TV: What Are You Watching?

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by Hahma

We have no experience with any other Witcher material, so we are going in as noobs to it all. I had wanted to check it out when I had heard about it, as I like the fantasy genre, but was happy when my wife brought it up to watch. We watched it with our twin daughters, who will be 17 in February. They are fine with the stuff through the first 2 episodes so far as far as adult stuff.

Yeah, I was interested in it due to my general interest in fantasy stuff. Wasn't sure if I'd like it or not, but it turned out to be quite good IMO.

Spoiler Alert!

Just a head's up, the show runs on multiple different time lines but does not tell you it is doing this at the beginning. You start to figure it out when people who were killed in episode 1 are very much alive later in the show, but in a different characters story arc. It ends up working out pretty well though by the end, as all 3 time lines eventually meet in the last episode, and you get a chance to fully flesh out the personality and history of 3 different characters that are very different ages without ignoring any one character.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

Yeah, I was interested in it due to my general interest in fantasy stuff. Wasn't sure if I'd like it or not, but it turned out to be quite good IMO.

Spoiler Alert!

Just a head's up, the show runs on multiple different time lines but does not tell you it is doing this at the beginning. You start to figure it out when people who were killed in episode 1 are very much alive later in the show, but in a different characters story arc. It ends up working out pretty well though by the end, as all 3 time lines eventually meet in the last episode, and you get a chance to fully flesh out the personality and history of 3 different characters that are very different ages without ignoring any one character.

Thanks for the heads up YK.

One thing I really appreciated, even in the 2 episodes so far, is how every character no matter how much screen time they had, seemed well done and you get a lot character out of them.

[Agent Minivann]

Just finished The Expanse season 4 and Dark season 2.

[chas]

Enjoyed the first season of The Mandalorian. I recognized some of the creative people, including some who worked on the animated The Clone Wars. Even Darth Disney can do it right if it leaves the creators alone, like Marvel, but not like Star Wars or John Carter!

[Hahma]

My wife and I finished The Mandalorian as well. We enjoyed it. Probably one of the best scenes of any Star Wars movie/show, was the one with the 2 scout troopers in the last episode of The Mandalorian. Great stuff there.

We also finished The Witcher as well and really enjoyed that as well.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, the Scout Troopers sitting around waiting was some of the best SW banter in a long time.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

Yeah, the Scout Troopers sitting around waiting was some of the best SW banter in a long time.

It was great. Made them actually seem like people under that armor, instead of just suits of armor moving around.

[Hahma]

Tonight I watched a movie called Triple Frontier, with Ben Afleck. Decent movie.

Then I was looking for something else to check out on Netflix, and found a series called Dracula. I believe there are 3 episodes so far, or maybe only 3 episodes in season 1. Regardless, I just finished the first episode, which is an hour and a half, and I really liked it. I've never read Bram Stoker's original Dracula novel, so I don't care about maintenance of source material. I just thought this first episode at least, was very interesting. It's creepy, gross, disturbing and even funny at times.

[Dad_Scaper]

I've been tempted to watch that one. I didn't get the sense it was supposed to be based on the source material (maybe very, very, very loosely), so I don't think you're missing anything.

[Yodaking]

I lost interest by the end of Triple Frontier. Too many bad luck breaks happen in a row to those guys. I might check out Dracula at some point though, thanks!

[TREX]

Just finished up the final season of game of thrones. The ending was ok, but it really could have been done with a little more pizazz. There were so many cool battles throughout the life of the show that the end felt a little shortchanged. Glad I got to finish it though. Ive also been watching more of The Office again. I swear Ive probably watched that entire series at least 10 or 11 times through. I can quote pretty much anything from it. Its just funny and entertaining enough for me that I can be doing other things while enjoying it in the background. I mainly watch it, or listen to it while painting or building things for my tabletop games.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

I've been tempted to watch that one. I didn't get the sense it was supposed to be based on the source material (maybe very, very, very loosely), so I don't think you're missing anything.

I saw some titles of some reviews and got the sense that it was an issue for some people. Though, I haven't seen the 2nd and 3rd episodes that round out the 1st season, so I'll see how those go. But I definitely liked the firstepisode.

Originally Posted by Yodaking

I lost interest by the end of Triple Frontier. Too many bad luck breaks happen in a row to those guys. I might check out Dracula at some point though, thanks!

Yeah, those guys had a rough go of it.