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Rate the last TV show you've seen
nickmitch:
Does anyone watch TV anymore?
Just watched Severance, so I'm even later than the last post on Severance.
It was pretty good. There's enough meat on the bone to make me excited to see the second season (whenever that happens). The last two episodes did a lot of switching between a dark scene and a harsh white scene which nearly gave me a migraine. There's also a lot of inexplicable shakycam that annoyed me.
The mysteries of the show were pretty cool. But I ended up being more interested in the mystery of each character's background rather than what the big corporation is secretly up to.
Khushrenada:
Yes, I got around to Severance late January of this year after hearing so much high praise for the show last year. I quite enjoyed that. I was sort of taking it slow at first. Watching an episode once every two days or so but then around the time of the 5th episode I just wanted to get on to the next and went through the last batch of episodes in the last two days. Too bad since it seems like it will be a long wait for the second season now. For awhile in February, it really stayed in my mind as I wished I could see more of how it may play out but now so much has happened in life since then that I'd pretty much forgotten I'd seen it until you posted this which is wild to me since it's definitely some of the best TV I've seen this year along with Yellowjackets Season 1 and The Bear Season 1. I should check out Season 2 for both of those shows now that I think about it. Oh, and Kobra Kai. Watched all 5 seasons of that too.
Khushrenada:
--- Quote from: nickmitch on August 01, 2023, 04:28:43 PM ---Does anyone watch TV anymore?
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No. TVMan is dead. You killed him. There is only YouTube man now.
Stratos:
I can't find the Star Wars show thread I thought we had so I'll post here. Ahsoka is pretty good so far. I view it as a sort of "last chance" for Star Wars for me personally. I haven't really been enjoying the newer shows other than occasional highlights, and despite the amazing performance of Andor everything else feels lacking. Mando started decent, went stronger, then dropped off the deep end. Boba Fett was a disappointing mess, and Kenobi and even bigger mess. So if Ahsoka doesn't pull me back in I'll be taking a back seat on future stuff besides Andor S2. Not a boycott or anything, just not making them a priority or worrying about spoilers.
I also view it as a sort of "last chance" for Ahsoka herself. A lot of people feel she should not have survived Order 66 or even Rebels. her fight with Vader in Rebels would have been a very poetic and tragic ending for her. I have been holding judgement because anyone can stick around so long as they make it worthwhile. Maul has a ridiculous survival but he became an amazing character so I've overlooked the survival because of this. He served a great purpose and had a very compelling arc.
Ahsoka has yet to actually DO anything of any real merit or substance since the duel she survived through miraculous means. This show is her chance to prove she deserved to stick around and do something more.
My only real complaint that is more than a nitpick (but not a deal breaker) is how yet another main character survives a stab wound to the chest with a very deadly laser sword. It seems to be a trope of the franchise at this point. Losing an arm or a leg like Anakin and Luke did I can understand. But a stab though a place where critical organs are just seems odd.
Aside from that my nitpicks are legacy character looking or acting differently than they did before. Sabine is just too angst-y, Ahsoka a bit too stoic, Hera just looks off. But that doesn't ruin things for me and I can just ignore it for the sake of an enjoyable story.