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Season 1 of For All Mankind

It's a nice series- different. It's scifi, but it's not really meant to be an adventure story- it is mostly a serious drama, even broodin. There are some suspenseful, action scenes of things like trying rescue crew members or test pilot vehicles, but more of it is about human life.

This flavor of scifi also doesn't come from a distant future with interstellar voyages, it's more subtle science, set in the 1970s, imagining what would happen if the space race between the US and the Soviet Union had continued to ramp up, and gives us a look at a world that's 99% familiar as our past, but with a few things happening another way, and how that comes to shape geopolitical events in new ways, causing social progress and advances in technology to occur sooner then they did.

It's a smart show with believable science and politics. The acting is flawless across the entire cast and the production design looks just right. It also weaves together multiple perspectives men, women, black, white, latino, lgbt, Americans as well as Russians during the cold world in a way that I think is interesting, and also discusses important topics like mental health, specifically ptsd.

It can get a little talky and sometimes it takes time to get back to characters, but I basically like it, and am ready to check out season 2, since I have an apple tv subscription. So far I have watched Blackbird, Dark Matter, and now this. All good.
 
Season 1 of For All Mankind

It's a nice series- different. It's scifi, but it's not really meant to be an adventure story- it is mostly a serious drama, even broodin. There are some suspenseful, action scenes of things like trying rescue crew members or test pilot vehicles, but more of it is about human life.

This flavor of scifi also doesn't come from a distant future with interstellar voyages, it's more subtle science, set in the 1970s, imagining what would happen if the space race between the US and the Soviet Union had continued to ramp up, and gives us a look at a world that's 99% familiar as our past, but with a few things happening another way, and how that comes to shape geopolitical events in new ways, causing social progress and advances in technology to occur sooner then they did.

It's a smart show with believable science and politics. The acting is flawless across the entire cast and the production design looks just right. It also weaves together multiple perspectives men, women, black, white, latino, lgbt, Americans as well as Russians during the cold world in a way that I think is interesting, and also discusses important topics like mental health, specifically ptsd.

It can get a little talky and sometimes it takes time to get back to characters, but I basically like it, and am ready to check out season 2, since I have an apple tv subscription. So far I have watched Blackbird, Dark Matter, and now this. All good.
Love this show!!! Its the only thing that gets me subscribed to Apple TV+ (there's a lot of good stuff so if I'm in the mood I'll go full binge mode while its airing weekly, but its the only one where I'm like "I need to see this"). Joel Kinnaman does barely suppressed rage so well.


I got some streaming subs for a few months to help me get over England's loss at Euro 2024. My most recent watch is Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix. Stunning animation, a compelling hero doing a kinda violent reverse-Mamma Mia. Tons of talent involved - one episode had a few moments made me think of GoT and the end had the credit of "Director: Alan Taylor" lol. Maya Erskine voices the lead. Its been renewed for another season and I hope it airs until 2030 (but not just because it takes 2 years to produce anything now).

Before that was Beef which was also excellent, but kinda ran out of momentum (even as the on-screen events were quicker) by the end. Previous to that was Shogun which…yeah, just look up the reviews they put it better than I can. Truly excellent. Oh, and of course The Acolyte recently ended. I was waiting until the end to binge it but then got one of the pivotal episodes spoiled for me by the vagaries of the Twitter algorithm (even though all my searches and follows were football as I was at the tournament) so caught up then watched the last few episodes live. As a weekly show it had plenty of faults but the lightsabers were truly excellent and even if in moments it was weak overall the arcs were great. So like the prequels in more ways than one lol. The Boys (a definite drop-off from S3, Jensen Ackles' charisma overrode its weaknesses and they got the tone of a pretty nasty scene involving Hughie way off imo) and My Adventures with Superman (brilliant all-round, I only know Supes from the movies but I love this) also finished this week.

I would love to watch Sailor Moon next to fill the emptiness but a) its not available on streaming or blu-ray in my country and the high seas route seems lacking too, no way to guarantee I get the apparently-vastly-superior VIZ Media dubs/subs. Might have to rewatch Veep instead given current events across the pond
 
Just finished new season of Cobra Kai man I love that show. Now Im rewatching Black Clover on the filler arc before the spade kingdom. Also watching Idolish 7 as a singer and anime fan kinda cool seeing an anime with this setting
 
I've actually been watching quite a few things recently. Mostly, on PBS Kids to be exact... and of course one particular thing on Disney+ that y'all shouldn't be surprised by if you actually know me. XD

- Let's Go Luna
- Xavier RIddle
- Bluey

I tend to more or less watch what I feel will comfort me/help me relax easier, so you never know which one I'll be watching of those three. :3
 
Camelot 2011

I haven't seen this one in years, but I always thought it had potential, even though it was flawed. It's produced by Michael Hirst, and as with his series the The Tudors, it puts eye candy over accuracy, has overly explicit sex scenes, some melodramatic dialogue and a bad lead who is nothing like the character he is portrays, but it also has appropriately flawed characters, a darker take on the subject matter that I appreciated, an excellent supporting cast and some episodes that did succeed dramatically.

I also think Camelot had a lovely title sequence, a strong musical score for the most part, and a relatively creative and believable magical system that it's sorcerors had to be conscientious about operating within the laws of- no op characters, or plot armor allowed. I get the feeling that there were more mysteries/layers to the world waiting to be revealed in future seasons.

Though it would have been painful to lose Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green due to their scheduling conflicts-- their acting and chemistry was thrilling to behold, I still ultimately felt curious enough to want to keep watching, and am a bit sad that it never got renewed for a second season.
 
I've recently been watching the new Terminator anime, Terminator Zero. I'm 4 episodes in and really enjoying it. Characters, animation and story are all really good, hopefully this won't be the only season.
 
I've been thinking of starting it myself. How does it compare to the original movies?
It's a tough one to compare. The Terminator and especially Terminator 2 Judgment Day are two of my alltime favourite movies, but I've very strongly disliked any that came after those (Rise of the machines and Genisys were particularly dreadful movies imo.)
The anime has a lot of familiar things from the first movies for sure, but also does a lot different and introduces some cool new concepts. If you have ever seen The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series they did in the late 2000s, the anime has also did a couple similar themes that were introduced in that as well.
 
It's a tough one to compare. The Terminator and especially Terminator 2 Judgment Day are two of my alltime favourite movies, but I've very strongly disliked any that came after those (Rise of the machines and Genisys were particularly dreadful movies imo.)
The anime has a lot of familiar things from the first movies for sure, but also does a lot different and introduces some cool new concepts. If you have ever seen The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series they did in the late 2000s, the anime has also did a couple similar themes that were introduced in that as well.

I actually enjoyed Dark Fate! Some of the drape banter was worth admission alone 😅


Right now I'm working my way through The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2.

I loved the first season so I've been a little disappointed at the increased gore (and less diversity) at the expense of storytelling so far. Still amazing though and I highly recommend it!
 
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