I keep being told to watch The Umbrella Academy but am laying off Netflix for a month. Started Ted Lasso on AppleTV which is neither Sci-Fi or Super Hero but pretty funny. Jason Sudeikis plays an American Football college coach hired to manage a Premier League team in England. Their first match was against Limey’s Chrystal Palace.
I did notice Selhurst Park featuring heavily in the promo.
Speaking of which, I didn’t see much by the way of laughs in the promo It leads me to think that it’s another SNL(ish) character that doesn’t work outside of the sketch format.
I’ll give it a go, though.
I’m a huge Chrystal Palace fan. I’ve even liked them on Facebook.
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I binged The Expanse over the past few weeks. What a great show! Not sure why I put it off fur so long (a buddy has been recommending it fur a few years). Maybe I’ll check out the books. I’m so far behind on my 2020 reading goal is ridiculous.
The books are great, and thanks to having read the books, I can say that next season of the show is going to be insane.
In other news, I’m enjoying Star Trek: Lower Decks so far.
Tell us more – I’ve seen ads, but almost nothing else about it.
If you liked the TNG era and you’re not a Roddenberry boot licker, you’ll probably like Lower Decks. It is unapologetically silly (after all, it is an animated comedy) and that rubs some people the wrong way, but it is true to its roots as a Star Trek show. I haven’t watched the third episode yet, but through the first two episodes the writing has been pretty smart. It is not laugh-out-loud funny all the time, but that’s fine.
Also, it has a great title sequence. The “LOL nope” at the Borg/Romulan battle cracks me up every time.
Is it on CBS All Access to Your Wallet?
It’s got a high bar to clear to be the best Star Trek spoof around:
Yes. Third episode dropped last night, then seven more episodes, then season 3 of Discovery starts up.
Damn right. I recently finished the 7th book and the universe they’ve created is so vast that when I was watching the TV show I couldn’t remember anything about Miller. I’m pumping the brakes on the 8th book to save it ahead of next summer’s release of the final installment.
The thing I loved about season 4 is that they added so much depth to the in-system political machinations and Marco Inaros’s rise to power that was barely there (if at all) in book 4, all without detracting from the A story unfolding on Ilus.
I’m about 1/5 of the way through book 6 right now.
Finished Watchmen.
Spoiler
Lots of twists at the end: Manhattan being Cal, Lady Trieu being the “big bad”, Ozymandias being imprisoned on Manhattan’s terraformed Europa, the Senator running the Seventh Kavalry and Judd being in cahoots with them to balance the peace.
I’m still not sure what the Millennium Clock was all about, it just seem to be a tower from which to launch the floating ball. There were a few things like that.
Really enjoyed it. Yes, there is more big blue cock.
Jeremy Irons was a hoot throughout, but I hate his appalling effort at an American accent. He needs to be cast only as English (or at least European, as in Die Hard with a Vengeance), or an American mute.
Not really clear why he bothered since Veidt is a bit of a phony who would have had an English accent just to sound more upper class.
I’ve been meaning to go back and watch the director’s cut of the Watchmen movie, but I was bored by the theater release for some reason (even though it’s very faithful to the comic and well produced).
Isn’t he supposed to be modeled on an Egyptian mummy? I have it on authority from other movies about mummies that they have English accents.
I saw it and I really can’t remember anything about it - it was that good, obviously. If the director’s cut* is better, maybe I’ll give it a go.
- A good example of this is the director’s cut of Alien 3, which is soooo much better than the train wreck put out in theaters.
William Gibson, one of the preeminent Sci-Fi writers of the 80’s and 90’s who helped create the cyberpunk sub-genre and also coined the term cyberspace, was hired to write the script for Alien 3. He did, but the studio decided they could do better and promptly hired others to redo everything, the effect being that very little of Gibson’s original draft made it to the movie. I have no doubt that his story was a hell of a lot better than the dumpster fire that made it to theaters.
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I’m not sure what you mean. The Alien and Terminator franchises both ended after two movies.
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Yeah. It opened on the worst possible way - with Newt and Hicks being unceremoniously killed during the title sequence (and Bishop being rendered unserviceable).
After that, the premise of the prison planet with it’s strange cult and the “runner” alien born of an animal were pretty good ideas. The theatrical cut left out the parts that explained the cult and also why one of them let the alien out after its initial capture (he worshipped it as a God), which is a lot of the reason why it was a stupid mess. I was even ok with the idea that Ripley was carrying the new queen - because that makes a lot of sense in the arc of the saga.
As I said, the alternative cut does a much better job of laying all this out, and is better paced (more like the original, with the slow twist of the screw before the full-grown runner appears). But then they shoehorn real-Bishop in there at the end for absolutely no reason, to make his awfully-scripted appeal to Ripley about the need to keep the queen. Ugh.
Meanwhile, it appears there’s a radio-play of Gibson’s script, with Michael Biehn and Lance Hendricksen reprising their respective roles:
Didn’t it end up being a Joss Whedon project?
David Fincher.
Ah, it was Resurrection I was thinking of.