Just finished Black Mirror (yes I know. Iâm late to the party). Thought it was amazing as a whole.
Just started Station 11. Great through two eps
Big Station 11 fan here. My wife is watching it now to catch-up. Sheâs not a sci-fi fan. Final episode lands Thursday night.
Oh gawd âŠ
Book of Boba Fett #3 âŠ
Sigh. Itâs just so so bad.
The emo teen biker gang with bright colored bikes and pale as shit on a desert planet⊠WTF was that crap?
I swear the people making these shows hate the IP.
Yea Ep 3 was pretty bad, I want to like this show but canât. Hopefully it bounces back.
Iâm laughing in places that arenât meant to be funny.
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Just saw that Lord of the Rings prequel will air on Amazon starting in September
Here is hoping Amazon doesnât ruin it the same way they ruined WoT. What an abomination. Didnât even deserve to wear the name.
The Hobbit? 
I will have to research this. I just finished watching the Hobbit trilogy. Hoping I can convince the wife watch LOTR soon.
LoTR is much better than The Hobbit. If liked The Hobbit at all sheâll love LoTR.
Evidently it goes into depth about the 20 rings.
I see that. Its more of a prequel to the Hobbit than LOTR. Hopefully it will be good.
They gave Isuldur a sister.
I can only imagine how bad this is gonna be.
I am looking forward to it. I remember people complaining that Tom Bombadil wasnât in LOTR and how it must be crap. It turned out just fine. The show might be terrible or it might be awesome. I am keeping an open mind until I see the first season. Creating characters and consolidating character traits is common - very commons with large sprawling complex stories like LOTR content.
As for Boba, I have enjoyed parts of it. I really like building the culture around the Tuskens. What I dislike is we all wanted to see the bad ass bounty hunter Boba Fett and we have gotten a guy who is a shell of what we wanted. Still hoping they can turn it around.
I just finished the Expanse on Amazon and was very pleased with how they tied the series up. I am slowly making my way through the books.
I donât know if Boba Fett is going to be able to turn it around. The more I think on it I believe Temuera Morrison was correct, he has his helmet off and talks too much. Ep 4 was just meh at best. I really wanted to like this series and have loved what Favreau had done previously but afraid this is going to be his first swing and miss.
Anyone else see this article?
Personally Iâve enjoyed it some but mostly because my son is enjoying it. He hasnât watched the movies really and doesnât really know Boba outside of the Mandalorian series.
I wish they would have âexpandedâ the last episode of the Expanse to show the last resolution more in depth like they did in the book, but I enjoyed the series.
I am curious if they hit budget constraints with that last episode.
Still beats the cost cutting end of GoT
Yes. And it echoes some of the problems of Wheel of Time. Remember, Amazon (and their head of Content, Jennifer Shalke) is overseeing LOTR like they did with Wheel of Time. When she took over, she instituted some very blatant social agenda rules for Amazon shows. Very pro feminist and of course diversity (the latter is a given these days). Knowing the political slant of some of the folks on this board, I am curious show they will react. The feminism angle is, based on what they did to Wheel of Time, VERY aggressive. Almost to the point of misandry. The male characters in the Wheel of Time show were completely eviscerated, shelved, and their key moments were given over to the female characters. The male leaders especially were repeatedly shown as arrogant âmansplainingâ assholes, and were explicitly placed in subservient roles to female compatriots, which was completely contrary to their book versions. Non leader characters like Lan Mandragoran (who is a rock hard stoic no B.S. badass warrior dude), was emasculated and made to cry and grab his chest (âtwist his nipplesâ per pissed off fans) on screen.
The staggeringly awful thing about that treatment was that Wheel of Time has, as its core themes, gender equality and cooperation. Those themes are as important to the story, both itâs beginning and itâs conclusion, as the Ring is to LOTR. No exaggeration. It was very, very progressive when it was published beginning in the early 90âs, and still stands up well now. So the idea that it needed to be hit with a super feminist / anti-male rewrite for the screen is kinda mind boggling.
But back to Boba Fett⊠Keep in mind the source of that article⊠the Guardian is a left leaning newspaper. I am not trying to bring politics into this - Iâm just trying to illustrate just how far encompassing the negative reactions to this heavy handedness trend are - when you have the Guardian saying something like this (this was the quote THEY chose to highlight):
And now itâs happening all over again. As this Disney+ series continues to examine his softer side in excruciatingly uninteresting detail, it feels as though the circle of bastardisation is almost complete. All we need now is a subplot in which he adopts a baby version of Yoda and spends at least two episodes wiping sick off its chin.
I warn you guys, LOTR is going to get the Amazon treatment. I donât care about diversity hires for the show cast / production team etc. Thatâs all fine, though I have a slight preference to at least try to make the casting make sense in the story. But I frankly donât think you need to venture into ultra feminism which verges on misandry to promote a gender balanced narrative like the WoT show did.
Again, I hope I am dead wrong. I was just like NWA going into WoTâŠheck probably worse. But I and damn near every other fan got burned so badly by what Amazon and show runner Rafe Judkins did to that IP that we arenât gonna fall for it again.
Man I hope I am wrong. I freaking love LOTR. Read Tolkein in 6th and 7th grade and got teased for being a nerd. I watch the movies every year and I love them, including the changes like replacing Glorfindel with Arwen and expanding her role and love story with Aragorn, as well as the very subtle change to Eowyn. I think they make the movies better. But Peter Jackson didnât have to tear down Aragorn and Sam and Frodo and Gimli and Legolas to add some awesome womenâs moments to the story. (And Eowynâs âI AM NO MANâ killing of the Witch King is one of The. Absolutely. Best. Moments of LOTR. I love it).
Finished Station 11. Amazing. Excellent. Top notch. Highly recommended.