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12 votes
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5 votes -
Disney+, Hulu, Max bundle now available
14 votes -
How 'Reservation Dogs' sparked a Native filmmaking boom in Tulsa
11 votes -
Joe Biden decision surprised most US TV news networks: How CBS, MSNBC and more scrambled to cover bombshell
28 votes -
Arcane | Season 2 - Stealth Mission official clip
21 votes -
Snowpiercer Season 4 is released
11 votes -
Bob Newhart, comedy icon, dies at 94
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7 votes -
Emmy nominations: 'Shōgun', 'The Bear' and 'Only Murders In The Building' lead field
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Actress Shannen Doherty, best known for roles in hit TV shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed, died on Saturday from cancer at 53
20 votes -
‘Tokyo Vice’ bosses on Max cancellation and holding out hope for a potential season 3: ‘We don’t accept the condolences yet’
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Scavengers Reign (2023) - Best sci-fi I have seen in years, aside from Dune
"Scavengers Reign" eluded me when it released last year, but I was made aware of it after MAX canceled the show in May (Netflix has since picked it up but may or may not put in for more, is how I...
"Scavengers Reign" eluded me when it released last year, but I was made aware of it after MAX canceled the show in May (Netflix has since picked it up but may or may not put in for more, is how I understand the situation).
The trailer has been posted here but I wanted to check in and see how everyone else felt about it (keep it spoiler free!). Personally I was enthralled all the way through. It has such an interesting blend of Miyazaki-esque "creature-y" world building with more meditative displays of nature and the violence and balance that is integral to it. If that sounds at all interesting I would suggest watching the first of twelve episodes, you will probably know if you are interested or not after it's over.
Here's hoping Netflix green lights more, assuming the creators want to continue. It really could stand as-is with where they left it.
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It's impressive how much Western and Christian supremacist undertones Supernatural has
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I watched Supernatural until season 7 or so when I was younger. I didn't really examine its subtext at the time, and just thought it lost steam after the original plot ended. I've recently started rewatching the show from the beginning, and, wow, like just wow. It's amazing how much Christian and Western supremacist subtext it contains.
Before I get into the details, I should mention that I've only rewatched the first five seasons yet. So I don't know if this still holds true after that. With that out of the way, here are the major reasons (obviously, spoilers).
Pagans are always depicted as bloodthirsty maniacs. Every single time.
Holy aspects of Christianity -such as exorcism rituals, churches, holy water- are the only "real" effective way of fighting demons. The other ways are made up in the show (demon killing guns and blades).
The cosmology is a thing on its own. Christian God has created the universe, yet Earth is at its metaphorical centre. Knowing a few things from the seasons after too, I can say that it's the only place of importance in the entire universe. Following the traditional Christian logic, humans are also the most important beings on Earth.
A special mention goes to the episode "Hammer of the Gods" (S05E19), as a striking example of what I talk about. In the episode, the major "pagan" gods alive gather to talk about the looming apocalypse. This includes Kali, Baldur, Mercury, Baron Samedi, Zao Shen, Odin, Ganesh. It's really telling that they threw in Ganesh and Kali together with old gods. Oh, and of course they all eat people.
The said apocalypse is to be caused by Lucifer coming back and fighting it out with Michael. Apparently it will be so bad that it will kill around half the human population.
The gods gather, conspire, with leads Dean and Sam there being held hostage as bargaining chips. They say they have to conspire, because if not prevented, this Christian apocalypse will kill them too. So this led to them teaming up. You can already see that Christianity is depicted as the big bad boy in the entire world.
During the talks, Kali says this to Loki, who she discovered was actually arcangel Gabriel.
"Westerners, I swear. The sheer arrogance. You think you're the only ones on earth? You pillage and you butcher in your God's name. But you're not the only religion, and he's not the only God. And now you think you can just rip the planet apart? You're wrong. There are billions of us. An we were here first. If anyone gets to end this world, it's me. I'm sorry. [KALI stabs GABRIEL with his own blade. GABRIEL screams, and in a flash of light, dies.]"
Don't worry he doesn't actually get killed by Kali.
Almost just after this scene, Dean gets up and says the following. Emphasis mine.
"All right you primitive screwheads, listen up. I'm outta options. Now on any other given day, I'd be doing my damndest to, uh, kill you. You filthy murdering chimps. But, uh, hey, desperate times. So even though I'd love nothing better than to slit your throats, you dicks, I'm gonna help you. I'm going to help you ice the devil. And then we can all get back to ganking each other, like normal. You want Lucifer, well, dude's not in the Yellow Pages. But me and Sam, we can get him here."
I swear, at this moment, I could almost see a 19th century colonizer white supremacist manifest to say this. I should remind that he says this to a group of gods that includes two major gods from Hinduism: a major religion that still exists. It would have been bad even without that, but this fact makes it much worse.
After this, Lucifer shows up, and kills every god with ease. He's not even the Christian god, and he's not even at his full power, yet he kills multiple major gods from other religions as if they were less than nothing. Oh, and he says that to them too.
"You know, I never understood you pagans, always fighting, always happy to sell out your own kind. No wonder you forfeited this planet to us. You are worse than humans. You're worse than demons. And yet you claim to be gods. [LUCIFER twists his fingers and MERCURY dies as his neck snaps] And they call me prideful."
He then kills Gabriel for real too. Because, as is tradition, gods from other religions are too incompetent to do anything to Christianity.
This episode is probably the epitome of what I mean, but it's just a culmination of what's been there from the start. The trashing of what is deemed as "pagan" (often read: not "Western"), and the supremacy of Christianity has always been there. I still like the show for its other aspects, but its subtext is really Christian and western supremacist.
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Monet's Slumber Party on Dropout.tv | Trailer
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13 votes -
'Game of Thrones' spinoff 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' begins filming in Belfast
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Recommendations for less mass-produced and more artistic tv
I'm looking for tv shows, films, animation that feel unique, smaller and less like it was made to order and taken through incessant A/B testing and market research and more like a creative type...
I'm looking for tv shows, films, animation that feel unique, smaller and less like it was made to order and taken through incessant A/B testing and market research and more like a creative type was given a bit of freedom and went with it, and least to a point.
A few that I think would qualify though obviously filtered through my own preferences.
Films
Children of Men
A post-apocalyptic journey.The Man From Earth
Just a few people talking in a room about a fantastical scenario. Strangely I tried to imagine a bigger more cinematic version going through the events and actually came to the conclusion the I'd probably like it less.Stardust
A fantasy romance with a truly whimsical, wondrous feeling. And a bit of humor.TV shows
Alphas
A superhero show, however they are flawed and the powers are limited. I particularly liked that the problems depicted were small, personal and only started to ramp up later.Station 11
A post-apocalytic show following a traveling troupe with a repertoire of Shakespeare's plays.Severance
What if the work and personal lives were separated taken to the logical extreme.Firefly
A sci-fi western. Small family feel with the crew.Animation
Mushishi
Episodic series about dealing with varied and fantastical creatures.Webseries
Anyone but me
A lesbian slice of life romance.LARPS
A life of a guild of role players. I particularly like how the sessions manage to still get a bit of an epic feel with people simply talking and a bit of props.Watch blue movies
NSFW theme, though I don't recall much of actual NSFW material. Just hilarious.33 votes -
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4 votes -
Arcane | Season 2 official teaser trailer
21 votes -
New 'Regular Show,' 'Fosters,' 'Adventure Time,' Scooby Doo shows unveiled at Annecy
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The Donald Trump I saw on The Apprentice
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‘Baby Reindeer’s’ alleged ‘real Martha’ sues Netflix, demanding at least $170 million in damages
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Disney's new Star Wars series The Acolyte is excellent
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8 votes -
Like a Dragon: Yakuza live-action series announced for Amazon Prime Video this October
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The repressive, authoritarian soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”
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How reality cop shows make us less safe
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Taskmaster Series 17, Episode 1 - 'Grappling with my life' | Full episode
26 votes -
Pluto launching 24-hour Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood channel
17 votes -
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8 votes -
Matt Berry on comedy, career and "What We Do In the Shadows" [2021]
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It’s time to bury the defective detective
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Tobias Santelmann, Joel Kinnaman to star in Netflix’s Harry Hole nordic noir series
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My not so nice thoughts on Battlestar Galactica
I watched the 2003 miniseries which I thought was decent enough. It certainly piqued my interest, so I went into the show itself with an open mind and kind of excited that I had a nice, long...
I watched the 2003 miniseries which I thought was decent enough. It certainly piqued my interest, so I went into the show itself with an open mind and kind of excited that I had a nice, long sci-fi series to get into.. but.. I'm now solidly underway with season 1, a lot of it falls totally flat. I just finished episode 5 and while it's not the worst show I've ever watched, it certainly isn't great either and I have to say I don't understand why this show is praised. It feels really dated.
There are some truly awful scenes where it feels like I'm being preached to, like "remember to go in for your breast cancer screening!" and "prisoners aren't slaves!" and the scene from this episode where the president appears on the Galactica just to tell the commander "ackshually 45000 people are more important than just 1!" as though it's some deep philosophy, and then he changes his mind off of that, but like, his character really isn't dumb enough to not have already considered the morality of the situation. He should have perfectly well realized that they'd expended half of their fuel reserve searching for the downed pilot, and that's more than they can afford. He is not stupid, but the writing certainly can be.
There are also a ton of cliches and cheap story beats like fake-outs, cliff-hangers, characters that could solve all their problems if they simply communicated, dundundun dunnn moments with fabricated tension, not to mention the amount of halfway meaningless filler. It's a shame because the lore and overarching plot is interesting, but when every episode has so much pointless conflict in them that always gets resolved 10 minutes later, it starts to really drag. The episodes are self-contained and I get that, but I mean most of it is to the point that it's borderline a soap opera.
And it's not even filmed or directed well or anything else to make up for it. The desaturated colours are depressing as fuck, there is no cinematography to speak of, the special effects are (understandably) very cheap, everything is truly ugly which while I understand that's the point, it just detracts even more. The lighting is also inconsistent between some scenes, and the fight choreography is honestly laughable. You also have shoddy camera work and obnoxious, never ending close-ups of every actor's face - I have seen all of their pores by now, thank you very much. And omg why are they so obsessed with wide shots of the ships and then snap zooming not once, but twice, every time!!
Also, variations of the word "frak" is just so grating but I'm nitpicking at this point lol
I apologize to any fans of the show because this turned into a bit of a rant, but goddamn.. I'm kind of grasping at straws to find things I actually like about BSG. Maybe it's because it's a network production? Perhaps I'm too young to watch and truly appreciate it/its era of American network TV? Like the only of these kinds of shows we had in my country that I watched when they were current was things like Friends, Monk, Desperate Housewives etc., so I missed out on all of these supposedly great shows back then (I was only 11 years old when BSG started airing). I really love some of the other things from the 00's that I've watched much later on though, but those were cable shows like The Wire, so it's not just because it's from the 00's.
Anyway, all of the above reasons (and more) are why I usually stay far away from network shows with 20-episode seasons, but I thought BSG was going to be different because it's my impression that it has a really good reputation? Like I said in the beginning, the miniseries was decent so I'm not sure what changed between it and season 1? I think I'm gonna demote it to a background show unless the next few episodes pick up a bit. Should I keep going? Does it get better after season 1?
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X-Men '97 - Season 1 Discussion
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Dune: Prophecy | Official teaser
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The downfall of streaming
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Nicolas Cage to star in Spider-Man Noir live-action series
24 votes -
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power | Season 2 official teaser trailer
25 votes -
Amazon Prime Video orders Tomb Raider live-action series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge (writer of Fleabag, Killing Eve, Broadchurch)
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House of the Dragon | Season 2 official trailer
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In streaming milestone, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery team on bundle featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max
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Is TV advertising still relevant? Does anybody under 60 even watch traditional TV anymore?
I saw a video about the failure of a product, and they mentioned TV advertising, which got me to wondering… do people still even watch traditional TV anymore? It seems to me that everybody that I...
I saw a video about the failure of a product, and they mentioned TV advertising, which got me to wondering… do people still even watch traditional TV anymore? It seems to me that everybody that I can think of that isn’t 70 or older just streams everything. How is the old business plan still operating?
36 votes