7th Station ~TV, movies, games~

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[Moh]

Can't wait to see that one. I still have the "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" documentary on my DVR.

[Zunu]

My love for Mr. Rogers does battle with my decidedly meh feelings toward Tom Hanks. So conflicted.

[Celedam]

I found this interesting…



… and I wonder if the same line of thought applies to the idol industry: recruiting school-aged girls, indoctrinating them into the agency system, emphasizing groups instead of soloists, and so on.

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Rocko's Modern Life...

[Nayoko-Kihara]

It might be time to lift my self-imposed Netflix ban.

[Moh]

Of course it's on Netflix.

[Celedam]

Another good series coming to Amazon Prime Video?

Supes have been committing atrocities, which keep getting swept under the rug because they are revered by the adoring public. Billy Butcher recruits The Boys who have all been wronged by The Seven, the world’s most notorious superheroes, to bring them down and stop the corruption. Based on the best-selling comics by Garth Ennis, The Boys is a revenge story where the nobodies take on the somebodies.

It is good. It is very, very good.

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Some of us read The Rook by Daniel O'Malley.

Well, STARZ has made a series out of it…

Spoiler: show

I'm really not getting the same vibe from this trailer that I did from the book. Not at all. Judging by this trailer, the series seems to be a British spy thriller with a supernatural twist, while the book was the reverse. The book had straight-up battles between superhumans (I wouldn't call them "superheroes"), in which they used their powers at full strength to spectacular effect. I don't see those battles happening in the series, maybe due to budget constraints or maybe due to a deliberate change in tone to attract an audience that is tired of superhero movies.

And the extra note about superhuman trafficking seems like a gratuitous attempt to be politically relevant. That's not in the book at all, at least not that I remember. In the book, the Checquy often act as troubleshooters to neutralize other superhuman and supernatural threats specifically because they cannot be controlled through normal means. But even then, it's a secondary function of the Checquy; their primary function is counterintelligence against similar organizations in other countries. (For example, a rival group of superhumans from Belgium called the Grafters; you can probably guess from the name what their schtick is.)

Anyhow, does this mean in the series, some faction of the Checquy is secretly trafficking in superhumans, and that is the mystery to be solved? Eh, I'm bored already. This is coming too soon after Orphan Black, which had many of the same plot points and a much more appealing lead.

It is meh, for pretty much exactly the reasons I suspected.

[Celedam]

Thirteen weeks ago, I said…

Season 6 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. begins next week.

I just finished it, thanks to Hulu, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. As I said once before, while commenting on The Gifted…

This is what I'm watching right now, but I feel like I'm catching up just for the sake of catching up. It's not great, and I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoyed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was notoriously cheap and often mediocre but still had a certain charm.

It's still true. They do so much with so little, and that's due to good writing and great characters.

My theories about this season…

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…turned out to be wrong, but those theories assumed the show is still a part of the MCU proper, and it obviously is not. However…

Spoiler: show

I'm thrilled that the monoliths have turned out to be a real, logical, multi-season story arc. Many threads came together this season in a way that must have been planned from the beginning, and if it wasn't, it was damned good writing to come up with something that so neatly explains everything that came before.

Anyhow, last words until the seventh and final season (confirmed): "Hey, guys."

[Celedam]

"…but that's another show."

Can't say I like the new kitchen. I liked the old one: classy, vaguely Mission-style but with a modern twist, lots of wood, steel fixtures…



It was so nice that they replicated it when they moved production from the real location to their own studio.

What I'm seeing in the preview above is awful by comparison, and it seems like a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience. I'm sure there will be an in-character explanation for it, but I don't care.