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Ridley Scott says pilots for ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Alien’ TV spin-offs are written
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Riot Games' ’Arcane’ renewed for season 2 by Netflix
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The Expanse | Season 6 official trailer
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Cowboy Bebop - Discussion thread
I hadn't seen anyone suggest this, so I'll start it!
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Cowboy Bebop Netflix series - links to some reviews
The Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation caught the attention of many users here, so I'll link some of the reviews I could find. The show is not yet available to the audience, but entertainment...
The Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation caught the attention of many users here, so I'll link some of the reviews I could find. The show is not yet available to the audience, but entertainment websites clearly had access to it.
AV Club: Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is a bloodless substitute for the real thing.
EW: A colorful, campy attempt at live-action anime doesn't justify itself.
The Verge: Netflix's Cowboy Bebop has heart, style, and some rough edges.
Indie Wire: Netflix’s Live-Action Riff on Everyone’s Favorite Anime Is a Cosmic Disaster
Games Radar: A Stellar Remix That Hits All the Right Notes
Polygon: Cowboy Bebop turns a classic anime into a Saturday morning cartoon
Slate: Cowboy Bebop Is Netflix’s Latest Live-Action Anime Mistake
Rolling Stones: The Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Takes an Anime Classic Into the Stratosphere
The Atlantic: What’s Lost When a Classic Anime Is Adapted by Netflix
RogerEbert.com: Cowboy Bebop Fails to Find a Rhythm
Time: Netflix's Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Misunderstands What Made the Original a Classic
Vulture: Cowboy Bebop’s New Shine Can’t Replace Its Old Soul
Collider: Netflix's Live-Action Show Is a Colorless, Soulless Copy of a Landmark Anime Series
Vanity Fair: Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Is the Rare Remake That Works
Rotten Tomatoes: currently 41%
Metacritic: currently 40, Mixed or average reviewsbased on 18 Critic Reviews
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Dean Stockwell, ‘Quantum Leap’ star, dies at 85
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Star Trek Prodigy - S01E01 "Lost and Found"
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The Book of Boba Fett | Official trailer
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Cowboy Bebop | Official trailer
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Arcane | Official trailer
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‘Babylon 5’ series reboot from creator J. Michael Straczynski in works at the CW
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Cowboy Bebop Netflix opening credits
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Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner
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Star Trek Day - Join Paramount+ and fans from around the world for a free live-streamed celebration on September 8th, 8:30PM EST
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Star Trek: Prodigy - Title sequence
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Foundation | Official trailer
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Star Trek: Lower Decks S02E01 - "Strange Energies"
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Tuvix will never die
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Star Trek San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2021 teasers
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Blade Runner anime announces full cast – and brings back a 2049 character
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Foundation | Official teaser 2
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Episode 1 : Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM
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'Katla' is a new Netflix original series from Iceland – a cross between Stanisław Lem's 'Solaris' and the French series 'The Returned'
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Other Space (2015)
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So ... The Expanse
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like...
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like discussing it. This thread is wide open to whatever anyone wants to bring up about the series. But my first question for people is this--
Did anyone notice any significant change in quality after Amazon took it over? If so, better or worse? How?
For me, somewhere around Season 3 or 4, it felt like the story quality declined. Not that it's "bad" in any way ... just that it got less original, more like traditional series plot devices. And that could just be me, or that--in general--even the best shows tend to lose some of their edge after the first few seasons ... or maybe they're just following the books (never read 'em) and this is how the books went.
But, yeah ... it's turning into a nicer, more nuanced Stargate ... the Good Guys trying to save humanity from The Terrorist Mastermind ... the Evil Post-Soviet Empire conspiring to help said Terrorist, etc. They even had Snidely Whiplash tying the poor girl to the railroad tracks.
I'm obviously over-simplifying here; it is still an excellent show ... just, like I said; it started to feel less original. I'm wondering if that's just my impression, and if not, do we know that it's an "Amazon" thing, or what?
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Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek: Voyager tackled one of its most infamous transporter questions
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Recommendation: Person of Interest (2011-2016)
I want to talk about Person of Interest. A CBS series created by Jonathan Nolan, more famously known for his work on Westworld (and brother of "that" Christopher Nolan, talent runs in the family)....
I want to talk about Person of Interest. A CBS series created by Jonathan Nolan, more famously known for his work on Westworld (and brother of "that" Christopher Nolan, talent runs in the family). This is a spoiler-free post.
Premise: An ex-military badass is hired by a rich ex-usgov genius who built an AI that is plugged into the NSA's spying supernetwork, and can predict crime based on all the datapoints.
Strong similarities with: Westworld, Mr. Robot.
Person of Interest is a series that really took me by surprise. I didn't really care for Season 1, which I left running in the background after it was apparent to me that this was a very run-of-the-mill CBS police procedural. I gave it a chance based on a friend's recommendation, and because IT/sec references were accurate and didn't make me cringe. It also had an interesting premise which was written pre-snowden and raised some interesting philosophical questions on privacy and crime prevention.
Then towards the Season 1 finale, the music got pretty good, the scenes were very action-packed and the series started feeling like it was getting very entertaining. So I kept watching.
Without spoiling: throughout Season 2, the series actually completely shifts genre almost unnoticeably, from "generic police procedural" to "long-arc Westworld-style tech scifi".
I was stunned by how smooth the genre transition was. Of all the series I watched, it's something truly unique to that one, which is one of the reasons I rate it as one of the best TV series in my catalogue. It's also, from what I heard, Nolan's strategy from the get-go in order to get a very unique show greenlit on a "safe" network like CBS.
By the end of the series, Person of Interest had inspired me. Made me extremely interested in AI and data. It affected my work and the way I think about the world. POI really toes the scifi line by taking concepts which are possible, but not there yet and explores the possibilities (again, Westworld); unlike most other Sci-Fi shows which take abstract ideas of what we may want to see in the future, regardless of how possible/reasonable they are.
POI does require some suspension of disbelief. You have to accept the trope of a "supergenius" who can build an AI like this all on his own, for example. I think that's fine, and I found that the show was very rigorous at taking only practical shortcuts with very little fridge logic.
I keep mentioning Westworld and that's no accident. POI predates WW and it feels that WW was a continuation of Nolan's ideas about the implications of AI, in a much higher budget setting. (And as an aside, if you haven't watched Westworld, you should)
Tag spoilers in comments :)
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Turns out, Spock is kinda bad at logic
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Star Trek - First Contact Day
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Official trailer
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‘The Mandalorian’ is the most pirated TV-show of 2020
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Firefly reboot coming to Disney+
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Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks | Official teaser
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Discussion - Raised By Wolves
Available on HBO Max, the first episode can be streamed for free. From Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious...
Available on HBO Max, the first episode can be streamed for free.
From Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.
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The Mandalorian | S02E01: The Marshal
The titular character attempts to find another Mandalorian. Previous: Season 1
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Star Trek will never be perfect — and that’s the mission
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Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew returns as Captain Janeway in the animated Prodigy TV series
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Inside ILM: Creating the Razor Crest (From The Mandalorian)
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The Mandalorian Season 2 to premiere on October 30th
@The Mandalorian: This is the day. New episodes start streaming Oct. 30 on #DisneyPlus. #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/8oruZ3oedx
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Star Trek: Discovery introduces first transgender and non-binary characters
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Netflix announces they are working on an adaptation of the Chinese science-fiction trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
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‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ executive producer Alex Kurtzman on the series that helps interlink the Trekverse
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Star Trek: Lower Decks S01E01 - "Second Contact"
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Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who - Big Finish
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Star Trek: Lower Decks | Trailer
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Foundation | Teaser
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Star Trek: Lower Decks sets release date for August 6th
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How 'Star Trek' made history twenty-two years ago with a same-sex kiss (2018)
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Bajoran culture is my feminist and queer inspiration
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