Invasion on Apple. Bit different from your standard alien invasion plot; I’m 4 episodes in and only seen a fleeting glimpse of them. Instead it focuses on how it affects 4 different groups of characters.
In the 2006 reprinted edition of Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett’s 1990 classic “Good Omens,” the co-authors did a Q&A in which they answered the question “Why isn’t there a sequel?” like this:https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/good-omens-season-2-ending-explained-neil-gaiman-1235680606/
“We played around with ideas, but we could never work up the enthusiasm. Besides, we wanted to do other things (and some of those ideas probably ended up, bent to a different shape, in the works of both of us). Recently, though, we’ve both been wondering if ‘never again’ is set in stone. So there might be a sequel one day. Maybe. Perhaps. Who knows? We don’t.”
Well, now we do know, because on July 28, Amazon Prime Video dropped the second season of TV adaptation of “Good Omens,” which sees Michael Sheen and David Tennant reprise their roles as apocalypse-fighting, millennia-long best friends: the fussy angel and rare-book dealer Aziraphale and fast-living demon Crowley.
https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/724064743015481344/please-tell-me-that-a-season-3-of-good-omens-isQuotetransmasc-tfw2 asked:It won’t be confirmed unless enough people watch Season 2 to make Amazon happy. And it’s strike season, which makes everything harder.
Please tell me that a season 3 of Good Omens is confirmed. I beg of you Mr. Gaiman.
But obviously Season 3 is all planned and plotted and, if I get to make it, will take the story and the people in it we care about to a satisfying end. If I wasn’t on strike I’d be writing it currently. Our set is still standing in a studio in Bathgate and we would all love to get back there and finish the story in the way Terry and I plotted, long ago.
https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/724098700328255488/do-you-imagine-if-a-season-3-were-to-be-producedQuoteihatetomatoes3000 asked:
do you imagine if a season 3 were to be produced that it would come out faster than season 2? could we be expecting any type of closure before 2027?
If it wasn’t for strikes I’d have most of it written by now. As it is, a first draft of Episode 1 and the final fifteen pages of Episode 6 (in case I get hit by a bus) are written, and the rest of it has to wait until the strike is done and we can pick up our pens. When the strike was called I took the post-it notes with the Season 3 episode breakdowns off the walls and put them sadly away.
If we shot it in 2024 it would probably be released in early ‘26. (We started shooting S2 in October 2021. It’s about a year in post-production from wrap to release.)
It may depend on how fd3 is using the word "dropped", because it is sometimes used (especially by Leftpondians and other abusers of the King's English) instead of "released" or "published".
Invasion on Apple. Bit different from your standard alien invasion plot; I’m 4 episodes in and only seen a fleeting glimpse of them. Instead it focuses on how it affects 4 different groups of characters.
Spook, same thing, though episode 3. I quite like the way it's slowly building without actually being slow.
Wolf Hall again. If memory serves, it doesn't end well for any of them.
Now picturing Mr VIII as a secret Muslim.
"Why is Wolf Hall so hard to read?"
Rewatching the Lupin serial on Netflux to prepare for the next season in October. Good story, must read the books some time.Watching the new series as watched the last two. Isoaky, but nothing to write home about. I read the books as a kid, until they started to get a bit samey (and this from a 15 yo).
Tried Black Summer, realised it was zombies, but hey, gave it two episodes. I won't get that time back.Why do you do it to yourself? Nothing can be so bad that they can't make it worse with zombies. Sure, there are notable exceptions, but any zombie flick/series gets a double veto in our house.
QuoteTried Black Summer, realised it was zombies, but hey, gave it two episodes. I won't get that time back.Why do you do it to yourself? Nothing can be so bad that they can't make it worse with zombies. Sure, there are notable exceptions, but any zombie flick/series gets a double veto in our house.
Tried Black Summer, realised it was zombies, but hey, gave it two episodes. I won't get that time back.Why do you do it to yourself? Nothing can be so bad that they can't make it worse with zombies. Sure, there are notable exceptions, but any zombie flick/series gets a double veto in our house.
The Dead Don't Die being one of the notables. Quite fond of that.I was not aware of it, but it's a
(I'm not sure who invented the rule that every show has to have a deeply annoying teenager, but really I can't imagine the average parent rejoices a whiny teen in real life, so I'm not sure the value of featuring them in every TV show, maybe it's to share the pain).I don't recall the bar stewards name but I believe it was the writer wot came up with the character yklept Wesley Crusher.
Manifest on the Netflix. Basically, a plane load of people lands five years late, a feat even for Ryanair. Four episodes in and it's a wobbly 6.5/10 mehs. Suspect it'll go downhill like a drunk fat man on roller skates, the episodes are rapidly conforming to formula, with an occasional drip of plot, and those pointless flashbacks and sideplots are starting to predominate, even though I'm already sure they'll contribute nothing to the plot. Who really cares about who hooked up with who while the plane was missing, the only thing anyone is watching the bloody show for is the actually mystery of the missing plane.I watched 2-3 series of this last year on German Netflix. I liked it initially but it then got a bit too samey and I found the perfectly-brushed hair of the Indian scientist lady hard to believe. Also the jawline of Michaela the heroine, and the dull worthiness of her worthy brother. But Zeke was good.
Enjoyed Silo, ends on the sort will-they-or-won't-they-renew cliffhanger that subverted the obvious outcome. I'm giving it an uncharacteristic 2/10 mehs. Yeah, I know it's nonsense and it doesn't stand thinking about too much (I mean, seriously, has no one just like held their breath and looked outside, and where exactly are the mines if no one can leave the silo? Et cetera, et cetera).
Bodies on Netflix.
The plot appears to be lifted from*…(click to show/hide)
Entertaining enough but after three episodes it’s becoming all too obvious where it is going.
*I’ve put this in spoiler tags but it’s all so derivative that you’ll spot what’s going on long before it’s made explicit so it’s hardly a spoiler at all.
Manifest on the Netflix. Basically, a plane load of people lands five years late, a feat even for Ryanair. Four episodes in and it's a wobbly 6.5/10 mehs. Suspect it'll go downhill like a drunk fat man on roller skates, the episodes are rapidly conforming to formula, with an occasional drip of plot, and those pointless flashbacks and sideplots are starting to predominate, even though I'm already sure they'll contribute nothing to the plot. Who really cares about who hooked up with who while the plane was missing, the only thing anyone is watching the bloody show for is the actually mystery of the missing plane.I watched 2-3 series of this last year on German Netflix. I liked it initially but it then got a bit too samey and I found the perfectly-brushed hair of the Indian scientist lady hard to believe. Also the jawline of Michaela the heroine, and the dull worthiness of her worthy brother. But Zeke was good.
Star wars is great for kids, I has a couple who are getting into the movies. It's as much for old men like me as disney musical animations.
Got to the end of the first series of Manifest, and it wasn't too bad in the end, maybe 5 or 6 mehs. Would give it another season.
What, what's this, only seasons 1 and 4 are available on UK Netflix.
Now on For All Mankind. Apparently lady astronauts. Madness, say I, without gravity it's well-known that their wombs will float up inside and suffocate their brains.
Now on For All Mankind. Apparently lady astronauts. Madness, say I, without gravity it's well-known that their wombs will float up inside and suffocate their brains.
We just finished Season 4.
Expectations calibrated on Season 3 made it entirely watchable. Most of the space stuff doesn't make sense by this point, so you're left with character based drama, above average sets and cinematography, and cute nods to alternate history. Unfortunately there's only about 4 proper characters left (who don't get nearly enough screen time), and to make matters worse they'd stopped making decent music by 2003. I appreciated the upgraded Apple Newton.
For All Mankind jumps the shark somewhere in the first half of Season 2. And I'm not expecting a Season 5.
Started 3 Body Problem. Manages not to be terrible: the story from the book(s) is recognizable.
Started 3 Body Problem. Manages not to be terrible: the story from the book(s) is recognizable.
I'm about halfway through, and mildly impressed. The character changes are fine, and nothing's really annoyed me, although(click to show/hide)
Also, they did the thing with the Panama Canal.
Still re 3-Body Problem, the demo of wonky physics is far better in the Chinese version.
I've been chugging my way through the Chinese series.
I've been chugging my way through the Chinese series.
Where are you finding it? I'm using a Chinese YT channel but they put in the TV adverts.
I've been chugging my way through the Chinese series.
Where are you finding it? I'm using a Chinese YT channel but they put in the TV adverts.
The same place I always go for DRM-free media with subtitles that actually work: Random torrent sites. ;D
Also, they did the thing with the Panama Canal.
Also, they did the thing with the Panama Canal.
I just finished the series and that was easily the worst thing in the whole series. I guess it was in the books?
Otherwise loved the series. Best Sci-fi since the Expanse. Hope they can keep it up.
Also, they did the thing with the Panama Canal.
I just finished the series and that was easily the worst thing in the whole series. I guess it was in the books?
Otherwise loved the series. Best Sci-fi since the Expanse. Hope they can keep it up.
I've finished the Chinese series. Which is longer and much more faithful to the book[1], which is commendable. I'd suggest not judging it by the first few episodes, as the pace and acting seem to improve substantially onceYe Wenjie gets to be a properly developed character.(click to show/hide)
Like the book, it buries the Cultural Revolution back-story somewhere in the middle so as not to upset the censors. It's also unashamedly Chinese, and isn't afraid to play to a scientifically literate audience.
The bit with the Panama Canal was in the book, and the Chinese series did it better than Netflix, both in terms of the reasoning behind it and the physics (though the Netflix version had better visual effects). Ultimately it was always going to be more spectacular in writing than on screen. (Much more of that sort of thing in the third book, I'll wager.)
IMHO I think it's stronger for finishing properly at the end of the first book, though I'd certainly watch a second series.
[1] The Netflix series is evidently setting up to do the whole trilogy, and contains elements from the later books in an appropriate chronological order.
Right now MrsT has us re-watching Peaky Fucking Blinders for the Nth time and I wish they'd just Peak Blinding fuck off.
Now watching Ripley which is quite astonishing in terms of the cinema photography and doing it all in B&W is very brave. Not only is every shot set up like an immense B&W still, but the direction is a throwback to the highest art house film noir of the 50s. It’s just as well it’s beautiful to look at though, because the pace in the first two episodes is pedestrian.
Ripley is astonishingly goodHaving now watched the whole thing, I'm less impressed