Absolutely. I was on the binge train back when Netflix dropped Arrested Development Season 4 in one go; I was thrilled about that. 8 hours of a great sitcom in one go! Awesome!
Absolutely. I was on the binge train back when Netflix dropped Arrested Development Season 4 in one go; I was thrilled about that. 8 hours of a great sitcom in one go! Awesome!
I recommend checking out the Big Finish audios. While I love the show’s classic run the production values can be a drain to watch through today - the Big Finish audios don’t have that problem. They are generally as slick as a modern production should be while retaining much of the shape and themes of the eras they…
Honestly, yeah, I get you - life, particularly as a kid, is easiest when you can be yourself and meet others partway. A few friends of mine introduced (mid-20s me) to Daria a few years ago... and it really bothered me how she seemed to be willfully pushing people away because they were ‘popular’, or even just not way…
This is the character description, not the show. The character descriptions for Django Unchained didn’t go ‘Featuring Jamie Foxx as Django, a n—— slave’.
Do you actually pay attention to context? You ignored literally the very next sentence, which explained how it would be ‘for better or worse’. It should be pretty clear I’m not ‘hoping’ for anything.
Oh now, that’s harsh.
Pretty sure you’re right, but I’m pretty sure allegations (uncorroborated, mind) of adultery and being a power-mad dick aren’t enough to stop me enjoying the work of him or any of the other talented people involved in this. If his or your bar is that high, boycott it entirely, with my blessing. I don’t yet see enough…
The portrayal of Inara was a pretty positive one, particularly for the time, except for Mal’s treatment of her. Which was definitely intended to be deplorable... but it wasn’t actually deplored enough, either by the characters or by the show. Mal is, after all, still the closest thing the show had to a hero, and he…
Good for you. Enjoy not watching a show with people you like brought to you by talented writers and producers.
Return of Jafar is not great, but it’s not completely devoid of virtues- Iago has a very good villain-hero arc (those are tricky to master without changing the personality; Iago is still Iago by the end, but he’s on the heroes’ side), and although no-one else gets an arc they’re all still pretty strongly the…
Admittedly, season 3 has probably the best season finale of the show’s run (so far). I guess it’s a matter of taste/priority, since for me the subpar ending is easily forgotten when thinking about AIDA’s story.
It was just a rushed final episode (the only time pacing was an issue throughout the phenomenal season 4; they should have done it double length, maybe borrowing an episode from the first or second pods). If she’d had a ten minute fight with Ghost Rider Coulson instead of a five minute fight it would have been a more…
I think you’re forgetting AIDA/Ophelia, absolutely the best MCU villain to date.
Oooh probably! Which would perhaps explain why that plot’s been consigned to the episode tags - if most of the season was scripted and shooting before they got the s7 commission (which would make sense - s6 was filmed from July-December, and the recommission came in November) then they possibly didn’t intend to go…
I’ve been finding myself disillusioned with the show for the back half of this season. I think it comes down to a few reasons:
Of course you have to update the characters for the format and the context... but I just don’t see Rockwell as even a modern day (well, 2005) Zaphod. And Freeman’s Dent didn’t actually update the comedy of the character - like I said, there’s a parody element to Arthur in all other versions that doesn’t come through…
Mos Def was brilliant - about as far away from the superficial description of Ford in the book as you could get, but he was perfect for the character. Sam Rockwell, on the other hand... no. Not a dreadful performance, just the wrong performance. Ditto Martin Freeman, though more subtly wrong - he’s superb at playing…
The movie is a good family sci-fi movie, but a rubbish Douglas Adams movie. The comedy is just off - look at the interaction of
- ‘How would you react if I said that I’m not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?’
- ’I don’t know. Why, do you think it’s the sort of…
The third book was based on Adams’ unused Doctor Who serial/film idea ‘Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen’. The first two series sort of became the first two books, although massively shifted around after Fit the Fourth/book 1 (and most of Fit 10-12 don’t make it into the books at all).
I’ve just found out Davis was in an episode of season 1! He then didn’t show up until season 4 (and I didn’t really pay him any attention until his brilliant heroism-story-running-gag in season 5) but he was in way back in episode 9.