Have really enjoyed "The Great Pottery throwdown". Although Sara Cox and all the innuendo spoils it. Also Black Sails. It goes too far with the effing and jeffing and sexual stuff and there's not enough pirating going on but it's OK.
Started watching Iron Fist on Netflix, heard some stuff good and bad about it but started watching to make up my own mind, actually enjoying it. Also late to the party watching Prison break...Damn good series. On tv following the Last Kingdom as I have read the whole series apart from The Flame Bearer which is next on my kindle list.
Started on 'Rick and Morty'. I had heard of the show before, but on another show called 'Comic Book Men' they were showcasing the comic book and the first issue is going for insane prices for a relatively new book, so I thought I'd start on the show to see what the fuss is about... i'm still unsure as to what the fuss is about, but I'm only about four episodes in... It plays like a rip/homage of 'Back to the Future'.
If you have already watched 4 episodes then it's safe to say that it's not to your liking. I thought that it was pretty funny at the beginning. Later it became a little repetitive. I liked how the professor was keep saying Morty's name so naturally while asking him to do all those crazy things and spitting all over the place at the same time.
"Daredevil" season 1, because "Iron Fist" taken as a whole just wasn't up to par. It has good moments, but ... no. They forgot how to make a super-hero show. My eyeballs need to be washed out with something good. Ep. 2, the opening scene -- bleeding, half-dead hero in a dumpster! :happy: And then it closes with the uncut, 1-camera, 3-minute hallway fight! :happy: And then ep. 4, in the garage fight, Claire gets off the chair and ducks down as small as she can make herself to stay out of the way! She is not a brainless damsel in distress! (And how she ended that fight, too!) :happy: And then the famous ending of ep. 4 ... the car door. :jawdrop: :jawdrop: That's how a super-hero show is supposed to be.
I'm still in shock that they released a new episode on April Fool's! I think the first scene of the episode was an April Fool's nod!
Second season of Into the Badlands, Iron Fist should've got their choreographers. If they can do kickass fight scenes with Nick Frost and someone best known for Coronation Street, imagine what they could have achieved.
Badlands is in my Netflix queue. The little trailer/commercials I've seen caught my eye. I haven't started it, yet, though. I'm glad you like it. I think I'll bump it up my try-this-next list.
Just finished 'Luke Cage', it was incredibly slow going, and ultimately underwhelming, but there were some awesome characters in there, Mahershala Ali as "Cottonmouth" standing out head and shoulders above the rest. There's also Rosario Dawson's Claire Temple who is just all kinds of amazing (insert schoolboy crush emoticon). I then moved onto 'Iron Fist'... Now, I've read the (mostly bad) reviews, and the lamentations and warnings from friends, but, as I've been reading 'The Immortal Iron Fist', I had to give it a go, and... Well, it wasn't as bad as I was led to believe. Yes, the choreography is bad, it's really bad, and none of the characters look like they've even trained in 'movie fu' (I've since been told that the lead wasn't given a lot of time to train), but it's sort of watchable in an almost, but not quite, 'car crash way'. Also Rosario Dawson... The one thing that infuriated me was the random Chinese celebration lion dance scene. Some 30 odd years of lion dance (both as a spectator and as a performer) and I have NEVER seen Chinese people try to dance around the lion and dragon to the rhythm of the drumming and cymbals with their hands in the air waving glow sticks. We wave nunchuks..!
Just finished Avatar: The Last Air Bender Still a crazy good show. Watching Legend of Korra now. Equally good in its own way.
LOL, was that only your first time watching Avatar?! Me and mine have watched it a dozen times or more, all of us! It just might be the best cartoon tv show ever made! I actually haven't watched more than a little of Korra, though, because it's ... a lot darker, and I just don't approve of that change.
Nah, my second or third time. Definitely my second time through Legend of Korra though. It stands up very well against TLAB.
I liked Legend of Korra's word building a lot, but felt that I didn't care as much about the characters, probably due to how short the series was and how separated the characters became. A lot of the best episodes of TLAB were centered around the characters just kinda hanging out.
True, that. I'm remembering "The Tales of Ba Sing Se," for example. And Foo Foo Cuddlypoops. "You're awfully cute, but unfortunately you're made of meat."