Topic: Rate the last TV show you've seen

[oohhboy]

Rest easy in knowing the nudity seen so far is non-sexual.

[NWR_insanolord]

Westworld is GORGEOUS. The music and visuals is fantastic, and despite the (appropriate, but some may consider it as excessive) nudity it's the little details that's got me interested to see more.

Remember Game of Thrones was much more heavy on nudity in the first 2-3 seasons than it has been in the more recent few. HBO seems to use sex to help draw a crowd and keep them held long enough for the story and characters to hook you.

That's true even going back as far as The Wire (the decreasing nudity over time part, at least; that show never drew a crowd until well after it ended).

[Khushrenada]

Rest easy in knowing the nudity seen so far is non-sexual.

Non-sexual nudity? Then what's the point? Hard pass.

[Plugabugz]

Rest easy in knowing the nudity seen so far is non-sexual.

Except the one scene with the black guy with Teddy where you can some people at it in the mirror...

The acting is just perfect. They give all the Hosts that creepy feeling by having the actors kill almost all those micro-expressions. They pick the "Emotion" they want to express and put it on like a mask.

The scene right at the end where Dolores goes back online and is extremely emotional, then completely drains herself of all of them when the security guard says "no emotional affect" is just chilling. Amazing.

[oohhboy]

I missed that little detail. Was a bit more focused on the Narrative than random background boobs. Things like rape, murder, mass murder.

Now if you really want something hot, there is girl on girl kiss. It's also creepy as.

[Spak-Spang]

Question:  Anyone watch the new CW DC shows?  Are the new seasons interesting?  Or at least the first episodes.

[Stogi]

Is it really nudity if they're fucking machines?

Also, do you actually care?

[Shorty McNostril]

Question:  Anyone watch the new CW DC shows?  Are the new seasons interesting?  Or at least the first episodes.

Arrow is the best episode of that show I've seen for a long time.  I was "this" close to not bothering, but if it keeps up how it started then I'll be up for some more.

Flash was a bit divisive.  I actually enjoyed it, and it had what I would say was the best spectacle fight scene the show has ever had.  The whole Flashpoint angle is still up in the air.   Either way, I had a very good time with it too. 

[Stogi]

WestWorld is fantastic. I've seen the original and that certainly felt like more of a park gone wrong. This is diving into the moral groundwork that the original only glanced over. I really hope this isn't one season show.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I've tries to watch WestWorld 3 times now and I don't think I've made it past the first 5 minutes.... I have no idea what it's about, and I'm going in blind due to hype of others that know what it is, but I am determined to watch the 1st episode sometime before the 2nd one airs.

My reason for failure to watch is it's always been late at night, and after I watch other shows I'm already invested in... so it kinda became the lullaby show. totally on accident though.

[Stogi]

The first episode starts out drab and really begins to get going around the 20-minute mark when Ed Harris is introduced. At that point, it's entertaining till the final scene.

The second episode is already out. It continues the mystery and intrigue while splicing in some action and suspense. There is one plot-line in particular, Ed Harris's, where I really need to know where it's going.

[Plugabugz]

I don't understand how in Flash, Barry can tinker with the timelines as much as he has recently and those changes don't tinker over to other series (especially Legends).

[Spak-Spang]

Plugabugz:  This is typical comic book logic.  Events in single series comics rarely have effects on the main universe unless a crossover event is going on.  Think about it...there is no way a different writing teams in comics can come together and make sure every series references and draws story ideas from each other perfectly. 

So in the same way the stories in the ongoing TV series only reference each other when a crossover event is going on.  You should be thankful actually, because it means you can just enjoy one series at a time.

Personally, if I every managed DC or Marvel, I would either A) Scrape every individual comic series and just make a singular DC universe series which would be 2-3 comics a week that could tell a story using any characters, but then I would chart out a 1/4 of a years stories at the same time and make sure all the writers relate to each other. 

If that couldn't easily work, I would isolate the stories, but then have one DC universe comic that told big stories references all the characters working together.  Imagine if CW didn't have 4 different series of television, but had one DC universe series that aired every day, and could use ALL the characters (but didn't have to.)  That would be perfect.

[Stratos]

Star Wars had it going like that before Disney bought them. All of the book authors were collaborating together with some overseers at Lucasfilm to make sure all of the stories told a coherent narrative. It is even more aligned now that Disney took over because all of the comics, movies, shows, cartoons, and games are considered cannon.


So if they can do it with Star Wars, they can do it with Marvel. It would take a bit to realign everything, but it could be done.

[Plugabugz]

The premise of Lucifer is absolutely ridiculous, yet Tom Ellis alone holds the whole show together.

[supermario2k]

Star Wars had it going like that before Disney bought them. All of the book authors were collaborating together with some overseers at Lucasfilm to make sure all of the stories told a coherent narrative. It is even more aligned now that Disney took over because all of the comics, movies, shows, cartoons, and games are considered cannon.


So if they can do it with Star Wars, they can do it with Marvel. It would take a bit to realign everything, but it could be done.

Don't you come in here and remind people George Lucas is actually a genius when they all want to keep hating him for Jar Jar and Greedo firing a shot that never had any impact on the story whatsover. You keep those nice thoughts about Lucas off the internet where they do not belong.

[Stratos]

I know that comment was meant in jest, but actually, I understand it had little to do with Lucas and more the team of people at Lucasfilm Licensing. I'm not sure he had a whole lot to do with what was going on in the books other than occasional pointers.

[Spak-Spang]

Well, if I remember the Timothy Zahn books were blessed by Lucas to be actual cannon, but beyond that I think the marketing just said if you wrote a Star Wars book it had to movie forward in time.  Moving forward is much easier in explaining inconsistencies. 

However, I disagree that Disney is being successful with how they are making every Star Wars franchise consistent.  The prequel/clone wars/and Rebels stuff although are all good just seem to be making the timeline too recent when compared to the Original Trilogy.  Granted, Lucas himself first made this mistake by presenting the Jedi as a lost religion and also pushing the clone wars which ended the Jedi rule less than a generation away from the events. 

Anyway, it makes it seem like happenings and events in the Star Wars universe are getting too crowded together.

[Stratos]

All of the adult novels were considered cannon outside of a select few (this is pre-Disney).


I am sure the Empire outlawed even the mention of Jedi, further helping to wipe them from memory. Can't be a part of pop culture if the media is forbidden to talk about it, right? 30 years would feasibly be enough time for them to become virtually "forgotten". Since New Hope was primarily from Luke's point of view, you can see how he would have little knowledge of Jedi since his Uncle refused to even talk about them.


It is getting a little dicey with the Jedi still existing to a certain capacity in Rebels. Jedi need to all be dead except for Yoda and Obi-wan for the purge to have it's full effect.


We do need to see more from the post-Return of the Jedi world to help broaden the world of Force Awakens. I would also argue that this is more reason why we need to see the Knights of the Old Republic/Tales of the Jedi/Tales of the Sith times come back. Rumor has it they may make Knights of the Old Republic cannon soon, which would allow the world to breathe a bit more without rehashing the exact same characters from the movies.

[supermario2k]

All of the adult novels were considered cannon outside of a select few (this is pre-Disney).


I am sure the Empire outlawed even the mention of Jedi, further helping to wipe them from memory. Can't be a part of pop culture if the media is forbidden to talk about it, right? 30 years would feasibly be enough time for them to become virtually "forgotten". Since New Hope was primarily from Luke's point of view, you can see how he would have little knowledge of Jedi since his Uncle refused to even talk about them.


It is getting a little dicey with the Jedi still existing to a certain capacity in Rebels. Jedi need to all be dead except for Yoda and Obi-wan for the purge to have it's full effect.


We do need to see more from the post-Return of the Jedi world to help broaden the world of Force Awakens. I would also argue that this is more reason why we need to see the Knights of the Old Republic/Tales of the Jedi/Tales of the Sith times come back. Rumor has it they may make Knights of the Old Republic cannon soon, which would allow the world to breathe a bit more without rehashing the exact same characters from the movies.

In addition to all that about Palpatine controlling the media, let's not forget he was a super powerful witch with mind control powers to wash over people a spell of forgetfulness. Okay not literally that but you know what I mean, he had the whole senate under his Sith powers, its conceivable that he could have use his Sith powers to make people forget the Jedi.

Also Obi Wan said, "Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine before he turned to evil, helped the Emperor hunt down and kill all the Jedi." meaning that it was well established the events happened in Obi Wan's lifetime. He was in his 60's at the time, so yeah 30 years seems about right.



To Stratos: yeah most of my comment was sarcasm but it was not in jest, I honestly do think Lucas was brilliant and that the haters are just butt hurt they realized the creator of their special magic story didn't have the same emotional attachment to it as they did. Hence why they use the phrase he raped their childhood, admitting they are butthurt by his actions.

[Shorty McNostril]

Supergirl.

Great.  Excellent start for a new season on a new network. Superman was great too.  Was probably a better episode than all of season one.

[Wah]

Mr Robot: Season 2

God this just ramps up the series even more! The writing, the plot, the acting, the twists, all of it is perfect! Couldn't ask for a better TV show!

[oohhboy]

No Brandon Ruth. 

[Wah]

Still fantastic.

[Stratos]

I finished iZombie S2 and it was a fun season, though I'm worried it is about to get into super weird territory with what was revealed in the season finale.


Started Gotham S2 and I'm rather disappointed in it so far because of all the hype I heard. Will keep with it, but there are some weird choices so far.


My wife and I are going to watch Arrow S4 and Flash S2 in tandem. And the first few of Arrow are promising, but I know it will be a mixed ending from what I hear.


We finished S6 of Walking Dead, and boy does the show feel like it has re-found its footing. Plenty of thrills and the wordy monologues were much more succinct than previous seasons. Great finale and I am very pumped for S7. Seems like the major characters are actually back in danger again.