TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

It's almost impossible to fuck up bloodthirsty vikings, really.

[Ideologue]

That was one of the things I disliked about it.  "Viking" this and "Viking" that.  It felt forced.  Also the creature design was really hit and miss (though it hit on the two really important dragons, Toothless and the queen).

[Viking]

It's almost impossible to fuck up bloodthirsty vikings, really.

[celedhring]

Touché.

[Ed Anger]

I must be the only guy here that liked Vikings.

[Syt]

Watched Wreck-It Ralph.

Sweet and nerdtastic. 7.5/10.

For a while I thought it was Jennifer Hale voicing the soldier chick. The voice was similar, and hey, she was an awesome Shepard in ME, and female trooper in SWTOR. And was Carol Danvers/Miss Marvel in the Avengers cartoon. So it wouldn't have been "out there".

[Queequeg]

That said, the show's reverted to type in these past eps after Chilton died (boring procedurals and nothing interesting happening in the story arc front). The "Graham is now a psycho too" twist is sooooo obviously a trap to get Lecter to expose himself that I won't pay much heed to it. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]I disagree, actually.  Su-zakana is close to my favorite episode of the show.  The drive to the stable with Requiem No. 48 playing is fantastic scene, and the line "Peter, is your social worker in that horse?" is fucking wonderful. [/spoiler]

[celedhring]

Sure, it was beautiful. That show is always visually interesting, however, and that episode hardly set the bar higher. And story-wise it was pretty unremarkable.

[spoiler]The whole procedural think works best when they stretch through several episodes, like they did with the "eye" psychopath. Otherwise they rush it in some unsatisfactory way. The concept here was interesting, with the social worker manipulating the stable boy in a way that mirrored the Lecter/Graham relationship, but they completely botch it by solving the crime in like 2 scenes. Much worse was the bee lady of a previous episode. They just walk into the practitioner that was tending to the victim, the practitioner spontaneously confesses. Case solved![/spoiler]

[crazy canuck]

Finished episode 5 of True Detectives. But I am looking forward to the the plot twist that is about to come and the real meaning of the Detective's Curse. 

The dreaded episode 6 cometh.

[Queequeg]

Sure, it was beautiful. That show is always visually interesting, however, and that episode hardly set the bar higher. And story-wise it was pretty unremarkable.

[spoiler]The whole procedural think works best when they stretch through several episodes, like they did with the "eye" psychopath. Otherwise they rush it in some unsatisfactory way. The concept here was interesting, with the social worker manipulating the stable boy in a way that mirrored the Lecter/Graham relationship, but they completely botch it by solving the crime in like 2 scenes. Much worse was the bee lady of a previous episode. They just walk into the practitioner that was tending to the victim, the practitioner spontaneously confesses. Case solved![/spoiler]

[spoiler]I think that was on purpose with the bee lady.  She's clearly profoundly disturbed, and recognizes it.  She's unable even to eat the people-honey because she recognizes how fucked up it is.  Meanwhile, Hannibal happily eats the lungs of teenage girls.

I'd agree that the Eye arc was way better set up and pulled off than the horse-man, and that Su-zakana could have used another 20-30 min or even another episode to deal with it, and it would have been worth it because the actors and the plot was strong enough.  But there are just certain inevitable time constraints on the show.[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

Sure, it was beautiful. That show is always visually interesting, however, and that episode hardly set the bar higher. And story-wise it was pretty unremarkable.

[spoiler]The whole procedural think works best when they stretch through several episodes, like they did with the "eye" psychopath. Otherwise they rush it in some unsatisfactory way. The concept here was interesting, with the social worker manipulating the stable boy in a way that mirrored the Lecter/Graham relationship, but they completely botch it by solving the crime in like 2 scenes. Much worse was the bee lady of a previous episode. They just walk into the practitioner that was tending to the victim, the practitioner spontaneously confesses. Case solved![/spoiler]

[spoiler]I think that was on purpose with the bee lady.  She's clearly profoundly disturbed, and recognizes it.  She's unable even to eat the people-honey because she recognizes how fucked up it is.  Meanwhile, Hannibal happily eats the lungs of teenage girls.

I'd agree that the Eye arc was way better set up and pulled off than the horse-man, and that Su-zakana could have used another 20-30 min or even another episode to deal with it, and it would have been worth it because the actors and the plot was strong enough.  But there are just certain inevitable time constraints on the show.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]In the following episode beast-man also feels very shortchanged. Again, I think the show works best when they do less "psycho of the week" scripts, and instead stretch a case through 2 or 3 episodes. It worked really well with eye-guy. [/spoiler]

[Grey Fox]

Finished episode 5 of True Detectives. But I am looking forward to the the plot twist that is about to come and the real meaning of the Detective's Curse. 

The dreaded episode 6 cometh.

Curse, what curse?

[Queequeg]

[spoiler]In the following episode beast-man also feels very shortchanged. Again, I think the show works best when they do less "psycho of the week" scripts, and instead stretch a case through 2 or 3 episodes. It worked really well with eye-guy. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Yeah, well, that also had this:


I don't really disagree with you, though.  They should find the better weekly killers (horse-guy) and make them two or three episode arcs.  [/spoiler]

[crazy canuck]

Finished episode 5 of True Detectives. But I am looking forward to the the plot twist that is about to come and the real meaning of the Detective's Curse. 

The dreaded episode 6 cometh.

Curse, what curse?

Its a line that has been used frequently in the series and it refers to not noticing what is right in front of your face.  I am looking forward to learning what that is - at least I hope that is related to the plot twist that appears to be coming.

[Grey Fox]

Oh, right. That one.