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  On 4/26/2023 at 10:05 AM, EEVILMURRAY said:

I was going to say! I thought you were saying there was some sort of Doctor Who regeneration thing going on... I've not watched the trailer yet.

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As someone else who hasn't watched the trailer yet, I thought the exact same thing about some Doctor Who-style regeneration hijinks being afoot :laughing:

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Watched The Sandman

It was ok. There were a few good episodes, and a few naff ones, but they didn't really feel very joined up. The series felt like it had multiple arcs which weren't all that related to each other. The best bits were the standalone episodes like the one in the diner, and the man who lived for hundreds of years.

My main issue with the show is that the guy they got to play Dream was awful. He looked like a student who had just rolled out of bed. Completely wooden and dull, and not enough presence to carry an entire show. 

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  On 5/16/2023 at 8:49 AM, bob said:

Watched The Sandman

My main issue with the show is that the guy they got to play Dream was awful. He looked like a student who had just rolled out of bed. Completely wooden and dull, and not enough presence to carry an entire show. 

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As far as I know, that is very true to the comic, though. And I think he lived up a bit over the course of the show. 

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It's happening!

Not sure what to do tbh. I want to cancel to send a message that they're being shitty and greedy, but at the same time, we still do use Netflix a lot. cce37fcd0b82f28a51d36a402a3d5228.jpg

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  On 5/25/2023 at 7:11 PM, bob said:

It's happening!

Not sure what to do tbh. I want to cancel to send a message that they're being shitty and greedy, but at the same time, we still do use Netflix a lot. cce37fcd0b82f28a51d36a402a3d5228.jpg

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Might be more excited for Netflix's next quarterly report than Nintendo's at this rate, in sure their number of cancellations are about to skyrocket. Seen some suggest that if you are cancelling to just state you travel for work months at a time and so lose access to Netflix to mess with their figures a bit. But seriously, talk about shooting yourself in the foot, though, this is like watching a painfully slow train crash in realtime.

I actually cancelled my Netflix subscription a couple of months ago because I realised I was using it more to re-watch things for the umpteenth time rather than watch new things, and to be honest, I then realised that there just wasn't enough new scheduled to keep me interested; and when I was occasionally interested in something, there's so much crap on there now that the quality stuff is easily buried ::shrug: also got to mention the silly amount of emails I've had from them since cancelling – Netflix are 100% the crazy ex-girlfriend!

Wouldn't blame anyone for keeping it if they still use it a lot, though, there's so much on there that other than their dumb new policies it is still a decent enough deal, I just don't think it's programming is for me (and I'm getting to a point where I'm fine just picking up box sets of the few shows left on there I still want to check out). 

Can't help but wonder how far we put from cable-like deals which package a bunch of these streaming services together, I know Disney+ took a hit and so there's talk about them packaging ESPN and Disney+ together in more territories. I do find it funny that in a time when most industries are dominated by three, maybe four, big players, that there seems to be dozens of streaming services that all seem to think they can grab a decent enough mindshare and justify their existence. Certainly some that fill specific niches, like anime and classic movie services, but there's just way too much schlock out there on top of that. 

Kind of feels like we're on course for a content crash when some of these services realise that they can't afford to keep pumping millions in like Netflix did a few years ago, not to mention the writer's strike :nono:

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  On 5/25/2023 at 7:20 PM, Julius said:

Netflix are 100% the crazy ex-girlfriend

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Ironically one of the few shows I still watch on there. 

But I'm mostly using it to rewatch shows than anything they put out lately so I'm figuring out what I what to do. The easy option is to buy them on something like Prime but that could still be removed. 

But it seems I'm not affected by this anyway. My mom and nan had access but I think my mom got her own and my nan has now passed away anyway.

Just feel like there's no real value in Netflix now. 

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I didn't think I'd like Fubar as much as I did, but Arnie does it nicely here. The missus and I blasted through it in a weekend with the "just one more..." approach. It's like a series of True Lies (Which I know exists on Disney+, but I haven't watched it yet.)

Hope it gets a second season

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Finished the new season of Black Mirror a few days ago, the verdicts:

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And have now been sucked in by Battlebots, which is what Robot Wars used to be before they stretched out 3 battles over an hour

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I've just started watching Black Mirror myself. I mean, I'll watch anything Charlie Brooker puts out, really.

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Scott Pilgrim anime gets the name Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and it comes out November 17th.

Looks really good! Really catches the style of the comics. It's also really funny that they are using the same actors as in the movie. Nice gimmick. (I think Michael Cera was great as Scott.) 

 

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  On 8/17/2023 at 7:10 AM, MindFreak said:

Scott Pilgrim anime gets the name Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and it comes out November 17th.

Looks really good! Really catches the style of the comics. It's also really funny that they are using the same actors as in the movie. Nice gimmick. (I think Michael Cera was great as Scott.) 

 

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Possibly the best joke I've heard all year. But maybe with animation giving him the expression his physical body seems incapable of doing, he might be passable :p 

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Watched Beef this week. It started out well, with humour and something to think about, but as the episodes went by, it just got more and more absurd and in the end, it just got surreal. I really didn't enjoy the last couple of episodes and don't think they made much sense. Had it been two episodes shorter and with fewer side stories, it could have been better

Still enjoyable, though, and the acting was good. 

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I've considered it but haven't really seen the anime or read the manga, so it's not on the top of my list. It does look like some silly comedy that could be great to watch during the fall. 

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I've heard it's good for an adaptation and fun overall. Don't think it'll go down as one of the best shows ever, but a fun series nonetheless. 

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It terms of the app/system, Netflix wins hands down. They almost never crash - the streaming quality is exceptional, and the app is easy to navigate around and find the stuff you want.

Prime video by comparison is a shit-show. The app is always crashing (is doesn't even load properly anymore on my Samsung tv), and is slow as balls to navigate around. Half the stuff on there is bait and hidden behind a second paywall. The streaming quality is rubbish, and the first 5 minutes of every program runs in 360p while it 'tests' my connection.

 

In terms on content, i guess it depends on what you want. Prime supposedly has a much larger library, but personally there is only a handful of things on there that I have watched (The Expanse, Wheel of Time, Invincible, James May travelling etc).

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  On 9/26/2023 at 9:41 AM, CrowingJoe79 said:

Isn't Netflix mostly full of B level trash? 

To be honest, Prime Video is way better. I think Netflix is good, but it depends what they have available to watch.

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I've found Prime to be a bit weird in its layout, hiding the paid stuff sometimes. 

But it does have Neighbours, which is a very redeeming feature.

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  On 9/10/2023 at 8:32 PM, bob said:
Yeah I wanted to ask someone if it was just good for an adaptation, or good overall, because I've not seen the anime.
I enjoyed it quite a lot. I'm someone who normally really hates anime live adaptations because the focus is usually on visual appearance and consistency with the anime - so the characters are usually pretending to be "anime" with awkward grunts and gestures.

Perhaps because this isn't made in Japan it actually works. The characters are kind of believable in their own way and not just clones of how they are in the anime. Luffy is a good example - not as goofy and stupid as in the anime, but with different eccentricities. The only slightly weak character I thought was Zoro, with the rest being very well realised. It's also 10 episodes long so it doesn't drag on anywhere near as much as the anime, so that's another definite plus.
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My wife and I started Sex Education season 4 the other day. Two full episodes in, and I just really don't care about it. It' way too much this time around, can't really enjoy it. 

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