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My family and I make a weekly trip to rent DVDs. There is a huge wall of American TV series, and we've mostly been watching police procedurals. We're currently working our way through Bones, Blacklist, and Blind Spot-- all several years old, but all brand new to me.
Painting total as of 3429/2024: 56 plus a Deva King statue
Painting total as of 12/31/2024: 107 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain and two walkers and a quad mech and five giants
Finally finished off Andromeda. I'll give the series three and a half stars out of five with half a star just for Lexa Doig's outstanding role as Rommie I also enjoyed that you could hold a full-fledged sci-fi convention with all of the guest stars, from the X-Files, Highlander, Star Gate SG-1, Seven Days, Supernatural, The Outer Limits, etc. They even had the MCU's Cobie Smulder playing Telemachus Rade's wife in the series finale!
warboss wrote:It (Andromeda) was a fun watch for the first couple seasons that I used to lovingly call Space Hercules but it jumped the shark with a season switchover somewhere near the end (final season?) where they were stuck on a planet IIRC. I'd post details but they're massive spoilers. Same thing kind of happened unfortunately with Earth Final Conflict...
I preferred the later seasons when they got away from the 'let's almost destroy the ship and shoot off a lot of pyrotechnics' story every week. And the special effects got better in later seasons (especially the slipstream effects).
The last season went from a syndicated show to a Sci-Fi Channel show, so that may have had something to do with the changes in the last season.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Andromeda is definitely an odd one. Its high points are really solid. And let’s face it, it did a far better job of “so, now you’re in the future and everything has turned out horrible, time to put it back together again” than Discovery did.
But man does it have some real troughs. I find Tyr quite dull as a character, and he’s never really developed beyond being a Gruff Turbo Nutter. And it’s not the actor at fault.
The main problem with Tyr was his inconsistency. At times one could swear that he was bipolar.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Do you mean the Godzilla cartoon where humanity fled Earth on a ship to avoid Godzilla and then returned later on to find bigger Godzilla? Unless it gets drastically better after episode 3 or so, it’s a waste of time.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Do you mean the Godzilla cartoon where humanity fled Earth on a ship to avoid Godzilla and then returned later on to find bigger Godzilla? Unless it gets drastically better after episode 3 or so, it’s a waste of time.
I heard there was a Mechagodzilla City, that was my chief interest. But no es Bueno?
I'll skip it then. Any decent giant robot joy online? [No Amazon Prime here ]
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
It's been ages since Fredrik Knudsen has updated, but here is his newest I just watched. I always enjoy his videos. I only really know of Dwarf Fortress from Sseth Tzzentach's review of it years back (I am a fan of his channel too, so much so I'm a part of the Merchant's Guild, it's also fitting because I'm a little bit Jewish too, lol) Anyway, what an epic, tragic story.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Literally watching this right now.
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"The best way to lie is to tell the truth." Attelus Kaltos.
My story! Secret War
After his organisation is hired to hunt down an influential gang leader on the Hive world, Omnartus. Attelus Kaltos is embroiled deeper into the complex world of the Assassin. This is the job which will change him, for better or for worse. Forevermore. Chapter 1.
The Angaran Chronicles: Hamar Noir. After coming back from a dangerous mission which left his friend and partner, the werewolf: Emilia in a coma. Anargrin is sent on another mission: to hunt down a rogue vampire. A rogue vampire with no consistent modus operandi and who is exceedingly good at hiding its tracks. So much so even the veteran Anargrin is forced into desperate speculation. But worst of all: drive him into desperate measures. Measures which drives Anargrin to wonder; does the ends, justify the means?
I'm watching the second season of Pantheon ATM. I quite liked the first season tbh
Just finished watching. The second season felt every bit as decent as the first one. It's not a work of art by any means, but thought provoking and entertaining enough for my sensibilities. I also liked the drawing style as it reminded me of early 90s animations such as Captain Planet, Denver The Last Dinosaur et al. It's a style that has some semblance of anime, but also has its own thing going on
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
I also enjoyed that you could hold a full-fledged sci-fi convention with all of the guest stars, from the X-Files, Highlander, Star Gate 
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