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Picard S3 and the Last of Us..
Feb. 26th, 2023 09:52 pm1. Star Trek Picard S3 is really good. Watched the Second Episode tonight, and was impressed. Ed Spellers who plays Jake Crusher - is quite good. And Worf showed up in fine form (considering I'm not a Worf fan and I loved how he was portrayed for once - that's saying something). This is by far the best of the three seasons to date.
( ranking the seasons and the treks )
2. The Last of Us Episode 2
Well that episode pretty much went as expected. I fast-forwarded, then rewound when I realized it wasn't that bad. The creatures look kind of fake. (Keep in mind I watched the first three seasons of The Walking Dead, World War Z, Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, What's her Name and the Apocalypse (basically the Zombie musical), Zombieland (one of the better ones), Van Helsing, The Passage, I Am Legend...the trope gets old after a while. I skipped 28 Days Later - even though it is Cillian Murphy's break out role - because that one is actually terrifying.)
This episode kind of followed the trope - as I predicted in my last post - almost exactly. No subversions in sight. Not that I expected any. I do wish they'd veer from the trope at some point - but they may not do so, since it is adapted from a video game. And I'm guessing video games work better when you don't veer from established tropes. I mean it needs to have a lot of violent action sequences and scary bits - because otherwise where's the challenge?
Violence level? Let me put it to you this way? If you can handle Andor, you can handle this. Or the Marvel films for that matter. It's no where near as violent as the Walking Dead, which was on AMC not HBO no less. And it doesn't come close to Game of Thrones or House of Dragon. Most of the major violence is off screen.
There is nudity - but so far just a dead body, and it didn't look real to me. And the fungus virus is well scary, but hardly a new idea - the X-men comics have been playing with a Fungus Virus for the last five years now. (Which is why it's not bothering me, I'd already encountered it - in Marvel comic books.) I'm wondering if Marvel stole the idea from the video game? More than possible - there's a lot of cross-over between comic book writers and video game writers.
( spoilers for people who want to go in blind )
3. Went to church today (actually the society - it doesn't call itself a church any longer even though it is in one, but never mind). The sermon was on Avatar (the movie by James Cameron, not the animated series nor a computer Avatar, it was on Avatar - the Way of Water, and the original film).( Read more... )
As an aside? Has anyone seen Avatar:the Way of Water - and do you recommend it? (I only saw the first one, and outside of the floating trees and plants, found it kind of boring and difficult to watch. CGI humans are difficult on the eyes.)
Still struggling with this diabetes thing. ( Read more... )
( ranking the seasons and the treks )
2. The Last of Us Episode 2
Well that episode pretty much went as expected. I fast-forwarded, then rewound when I realized it wasn't that bad. The creatures look kind of fake. (Keep in mind I watched the first three seasons of The Walking Dead, World War Z, Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, What's her Name and the Apocalypse (basically the Zombie musical), Zombieland (one of the better ones), Van Helsing, The Passage, I Am Legend...the trope gets old after a while. I skipped 28 Days Later - even though it is Cillian Murphy's break out role - because that one is actually terrifying.)
This episode kind of followed the trope - as I predicted in my last post - almost exactly. No subversions in sight. Not that I expected any. I do wish they'd veer from the trope at some point - but they may not do so, since it is adapted from a video game. And I'm guessing video games work better when you don't veer from established tropes. I mean it needs to have a lot of violent action sequences and scary bits - because otherwise where's the challenge?
Violence level? Let me put it to you this way? If you can handle Andor, you can handle this. Or the Marvel films for that matter. It's no where near as violent as the Walking Dead, which was on AMC not HBO no less. And it doesn't come close to Game of Thrones or House of Dragon. Most of the major violence is off screen.
There is nudity - but so far just a dead body, and it didn't look real to me. And the fungus virus is well scary, but hardly a new idea - the X-men comics have been playing with a Fungus Virus for the last five years now. (Which is why it's not bothering me, I'd already encountered it - in Marvel comic books.) I'm wondering if Marvel stole the idea from the video game? More than possible - there's a lot of cross-over between comic book writers and video game writers.
( spoilers for people who want to go in blind )
3. Went to church today (actually the society - it doesn't call itself a church any longer even though it is in one, but never mind). The sermon was on Avatar (the movie by James Cameron, not the animated series nor a computer Avatar, it was on Avatar - the Way of Water, and the original film).( Read more... )
As an aside? Has anyone seen Avatar:the Way of Water - and do you recommend it? (I only saw the first one, and outside of the floating trees and plants, found it kind of boring and difficult to watch. CGI humans are difficult on the eyes.)
Still struggling with this diabetes thing. ( Read more... )