Current TV Boxset Addiction

[Colin YNWA]

I'm 19 years late to the party but I just finished Rome. Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

Yes. Yes it is.

13th

[Doomlord66]

I watched the first episode last night, it nails the aesthetic of the games perfectly - the look, the atmosphere, all spot on. Really looking forward to seeing the rest.

Yes also watched 1st episode last night with daughter for our weekly Sunday teatime watch instead of a film. I've played the games and they were my fav games so know it well and all seems great so far.
Downside is its gonna take me 8 weeks to watch the whole series with her.

[Funt Solo]

I'm 19 years late to the party but I just finished Rome. Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

Yes. Yes it is.

13th

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[Hawkmumbler]

Keeping the Universal Century wagon rolling (sorry folks, this shits too good) with a first time viewing of Gundam ZZ.

At the a little over the half way point and the 'antagonists' just killed 1/3 of the Earths population by dropping a colony (for the uninitiated (most people reading this) colonies are huge in Gundam and usually home to several million people in their own right) on 'checks notes'...Dublin.
As fucking hilariously specific as that is ZZ is some of the most fun I've had watching a longer form show in years, this shit rocks.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I'm 19 years late to the party but I just finished Rome. Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

Yes. Yes it is.

13th

It really is. One of the best series ever I would say. I watched it twice in  a row back in the day, the second time with the DVD feature that showed captions onscreen explaining the historical basis of each scene.  Never learned so much history in my life.

[PsychoGoatee]

Keeping the Universal Century wagon rolling (sorry folks, this shits too good) with a first time viewing of Gundam ZZ.

At the a little over the half way point and the 'antagonists' just killed 1/3 of the Earths population by dropping a colony (for the uninitiated (most people reading this) colonies are huge in Gundam and usually home to several million people in their own right) on 'checks notes'...Dublin.
As fucking hilariously specific as that is ZZ is some of the most fun I've had watching a longer form show in years, this shit rocks.

Awesome! Love Tomino and all that Gundam good times. I haven't seen ZZ yet been meaning to, at the time I got the Zeta Gundam box and then watched Char's Counterattack etc. Did a Mobile Suit Gundam rewatch in the past couple years, gonna do Zeta again then ZZ sometime. So many cool series.

[Hawkmumbler]

Surprised you bypassed ZZ to get to Chars Counterattack, Goatee. Admittedly it's not mandatory viewing to understand CCA, to the point the (allegedly) absolutely dismal Zeta redux films actively write ZZ out of canon, but the impact the Argama crew would have in setting up the events of the movie (and indeed, the entire First Neo Zeon conflict in general) ZZ I suspect will certainly enhance my enjoyment of CCA when it comes to a rewatch sometime next month.

Following that I think I'll be giving the UC a rest for a bit, I'm likely going to dive straight into a 1st time viewing of Seed coming off of the back of how much I loved the Freedom movie. With Seed being probably the single most divisive work of fiction I've ever encountered (genuinely have never met anyone who falls anywhere in between loving the Cosmic Era and hating it) I'm going in with an open mind.

[PsychoGoatee]

I can explain! When I mentioned I got Zeta Gundam with the DVD box, I mean when it came out in 2004! ZZ was not released in English officially until I wanna say 15 years or so later, though there were fansubs, and fan opinion at the time was ZZ was ok/cool but you could skip it. It has risen in status as a fan fav. I've always meant to watch it though, so for sure I'll give it a go on my latest Tomino go. Happy to hear you're digging it!

So much Gundam to watch for sure, and other Tomino shows like Dunbine etc I've meant to see.

[Hawkmumbler]

Fair! I actually entirely forgot ZZ was just unavailable in the west until about 10 years ago, I'm absolutely speaking from a position of privilege there being able to go through the original run in true sequential order, good time to be alive. Hope you get as mch out of ZZ as I am, it's rightly deserving of its reappraisal.

Dunbine is 'chefs kiss' one of the very best.

[Rara Avis]

I was one of those fans and I hated that storyline because there wasn't enough foreshadowing to justify her character arc turning like that. She spent 8 seasons up to that point trying to be good leader / ruler and her just snapping like that didn't make sense for her character or her character arc.

But there was loads of stuff that was just awful; Jamie and Brienne, Jamie going back to Cersei, everyone teleporting all over Westeros to be wherever they were required at that time, Tyrion's mental decline going from one of the smartest characters to the most stupid who can only make cock jokes, the decision to put the armies of the living IN FRONT of the walls of Winterfell in the last battle, the Dothraki getting wiped out but managing to respawn for the battle at Kings Landing, Jon being reduced to a one line character ("I dunt wan it") for the last season, omg the plot armour - we see so many characters get swarmed by the dead at the last battle and then in the next scene they're fine.

I could go on ..

Dany wasn't my favourite character and I could have handled her burning the city to the ground if it had been done in such a way that made sense narratively.

And the pie thing : https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/titus/summary/

It's also mentioned in the books as a fable from Westerosi times past.
 

My GoT cod-psychology theory is that you could've ended that season almost any way at all, and the audience reaction would've been similar. Folk were just upset that it was ending. (I wasn't as invested once GRRM wasn't the author.)

There were Dani worshippers that couldn't handle the "my favorite is a baddy now" aspect, for sure.

Baking close relatives into pies and serving them to your enemy seemed a little convoluted, as assassinations go. I think that was a strong sign that George wasn't in the writers' room anymore. He, having gained access to all the pies he could ever want, doesn't see the need, or has lost the ability, to finish his opus. We're left with this odd, mixed-media saga.

[Rara Avis]

Also George has been involved in another tv show called Dark Winds that is excellent and well worth checking out.

[Hawkmumbler]

Sorry guys, its that time again.

MOBILE SUIT GUNADM SEED might be the most lied about work of fiction I've ever engaged with in regards to the popular reputation (among westerners, at least) of it being bad.
It's a strange, lumbering, ungainly monster of a show with serious identity issues but beneath all its warts and defects beats a heart of pure, unfiltered Y2K sincerity. And that goes a long way for me.

I'll keep that one short but I went into a bit more detail about why the show proved significant to myself as someone on the autism spectrum, especially coming out at a time (2002) when neurodiveristy was treated as this heinous, detestable societal defect, on my letterboxd.