Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.

'Safe'


Streaming 1: There Goes the Weekend

A place for shows presented as streaming only — for example Netflix Originals, Amazon Prime Streaming, Hulu Plus, Yahoo, and other sites. (Note: Shows that are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe shall be discussed in that thread.)

Spoiler Policy: Spoiler font two weeks for content presented all at once. Content presented as weekly episodes may be discussed with no restrictions as it is released.


Calli - Aug 08, 2022 9:00:26 am PDT #1830 of 2156
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I loved Sandman. I was a huge fan of the comics, and I'm happy with just about all the choices they made in transitioning to tv.


-t - Aug 08, 2022 2:38:00 pm PDT #1831 of 2156
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Me too. There were more than a few actually perfect moments and none that really made me say “I wish they’d done that differently“ which really beats the odds.

Edited to add the disclaimer that I purposefully did not reread so I wouldn’t be too focused on seeing it as an adaptation, I will have to reread and rewatch at some point but I think that will probably be enjoyable as well.


askye - Aug 09, 2022 3:33:41 pm PDT #1832 of 2156
Thrive to spite them

Prey is out on Hulu, has been since Friday. It's the new Predator movie and it is AMAZING. Seriously I'm slightly biased because it features the Comanche tribe, and that is my people, well I'm a member of the tribe barely because of minimal blood, but my from my mother's side, her father was half Comanche and his father was full blood. So I'm biased to like this...

The movie is gory but it doesn't come across as gory for just shock value. The animals that the predator kills are done the same way as the people and it feels kind of over the top for a movie but it's not just gore for the sake of it. Spoiler information for anyone who wants to get a heads up:

there is hunting of animals by the Comanche and the predator and that is bloody. The predator skins the animals and guts them so that is a thing. There are French trappers and there are buffalo corpses that have been skinned. And then there is the gore against the people. Fair share done by predator to the humans and by humans to each other and the predator. There are limbs that are cut off and a pretty graphic scene of one being treated. Then when Naru has a hunter she finds , she knocks him out and he wakes up-and she's cut off his leg, or part of it and there are.. rats.

It's good. I've seen one review that didn't like the first part and felt that Naru, the main character, wouldn't have been the one to be the main character because she wasn't a good enough prey for the predator and she wasn't a good hunter in the beginning. But the the reviewer misses a bunch of facts like Spoilers

the predator doesn't see her as a threat until she directly attacks him. Also , I think she wasn't the best at ending a hunt because she hesitated but she was smart and strategic and willing to fight dirty. Like in the fight with Wasape she used everything she had even if it wasn't conventional. When she needed to she was willing to adapt her weapon to better suit her. she was never going to over power the predator so she did the strategic and smart thing- set traps, got him bleeding and worn down and used the element of surprise. Now I want to go and watch the first two movies to see how the the fights went there.

She's being trained by her mother to be a healer so she knows how to make medicines and she is very observant and you can tell she's always thinking and planning. Where as others are very reactive and fall on their training and confidence in their abilities Naru doesn't seem to have that confidence and kind of over thinks things but you can see when she has to actually act with no time to over think she doesn't get in her own way.

The lighting is good for this the night is never really dark so that helps and the fight scenes are shot clearly, which is a big bonus.

There are Hand Signs used. I think my uncle still knows a few that my grandfather taught him, interestingly my grandfather said that the Hand Signs varied from band to band (the Comanche divided themselves into divisions and then bands and then various family groups).

Also Naru encounters some French trappers and in the movie they speak French and there were no subtitles in the film so if you don't know French you don't know what is being said.


Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2022 5:01:37 pm PDT #1833 of 2156
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

And in case you didn’t notice, Hulu has a Comanche language dub of the movie.


Steph L. - Aug 09, 2022 6:59:10 pm PDT #1834 of 2156
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I've heard it's really good, but those spoilers for violence are a super hard nope for me, unfortunately.

[edit] And I really do appreciate the spoilers, askye!


Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2022 7:05:29 pm PDT #1835 of 2156
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I was SO WORRIED the entire film that the dog was going to die, but thankfully they did NOT go there.


askye - Aug 10, 2022 12:06:44 pm PDT #1836 of 2156
Thrive to spite them

I forgot to mention about the Comanche dub.

Steph if you are interested in seeing some of it I can see what the time stamps are for the violence so you can jump around it. Even though it is gory it isn't all through out the movie and it's not just random things made gory for the heck of it.

Tom I was too.


-t - Aug 19, 2022 10:59:48 am PDT #1837 of 2156
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ahhhhhhh the “bonus” Sandman episode(s)=so good!


-t - Aug 23, 2022 3:46:19 pm PDT #1838 of 2156
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Pleased with the OMitB finale. They are good at setting the hook for next season!


dcp - Aug 23, 2022 5:44:56 pm PDT #1839 of 2156
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

OMitB S2 Ep. 10

Finally they have someone pronounce "Chickasha" correctly.