TV show thread

Yeah, I had no intention to watch What If, I had a few minutes at the end of the day one day and thought “ I’ll give this a shot”. The alternate Captain Carter episode was first, if it had been one of the others (only child, Disney prince Thor, for example), that probably would have been it for me. As burnt out as I am on the marvel stuff (and not really a fan of the whole captain America and avengers thing in general), I still found lots to enjoy in this series. I just finished it off last night, if they don’t do a round two, I won’t miss it, but it might be interesting to see where they take it and if they’ll veer away from the movie universe a bit next time.

I'm liking it so far. The art style has grown on me and I'm glad to see it's not pulling any punches on the violence. It's honestly giving me more of a Shadowrun vibe than Blade Runner so far, but I'm as much of a die hard Shadowrun fan as I am a Blade Runner fan so it works out for me.

Some nice little nods the original Blade Runner. The Roy Batty dive, the Ennis house tiles and the OffWorld Colonies ads. I'll also never get tired of seeing spinners in action. I hope it gets a blu ray release so I can buy it.

And I also gotta say the soundtrack has grown on me as well, I even found it on youtube and ripped it.

I feel like I’ve mentioned it before, but any of you in the US with FX on Hulu (apparently) and for us in Canada with Disney Plus, there’s a great show created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Watiti called Reservation Dogs. It’s about a group of indigenous kids on a reservation in Oklahoma who are trying to scrape money together (by any means necessary) to make a break for a better life in California.

I just finished the eighth and final episode of season one (season two is confirmed), and I can’t recommend this show enough. The cast is incredible, almost all fresh faces with a few surprise guests (ep 7 guest blew my mind!), and stories you haven’t seen anywhere else. It’s hard to talk too much about it without spoiling stuff, but it’s rural Oklahoma and young adults trying to find their place in the world while running into old traditions and beliefs. The writing is great, I find myself genuinely laughing out loud multiple times an episode, but there are some really serious and sad issues addressed in very respectful but fresh ways. And, it turns out, one of my favourite characters, Willy Jack, lives in my city for now, and is from a res close to here!

Do yourselves a favour and check this out. You can feel that it’s a labor of love, FX gave these guys full autonomy, they hired all of their own writers, crew, actors, and gave different independent film directors a chance to write and/or direct episodes of the show. Pretty cool, unique show with cool stories from an indigenous perspective.

Kathleen Kennedy has no creative control so I will watch it. I won’t pay for it, but I will watch it.

It’s amazing how the decisions of one narrow minded person entirely uninvested and with no knowledge of a storied and loved franchise can so quickly and easily destroy its reputation.

That’s what I love about John Favreau’s recent involvement, the guy is a FAN, you can feel it in every episode of the Mandalorian, they’re all labours of love. I guess his avenger shit got him carte blanche from the evil mouse overlords, and what a treat for fans. A smaller budget, reliance on more practical effects than is typical these days, great storytelling, and LOVE for the source material. Hmm, who would have thought those elements would come together to produce something both fans and the uninitiated could enjoy immensely?! I’m glad Mandalorian and the Book exist, there’s still hope (a NEW hope?!) for the series! 🙂

Dexter finally comes to an end. At least a more satisfying end than the original run. Still not the ending I would have written for the show, but better than last time.

So far I'm liking The Book of Boba Fett. Favreau and Filoni continue to pull more legends lore back into canonization which I am all for. Also the brief appearance of Black Krrsantan was pretty cool. I guess with the Obiwan series in production it's likely we'll see him over there as well, especially since it was Obiwan who have him that massive scar over his eye in the comics.

From the rumors I am hearing about Kathleen Kennedy's High Republic series; it's a production mess on all fronts. Leslye Headland; the appointed golden child from Kathleen herself, is having major creative differences and Kennedy appears to be trying to use her one Star Wars platform left to continue to unbrand George Lucas from his own creation and make it her own. She also attempted to change the name Lucasfilm to StarBright Productions, but was vetoed by the Bobs.

Waiting until I go on vacation to start the last season of The Expanse and am thinking I may start the series over from the beginning since I have five weeks off.

Still haven't started the new season of The Witcher. Just don't feel any rush to at the moment, especially since I am hearing Geralt seems to be playing second fiddle to every other side character on the show.