Quote from: Francis Buck's Crush on November 23, 2019, 02:49:21 pm

Joker.







is the best movie ever made.

I'm very lenient on what i let my children watch...i don't put a good over their eyes, so to speak. That being said, would it be ok for a 8 year old?

Quote from: mostly.harmless on October 08, 2019, 05:52:08 pm

True haha, I think I am now conditioned to pour all my patience into very specific works. The rest I need immediately

I almost prefer episodic, not because I don't mind the wait, but because it's portion control.  In other words, I am not at pains to jam the episodes, because it's not really an option.

That pace also aligns with my general lottment of "free time" since it's hard to even get an apportioned time set aside to watch anything, let alone multiple episodes of anything.  In the end though, I think both forms have some merits, so it generally doesn't bother me when it is one or the other.

Quote from: mostly.harmless on October 08, 2019, 04:29:11 pm

Yay, excited about this!
Is it gonna be released episodic or can I binge it?

Episodic, one episode a week, airs Sunday nights here in the US, not sure about elsewhere.

I watched Cowboy Bebop many moons ago - remember liking it, but don't recall much about it. I'll have to check it out again.

Dark

Dark is a German TV show on Netflix. They did a good job with the dubbing, so you can watch it in English if you want. 2 seasons out, 1 more to finish it off. I can't discuss it meaningfully without spoiling it, so here goes. I don't give away any plot, but the frame of the story will be ruined for you which, while revealed during 1st season, will take the fun out of discovery for you if you read my thoughts on it here.

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Dark deals with time travel - a "what if" in a normal small town in Germany. It deals with Time Loops and Paradoxes better than any show/movie before it, even 12 Monkeys. This show gets an A+ from me - clever, strong writing, good acting. Very fun to watch and doesn't get long in the tooth - which is it's genius, really, as there is quite a bit of slow reveal to the story, yet it doesn't dull at all. Slow moving horror, love the stuff. And it cleverly helps you out keeping track of who's who in different time periods by showing the the same person when it changes time periods - so the last person you're looking at is the first person you see when it jumps forwards or backwards. While complex, you don't have to take notes to follow it. Tricky stuff to pull off, pretty impressive. I like the Paradox concept, when something goes back in time, it's source/creation is no longer valid - it no longer has a source creation point, so you can have events occur that couldn't have occurred without the item/person going back in time which makes you scratch your head as to how it could've happened in the first place, which came first. So what does that mean to a person who cuts their cord by going back in time ...

Quote from: mostly.harmless on June 13, 2019, 02:17:21 pm

Quote from: Wilshire on June 13, 2019, 01:47:01 pm

Btw, I saw an encounter with this author on r/fantasy. He really hates Bakker and TSA lol.

Did (s)he say why?

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something about Bakker being a has-been old author, shitty philosopher, and writing vitriol.

He did point out he has part of a Ph.D in philosophy (stopped to write full time) so he can spot shitty philosophers. Given that he shares that with Bakker, I found it extremely amusing.