of every episode.

You've never seen Only Fools and Horses? Doesn't get more quintessentially British than that.

[QuickTidal]

Gorefest, on 07 November 2023 - 04:52 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 November 2023 - 03:48 PM, said:

Never seen him in anything before, but yeah he's a highlight of every episode.

You've never seen Only Fools and Horses? Doesn't get more quintessentially British than that.

I have not. I'll throw it on the list!

[Tsundoku]

Thank you very much, don't mind if I do ...

[Gorefest]

QuickTidal, on 07 November 2023 - 04:56 PM, said:

I have not. I'll throw it on the list!

Well, I'm not saying it is great, but it definitely is classic. One of the most famous and well-loved UK sitcoms of all time. With David Jason is the lead role.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Quote

For the past six months, it’s been difficult to budge Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing off the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Well, this week, a new title finally will: Iron Flame, Yarros’ sequel [...] Amazon has just announced plans to adapt Fourth Wing as a streaming series[...]

[...] Yarros’ system owes more to the long tradition of dragon-rider fantasy series by such authors as Cressida Cowell, Anne McCaffrey, and Naomi Novik. As is often the case with fictional dragons, the ones in Fourth Wing can communicate telepathically with humans, specifically their bonded riders, and because Violet’s and Xaden’s dragons are mated, the two human characters can speak in each other’s minds as well. This makes it easier for the couple to keep up the constant stream of sarcastic wisecracks [...]

[...] Seemingly every single sentence [...] includes at least one cliché, and you can spend hours on the internet discovering which other books readers believe that Yarros has plundered for themes and motifs. [...] a Frankenstein’s monster of borrowed romance and fantasy devices [...] world building displays a real lack of commitment and creativity [...]

Why is it so popular? It’s possible that many of the novel’s younger fans simply haven’t read enough to recognize how tired Yarros’ language and motifs are.

Iron Flame and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros: Are the romantasy bestsellers actually any good? (slate.com)

Seems like the TV show would have a very hard time being worse than the books... and if it gets a blockbuster Amazon budget the visuals at least might be decent?

[QuickTidal]

Azath Vitr (D, on 08 November 2023 - 05:34 PM, said:

Quote

For the past six months, it’s been difficult to budge Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing off the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Well, this week, a new title finally will: Iron Flame, Yarros’ sequel [...] Amazon has just announced plans to adapt Fourth Wing as a streaming series[...]

[...] Yarros’ system owes more to the long tradition of dragon-rider fantasy series by such authors as Cressida Cowell, Anne McCaffrey, and Naomi Novik. As is often the case with fictional dragons, the ones in Fourth Wing can communicate telepathically with humans, specifically their bonded riders, and because Violet’s and Xaden’s dragons are mated, the two human characters can speak in each other’s minds as well. This makes it easier for the couple to keep up the constant stream of sarcastic wisecracks [...]

[...] Seemingly every single sentence [...] includes at least one cliché, and you can spend hours on the internet discovering which other books readers believe that Yarros has plundered for themes and motifs. [...] a Frankenstein’s monster of borrowed romance and fantasy devices [...] world building displays a real lack of commitment and creativity [...]

Why is it so popular? It’s possible that many of the novel’s younger fans simply haven’t read enough to recognize how tired Yarros’ language and motifs are.

Iron Flame and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros: Are the romantasy bestsellers actually any good? (slate.com)

Seems like the TV show would have a very hard time being worse than the books... and if it gets a blockbuster Amazon budget the visuals at least might be decent?

I’d say they are going to have a much harder time since Yarros has come out as a strong Zionist and is being widely boycotted in the book community for it. I can’t see that being something worthy of a show while that’s still going on. But then, they made OSC books into movies without much complaint, so who knows.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 08 November 2023 - 07:02 PM