turned out the kid wasn’t a magical jesus christ kwisatz haderach he just had autism. sam spade was entirely uninterested in the mystery going on the whole show and just wanted people to stop bothering him. a deus ex cia showed up to resolve everything in the last episode. it was alright
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perverse that netflix have turned dave filoni’s last pre-star wars show into dire stylistic emulation of the prequels
the not-quite-scope aspect ratio is an ill omen
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george lucas voice: we never got to see all the airbenders really go to town with their staves
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the kid who plays aang is making the whole thing work, though, my lord. all of the kids are great so far. azula’s little smirks, sokka comic relief — stuff you wouldn’t expect to translate well
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murder she wrote is the number one “hey it’s that guy” show. between all of the folks lansbury hired to keep their union insurance, the wide swath of assorted 80s and 90s workman character actors, and people cbs put on to tie in to their other shows, half the show for me is going to imdb afterwards
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Am I losing my mind or is Soren’s storyline right now “I fucked up raising my kid so bad he ALSO got conscripted into a super soldier program: My worst, most improbable fear.”
Riz did get good end so that was nice to see.
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this is a certified Col. James Ackerson moment, I started fucking flipping out, man is living up to his namesake from the books almost too well. This is the worst possible turn of events, they are going to turn Kessler into a Spartan-III and we are going to have the world’s worst family reunion next season. Also yes I was very happy for riz too!!
What this show mainly indicates to me that is if they could start halo over it would be much better and about actual things worth thinking about
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I am… mostly enjoying Masters of the Air, the next show by the Band of Brothers / The Pacific people. This one’s about B-17 pilots, and I love aviation, so I’m real on-board with the concept here.
Where Band of Brothers was a mix of straight-up propaganda and realism, and The Pacific was refreshingly realistic and horrible, Masters of the Air is a return to BoB’s fawning hero worship and dogg, it sucks!! I think everything that is outside of the flying is wince-inducing WW2-dad bullshit that casts the Americans as unambigously in the right at all times, and everyone else, including the British, as villains or dipshits. Ugh.
Thankfully, the scenes in the B-17 are largely great and appropriately violent. It is truly insane what these people were ordered to do, time and time again.
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you mean the show that is set in the Band of Brothers extended universe?
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Truly the Brotherverse is what a LOT of WWII-loving dads fully believe the second world war to have been and it drives me insane every time another series is rolled out treating this extended fanfiction universe as fact
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They are calling it the American WW2 Cinematic Universe thanks
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Besides Captain America 1 and Inglourious Basterds what are the other good alternative history ww2 movies or shows. You’re not allowed to say Man in the High Castle it’s … Too alt. I do think the Donnie Yen movie Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen counts though because it posits the existence of a wuxia superhero in ww2 era China
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k20 legend of the mask
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while ill I started watching moonlighting, surprised this isn’t sb’s favorite tv show of all the time for it’s inability to take itself seriously, sb’s most lionized trait in a work. this is pretty funny though
I strived to reach the same mental attitude anytime I’ve ended up in a fist fight in this life
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i think i really liked that show when my folks showed it me at the time
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I’d been avoiding the show 'cause I kinda figured it’d probably be a “Rah! Rah! The Mighty 8th!” send up and it sounds like it’s exactly that.
Always fun to think about how no one will ever really know how many B-17’s were lost to enemy fire and how many were lost to the faulty design of the oxygen system, specifically where the lines ran past the dorsal turret ring and were installed in such a way that every time the turret traversed it rubber against them.
Gonna guess it probably won’t get much into the politics around fighter escort and how the Allies had the capability from the jump to provide round-trip escort for the bombers.
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NOPE it only shows how the hot new Mustangs dramatically out-class those jerry clunkers and how we were just waiting for them to be finished and rolled off the assembly line so they could join the fight!!
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Yeah, I figured. Wouldn’t want to besmirch those brave bomber boys by pointing out that if the higher ups in air force hadn’t been staunchly against fitting drop tanks to P-47’s and P-38’s the air force would have been able to provide complete coverage for escort operations.
If memory serves, they still would have had to stagger escort flights a bit so they had enough fuel to actually do their job, but anytime one was going off station the bombers would have been meeting up with their replacement.
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i screamed at the thing with the sticker in the succession finale. incredible. perfect
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you can’t make a tomlette without breaking a few greggs
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