TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

Have watched about an episode and a half of The Affair.

It does seem like a TV show about nothing, but the dialogue is grown up and it features the incomparable Maura Tierny.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I believe they were Victory-class Star Destroyers.

I thought all the Republic heavy warships were Acclimator-class cruisers.

[lustindarkness]

I wont really judge Badlands, because I am not really watching it (though what I have seen just seems silly)...but I a hating it more because it's delaying Talking Dead for an hour, and AMC is exploiting TWD (through use of "scenes from the next episode, etc) to promote it. 

I know right! I just let it play while I surf the web and only pay attention at TWD preview and the fight scenes in Badlands.

[Josephus]

I'm normally quite excited about AMC shows (I even watch Hell on Wheels and that short-lived spy thriller from a few years ago). But I started to watch ep. 1 of Badlands and aborted it after 20 minutes. Not my thing.

[Syt]

I believe they were Victory-class Star Destroyers.

I thought all the Republic heavy warships were Acclimator-class cruisers.

There was also the smaller Venator Class.

[crazy canuck]

I wont really judge Badlands, because I am not really watching it (though what I have seen just seems silly)...but I a hating it more because it's delaying Talking Dead for an hour, and AMC is exploiting TWD (through use of "scenes from the next episode, etc) to promote it. 

It has the feel of having two sets of writers.  One set of writers struggles to put together a cohesive story and then another set of writers put together the fighting scenes.  The problem is the fighting scenes often make little sense in the context of the story they are trying to tell.  The best example I can think of is when the female Baron wants to talk to the head fighter of another Baron.  Before they talk her henchmen attack the guy in a pretty good fight scene.  But her whole intention was to talk to him.  Attacking him first made no sense.

[PRC]

Marvel / Netflix's Jessica Jones series is out and seems to be pretty damn good.

[Admiral Yi]

I believe they were Victory-class Star Destroyers.

I thought all the Republic heavy warships were Acclimator-class cruisers.

There was also the smaller Venator Class.

The Alliance really sucked at naming their spaceship classes.

[The Minsky Moment]

Have watched about an episode and a half of The Affair.

It does seem like a TV show about nothing, but the dialogue is grown up and it features the incomparable Maura Tierny.

The sum of parts is greater than the whole.  The premise is uninteresting but as a series of little set pieces, characterizations, and interactions it sort of works.

[Tonitrus]

You know you're in a major nerd-quagmire when you hear a Star Wars discussion about the names of classes of Star Destroyer.

[Eddie Teach]

You know you're in a major nerd-quagmire when you hear a Star Wars discussion about the names of classes of Star Destroyer.

Is this what you're trying to say? 

[Razgovory]

Okay, finished the Man in the High Castle.  Major weakness is that three "main characters" who part of a love triangle are not very interesting, and the gal is particularly dimwitted.  The first half of the episodes drag a little bit, and a lot of the plot doesn't go anywhere.  It really picks up toward the end.

Okay spoilers

[spoiler] Toward the end you get an idea of who the Man in the High Castle is, and the reveal is great.  It's the opposite of what it was in the book (which I didn't care for much).[/spoiler]

[jimmy olsen]

I think that's a point Lucas was trying to make, that many wars treat soldiers like expendable piece of technology.

Well generals might do that and politicians might. But we, the viewer, will not. But if they literally are expendable pieces of technology then why would it be bad to treat them that way?

Yes, we should create sentient human clones and harvest organs from their living bodies for us natural births, and then process the rest of their bodies for meat.

We should also program AIs to feel pain and fear. How else can we intimidate them into follow our bidding.

[jimmy olsen]

Are the prequels better than, say, the Transformers movies?  I would say so.  Better than Jurassic World?  I think so.  Better than Man of Steel?  Yup.  And they're probably on par in terms of interesting visuals but nonsensical plotlines with the Star Trek reboot movies.

I disagree with all three of those statements.

[Eddie Teach]

Agree, don't know, wash.