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For all the Star Wars offshoots I just like to watch the Honest Trailers and Pitch Meetings. Really, I'm like that with anything involving capes these days!
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We watched El Camino last night. It was really really good, but it just brought me right back to how incredibly dark Breaking Bad is, verging on too dark to take. And it was another example of Aaron Paul's just world class acting. I would never look at him and think he would have been at the height of what's out there, but he proves in scene after scene that he can carry the full weight of a story, internalize it, and just enter the moment like the best out there.
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And to think that he was originally supposed to be killed off in Season One!
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And to think that he was originally supposed to be killed off in Season One!
Oh that's crazy; I had no idea! To me, Bryan Cranston did a great job in that show, but he still does not compare to Aaron Paul.
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Cranston in Malcom in the Middle is 
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It's that time of the year that they are showing Lord of the Rings on TV. We're visiting my parents and we watched Fellowship of the Ring last night, and will watch Two Towers today. These films are honestly just the best. They hold up year after year and the themes presented feel as relevant today as they ever were.
It's quite amazing that in 20 years nobody has been able to make a beloved fantasy series like this, despite plenty of potential contenders. Wheel of Time and The Witcher could have been good, if they weren't left in the hands of complete idiots.
It's quite amazing that in 20 years nobody has been able to make a beloved fantasy series like this, despite plenty of potential contenders. Wheel of Time and The Witcher could have been good, if they weren't left in the hands of complete idiots.
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I loved The Wheel of Time book when I was a kid. When I saw the trailer for the show my heart sank, so I'm not even trying it.
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I've never read the book but the show is honestly not great and apparently takes a ton of liberties from the source material. Which is just dumb.
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Of course when I read it it was many decades ago, so my still forming brain might have overhyped its literary value haha.
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I really enjoyed that !!!
Thanks for sharing this
Game of Thrones was going gangbusters for about 5 seasons and is another reason (following on from Peter Jackson's movie successes) that so many fantasy shows were greenlit. How's House of the Dragon faring? I'm still annoyed at GoT.
It failed so badly in the last 2 seasons, with the showrunners wanting to leave to make Star Wars(!) and all the new Celebs it created wanting to be movie stars...
Medieval and other fantasy settings and even fairy tales are now "problematic" and must be altered accordingly. See Wheel of Time and The Witcher.
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Honestly, I think making grand, epic, sweeping fantasies of 6-11 books is a mistake in retrospect. Too many things can happen in the meantime when you make them.
They should make more, smaller fantasy series into shows. Plenty of great trilogies out there screaming for a three season adaptation.
Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, for example. Or R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing.
They should make more, smaller fantasy series into shows. Plenty of great trilogies out there screaming for a three season adaptation.
Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, for example. Or R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing.
I agree. The Lord of the Rings was one book the publisher split into three – and created the fantasy Trilogy format. These days each book of a ten novel epic is larger than LotR.
In my youth there were a lot more short stories and single novels rather than "franchises". But apart from Tolkien, a lot of early fanatasy stories were published in Pulp magazines with titles like Unknown Stories and Fantastic Adventures - Conan and Cthulhu were made for Weird Tales, a horror mag. Elric of Melnibone was killed off very quickly until the fans demanded more.
I just want "Hollywood" to stop destroying or remaking old IP's and make something new - and if you are using source material IP and expecting an in-built audience, then change everything and blame the audience for disapproval, well, why expect old fans to be happy and why would people not interested at all become new fans?
Harry Potter the TV show is already raising eyebrows. I was too old for Harry and haven't a clue about Quidditch. But those Lord of the Rings movies (extended editions) get at least one view a year from me.
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Was too old for Harry too. Even though half the age of this guy when it released, I feel the same.
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That was cool. I could actively see Mark's brow begin to slope as he played the caveman riff. He started become one with the caveman of it all.
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Stranger things.
I had watched it earlier but I am binging it between gigs thanks to a friend who has a netflix subscription on her phone.
I am in awe of people who experienced so much cool stuff during the 1980s. Specially loved season 1 and first few episodes of season 2.
I had watched it earlier but I am binging it between gigs thanks to a friend who has a netflix subscription on her phone.
I am in awe of people who experienced so much cool stuff during the 1980s. Specially loved season 1 and first few episodes of season 2.
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