Finished up LC over the weekend. I agree with the previous sentiments that things went downhill once Cottonmouth died. I guess it'd be hard to have him square off against "power man" when he couldn't get his hands on the Judas bullets and/or other Hammer tech. When I watch these shows, it's usually on my iPad while I'm on the treadmill or the missus is watching Sister Wives or some shit. I also usually have the subtitles on. Noticed an oddity in one of the final episodes ... Diamondback says something about when a rattlesnake is corner is when it's most dangerous (paraphrasing). The subtitle got it right, "rattlesnake", but Diamondback actually says "rattlesTake". I listened to it 3-4 times just to be sure ...
Iwan Rheon has been cast as Maximus the Mad in ABC's Inhuman's mini-series http://tvline.com/2017/02/21/marvels-the-inhumans-iwan-rheon-cast-maximus-abc/
I still like "Legion" but I am getting the feeling that the plot will move at a glacial speed in this season.
After Wednesday nights episode I'm pretty much done. I find myself bored way too much, which is a pretty good reason to stop watching. Disappointed that it didn't do much for me.
It's about a telepath/telekinect mutant with a lot of issues and people are trying to help him control it, so they can control him.
I'm not at the stage that I'm bored yet, but they have to realize that just milling about in David's head will only be interesting to watch for so long.
I never cared about that character even in the comics, he seemed like mostly an excuse for then-New Mutants artist Bill Sienkiewicz to go crazy.
This is completely in my wheelhouse Surreal, drugged out sequences with superb visuals Like the best parts of Mr Robot turned into a show. I do worry that this can probably only hold up for 4 or 5 eps at most
Also take a look at Cronenburg's naked lunch. Defo some references there at the end of ep2 with the slugs and the drug scenes
I can't tell. I thought at the end of the most recent episode (chapter 4, I think), was the "monster" getting out into the real world in the form of Lenny.
There was also far too much dream logic going on in the 'real world' for it to be real. Like where the shrink lived. Or how the Eye did not get injured in spite of the fact that his men were spraying bullets all through the area he was casually walking through.
How popular was Guardians of the Galaxy in the comic genre prior to their film debut? I've been told they were pretty much like Z listers and that only devoted fans would have known about them.
The original Guardians were Z listers, but the only one of them in the movie (in heavily altered form) is Yondu. The version in the movies was from the rebooted Guardians, which consisted of a bunch of secondary characters from Marvel's outer space scene, but I think it was reasonably popular, at least more so than the original, and they appeared in Avengers storylines and other company-wide stories. I wasn't really following comics much at that point so when the Guardians movie was announced I thought they meant the original team, and was like "Why them of all people?"
So my fears for this show were well founded only 4 eps in Sadly! I think it works so well in the horror genre. The journeys to the dream world are proper scary and the combination of normal settings with pure horror work really well. At the same time, you need the "straighter" world of the super hero retreat to give a break from that... Is that world also a dreamworld? Interesting question. But i found things started to go off the rails with the inceptionesque drug dream. First the internal consistency of this was not established properly from a scifi perspective with all the "waking up" stuff. Why are the other guys asleep? This was not how it worked before?? And then poor old Jermaine Clement. WTF? His first PTC was great IMO - but the strange "diving world" and ladder? Visually shit. The ice cube i can live with. I think we already saw the best of this show.
My great fear for this show is it is that the world they have created is not operating within any internally consistent cannon. It's just going to be more like LOST where they just causally invent time travel or whatever they need, and less like Inception / eXistenz where the world has actual rules that the audience can rely on. Case in point. When they put David under, why are they all then asleep? This is not how it worked previously! I do agree that Summerland is unlikely to be level 0 - indeed the characters begin to openly question that. And when Syd "sees" the monster in reality - wouldn't this be a big deal? Then the fight with the redshirts - how is the lighthouse implanted? Why is Kerry so crap? Why does Philly have ladder ear rings which are sooooo absurdly foreshadowed. I doubt any of this gets properly explained. As soon as people started talking about "Astral planes" i knew they are bullshitting us.
Legion probably deserves its own thread. I haven't seen Logan yet and I don't think I missed a thread for that or the sequel to Deadpool, but I was surprised not to see this anywhere