[QuickTidal]

 champ, on 20 December 2022 - 06:12 PM, said:

I saw a rumour with Cavill as Constantin Valdor due to his love of the Custodes.

That's 30K though, and quite removed from the nuts and bolts of 40k life in the Imperium isn't it?

[champ]

 QuickTidal, on 20 December 2022 - 06:38 PM, said:

 champ, on 20 December 2022 - 06:12 PM, said:

I saw a rumour with Cavill as Constantin Valdor due to his love of the Custodes.

That's 30K though, and quite removed from the nuts and bolts of 40k life in the Imperium isn't it?

Aye, it's not a rumour I believe to be true, just throwing in some more speculation as I've seen it said a few times now. The argument was that it would be a good starting point for the masses and their introduction into the world but the meat of the argument was Cavill's Custodes love and trying to tie that to something.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

We watched Dragon Age: Absolution on Netflix over Christmas.

Very similar art style to The Legend of Vox Machina (also, Matt Mercer is in it) and we both really enjoyed it (Mr Not a Blacksmith is only familiar with Dragon Age from me fangirling about the games, hasn't played them himself). Looks like a series 2 is in the works and the idea is to bridge the time gap between Inquisition (the last game) and Dreadwolf, the next game which is currently in production. I'll be interested to see if we see any of the characters from Absolution in the new game or if they're going to remain entirely separate.

Also, Detectorists Christmas special was great. Was it as good as the main series? No, but then I find specials usually aren't. Still very enjoyable and lovely to be back in Danebury with these characters.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 30 December 2022 - 09:03 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

I finally finished my Detectorists rewatch and have as such now seen this year's Christmas special and it was just as delightful and funny as the rest of it. What an utterly wonderful show from start to finish.

[Slow Ben]

Still waiting for it to be available here! Ahhhhhhh

[Tsundoku]

I must have missed that episode of "Welcome to Wrexham".

https://www.news.com...67e629192122267

Three young female prison guards jailed for secret illicit affairs with inmates
A trio of young women have found themselves on the other side of the prison bars after a series of sex acts and smuggling incidents.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

We've started watching Ghosts.

It's a more adult comedy series from the team who make Horrible Histories.... it's gentle and silly and we've really enjoyed it. Charlotte Ritchie is very sweet in the lead roie.

[worry]

I didn't know that was relatively new / ongoing...there's already an American version of it!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 worry, on 04 January 2023 - 10:12 AM, said:

I didn't know that was relatively new / ongoing...there's already an American version of it!

Ooo, I didn't know that!

But yes, definitely ongoing, they're filming series 5 this year.

[Tiste Simeon]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 04 January 2023 - 09:52 AM, said:

We've started watching Ghosts.

It's a more adult comedy series from the team who make Horrible Histories.... it's gentle and silly and we've really enjoyed it. Charlotte Ritchie is very sweet in the lead roie.

That's next in our queue to watch! The Horrible Histories crew are so good! (Watch Yonderland if you ever get a chance if you're in the mood for much silliness!)

[HoosierDaddy]

Netflix canceled 1899. I feel like I wasted hours now.

[QuickTidal]

 HoosierDaddy, on 04 January 2023 - 12:58 PM, said:

Netflix canceled 1899. I feel like I wasted hours now.

Other than COBRA KAI and STRANGER THINGS (both of which made it past the 2-3 season Netflix cancelation window), I will normally WAIT for shows on Netflix to get more than one (usually two) seasons before diving in. Netflix needs to learn the lesson that trying to sign up more subs is stupid, and if they want to keep subscribers engaged and not curating to and from Netflix when they can binge something, they need to do like D+ and Prime and week-to-week release their shows...like I get they built their brand on giving people the chance to binge....but if you want to stay viable as a streamer, week to week is the way to go.

Disney does this exquisitely by living up their streaming shows to land one after the other, when one is ending, another one is beginning....and so forth. That model has kept me as a constant subscriber since they launched.

[worry]

The infinite growth model is stupid here, there, and everywhere. Few notions in human history have been that braindead, but it's a cult we're stuck with I guess.

The other angle is, of course, that binge stats in the first 10 days or whatever their metric is, is beyond stupid. There's no long term thinking at all. When you don't have to care about pleasing advertisers, you should feel more than free (creatively and financially) to build a body of work that people will come to both now and in the future. PLENTY of shows are late bloomers, in terms of attracting an audience. But a serialized show with its head cut off will never catch fire. Even if you don't see a long future, the surest way to make sure your investment is immolated is to not give that series a conclusion.

[QuickTidal]

 worry, on 04 January 2023 - 03:12 PM, said:

The infinite growth model is stupid here, there, and everywhere. Few notions in human history have been that braindead, but it's a cult we're stuck with I guess.

Yes, indeed. In ALL industry. At some point the same yearly profits that keep you afloat and viable as a company got replaced with "unless it's going UP more and more every year, we are failing"....back in the 70's and early 80's as long as your company was doing well each year at or around the same profits, you were good.

 worry, on 04 January 2023 - 03:12 PM, said:

The other angle is, of course, that binge stats in the first 10 days or whatever their metric is, is beyond stupid. There's no long term thinking at all. When you don't have to care about pleasing advertisers, you should feel more than free (creatively and financially) to build a body of work that people will come to both now and in the future. PLENTY of shows are late bloomers, in terms of attracting an audience. But a serialized show with its head cut off will never catch fire. Even if you don't see a long future, the surest way to make sure your investment is immolated is to not give that series a conclusion.

Yep. It's insane that Sarandos and Netflix think this is going to be a long term winner. HBO Max, Disney+ and Prime will spend 2023 and beyond overtaking them (if they haven't already) as the default one in most people's homes.

[Tsundoku]

Well, apparently season 2 of Wednesday is a go.

https://www.news.com...ded7cb836cb0d37

[Tsundoku]

DP

Huh, Resident Alien Season 2 Episode 10, a seemingly innocuous line from Harry about not wanting to pay a house call means a lot more at the end. Good ep.

Enjoying Season 2.

EDIT:
Ep 12:
"I can save the world with my butt?"
"You have to. It's your destiny." *holds up suppository*
"Ok. Me and my butt will do it."

EDIT2:
end of Ep 12:
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuck??!!

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 07 January 2023 - 07:58 AM

[Cause]

I hate to for an even a moment sound like one of those people asking if Netflix is going too woke by including more than one female character in each show

But is Netflix pushing deaf/mute characters in their shows. I know the cartoon rain prince I think it was called had a mute general, same sec characters, adopted children in interracial families. In this show it clearly was a production choice to be as inclusive as possible.

However in the last few shows on Netflix I have watched I have noticed a lot of deaf/mute characters which made me wonder if Netflix is consciously doing it. Don’t really care if they are, just curious. Although the most recent instance made me pause the show to notice the real world as it were.

Last kingdom season 5 has a servant who is deaf. Witcher blood origin (do not watch) had a character with so little development I can refer to her only as deaf sacrifice women. Dragon prince which admittedly I think I watched in 2020 so quite a while ago. There was another show recently too, maybe bullet train? Just curious if anyone else has noticed

[worry]

Finished His Dark Materials season 3. This show kinda fell out of the zeitgeist it seems, if it was ever in it, but S3 was the best of the bunch.
Had series best performances by all the leads, and even did an admirable job with the big scenes on a TV budget. Plus it never ditched the important stuff like the movie did, so I’m appreciative it got all the way through.

It was never gonna compete with like Better Call Saul or even House of the Dragon though. Just a solid B show that stuck the landing really well.

[Slow Ben]

I was on the fence after season 1, I’ll push on if it finishes strong.

[Slow Ben]

The Last of Us episode 1 was really friggin solid.

I know it’s only 1 episode but I’m 100% on board.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 16 January 2023 - 04:37 AM