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DippoMagoo 
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 Posted: 19 Oct 2022 at 11:14pm |
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Cowboy Bebop the anime is fantastic. The live action series is a total shitshow
 I'm halfway through The Defenders and feeling kinda meh on it. On the one hand, it is cool seeing everyone together, and there have been some good moments, but holy crap, 4/8 episodes in and it feels like barely anything has happened. I can get wanting to take time to build things up, but when 80% or so of the first half of a series feels like filler, that's a serious problem, lol I guess I'll see how I feel by the end, but so far it feels like it either desperately needed more episodes, or it needed to move a lot faster.
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Posted: 19 Oct 2022 at 11:47am |
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Well last week was the end of season one of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and I have to say that I enjoyed it. Their attempt to modernise Tolkien with diverse casting has not gone down well with everyone, especially among the Tolkien perfectionists out there, but it doesn't bother me. Plus it's somewhat amusing how their attempt to be woke has instead made them guilty of tokenism. The show has a few faults here and there and is very obviously working with a very condensed timeline to fit the TV medium, but overall I enjoyed it and looked forward to it every week.
Next week will also bring to an end season one of House of the Dragon. Enjoying it as well, but not as much as the best seasons of the original show. Also starting the concluding parts of the current seasons of The Walking Dead and Resident Alien. I'm also, now it's been a few years, re-watching Grimm. As well as the odd episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (re-watch) and Cowboy Bebop here and there when I have a shorter window to watch something in. Cowboy Bebop is the original anime series, not the more recent live action version. I'm not many episodes in yet, but enjoying it.
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Posted: 18 Oct 2022 at 3:36am |
 This is really fucking good. It shows up how piss poor the Tom Cruise movies were, and how wrong Cruise was for playing Reacher.
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Posted: 18 Oct 2022 at 12:20am |
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Watching Ms. Marvel and finding it charming and funny.
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DippoMagoo
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Posted: 17 Oct 2022 at 11:14pm |
 Better than Luke Cage/10 Yeah, it ended up being decent, once it got going, though I can certainly see why most people consider it the worst of these shows, since it's not very well written, the office scenes are terrible, the Meachums suck (especially Ward and Harold), and there's certainly a lot of silliness that isn't in the other shows. However, I actually quite liked Danny and Colleen (as well as Claire when she was around) and I found their stories interesting, even if a lot of the stuff around them wasn't great. The Hand were also pretty interesting here, more so than on Daredevil. Overall, it wasn't great, but I had a decent time watching it, and considering Season 2 is widely regarded as at least a slight step up, I'm sure I'll like it as well.
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Posted: 03 Oct 2022 at 9:50am |
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Been watching The Wheel of Time lately. So far it isn't bad but they've definitely made some changes from the books. As it is, I consider the books to be superior but it's still a damn decent show!
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Posted: 26 Sep 2022 at 10:46pm |
 Yeah, this sucked. There were some parts here and there where it had me thinking it might get interesting, but every single time it turned around and just got more and more stupid, instead. Aside from Luke and Claire, I really didn't like any of the characters, especially the villains. Cottonmouth was bad enough, but Diamondback was unbelievably poorly written and acted. Worse, though, that finale may be the single least satisfying ending to a TV season I've ever seen, to the point where I'm in utter shock they actually decided to do it that way. I know there's a second season, but holy crap was that ever unsatisfying, insanely stupid, and just an outright insult. I don't even think this is a burnout, so much as this particular show just sucked horribly, but I don't expect things to pick up again for a while, since up next is Iron Fist, and I know that's considered an absolute masterpiece
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Posted: 24 Sep 2022 at 11:51pm |
 Been watching this. It's a bit uneven at times, but also has some moments of fucking brilliance.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2022 at 10:14am |
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Well, I haven't finished it yet (only 7/13 episodes in), but it looks like even the current, less burnt out version of me that's been enjoying the other Defender shows so far, is not having much fun with Luke Cage, lol It's frustrating, because I really do like Luke himself, as well as Claire and a few other characters, but the main conflict hasn't done much for me at all so far, with nearly every major character either not impressing me (Cottonmouth in particular got a lot of hype, but I don't get it, because I think he's pretty damn useless and not even all that interesting
), or just severely poorly used or outright botched. It's pretty telling that by far my favorite episode so far was the one focused on Luke's time in prison.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2022 at 4:23am |
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Just finished this one:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14245846/  |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2022 at 10:13pm |
 I actually think I preferred this over Season 1. I'm not overly fond of The Hand as the overarching villains, and they certainly aren't anywhere near as interesting as Kingpin, but pretty much everything else worked for me. The Punisher and Elektra in particular were both awesome, but I also liked all three main characters a lot more here than I did in Season 1.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2022 at 12:00am |
 Yeah, this was as awesome as I remembered it being, if not even slightly better, because even the parts I didn't like before were more tolerable this time, while the highlights all held up perfectly. I'll watch Love and Thunder tomorrow, then we'll see if I can finally get through Daredevil season 2, LOL (I think it'll be fine this time, tbh.)
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Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 9:53pm |
 This one was pretty solid. I thought the characters were mostly excellent, especially the main duo, while others like John Walker and Karly had some moments where I was a bit iffy on them, but I did end up liking them overall. The action was kinda lame and hard to follow at times, which was the weak point of the series, but otherwise it was mostly very good.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2022 at 9:59pm |
 Yeah, I was definitely suffering through a heavy superhero burnout the first time I watched this. I still wouldn't necessarily say it's a masterpiece, or that big a step up from the CW shows when they were at their best, but it's definitely more cohesive and more consistent than those ever were, and the main villain is far better than anything I remember any of those shows having. I'm still not that big on Matt or Foggy, but they didn't annoy me like they did before, and Karen is great, along with a lot of the side characters. Definitely a solid 8/10 season. I think I'm going to watch another one of the MCU shows next (probably Falcon and the Winter Soldier), but after that, when I have time for another 13 episode season, I'll rewatch Jessica Jones Season 1, which I remember being a personal favorite. If anything, I'm only expecting it to go better this time.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2022 at 11:34am |
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I started the new She-Hulk series. The first episode was quite funny. I guess I'm most looking forward to Daredevil's reappearance in this show. I hope it isn't too many episodes before he shows up.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2022 at 4:39am |
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I vaguely remember reading that it was more likely that they'd bring back Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing than Finn Jones as Danny Rand.
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Posted: 19 Aug 2022 at 4:26am |
Iron Fist was the least interesting of those shows, so to me it doesn´t matter much if that one doesn´t return. I´d be interested to see new seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and The Punisher, and Luke Cage was relatively good too, so I´d watch a new season of that one too, if it was released.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022 at 3:03pm |
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I saw a post somewhere saying they had sources telling them Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and the Punisher were all coming back (Iron Fist is the only one who wasn't mentioned.) But yeah, it's too early to know for sure if that's true or if it's people making stuff up, lol
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022 at 2:58pm |
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I never finished the Netflix shows myself. I lost all interest when they were all abruptly cancelled and I hadn't got around to them.
The only cast I know will be in the new Daredevil are the two characters that have already appeared in Phase 4. I would like to see the whole core trio back personally.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2022 at 2:38pm |
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I watched Season 1 of Jessica Jones back then and loved it, then I tried Season 2 of Daredevil, but by that point I was just too burnt out and never continued with it from there. This time I'm going to try and spread them out more, breaking them up with other shows, or periods of not watching anything, and hopefully it'll go better this time. I know for sure my enjoyment of superheroes is at an all time high atm, which is the exact opposite of how it was during my last attempt, so that should help, lol
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