7th Station ~TV, movies, games~

[erilaz]

I agree. The later episodes need more rage.

I love Fenneko and Washimi. And Tsunoda is hilariously annoying in a Momochi or Ichiban Kawaii Sayumi kind of way.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I've never hated (literally) every character in a show so quickly as I did watching the first episode of "Sweetbitter" on Starz.

[Celedam]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been renewed, but only for 13 more episodes, so next season will probably be the last.

I was disappointed in this season's finale…

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Talbot became ridiculous — "I can fix things, I'm a superhero, I just need more Gravitonium" — and thereby lost most of his dramatic weight as an antagonist. Instead, he became the MacGuffin, and the real story became the team's struggle to hold itself together.

That struggle and its resolution might have been satisfying if only the entire season hadn't already been invested in the Shattered Earth future and trying to prevent it. An existential threat like that is too big to be relegated to the B plot. It made the whole thing feel skewed. Sure, each member of the team emoted pretty much as I expected them to emote in that situation. Their character development was fine. But their character development shouldn't have been the focus of the story, not in that particular situation.

I'm also annoyed that nothing was done with the Infinity War crossover. It was explicitly referenced in the last few episodes before the finale, and more than enough time passed for you-know-what to happen, but it didn't happen. Which means Agents has diverged into an MCU-adjacent universe, unless the next Avengers movie completely retcons Infinity War so that you-know-what never happens and no one remembers it.

This season's finale was obviously written and produced with the expectation that the series would be cancelled, but also with just enough options — newly promoted characters to replace Coulson and May, a new mission to find the cryogenically frozen Fitz — to keep things going. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm interested in an Agents without Coulson. The series was literally created for that character, and so much of it depended on his wisdom and humor. Without him, they're just another bunch of tryhard superspies.

It'll be the ninth season of Scrubs all over again.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

"iZombie" is ending after one more season as well. I was sad about when I first heard, but I also haven't enjoyed it as much since

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the zombie thing became public + military zone, now complete with a cult!

I end up fast forwarding through chunks of episodes these days (or just letting them roll in the background while I read), so even though I was initially sad now I'm just hoping it'll be replaced with something that will be as enjoyable as the first couple of seasons were.

On the topic, my dad and I were both bummed at how much smaller the list of our shared shows became with this round of cancelations and "just one more season" announcements. I'm not sure it'll fill back up as quickly as it did the last time this happened.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Westworld:

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Even though this week's episode was Shogun-ville, I didn't like the plot too much, I would rather the Bernard storyline right now. However, the one thing about the episode I absolutely loved was the insane juxtaposition of the Paint it Black :3

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Is S2 of "Westworld" even worth watching? I watched the first episode via free HBO preview over the premiere weekend, and it was the most boring thing I watched that whole week. The promise of a new location has kept me slightly interested in waiting for the eventual DVD release (or another free preview marathon), but I haven't looked in on it since then.

[rikkikow]

Westworld:

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Even though this week's episode was Shogun-ville, I didn't like the plot too much, I would rather the Bernard storyline right now. However, the one thing about the episode I absolutely loved was the insane juxtaposition of the Paint it Black :3

I'm rooting for the robots. Is that wrong?
If you can't tell the difference ...

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[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Is S2 of "Westworld" even worth watching? I watched the first episode via free HBO preview over the premiere weekend, and it was the most boring thing I watched that whole week. The promise of a new location has kept me slightly interested in waiting for the eventual DVD release (or another free preview marathon), but I haven't looked in on it since then.

errrrr, it picks up. the first episode is a lot more about setting up what to expect, and then after that it picks up rather... quickly. The latest episode, I thought, though was a bit slow.

[Celedam]

Aggretsuko on Netflix is pretty amazing.

Fenneko is my spirit animal.

hahahahahahaha

[Celedam]

It’s hard to believe James Gunn wrote and directed both Super (2010) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), because boy howdy, Super is awful. I really want to turn it off, but it expires off of Netflix tomorrow so I won’t get another chance to finish it. Maybe something amazing will happen in the last act to redeem it.

(yes, i’m playing with my iPad instead of watching the movie. that’s how bad it is.)

EDIT: I found a good capsule review: “Too real to be a comedy, too fake to be a drama.”