What are you watching?

Legion

It's confusing and I'm 4 episodes in and still not sure I like it but I can't stop watching it for some reason. The first episode is complete nonsense, by the end of the second it's starting to make some sense, and then back to complete nonsense. I don't know the origin story of this character but my son does and says it makes sense, I just don't get it. o_O

I don't like these emotionally tortured superheroes. You're a Goddamn superhero, grow a set, ffs. If I were a, say...Wonder Woman :), you think I'd be in a psych ward letting the Nazi's convince me I'm crazy? Hell no, I'd be whipping out my headband boomerang and kicking some ass.:mad:
 
Suzanimal said:
Legion

It's confusing and I'm 4 episodes in and still not sure I like it but I can't stop watching it for some reason. The first episode is complete nonsense, by the end of the second it's starting to make some sense, and then back to complete nonsense. I don't know the origin story of this character but my son does and says it makes sense, I just don't get it. o_O

I don't like these emotionally tortured superheroes. You're a Goddamn superhero, grow a set, ffs. If I were a, say...Wonder Woman :), you think I'd be in a psych ward letting the Nazi's convince me I'm crazy? Hell no, I'd be whipping out my headband boomerang and kicking some ass.:mad:
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It only gets weirder Suz... I couldn't stop either

so.. I'm binge watching the old sliders series.. I didn't even know it went 5 seasons. We moved during the second season and the new cable company didn't carry scifi yet.. and now that I'm started on season 5.. they could have stopped half way through 3
 
Suzanimal said:
Legion

It's confusing and I'm 4 episodes in and still not sure I like it but I can't stop watching it for some reason. The first episode is complete nonsense, by the end of the second it's starting to make some sense, and then back to complete nonsense. I don't know the origin story of this character but my son does and says it makes sense, I just don't get it. o_O

I don't like these emotionally tortured superheroes. You're a Goddamn superhero, grow a set, ffs. If I were a, say...Wonder Woman :), you think I'd be in a psych ward letting the Nazi's convince me I'm crazy? Hell no, I'd be whipping out my headband boomerang and kicking some ass.:mad:
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Oh I binge-watched the whole dealio in two sittings. It grew on me. It is disjointed, but then so are the minds of the characters in question, so...

As for being Wonder Woman, yeah, you'd do that if you KNEW you were wonder woman. That kid spent most of his life thinking he was nuttier than squirrel poo. That isn't something too many folks can just walk away from. Besides, there are a few twists in later episodes that make clear why he might still doubt himself. It's just another twist on the whole Matrix thing with regard to reality, which of course riffed off of "Lathe Of Heaven", which was one of the most outstanding scifi productions ever, low budget as it may have been. I'm talking about the 1979 original and not the cheese remake that sucked Obama's missile.

Be patient Suzi-Wan Animal.
 
osan said:
Oh I binge-watched the whole dealio in two sittings. It grew on me. It is disjointed, but then so are the minds of the characters in question, so...

As for being Wonder Woman, yeah, you'd do that if you KNEW you were wonder woman. That kid spent most of his life thinking he was nuttier than squirrel poo. That isn't something too many folks can just walk away from. Besides, there are a few twists in later episodes that make clear why he might still doubt himself. It's just another twist on the whole Matrix thing with regard to reality, which of course riffed off of "Lathe Of Heaven", which was one of the most outstanding scifi productions ever, low budget as it may have been. I'm talking about the 1979 original and not the cheese remake that sucked Obama's missile.

Be patient Suzi-Wan Animal.
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Maybe I'm being too hard on the nutter. I wasn't speaking about just him, though. A lot of superheros are tortured by their powers. I wouldn't be. I'd be totally cool with having superpowers. However, I can see how the mental superpowers would be a burden without training. I would do better with the physical stuff. For example, if I were Spiderman, I do nothing but crawl around in my Spidey suit all day. Maybe pop by AF's house and scare the shit out of him, lol.
 
Suzanimal said:
Maybe I'm being too hard on the nutter. I wasn't speaking about just him, though. A lot of superheros are tortured by their powers.
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I would not be. I'd misbehave on a planetary scale... which is probably why I don't have them.

[/QUOTE] I wouldn't be. I'd be totally cool with having superpowers. However, I can see how the mental superpowers would be a burden without training. I would do better with the physical stuff. For example, if I were Spiderman, I do nothing but crawl around in my Spidey suit all day. Maybe pop by AF's house and scare the shit out of him, lol.[/QUOTE]


See my note about misbehaving, above. :)
 
Medici: Masters of Florence

I watched this series a few months ago. Very good show.

Netflix Does the Birth of Modern Finance, with Drama

t’s a time of dramatic social change, and this is destabilizing all politics, even birthing a new world. The aristocracy is losing power to a new commercial class of innovators. The new creed is not to rule, but to serve.

To be royal once meant to run the world, but no more. The royals now are out of money and they turn to the new wealth of a class of creatures who have seized on new technologies. These new technologies have, in turn, created new opportunities for unprecedented ways of making money. Instead of making things, these people are providing services people need, and this is making them enormously rich.

But every once in the while, the Black Death comes along to ruin it.

That’s because the above description pertains to the 1400s in Italy, a time given beautiful cinematic life in the new series on Netflix, Medicis: Masters of Florence. The first season deals with the second generation of bankers during the lifetime of the founder of the empire, Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (1389-1464). His two sons struggled for the control of the growing empire.

Here was a period when modern commercial finance was born. More than that, we see here the birth of modern commercial culture – a new system of social organization that overturned ancient expectation and norms about who rules and who obeys. Commerce was a new force in society, one that liberated the masses of people from the old order. Feudalism was becoming a thing of the past, as waves of the European population picked up and moved from historic lands to new commercial centers such as Florence. Commerce changed everything, from art to architecture to music to sexual norms. Everything people once thought were permanent features of life came into question.

The Medicis labored under two burdens inherited from the old world.

I was disappointed that the series didn’t have much banking in it, since this was my primary interest. The focus instead might be predictable: the loves, emotional conflicts, and personal lives of the main characters. However, if you stick with it, the big economic themes do make an appearance, and accurately so.

You gain a clear delineation between the forces of reaction and the forces of progress. The Medicis labored under two burdens inherited from the old world. First, they were merchants, and the merchants had never been highly regarded in society. Second, they were constantly under fire for the suspicion of usury, which was then condemned by the Catholic Church.

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https://fee.org/articles/netflix-does-the-birth-of-modern-finance-with-drama/
 
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance

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Hey Suz.. if you like weird

American Gods - first episode and all I can say is what the everlovinfuk? What did I just watch?
 
I watched Hand of God last seasonhaven't been able to focus on it this season. Same with Mozart in the Jungle and Man in the High Castle.

BCS is getting good.
 
opal said:
Hey Suz.. if you like weird

American Gods - first episode and all I can say is what the everlovinfuk? What did I just watch?
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I'm not sure I like it but I can't stop watching it. I'll check it out.

Carlybee said:
I watched Hand of God last seasonhaven't been able to focus on it this season. Same with Mozart in the Jungle and Man in the High Castle.

BCS is getting good.
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I like Man in the High Castle.

We watched View to a Kill tonight. The only thing creepier than normal Christopher Walken is Christopher Walken with bleach blonde hair. That is one crazy looking dude.
 
The Last Kingdom season 2

I'm not sure when it came out but I just noticed it the other day. I love Viking shows.:)
 
I. CAN'T. WAIT. :cool::D


I'm gonna have to watch all the old shows before the movie. I hope I like the new girl as much as I loved Lynda Carter.

 
I finished watching The Last Kingdom

*sigh*

Spoilers

 
Why did Erick have to die?:( I liked him. I liked the brothers. :( Albert's a douche.
 
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