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JollyJoker
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posted March 27, 2016 11:09 PM

I think, if they manage to actually tell two different stories, it would make things even more awsome.
They can't tell all the facettes of the books anyway.

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posted March 29, 2016 01:15 AM
Edited by Storm-Giant at 01:16, 29 Mar 2016.

Just finished with Daredevil Season 2, and I loved pretty much every single bit of it. The show has an insane level of quality, from the primary (and support!) cast to dialogues, fight choreography...this season was so exceptional through the whole season that, in the end, the finale felt a bit lacking after everything that had happened. Still a good way to close the season tho.

But if there was one thing that stood out from the rest this season, it was The Punisher. Jon Bernthal did a terrific job at portraying him, every time you see him on the screen you know snow is about to happen. Good snow
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posted March 29, 2016 07:57 AM

man, the writers of the walking dead are really being brutal with the viewer. the last 10 minutes of the last episode was a mothersnower. they're making the wait time for the next episode tougher and tougher to be patient through.

and now that they've started dropping people without warning, you get the feeling that nearly anyone can be next. you end up feeling a sense of tension throughout episodes now; during any scene that could even remotely possible, be a death scene.

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posted March 29, 2016 09:52 AM

Gonna start watching S2 of daredevil pretty soon I think.

Until then, Go watch Jessica Jones. Couldn't bring myself to look away, it was that good! Kept my attention throughout. Heartily recommend.
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posted April 02, 2016 09:29 PM

fred79 said:
man, the writers of the walking dead are really being brutal with the viewer. the last 10 minutes of the last episode was a mothersnower. they're making the wait time for the next episode tougher and tougher to be patient through.

and now that they've started dropping people without warning, you get the feeling that nearly anyone can be next. you end up feeling a sense of tension throughout episodes now; during any scene that could even remotely possible, be a death scene.


TWD is still one of the most mediocre shows out there. The quality of the show has seriously dropped from great to Meeehh..

The last season here has been 1 good episode, 2 horrible paced episodes. And the previous episode was .. boring.. and the finale might end up alriht. We finally see Negan which is nice.

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posted April 04, 2016 11:05 AM

just watched that episode. i enjoy the show because i like post-apocalyptia, and the effects it has on people. that last episode with negan is pretty good. hell of a cliffhanger, and i enjoy the symbolism of attacking the camera. not too artsy; and imagining the effect it has on the other viewers makes me crack a smile.

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OmegaDestroyer
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posted April 04, 2016 04:08 PM
Edited by OmegaDestroyer at 16:13, 04 Apr 2016.

emilsn91 said:

TWD is still one of the most mediocre shows out there. The quality of the show has seriously dropped from great to Meeehh..



I made it about 6 episodes into the series before I gave up on it.  I found it to be extremely annoying and dull for a series about zombies.  Why would anyone care about the trials of such non-compelling, unlikable survivors?  The "drama" of the show is completely lost on me; either the unlikable survivors will endure the zombies or they will not.   Why would anybody want to slog through an entire series to see such a basic conclusion is beyond me.  

Oh, even more absurd is The Talking Dead.  Can't get enough of a boring show about zombies?  Now listen to people talk about a boring show about zombies!  
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posted April 04, 2016 04:50 PM

OmegaDestroyer said:
 The "drama" of the show is completely lost on me; either the unlikable survivors will endure the zombies or they will not.   Why would anybody want to slog through an entire series to see such a basic conclusion is beyond me.  

Hmm. That's more or less true for every show, one way or another, isn't it? Either they make "it" (whatever "it" is) or they don't - but that's not entirely true, though (you may ask, WHO and HOW MANY will make it, for example), and the main question isn't IF or WHETHER they make it, but always HOW, because otherwise there would be nothing to tell at all.

So basically your point is just a pseudo-rationalizsation of the fact that you either find Zombies or apocalyptic shows boring.

Personally I think that the "gross factor" is rather charming - that and the scenery of a broke-down civilization.

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OmegaDestroyer
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posted April 04, 2016 05:04 PM
Edited by OmegaDestroyer at 01:28, 05 Apr 2016.

JollyJoker said:
OmegaDestroyer said:
 The "drama" of the show is completely lost on me; either the unlikable survivors will endure the zombies or they will not.   Why would anybody want to slog through an entire series to see such a basic conclusion is beyond me.  

Hmm. That's more or less true for every show, one way or another, isn't it? Either they make "it" (whatever "it" is) or they don't - but that's not entirely true, though (you may ask, WHO and HOW MANY will make it, for example), and the main question isn't IF or WHETHER they make it, but always HOW, because otherwise there would be nothing to tell at all.



No doubt.  That is one of the reasons I very rarely enjoy TV shows anymore.  I just don't care enough to see characters get from point A to point X anymore.
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posted April 04, 2016 05:15 PM

OmegaDestroyer said:
emilsn91 said:

TWD is still one of the most mediocre shows out there. The quality of the show has seriously dropped from great to Meeehh..



I made it about 6 episodes into the series before I gave up on it.  I found it to be extremely annoying and dull for a series about zombies.  Why would anyone care about the trials of such non-compelling, unlikable survivors?


Agreed completely, except I think I only lasted 4 episodes before I stopped. The show simply had nothing to offer me, I have some friends who think it's fantastic, but I thought it was the most uninteresting thing ever.
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posted April 04, 2016 11:12 PM

Star Wars: Rebels season 2 finished last week, and it was...a bag of great ideas undermined by Disney hand.

Don't get me wrong. Rebels has some nice ideas, and the finale had great moments, with the return of familiar faces and the interaction between all of them. However, from my pov this season has:

- failed to establish the new inquisitors as a real threat. Most of the time the Ghost crew got away with ridiculous stunts (let's hide the ship on the ceiling of the hangar and say through the speakers to chin up...yeah), and even when they got to close combat, Kanan & Ezra held their ground too easily. Kanan was a padawan in the Clone Wars, he was far from finishing his training, while Ezra is just a boy who just got a sabre laser. The inquisitors should be wiping the floor with them.
- failed at getting the viewer care about the rebellion. The first season was focused on the Ghost crew and the events around the planet Lothal, I could understand that - they were introducing and establishing them. But in this season we are to see the whole rebellion and how it started...and yet the show only focus on the Ghost crew. There is only one character that stands out from the Rebellion, and it's the general (which I can't remember his name). The rest are faceless pilots and soldiers - literally, since their faces are always covered.
On a side note, I also felt the episodes focused on "character development" were forced.
- kept the same tone, which has started to feel wrong. This happy tone made sense in season 1, because back then we were following Ezra as he was trying to find what happened with his parents, the naivity of him. In this season he starts to face the harsh reality of life, and with the Empire hunting them down something about this just feels wrong. Not showing deaths on screen doesn't help either.


Having finished rewatching SW: the Clone Wars (for the second time) recently, I can't help but to draw parallels between this two shows, how CW didn't hold their guns to set darker tones, presenting villians as realistic threats (instead of making a mockery of them), as well as getting the viewer interested about the characters of the show, not just the main cast. For instance, in the Clone Wars you have a lot of focus on Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ashoka; but at the same time there are a lot of moments (sometimes complete episodes, sometimes not) where it was the clones time to shine: commanders Cody and Rex, the bad batch of Fives, Echo, Heavy, etc.
It's rather telling when one show about an imperial army made of genetic clones manages to get the viewer invested into them more than other show in the same universe that it's about a small group of rebels. I can't believe the Clone Wars last two seasons were cancelled for this
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Gryphs
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posted April 04, 2016 11:27 PM

I feel your pain, I could not even make it through season one.
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Pawek_13
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posted April 04, 2016 11:31 PM
Edited by Pawek_13 at 23:42, 04 Apr 2016.

Disney doesn't care that much about Rebels age-rating. Besides, they were perfectly fine with finishing the run of Clone Wars at their own network. The decision to pull it off and to make first two seasons of Rebels more children-friendly was made by Lucasfilm only. However, there are rumours that age-rating of Season 3 of Rebels will go up, so just like TCW it will get more mature with time. Also, since Rogue One is going to hit cinemas this year (a movie about a group of Rebels that stole the first Death Star plans,) they promised to put greater focus on how Rebels organised themselves into a military group, like the one we see in A New Hope.

PS. The second half of the Season 2 started airing last Saturday, so I'll have to wait to give my opinion on the whole season.

PPS. The general you were talking about is General Saato.

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somi
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posted April 05, 2016 02:11 PM
Edited by somi at 14:25, 05 Apr 2016.

Pawek_13 said:
Disney doesn't care that much about Rebels age-rating. Besides, they were perfectly fine with finishing the run of Clone Wars at their own network. The decision to pull it off and to make first two seasons of Rebels more children-friendly was made by Lucasfilm only. However, there are rumours that age-rating of Season 3 of Rebels will go up, so just like TCW it will get more mature with time. Also, since Rogue One is going to hit cinemas this year (a movie about a group of Rebels that stole the first Death Star plans,) they promised to put greater focus on how Rebels organised themselves into a military group, like the one we see in A New Hope.

PS. The second half of the Season 2 started airing last Saturday, so I'll have to wait to give my opinion on the whole season.

PPS. The general you were talking about is General Saato.


Disney does care, and they didnt finish the clone wars. They just released few episodes that where fully completed for half of season 6, while the other part that where voiced and animated was canceled,  including planed out season 7 and 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4djLkvkl0

And this all happened after Lucasfilm was sold to disney, so I am sure that they where the one that canceled this and are more interested in starting a new cartoon that will be a lot more kid friendly with a smaller budget from beginning, and not Lucasfilm.

And its a big shame, because rebels even compared to first two seasons of clone wars is just not of same quality.

Trailer for the best season for me:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 5 Trailer

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Pawek_13
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posted April 05, 2016 03:10 PM

somi said:
Disney does care, and they didnt finish the clone wars. They just released few episodes that where fully completed for half of season 6, while the other part that where voiced and animated was canceled,  including planed out season 7 and 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4djLkvkl0

And this all happened after Lucasfilm was sold to disney, so I am sure that they where the one that canceled this and are more interested in starting a new cartoon that will be a lot more kid friendly with a smaller budget from beginning, and not Lucasfilm.

As mentioned before, Disney wasn't the one that made that decision. Just like with the cancellation of the EU - this decision was made solely by Lucasfilm. Pablo Hidalgo, member of Lucasfilm's Story Group told on his Tweeter account that the decision to reboot Star Wars' canon had been made way before Disney bought Lucasfilm but there seemed to be no right moment to do so. Since Disney came and George Lucas was no more in power, the decision was made that this is the right moment to do such a reboot.

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posted April 05, 2016 03:40 PM
Edited by somi at 15:41, 05 Apr 2016.

Pawek_13 said:
somi said:
Disney does care, and they didnt finish the clone wars. They just released few episodes that where fully completed for half of season 6, while the other part that where voiced and animated was canceled,  including planed out season 7 and 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4djLkvkl0

And this all happened after Lucasfilm was sold to disney, so I am sure that they where the one that canceled this and are more interested in starting a new cartoon that will be a lot more kid friendly with a smaller budget from beginning, and not Lucasfilm.

As mentioned before, Disney wasn't the one that made that decision. Just like with the cancellation of the EU - this decision was made solely by Lucasfilm. Pablo Hidalgo, member of Lucasfilm's Story Group told on his Tweeter account that the decision to reboot Star Wars' canon had been made way before Disney bought Lucasfilm but there seemed to be no right moment to do so. Since Disney came and George Lucas was no more in power, the decision was made that this is the right moment to do such a reboot.

Do you have any official information about this? I am not talking about reboot Star Wars' canon (as clone wars carton is canon), but about clone wars that was planed out in advance for several  more seasons on cartoon network. But after disney  got it hands on it, they wanted to cancel it and move away from cartoon network channel, as one of their competition, and make a series on their own Disney Channel.  

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posted April 05, 2016 03:51 PM
Edited by Storm-Giant at 15:58, 05 Apr 2016.

I'm pretty sure Clone Wars being cancelled was a Disney thing - it'd make no sense for LucasFilms to close it when they had more seasons planned (at least two!).

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Pawek_13 said:
Disney doesn't care that much about Rebels age-rating. Besides, they were perfectly fine with finishing the run of Clone Wars at their own network. The decision to pull it off and to make first two seasons of Rebels more children-friendly was made by Lucasfilm only. However, there are rumours that age-rating of Season 3 of Rebels will go up, so just like TCW it will get more mature with time.

I sincerely doubt it will become like TCW. Rebels issues are not limited to the tone, the art direction is also very far from TCW and unless there is a big shift in Season 3, Rebels will still be a kid-focused show.

Perhaps some mature contents may kick in, but I don't really see it reaching the TCW levels.

Pawek_13 said:
Also, since Rogue One is going to hit cinemas this year (a movie about a group of Rebels that stole the first Death Star plans,) they promised to put greater focus on how Rebels organised themselves into a military group, like the one we see in A New Hope.

That would be great, yeah

Pawek_13 said:
PPS. The general you were talking about is General Saato.

I had forgotten, thanks ^^
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posted April 05, 2016 06:12 PM

Recently I was ill, so I watched the TV day 'n' night. I found an old favorite again. I fell in love whit "Scrubs" again.

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posted April 06, 2016 02:32 PM

fred79 said:
just watched that episode. i enjoy the show because i like post-apocalyptia, and the effects it has on people. that last episode with negan is pretty good. hell of a cliffhanger, and i enjoy the symbolism of attacking the camera. not too artsy; and imagining the effect it has on the other viewers makes me crack a smile.


I also love the show - its my favourite at the moment.
Man no wonder Negan has so many guys that follow him, I would follow that guy he's so cool!

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posted April 06, 2016 09:28 PM

one of the only problems i have with twd, is some of the characters are a bit over the top. but at least they don't seem to suffer from bad actors/actresses like gotham does. i think with gotham, they give unknown scrubs a chance to act, to see if they can do anything worthwhile(leading them to better roles, etc). and the show certainly suffers from it. the writing hasn't been particularly good either. but because of the subject matter, and how at least a few of the main characters are pretty damn good at acting, i watch the show.

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