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craniac wrote: Apologies for thread squatting. I just saw the season 1 finale of The Flash, and it was pretty cool. My teen son then explained Flashpoint to me, and the whole DC reboot thing, which helped explain a key moment in the episode. The show is shockingly dumb at times, and can be cartoonish in a bad way, but it does have its moments. The finale was really cool, in fact. I want to cosplay now as fat, middle-aged Flash.
Explain it to me because I haven't got a fucking clue what is going on.
I just finished 1st Season as well
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The key is that Campbell is totally invested in it...he is DEFINITELY in form as Ash, and he really sells himself as an older version of the classic character. Still a total jackass, still a total cad, still a total hero. I don't want to spoil it, but his "costume" reveal is priceless. He's got a couple of could-be-classic lines in it as well, so it's clear that the right folks are writing it.
The goofy gore and loony energy, the Three Stooges stuff...it's all in place. There are some CGI elements, which is somewhat jarring, but mostly it looks and feels on the money. The new characters seem like good foils for Ash, it'll be interesting to see if they can develop over the course of a series. Which may be the biggest looming problem- I don't know how any kind of Evil Dead story can go on for 10 episodes, let alone if it goes a second season. It's worth noting that the second episode is NOT directed by Raimi and you can tell.
It's funny though, I have thought for like 10 years that I was kind of ready to retire that whole character and franchise but I liked getting back to it through this program. Hopefully it will freshen it up so we can move on from the endless Army of Darkness references, which are about as played out as Monty Python ones at this point.
And I think the show has, in two episodes, already distinguished that it is NOT another zombie thing. These are Deadites. Very different.
Laying $10 on GF9 announcing an AvED game soon.
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RobertB wrote: This is doing it bass-ackwards, but I watched Spartacus: Blood and Sand after playing the game. This has to be the bloodiest and dirtiest series that I've watched, by far. Definitely not for the prudish or squeamish. The show's take on boobs and blood pushes it well into pure camp, but I liked it. The plot was simple enough for me to follow without outside assistance,and I got to cross "saw Lucy Lawless' boobs" off my bucket list.
I did the same, though I haven't gotten around to the final season yet. The show is enjoyable in a trashy way.
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I'm currently almost done with season 2 of Hannibal, which is going in surprising directions. Also just caught the most recent episode of Fargo, which continues to be good.
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Anyone here follow the HBO series, The Leftovers? I'd heard some raves about it from people comparing it in quality to Fargo and True Detective (well, season 1), but I watched the first two eps and wasn't really blown away. The premise is sort of interesting, with several million people disappearing all of a sudden in some kind of Rapture event that nobody can explain, and it follows how people are dealing with that a few years later. There's some weird cult that never talks and smokes all the time, and some guru guy that hugs the pain out of you, and other stuff like that, but I didn't really seem to care about any of it. But presumably it gets better? I'm not continuing at this point, though, without some major encouragement.
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Many years ago, I was in a relationship with an addict. I didn't know that until I was already in too far to easily back out. After less than a year, I had been burned badly enough to move on, but she used her two young kids to manipulate me into sticking around longer. The other reason I hung on too long was that, aside from the drug addiction, she was really easy to get along with, compared to any other woman I've ever dated. And sometimes it was fascinating to talk to her. Within her own limited world view, all of her actions made perfect sense, despite the underlying flawed logic of feeding an addiction. I haven't had any contact in over a decade, but it seemed like she was finally getting her life together when we last talked.
Anyway, I recognize her in the behavior of the junkies of The Corner. Good intentions keep yielding to bad decisions, and everything is very short-term tactical thinking, leading to tragic consequences. The Corner keeps everything real, and that reality haunts me. I think that a veteran fan of The Wire would enjoy The Corner just fine, unencumbered by the baggage that I bring to each viewing.
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My wife and I have been watching Master of None, which is Aziz Ansari's new Netflix show. Some extremely funny stuff in there. He's willing to take on some heavy social topics without getting totally bogged down in it. Best comedy I've seen in a while.
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