TV/Movies Megathread

[Darth Wagtaros]

Damn. 

[HVC]

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

[garbon]

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though.

[Grey Fox]

The Wheel of time is not medieval, a common misconception, it is post-apocalyptic.

[Zoupa]

I doubt I'll continue. Seeing it on screen, it's even more obvious how LOTR-derivative the Wheel of Time is.

[crazy canuck]

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though.

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

[Grey Fox]

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though.

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

A great question, eh!

[celedhring]

I agree with HVC's appraisal of the show. Not good, but harmlessly watchable.

[HVC]

That's my point, there were too many different races (including too many white people Garb ), i questioned it for a bit, because it seemed off then kind of ignored it after.

[The Brain]

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though.

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

Sometimes, when a milkman and a housewife love each other very much...

[HVC]

The Wheel of time is not medieval, a common misconception, it is post-apocalyptic.

medieval like, then

[Zoupa]

I had the same reaction when watching the 1st episode of Foundation. How does Jared Harris exist 10 000 years in the future? Everyone should be more or less the same shade of brown by then.

[garbon]

So as I said I don't have racial hangups like apparently multiple white people do on this forum.

[Josephus]

I got called out for reacting to a black Anne Boleyn...you guys get hung up over odd racial discrepancies in a fantasy environment. 

[Josquius]

Many times I've mentioned this is one of my big Sci fi and fantasy pet peeves.
Small village of 1000 people completely isolated from outsiders for 1000 years?
Yet....everyone is white except for one black extra.
Sure sure. Genes can hide in the background before popping out unexpectedly.... But really it's just crap casting of extras. They didn't think about it logically.


Black Anne Boleyn or Asian Russian nobles on the other hand I'm fine with. World building isn't at the core of what these shows are doing. They're about the characters and race blind casting is a valid choice.