I really enjoy Discovery, but not enough to pay for CBS All Access. If they ever stop sending DH screener links I'll wait and buy the seasons after they're done.
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Streaming 1: There Goes the Weekend
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Jessica - Jul 18, 2019 5:38:59 am PDT #614 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Gudanov - Jul 30, 2019 10:52:02 am PDT #615 of 2196
Coding and Sleeping
I watched a couple episodes of Another Life. I'm a sucker for mysterious alien and their mysterious artifacts, so I was really hoping it was going to be good, but it's just not coming together for me. Also, I have some serious questions about the crew selection process.
Jessica - Jul 30, 2019 11:04:40 am PDT #616 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Gud, I had the same reaction. They had me at Katie Sackoff + spaceship, but...it's not good. I watched two episodes and I still don't entirely know what the show is about.
Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2019 11:14:03 am PDT #617 of 2196
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Netflix: Our algorithms tell us that people like 80s nostalgia and horror. Can you make a show for us?
Duffer Bros: Hold my beer.
Netflix: Our algorithms tell us that people like Arrival and Battlestar Galactica. Can you make a show for us?
Some Random TV Producer: Uh, sure, I guess?
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2019 5:09:29 am PDT #618 of 2196
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah. It feels like asking someone to make a ship out of Legos. Stranger Things is like a they went out and got a kit for the HMS Warspite and put it together carefully while Another Life is just getting a bunch of random blocks and putting something together while watching a cooking show.
askye - Jul 31, 2019 12:42:51 pm PDT #619 of 2196
Thrive to spite them
I read someone's Live Tweet of the Another Life and it was... I had no idea what show it was because they didn't identify it until the end but it sounded so so so bad.
Jessica - Aug 05, 2019 4:58:29 am PDT #620 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I watched up through episode 5 or 6 of Another Life this weekend on the off-chance that Netflix's patented "hook 'em by episode 4" thing would kick in, and I can safely report that it did not. I'll probably finish off the season anyway because I am stubborn.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 05, 2019 6:33:24 am PDT #621 of 2196
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How bad is Tyler Hoechlin in that, anyway?
Glamcookie - Aug 05, 2019 9:15:16 am PDT #622 of 2196
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Anyone watch The Great Hack documentary on Netflix about Cambridge Analytica? Holy shit.
Jessica - Aug 22, 2019 5:27:18 am PDT #623 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The media embargo on Dark Crystal Age of Resistance has lifted and I am ready to report that I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I want to skip work today and spend hours putting screenshots of it next to screenshots from Farscape because wow, the Henson Company sure is committed to a very specific visual style.
It starts out a little slow but there's a point in ep 5 where we all just sat up straight and gaped, and when it was over my 12 year-old said it should be called Game of Thra'ns. (No, he has not seen or read any of GoT, but cultural osmosis in middle school is a thing, you know?)
The writing throughout is earnest and funny and warm. The mythology is lovely to soak in. It's family-friendly without being childish or simplistic. The puppetry, naturally, is amazing.
Mark Hamill doesn't voice the character you think he does, but he's great anyway, as are all the rest of the cast.