What are you Watching (September 2023) - eviltoast
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      I’m about half way in, and the acting has been patchy - the guys playing Trumbull and Sims are bad, but when contrasted with Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson, they come off a lot worse.

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        I agree. I enjoyed most of the season, but Common (Sims) consistently ruined any immersion for me.

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    They Cloned Tyrone is DAMN GOOD once you get past the language and settle in.

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    First season of Westworld is a masterpiece. The rest of the series is pretty good (S3&4 are simultaneously fairly self contained and open ended) but it suffered from the high expectations set by the first season.

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    I finished Farscape (for the first time) a couple weeks ago. Now I am binging Stargate Atlantis. It always amazes me that this show didn’t become more popular.

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    The last time I tried to watch Farscape a few years ago on Netflix, the video quality was terrible. Is there a streaming service that’s better? Or should I just hunt down some blurays?

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    I’ve never heard of For All Mankind. Good?

    And I’ll be giving Foundations a try. Never read the books but I keep hearing good things about the show.

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    Foundation, and Futurama, now that Strange New Worlds is an hiatus for a loong time.

    I plan to start watching Silo in about an hour though!

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    Altered Carbon. Very competent cyberpunk action thriller with some awesome ideas and outstanding world building. Loving it.

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      The second season is a real let down. It’s passable, and expands the universe reasonably well. Just don’t expect it to live up to the first at all.

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          I hope others chime in since I might be talking out of my ass, but I heard that the other books don’t meet the bar set by the first to a similar degree of the show. I enjoyed season 2, but season 1 was damn good.

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      Loved it too. My only gripe is a character change that IMO isn’t necessary. The book is pretty straightforward and could’ve been directly adapted to TV without that major change.

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        Hey, you gotta change the lead actor to make sure it’s not as good. Otherwise you might have to keep the show going.

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    Oh man, I remember buying the DVD set of Terminator: SCC and binging the whole thing! I’m still sad that season three never made it.

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        I just got from isle of sky… I’m not very big, but I’m awful shy… Lassies shout as I walk by… Donald wheres your trousers?

        Fuck never thought anyone can punch me in the gut with an Andy stewert song.

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    I watched a few slightly older shows recently: Killjoys, which I really couldn’t get into, and now Dark Matter. I’m finding it a bit cliched, but I like it so far.

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      I liked both of those shows and watched them when they were running. Think they aired back to back or around the same time. Maybe I’ll try a rewatch.

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        They did, at least the first seasons were on back to back. Both had amazing first seasons and fell off rarher badly. Great concepts that seemed like they were under funded and could of been something special if handled properly.

        I remember being pumped thinking it was the revival of the sci-fi channel. Then it just all went to shit.

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      No, if you are referring to the image on the post this is curated from some of the most upvoted comments of last months post. It doesn’t imply much beyond these are some shows people have been watching. Many of which may be very old or very new. There seems to always be a good mix.

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      Red Dwarf reboot does not make sense as it seems they are not done making episodes.

      In some way I hope someone creates a new Sci-Fi comedy that can be as long running as Red Dwarf, or make sure a Red Dwarf reboot starts in a parallel universe or something.

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    I’m watching Foundation. Watched one episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and I might continue watching that until our subscription to Paramount Plus runs out.

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    Just started watching (the fanmade 4k remastered version of) Farscape. Only my second time to watch the series.

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    Right now I’m binging DS9 on paramount+ as well as watching Farscape and Babylon 5 on the Roku channel, although I’m not watching Farscape and Babylon 5 as intently as DS9.