New telly shows thread

[Misfit]

And talking of likely to be dark and depressing, Stranger Things Season 4 has arrived too.

For those, like me, who could use a recap, try here:

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/stranger-t ... nd-flayer/

[Little stoned kiwi]

Sounds promising. Got all my timelines confused. Do I need to catch up on Mandalorian and Bobba Fett?

No. Completely different timelines as well with Obiwan set after the prequel movies, with Jedi being hunted and Darth Vader kicking off.
Am disappointed they didn't run with Darth Maul for the bad guy. He's a great character with probably even more history than Anakin/Vader.

[Ollie]

The whole Star Trek thing just needs to be allowed to die gracefully.

Season 2 of Picard was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.

Season 2 of Picard has completely put me off wanting to watch season 3, despite the cast. I enjoyed those people in TNG, but I have no interest in seeing them in this.

[pyroxian]

Sounds promising. Got all my timelines confused. Do I need to catch up on Mandalorian and Bobba Fett?

No. Completely different timelines as well with Obiwan set after the prequel movies, with Jedi being hunted and Darth Vader kicking off.
Am disappointed they didn't run with Darth Maul for the bad guy. He's a great character with probably even more history than Anakin/Vader.

They did Darth Maul's story in Clone Wars / Rebels, including his rematch with Obi-Wan.

[Kelloggs]

The whole Star Trek thing just needs to be allowed to die gracefully.

Season 2 of Picard was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.

Season 2 of Picard has completely put me off wanting to watch season 3, despite the cast. I enjoyed those people in TNG, but I have no interest in seeing them in this.

I'd class myself as a fairly serious Star Trek fan, but, to be fair, centred around ST:TNG. DVDs I've bought are all of TNG, all of Voyager, some of the pre-reboot films (TMP, TWoK, First Contact, Nemesis) and 1 and 2 of the reboot ones. No DS9, though - it just didn't float my boat - and Enterprise really needn't have happened. Then, I got Discovery S1 on DVD after a recommendation, and watched it over a year (slow start, I thought, so there was no rush); then got Discovery S2 and watched it over a week, then S3 went in two days, and now I'm impatiently waiting for S4 DVD to emerge. However...

I religiously watched Picard S1, because as far as I'm concerned, Patrick Stewart (sorry, Sir Patrick Stewart) can do very little wrong in that role. And I thought, yeah, this is alright, but Sir Patrick isn't getting any younger, and I would have loved to have seen The Bionic Twins Dahj and Soji together (no, not that sort of together - getyourmindoutofthegutter!) so I would file it as "alright", which from my perspective on ST:TNG and related things, can happily be read as "well, that could have been better".

Then, Picard S2. Which made Picard S1 seem an awful lot better, in retrospect...

(to be fair, I know that the writing team for S2 was pretty much entirely different...)

[Little stoned kiwi]

They are throwing lots of shit at the wall and seeing what sticks for both the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises. It stinks of desperation and lack of direction.
To timidly muddle where every man has gone before.

[Harlequin]

I have yet to watch the final episode of Picard but the penultimate one affected me quite strongly. Yes, I feel the stuffing in of familiar faces, characters and references was often clumsily achieved but I have enjoyed the season overall.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Thinking a bit on Darth Maul being excluded from Obiwan (that he was in Clone Wars isn't a very good reason), perhaps it is for the best. Obiwan is a boring guy that needs a good antagonist to add colour to the character and story.

Darth Maul should have his own spin-off.

[TFO]

Just watched part 3 of Obi Wan
One good thing is that Hayden Christensen is in the Vader outfit and doesn’t get to actually act

Otherwise, apart from the little girl playing Leia - who is terrific - it’s pretty turgid stuff

[Deckard]

New season of Love, Death and Robots is back and the rats one was ace as was the mini-zombie apocalypse but crowning glory for me was Jibaro - loved everything about it, the sound design and then the silence with the animation was sublime.

[VNVObit]

First 3 episodes of The Boys Season 3 came out on Friday needless to say I binged watched them.
Plenty of exploding body parts/heads like the last 2 seasons with characters becoming a little more unhinged (imagine Superman as a venal narcissist in love with a Nazi and that's the main villain )

Loved the comics and this keeps to the spirit of them roll on Friday and next episode

[Barney]

I kinda abandoned Trek with Disco S3. It's gotten to be more "tell, don't show" where characters will stand and puzzle/talk through their feelings while things are literally exploding around them and you're just screaming at them to move and do something. It's present in SNW too, but nowhere near as bad.

I dunno, maybe Trek has changed and maybe I have changed but I'm not sure it's for me anymore. Or maybe Disco and Picard really are dire.

The Boys though.... yeah spot on.

[Rhythm]

Skipped The Boys because I'm not a fan of Garth Ennis' stuff. Very eager to get stuck back into Umbrella Academy when it comes back on in 2 weeks though.

And Black Summer S3 at the end of next week too. Been binging Z-Nation (which I'd never seen before) in preparation for it. It's incredibly dumb - the tone when compared to Black Summer is absolutely unreal, but it's played for laughs/ridiculousness in a way I can fully respect

[merman]

The last double episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, thought it was a good way to wrap up the series.

[Rhythm]

The last double episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, thought it was a good way to wrap up the series.

Looking forward to that. I'm working on Netflix's schedule though so it'll be a while before I see it :-/