No.38333
>>38310Have you gotten to the episode with the Plane's Pilot?
No.38350
Silo is pretty good. It is really slow mid-season but it feels like not plotline was abandoned or was filler, after the first two episodes which are an absolute banger and are the best sci-fi I've seen this year. Not sure whether I agree with the ending, would have liked it more if there was indeed a lush green surface but then they had no reason to keep living underground. The dialouge can be a bit dry at times, but the cinematography and music are top-notch. I usually do not like Rebecca Ferguson because she is so emotionless, but it matched this role perfectly. Granted, she is a Mary Sue in this show, but I can overlook that. First I was hesitant to watch it because it's a show that plays exclusively underground, and my experience with shows and films recently is that directors can't fucking film in the night, you can't see shit, but this show was well lit and at now point in the show was I unable to see.
It has a bit of class character as well. The low class lives at the bottom, but does all the work, e.g. keeps the system running, not unlike proletarians. Police is made out of fascist dicks wearing blackshirts.
The way I would describe it is as a dystopian sci-fi mystery thriller. There a lot of mystery boxes, but it sort of all makes sense in the end. It reminded me of The Expanse but underground, and even of Severance (well, it's another AppleTV show). Ngl, Apple+ stepped up their game massively those last two years.
No.38357
>>38350>open laptop>go to libgen.gs>download Silo comic>connect laptop HDMI to tv>turn the lights down>long_ominous_triphop_mix.flac>connect wireless mouse to laptop>retire to couch and maximize comic on tv screenIt's as immersive an experience as most tv or movies. The art style of the Silo comic in particular is one of the most memorable of the last 10 years.
No.38670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQzVOIMW7WU&t=3The Last of Us
"this is a commune, We're communists"
No.38688
>>38670is the show pro-israel like the game?
No.38690
>>38688Are you thinking of world war z?
No.38838
I watched The Curse and really liked it, didn't really know much about it beyond the premise. It went places I wasn't expecting for a comedy about petite bougie libs making shitty "eco-friendly" houses in a low-income community they think they're helping.
No.38851
>>38350Watched it since last week. Good show, disappointing ending. Without getting into spoilers, ending on the biggest cliffhanger, it feels pointless.
>There a lot of mystery boxes, but it sort of all makes sense in the end. I totally disagree.
No.38852
>>38778The Venture Brothers is kind of its spiritual successor, which is kind of funny since the writers worked on the animated Tick show way back when.
No.38952
>>38851May I ask why? As I said, I personally would have preferred a different ending but all the plot points established during this slow burn and world building after the very packed episode 1 and 2 come together in the end - and I can appreciate that, because many shows these days fail to do that. They open up plot lines and then they are just forgotten, never got that feeling in Silo, remember that there is a second season and it's based on a completed series of books.
No.38967
>>38952The mentioned rules are never made clear to me for example (the one about magnification and about any type of sane transport). But all in all the world just doesn't make sense to me. Forcing people to use stairs just slows down any organization, makes social stratification more rigid (it's capitalism pretty much). As for the magnification
I looked up the book series but it didn't make it much better for me No.38969
>>37562Should've ctrl-f'ed first.
>>37564>>37566>progressively stupider as it goes on.>can't bring myself to give a fuck after s3 tbhOh no, I'm not there yet. That sucks.
>disappointingly lack of any commies as characters or discussion of the larger world >Previous seasons had anti-communist and jingoist elements, but they seem to have turned it up a notch. I wonder if people complained they were to generous to the Soviets.It's an American show, what can you expect? I thought them framing the first season around the commies forcing them to do gender equality was better than you could probably hope for. Sucks to hear it gets worse. I didn't read your spoilers.
No.38976
>>38778>>38852now that the venture bros got cancelled (RIP) i wish edlund, doc and publick did a collab together
No.38977
>>38976You never know. I'm still kind of holding out hope of some kind of VB continuation. Metalockalypse finally got its finale, even if it took 10 years.
No.38978
>>38968gtfo. The first couple of episodes are interesting but it quickly devolves into Russians are evil and North Koreans are weird and probably evil. I know because I am a corridors and spacesuits addict.
No.38979
>>37856I've just finished reading The Boys and I think I have to disagree. Sometimes it detours into how fucked up or silly the kinds of superhero conventions we see in comics would be irl, but the overarching theme of corporate evil and its effects are there pretty much from beginning to end.
After reading through Preacher, Boys, and Punisher Max, I think his works from 95 to 2012 have several themes that he doesn't really stray too far from
1. America the place and America the concept
1.a) 9-11
2. Corporate Evil and its related corruption
3. Vietnam/American Militarism
4. Atheism/Hypocritical spirituality
5. The hollowness of Machismo
9-11 seems to have REALLY done a number on him, but it's hard to tell how much of that is unique to him and how much is just the culture at the time.
No.38987
>>37856lol what, the show never seems to know what it is trying to do, as over the top as the comic was ennis was pretty consistent all throughout it
No.38988
>>38979hey at least ennis didnt become a fashy lib like miller did after 9/11
No.38994
>>38967>the one about magnification and about any type of sane transportThe way the Silos are designed is basically a gigantic social experiment. The lack of elevators is to underline the class divisions between the sections due to the lack of accessibility. Someone from the top level has to visibly walk down like a rich person visiting the working class (engineers).
The magnifying thing is pretty obvious? It's so they don't detect their shitty photoshop. Even though the image is true in substance, it's still faked to a certain degree. It's like double faked so people clean but it's still a big stinking lie.
In season two you'll see the origin of the Silos which started off as a preventive measure for an apocalypse by the US government but in typical American fashion they already have tons of social engineering in mind, and then after 100 years it evolved it's own dynamic but the American politicians who created this are still in full control No.38996
>>37810it's just fiction
the drama would be completely different if you had to factor in some real world stuff like almost complete lack of public healthcare in the US
No.39003
>>37810You are right but people don't rail against "docaganda" like they do copaganda because doctors aren't shooting unarmed teenagers. They do still fuck up a
lot though, and there's plenty to shit on about hostpitals. If anything the doctor shows are less problematic for gassing up doctors and more for ignoring the whole lack of free healthcare aspect of the system. Sometimes this shows up in the stories, but it's rare.
No.39005
>>39003It's Capaganda to make you believe that Capitalism is a functioning system
>just go to the hospital and a wild autistic doc will dramatically fix everything bro No.39022
>>37810> The cost of all these procedures is never touched on either.In universe it's a teaching hospital with its operating funds being based on porky grants and such iirc, so that handwaves that little hangup for the poorfag patients.
No.39031
>>38988Yeah, he was already hanging by a thread but 9/11 fried his fucking brain
No.39102
>>31147i really want to watch this crap but i don't know if i want to spend my time actually doing it
someone give me a run down on the story
No.39110
The new Curb Your Enthusiasms last season (third time's the charm) promo image has the therapist hanging himself
Dark.
They're really over doing the "thing" bit, just making up unspoken social customs too much now
The writing and irony is good enough, they don't need to do the "i can't believe you're a celery chewer" or a "peanut butter spread" kinda asinine bits
No.39178
>>39177It's Netflix, what did you expect? Everyone that works there is just picking up paychecks, you can't expect people to have passion. But yeah it does annoy me a lot when writers/directors change what actually happened, but just change it to something worse because they're lazy and don't care about history. I just watched Napoleon a few days ago and it was really bad with that shit.
No.39193
>>39177It's laughable sometimes, like most Hollywood swords and sandals shit, but Oliver Stone's Alexander 2004 tries to be technical during the battle scenes.
No.39204
>>39177"Reality is unrealistic" is part of it, but a lot of it is just budget. Most productions use shared resources. There are companies that make costumes for like Roman pieces or WW2 pieces. Some errors are just common because it's the same work. Some errors are because people copied someone else's work and copied the errors. Some of it is intentionally doing what audiences expect to avoid people complaining that it's not how they think it should be.
Your specific example is a safety issue though. You are not going to get TV production insurance to sign off on getting a phalanx of extra wielding those huge sticks. Even prop versions of spears that size are still going to be dangerous if you clothesline someone with it. They typically use rubber weapons for shots where you don't need to see it solidly take or give hits. You can't make a rubber spear that long without it bending under its own weight.
No.39253
Just finished Twin Peaks Season 3, I honestly hated it, I didn't really see anything redeeming about it, apparently critics and audiences loved it though so I don't know.
Too lazy to write my own thoughts so I'll just say I agree with everything judasbooth says in this page
https://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3544&start=2145 No.40956
Anyone watching the Curb finale? I can't believe they got conan
No.40961
>>35686GoT was basically just a soap opera, especially after most idealistic characters were killed dragged through the mud early on. The choice of genre actually makes a lot of sense, because under feudalism politics were all about familial alliegences and vassalhood (i.e. sucking up to the right person). Conversely, political power lacked bureacratic traits and didn't rely so much on forms impersonal expertise such as economic management, science and technology or mass manipulation through media. Also you will feel less guilty about peering into the personal lives of the rich if the show is set in a world where even they have walk through mud and horse dung everyday while having the life expectancy of a heroin addict. The ending was so bad because they threw out all the drama, killing primary substance of story and replaced it with a generic fantasy showdown against a non-human manichean evil.
No.40964
>>40961I hated how they never explained the night king or what he wanted or why any of this was happening like it was. This whole conflict is built up to be so important but the central figure to the whole thing is just a big evil question mark that gets rubbed out making everything leading up to that point meaningless.
No.40966
>>40964The Night King wasn't in the books, he was just a device the showrunners invented to have a BBEG. That's why he wasn't thought through at all. They did take the name from an unrelated character in the backstory/history who's only very loosely similar to the character in the show.
No.40967
>>40966night king rule34?
No.40988
>>40961also tv is a cyclical medium
there's no clear beginning-middle-end besides the one within each episode, unless it's a miniseries or a pretentious prestige series
i get they probably decided tv was the best format since the books are a bit dense and tv allows for more total runtime than feature films, but yeah it was a bad calculation in the end, i think
No.40990
>>40966Why did they even include him then, he just shows up and dies, no mystery, nothing.
No.40994
>>40990To be charitable, maybe they had some kind of idea for him (doubtful) before they got handed Star Wars and bailed as fast as possible.
No.41046
better call saul should have just been a mike ehrmentraut spin-off
i want to strangle saul's munchausen suburban mini-hitler brother to death
No.41318
>>41046finished 4th season and my opinion has flipped
getting kind of tired of gus fring and cartel shenanigans, and saul's personal development is picking up again after constant depressing nothing arcs
No.41411
Rediscovered Embed rel recently and had a real laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOOItZ0-lB0 >THE BEST OF: Spike (humor) I need to rewatch Buffy.
No.41470
There's kids in the hall
Whitest kids you know
And what was that another show where literal kids interviewed adults, asking them shit like "will you survive the revolution?"
How many more sketch are there like this from the 90s with the title kids
No.41472
>>41046im at s2-3
i hate him too, can't wait for the inveitable scene that i heard about him
i heard about the ending too, hate it, seems libby to me
>>41411i just saw buffy eps in New Mutants (2019) made me laugh
the lesbian kissing one and the silent creepy gentlemen
No.41476
>>41470>And what was that another show where literal kids interviewed adults, asking them shit like "will you survive the revolution?"Like
>>41471 said, although the interview segments were called "Beat Kids" so that half-counts.
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