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So what I learned from the GoT prequel is that men are awful, women are good, and (trans?) lesbians who identify as men are the best. As a bonus the act of giving birth is bondage to the patriarchy that will kill you. I certainly couldn't have gotten that message anywhere else.. So yeah, this series is going to be a hard pass for me. I have no intention of even watching one second of the LOTR prequel. The LOTR books were such a seminal part of my childhood there is no way I want to ruin them with some garbage wokeastrophe Amazon show. -
i expect HoD will be less atrocious than LOTR simply because the latter is 1000% absolutely not made for adults. -
i need to take a second and say tonights ep of Industry is one of the best acted hours ive seen on hbo in my life.Leave a comment:
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It was ok. I suspect the same will happen with the LOTR show on Amazon.Leave a comment:
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absolutely loved Calliope and its budget was probably 1/50th of the average for the rest of the series.Leave a comment:
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https://twitter.com/CSmythMcMullen/s...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
Writer of the Calliope episode. The feminist writer line was in the original, but everything that came after that was hers. I still liked the tone as a compromise, but it was darker in the original.Leave a comment:
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also as an aside, its fucking weird now that better call saul is done and if IF we get any more westworld it will likely be in early 2024.
like we lost some real bangers, westworld was honestly putting in some work this season too.
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thats one of the things that really jumped out at me when i was reading the history of the series, how a lot of really intense, really expressive artistic visions were allowed to paint in bold strokes.
also the more i think about the series, and how they are basically trying to create something like 'the witcher' for goths, the more concerned i get that this thing is going to disintegrate in front of our eyes a la american gods. but perhaps im being unfair because the showrunner for AG basically walked over getting fucked over on budget....?
but yeah, whatever, it'll be a fun mess while it lasts.Leave a comment:
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Oh also the comic wasn't just Gaiman's vision. With any bigger project there's always the writer, editor and artists that all function as separate editing layers. Depending on the project the "editor's" role differs a lot. It can be anything from a traditional book editor's role to a tv producer's role. The artists are split to pencil, ink and color. That block resembles film editors the most. I think in the late 80s in this project the pencil and ink were still done by the same person. Anyways that part is always more time consuming and that leads to more artists than colorists working on the same project.
Anyways that conveyor belt system functions in bringing fresh eyes and it's very important because in isolation almost everyone becomes blind to their own work.Leave a comment:
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Regarding the original comic I think I did mention that it hasn't really held too well as a whole. Especially the earliest parts that were used as the source for the show. You kinda need to mentally erase most DC related characters, update the visuals and pick the story from that. I just looked it as a first draft of the story board for a show. Disparity of that and the end product was my biggest gripe.
In isolation the show is in many ways better than the earliest comics. 30+ years and a thousand fold budget tends to do that. There was enough shiny things in the first 6 episodes to distract from inconsistencies. I have no idea what happened to the last 4 episodes regarding script decisions. The feminist writer bit in the latest episode did provide some reason to believe that Gaiman might not have had the amount of creative control audience was led to believe.Leave a comment:
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Likely my favorite episode so far. I think it was closest to the original with tone and didn't mind it "proving" my point that the show doesn't need a whole lot more than a loose connection to Dream/Endless to enrich the world/characters. I'll wait for a while to speculate on anything that could be too spoilery.
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