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Finished Buffy Season 3, and it feels like such a natural conclusion to the series it’s hard for us to want to go on.

But that's just where the series for Angel starts off

 Overread wrote:
But that's just where the series for Angel starts off

Aka Vampire: Highlander.

Final comments on GoT.

Season 6 is definitely the breaking point.

The show’s overall quality (production, effects, acting, cinematography) remains high throughout. But boy can you tell the story going forward is assembled from the author’s notes, rather than a carefully written and edited novel.

As I mentioned before, no individual scene is weak as such, there’s just less connective narrative tissue. This leads to it feeling like a lot of things happen only because they have to happen to move things along.

This leads to silliness like S7’s bit where Jon and the Lads are somewhere North of the Wall and in deep trouble, only to be saved by Gendry legging it back to Eastwatch, sending a Raven to Dragonstone, and then Danny rescuing them on dragon back.

Now. That a story works. It’s a daring plan and a daring rescue. Cool. But it all happens so fast. And, in a genuine misstep? Jon and the Lads were put into a position where only a speedy rescue could’ve helped.

Thankfully, Season 8 largely avoids these things. Instead we get Dany going from perhaps understandably struggling to deal with strong, proud personalities, because that’s new to her, and just going Full Strength Insanity and torching untold innocents.

The showrunners could’ve done better. But as I’ve maintained? Creating a story and adapting an existing story aren’t the same job. So the bulk of the blame must land with GRRM for not finishing the tale himself.

All I know is that if I had it to do over I would not give one minute of my time to watching GoT.

Four Feather Falls, "How it all began"

Very early Gerry Anderson puppet show set in the old west...with a touch of magic! A bit before Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet but still good fun with Nicholas Parsons and Kenneth Connor.

 warhead01 wrote:
All I know is that if I had it to do over I would not give one minute of my time to watching GoT.

It's been a rollercoaster for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire.

From the GoT final seasons massive letdown to the phenomenal 1st season of HoTD, lackluster 2nd HoTD season, to the excellent Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, I'm worried if season 3 of HoTD will be another dip.

 nels1031 wrote:

 warhead01 wrote:
All I know is that if I had it to do over I would not give one minute of my time to watching GoT.

It's been a rollercoaster for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire.

From the GoT final seasons massive letdown to the phenomenal 1st season of HoTD, lackluster 2nd HoTD season, to the excellent Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, I'm worried if season 3 of HoTD will be another dip.

It's irritating. The Knight show, I guess it was doing really well because Youtube kept filling my feed with shorts. groan.

Malcolm In The Middle - Life’s Still Unfair

On the first episode, and the magic is still there.

Hal and Lois remain the outright star attractions. And everyone else is seriously enjoyable, just not quite on the same level as Hal and Lois.

Only just released yesterday so of course no spoilers and therefore limited comments.

But this is working really well.

 aku-chan wrote:
Watched the first few episodes of Stargirl.

Kinda mixed on it at the moment, I like that it's not ashamed of it's comic book origins and can be dark without taking it's overly seriously (A problem I felt a lot of the earlier CW superhero shows had). But Courtney herself is wearing on me already (She's just too unrelentingly optimistic and peppy), and I'm not sure I like the "Create a teen version of the JSA and defeat the bad guys through the power of friendship" direction the show seems to be going.

I'll still give it a few more episodes though, I mainly want to see if they ever explain how a fairly overpowered iteration of the JSA got so thoroughly trounced.

Didn't even make it one more episode into this, once the extremely annoying, nerdy girl who never shuts up became the new Dr. Midnight I noped out hard!

It's a shame because I think the show had potential, but the teen hero thing remains such a hard sell for me (Which is also why my MCU rewatch has stalled on Spider-man:- Homecoming).

House of the Dragon S1

Second time watching. With the various time jumps, it’s easier to follow when you can watch a few episodes at a time.

But…I’m still left largely uncaring about the characters. The adults are all self centred and self obsessed gimps. The kids are spoiled brats. And it’s the same central story (no, I am King! No, I am Queen! No, I’m Brian and so’s my wife!) as GoT, but less interesting,

Also? Good golly are the names too similar to track

It is still watchable overall. But I’m lacking a great deal of investment.

Finished up Trigun: Stargaze and a little underwhelmed. It doesn't have the clear vision for what it wants to be that Stampede did and feels very much like it wanted to speed run the Maximum manga after oddly wasting a few early episodes. Personally, I always kind of preferred the more grounded conflict of the original anime to Maximum's bombastic finale anyway so it was always going to be a bit of hard sell for me.