[TV, etc.] What are you watching?!

[B E C K]

I watched some of Love, Death & Robots.  I like to watch Poppen Atelier's doll repainting videos on YouTube and she did one of the siren from "Jibaro" so I went and watched that episode and a few more.  I'm not really into the level of gore or sex in some of these.  I do appreciate them on a technical level.

Sonnie's Edge was uncomfortably cringey.  Supposedly, in the story it was based off of, Sonnie drove drunk and fucked herself up.  She was never assaulted.  Which to me makes it a way better story than playing into the "got raeped and I'm tuff nao" icky-ass trope.  I suppose you could come away with the implication that her back story was made up but to have her laugh at Dicko and admit her situation was a moment of shitty judgement on her part would've been the better ending imo than what we got.

For "The Witness," the naked dancing and the guy getting felt up by the latex-chicks bored me. Like the whole story was just the set up for a fetish animation.

"Bad Traveling" was really good.

I don't think I'll watch all of these, but I think I'll chell out a few more that interest me.

[Rama]

Well I'm currently all caught up on She-Hulk, House of the Dragon, and Andor. I still need to catch up on Cobra Kai and What we Do in the Shadows. GF wants me to hurry up and watch The Boys Season 3 so we can talk about it, but I barely have time for TV anymore with the two jobs, the show, and the kid living with me now.

[jonhammstein]

Anybody here watch Lower Decks? Can't remember if I've asked that before.

I was kind of annoyed by the first season, but I stuck with it, and I kind of like it now.

Just so long as they stay away from the jokes that imply the characters have watched every Star Trek episode and movie. I hate that shit.

"This is worse than that time Worf blah-de-blah-de-blah!" Fuck right off.

Speaking of Trek, that teaser for Picard Season 3 looks fucking sick. Why didn't they just do that shit from the beginning?

[Rama]

Yeah I jumped off both Picard and Lower Decks in season one...But an Odyssey Class Enterprise F. Nice. That ship was actually designed by a fan.

But I love Strange New Worlds. That actually kind of feels like a Star Trek show, which most of these other shows they've been making haven't.   

[B E C K]

Speaking of Trek, that teaser for Picard Season 3 looks fucking sick. Why didn't they just do that shit from the beginning?

Because it's doing what most shows now do where they need to "tease" the plot before delivering the goods when they actually need to deliver the goods to get people to watch in the first place. Similar to how a lot of superhero movies are origin bullshit instead of the hero in their element being cool shit and having fun.

[Rama]

Still Maintain the 1989 Batman did that the best. They gave us the origin, but it is dealt in little bits till we finally get the full origin (that only takes like 5 mins) right before he goes off to face the Joker. Great. Unlike Batman Begins where we get a whole movie about where he trained, how did the get the batsuit, how he got the Batmobile....just ugh. That's why Dark Knight was better. None of that stuff because it was already done. Oh and the Joker.

[Rama]

I finally started watching  the boys Season three but I’m only about two episodes into that and I start watching peacemaker which I’m only one episode in two of that. Boys is just the boys more of the same from the first two seasons but peacemaker is actually pretty great

[Rama]

Andor still is pretty good....Peacemaker still is great. Haven't got back to Boys yet.

[jonhammstein]

Watched the first two episodes of that Velma show. Seems pretty good. Actually made me laugh a few times.

All these people up in arms about the sanctity of Scooby-Doo can fuck right off. Warner's been milking the franchise for the last twenty years with nothing but creatively bankrupt assembly line garbage. This is better than all of that.

Fucking Scooby-Doo versus the WWE and shit. Get fucked. Or that recent series that was a carbon copy of the Family Guy format, right down to the non sequitur flashbacks. YUCK.

But oh noes, Mindy Kaling made characters brown that weren't brown before, the horror!

Anyway, I'll be watching it.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I don't watch Scooby Doo that didn't come from the time before I was. Not saying the new stuff is good or bad in that, either, but I'm just not interested.

[jonhammstein]

To be fair, as badly as Scooby-Doo has been dragged through the mud over the decades, it's probably never been so awful as all the clone shows Hanna-Barbera cranked out in the years following the original...

Just the tip of the iceberg.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I lived through all that. One more reason to love Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.

Check the 6:32 mark: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/harvey-birdman-attorney-at-law/spf