I rewatched Picard last week and by rewatch I mean I skipped large parts of episodes.
Why? I just wanted to see if it was a bad as the first time I watched it.
It was.
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I rewatched Picard last week and by rewatch I mean I skipped large parts of episodes.
Why? I just wanted to see if it was a bad as the first time I watched it.
It was.
I used to love Who when i was a kid, mostly Pertwee and the Tom Baker. I think it was the music that scared me the most, Blake's Seven had that going on as well and wasn't particularly hero friendly.
I think by Colin Baker though I was done and then the little annoying guy.
I didn't mind the first two new doctors, mostly because story but it got tired after that.
My happy place is 80's & 90's stuff and some exceptions.
I find The Expanse is one of the few adaptations where I end up arguing with myself over which is better - and end up with a mix. Like I think Drummer is better than any of her parts in the books, but I don't find Marco at all scary on tv.
The writers are also producers (and writers) on the show, which helps explain why they stay so close to the source material, but it does mean they rely on the books sometimes and make the tv show alone impenetrable - having a whole episode of Naomi crying on a ship only made sense if you had a clue what she was up to - the tv never made it clear. Ty Frank's increasingly annoyed tweets explaining it to people were classics
Looking forward to seeing if they can land series 6 successfully - I find the book ending is .... underwhelming - despite the actually book being one of the better ones.
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That pretty much reflects my sci-fi / who experience. Really loved Blakes 7 as well. Watched some again recently - OK the sets are very wobbly, but some of the ideas / situations they covered were very forward. Even the beginning where Blake is convicted of 'child molestation'.
The whole state controlling the populace by drugs etc.
Suppose that's why it used to go out later in the evening
One thing that really spanked my gears was in S5 how much really, really important detail was hidden around the set- for example when Marcos agents used Naomis reactor popping code and you had to really watch what Marco was watching to understand things (bearing in mind the scene was him stood on an upper deck looking at a monitor while the focus of the scene is with his son below.I find The Expanse is one of the few adaptations where I end up arguing with myself over which is better - and end up with a mix. Like I think Drummer is better than any of her parts in the books, but I don't find Marcos at all scary on tv.
The writers are also producers (and writers) on the show, which helps explain why they stay so close to the source material, but it does mean they rely on the books sometimes and make the tv show alone impenetrable - having a whole episode of Naomi crying on a ship only made sense if you had a clue what she was up to - the tv never made it clear. Ty Frank's increasingly annoyed tweets explaining it to people were classics
Looking forward to seeing if they can land series 6 successfully - I find the book ending is .... underwhelming - despite the actually book being one of the better ones.
If Ty had written the scene differently (along with a fair chunk of others) S5 would have felt less fan service and more functional like early SyFy seasons were.
I don't think i understood a lot of what was going on with it beyond spaceships and hair curler jousting but it was on at 7pm so before bedtime.
Those were the rules back then.
Points of View was fun after the last episode too
TV Drummer is fantastic but the show itself has been hobbled a bit because she's playing so many parts which I presume was a cost-cutting exercise and also to not have too many people dipping in and out of the show from one season to the next.
Yup, I also enjoy his tweets.The writers are also producers (and writers) on the show, which helps explain why they stay so close to the source material, but it does mean they rely on the books sometimes and make the tv show alone impenetrable - having a whole episode of Naomi crying on a ship only made sense if you had a clue what she was up to - the tv never made it clear. Ty Frank's increasingly annoyed tweets explaining it to people were classics
Hopefully it's better than five but at six episodes long I feel they might sprint to the end just like the source material.
I like women's snatch.
I thought we were talking about weightlifting?
S5 could have easily fit into 6 episodes and been a cracking show.
That was past my bedtime back then. The next glory era was Starsky & Hutch, Quincy and some ITV stuff, Minder maybe and others, not really sci-fi though.Points of View was fun after the last episode too
It was all said and done before 8pm.
Quincy was awesome!
The true unfairness is that the show could have been so much better. But it is what it is, as they say...
Right on brother!, Right on!
Comedy, well, supposed comedy anyway, in a futuristic setting does not Sci-Fi make.
B7 is great. Proper thespians and a decent script make it feel more like watching a play than a sci-fi tv series and helped get over some of the dodgier robot / alien costumes.
We got the Dutch version of the boxset as it was cheaper - I've since found our "speel alles" is not a secret extra episode on the DVD.