God bless us all… What are they gonna do with my boy Mephisto?
Probably not have him appear, as had been the case with every other rumor about him. RIP Peter Fonda.
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Probably adapt him as The Hood’s patron demon. Oddly enough it took Mephisto forever for him to have anything to do with The Hood.
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This image filled me with a very deep sense of despair at the modern world and suffused the essence of my being with a palpable existential dread.
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For perspective this takes place 8 years after the original series finale.
King of the Hill has always been Hank and the world changing around him as he stays the same. This is clearly shown in the poster for the reboot.
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Too much has changed.
I know but the world we live in is so radically different from the world that existed when the show ended that is is unreal like of course Hank hasn’t changed but the world changed fifteen times since then it feels like.
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The world changed fifteen times since fucking breakfast. You’re giving it too much credit.
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Yes! I watched them while waiting for Andors last episodes to become available (had a day off work so I watched A New Hope - Force Awakens and then the last 3 of Andor). Rogue One still has my vote as best film. I love how different it is and I love how, like Andor, it’s not about a chosen one but about people who chose it give it all for what they want. Man do they pay the price too. All of them.
@Swangtheugly everything you is on point except that the reviews are so good for Andor that I believe they may try more Star Wars stories told in a similar fashion.
Yes the reviews are good, but and this is stuff that came out in interviews from Tony Gilroy. Kathleen Kennedy was very supportive of this show, Tony would present an idea and she would simply say sure. Gilroy came at her defense, but I saw it differently.
One of Star Wars biggest issues is the MCU since the MCU changed the entire playing field for these franchises. Star Wars as a brand has announced a plethora of titles before they would hit production, and even stuff meant to be moving forward gets pushed back, or cancelled.
I have a feeling while Kennedy was supportive of Andor, she’s also green-lighting projects that are presented to her.
I don’t think we will get anything as good as Andor for awhile, there’s still a lot in the Pipeline. Mandoverse needs to wrap up on film and TV first. And the Rey movie is still in limbo along with Lando and other projects.
Acolyte was canceled (for better or worse) but lives on in Books. Glad Manny Jacinto is getting the love he rightfully earns since he is one of the very few things I liked about the show. Hopefully they get someone right to handle Plageuis if they do anything with it.
Ashoka Season 2 I think has to be out before the Mando Movie.
I do have personal hopes for the brand, I wouldn’t mind if they branched off into Legends material, but it’s sorta its own thing from Main Continuity similar to visions.
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Eurovision tonight, anyone else watching it? Any predictions?
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It’s on hulu instead of hbo max?
While I enjoyed the remake (Chapter 1. Chapter 2 not so much) this always fit better as a series and this looks good. 
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I know I haven’t watched since the Tennet Specials, but what’s going on across the pond that I don’t know about.
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Could just be fatigue really. The revivial of Doctor Who turned 20 years old this year. The original run lasted 26 years. Hopefully it won’t be the end, but perhaps they need to do more to shake things up?
I really need to watch the new series myself actually.
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Well the second season of The Last of Us finished yesterday, and I just found it to be quite disappointing. I thought the first season was a pretty good adaptation of the first game, but this season felt like a huge step down.
I think the biggest thing is the tonal inconsistency. The game was very bleak, and gets more and more negative as the days progress. But in the show, there are lots of moments of positivity interspersed among the episodes to the point where sometimes it didn’t even feel like the characters were in the apocalypse. And I get that having a TV show as bleak as the video game might be tough to watch, but the tone jumping all over the place undermines the whole point of the story to show how revenge makes everyone miserable.
I also felt the execution of many story beats were worse than they were in the game. The one that stuck out the most to me is the 
scene which I think should’ve been lit much darker and grittier (and they should’ve cut the line “you actually are pretty handsome”). I don’t get why so many moments weren’t done as well cause the game’s already super cinematic and had its story designed that way for a reason. Plus, Neil Druckmann is a showrunner on the series so you’d think there wouldn’t be as many changes, but maybe he wasn’t as involved with season 2 focusing more on upcoming Naughty Dog games.
And then there’s the fact that Season 2 is only part of The Last of Us 2. I don’t really think the way the game is structured playing Abby’s half after all of Ellie’s works that well and kills the pacing. But to the game’s credit, it’s a lot better than needing to wait two years for a third season! Heck it might even take four years for the story to be finished if they feel the need to do a Season 4!
I don’t know, I guess I was just expecting the quality to be a lot higher given that it’s one of the most expensive seasons of television ever produced in human history.
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for those of you on mobile who might not be able to check the emoji code or can’t see the thing clear enough, luke is saying this is about the :woman_golfing: scene… 
I haven’t seen the latest episode but yeah I’m keen to agree with you on this. The season order was way too short. They had 2.5 episodes out of 7 in Jackson (the ‘prologue’ of the game). They so far have had way more moments of levity and silly teenage romance/camaraderie between Ellie and Dina like it would be in the first game (despite the 5 year+3 months time skip they still did) which feels completely different to the game’s intense and downward spiral of a tone.
Just… really strange, possibly rushed decisions.
He’s a showrunner yes so he has input, but Craig Mazin is the head writer and is solely credited on a lot of the episodes this season. (Actually in S1 he solo-wrote 6/9 episodes and in S2 he wrote 5/7 episodes, the others were co-wrote with others, so it’s kinda similar breakdown…)
Still, I think he has a great grasp and love for the first game’s story and themes (and there were a few changes and additions that I thought were really smart or would tie into the sequel’s bleak and violent themes), but so far I am so confused because this is not the dark and depressing and “No, Ellie, that’s wrong!” season of TV I was expecting it would be…
I remember seeing him and Neil talk about who approached who, how Craig pitched the show to Neil, and when it came time to pitch to HBO, Neil let Craig do it all on his own because he was so impressed and interested in seeing his work through someone else’s vision. And I think it wrked out!
BUT… I can’t confirm this myself, but, in the “Official HBO Last of Us Podcast” which interviews Craig and Neil and actors week-by-week; In the latest season’s episodes, apparently Craig seems to have a really odd or possibly flat out wrong interpretation of Ellie’s character from the game, where she’s suppoed to be emotionally, and how to frame Ellie and Dina’s relationship?
Some fan who’s been keeping up mentioned how he keeps viewing Ellie (or Bella Ramsey herself) as this firecracker, head-strong stupid child, or how Dina and Ellie’s conversations have some sort of “Parent vs. Child dynamic” that flip-flops between the pair depending on the situation (which is a really weird comparison to make for a romantic relationship??) Also possibly some mention or unintended result of applying a hetero-normative “one’s the man vs one’s the woman” of the relationship, but again, can’t verify for myself since I haven’t listened to the episodes yet.
Also I’ve been noticing a lot more heavy-handed exposition-laced dialogue this season vs. season one, which is a really weird move and undercuts some great themes and ideas from Part 2.
EDIT: OH YEAH and one more thing! Have you noticed characters’ clothing in the show? How they’re always basically pristine straight off the rack? Like… either the costume designer didn’t get the memo, or they forgot to hire someone to add weathering to the clothing, but it’s SO weird seeing these apocalypse people every episode with the cleanest and most unused fits. 
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IDK how common this is in TV or HBO shows these days, but possibly because some scenes or the scripts were re-written or edited mid-production? Like, there were entire sets we have not seen in the show
Some crew or set designers posted images of the iconic Part 2 “Fuck Fedra” gate into Seattle, which was fully built and even had their actors filming on, but either that scene was cut or moved to a different location. Still, that’s a lot of impressive work to not be used at ALL…!
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My biggest point of contention with Season 2 is the handling of Dina and Ellie’s relationships. In comparison with the games version, the show made Dina just agreeable with every circumstance that occurs within the show. This culminates with the pregnancy reveal which got meme’d, but it’s a stark contrast from the game where it’s argumentative where Ellie flat out calls Dina a burden cause she is with child.
The game comes across as the two being in over their heads, but since they’re here they gotta push forward.
The show just comes off an idealized romance narrative without urgency or stakes.
I just find it ridiculous they think they can milk the narrative of Part 2 for a fourth season.
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I see three future substance abuse recoverers, reduced to D-listers as their parents and the show business machine take them for all they are worth and leave them with nothing after the show tanks.
Harry Potter being remade for TV by HBO. It’s either gonna be more book accurate or go off the rails and do a Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 fight scene type difference that surely won’t go wrong for fans of the series.
Either way there’s no winning, and they’ll just remake it again in 20 more years.
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