The Books/Reading Thread
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no country for old wainds
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season 1 is a typical opening season in that it's more episodic and light-hearted etc, and season 7 kinda jumped the shark for me, but everything else is generally good from what i can recall. seasons 2 and 3 have a lot of the acclaimed eps, i always had a soft spot for 6 which the critics kinda panned.
and yeah i'm the same with standalone eps, especially if it feels like a show is drifting/filling, and i think there are spells of that in buffy. they also made some of the all-time great standalone eps though.
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This won’t apply to you, but when I was first watching it as a young teenager I found both Buffy and Angel attractive haha.
But yeah give it a shot. I wouldn’t say it takes a long time to get good as there are good episodes in the first season, it just becomes less uneven I guess. Season 2 and 3 have always been my favourites.
Whedon’s supposedly been involved in some other good stuff as well, but I’ve only seen Buffy and bits of Angel.
But yeah give it a shot. I wouldn’t say it takes a long time to get good as there are good episodes in the first season, it just becomes less uneven I guess. Season 2 and 3 have always been my favourites.
Whedon’s supposedly been involved in some other good stuff as well, but I’ve only seen Buffy and bits of Angel.
no country for old wainds
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sarah michelle gellar is a surprisingly good actress. i wouldn't say the same thing about the dude who plays angel though lol. i was always more of a spike fan anyway.
i actually really liked firefly as well but i don't dare revisit it in case i hate it now.
i actually really liked firefly as well but i don't dare revisit it in case i hate it now.
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I'm a huge Firefly/Serenity fan. I do a rewatch every year. I've met four of the cast members at conventions. And in order to tie this into books, they recently published the first of three planned Firefly prose novels.
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i'm kinda assuming that if everyone thinks the pilot sucks that bad, the producers will go through the effort of making the actual series completely different [better, hopefully] than the pilot
i really just can't imagine the actual series looking exactly like the pilot that absolutely nobody liked
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Well, if the current planned series has a pilot episode nearly as bad, im sure it will tank immediately. Even someone as recently invested in the series as I would probably not watch another episode of that crap. I would assume it would just get worse if THAT was supposed to be the attention-grabbing pilot episode.
As far as I know, the new series has nothing to do with that episode. In fact, it looks like the rights to actually use the series as material wasn't obtained before airing, and that single episode was as far as they got. If the new staff doesnt consider this a big budget series, then im out. Ill be damned if the TV series is a budget-level parody. I barely even watch TV/movies as it is.
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While I agree, the anime industry is kind of shit lately. They are no longer committing to long-running series, and it seems to take forever even for shows with widespread popularity to get renewed for even a 12 episode second season. Also it is extremely rare for the industry to adapt anything that isnt a manga or a light novel. And knowing Japan they would just sexualize all of the woman characters into fanservicey blobs and just ruin everything by giving it to the shounen demographic. I think the chances of a high-budget TV series doing a better job at the adaptation is more likely than the anime industry hitting this one out of the park.
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i would agree except that people have already said that the budget for Wheel of Time will definitely have a smaller budget than the money that was spent on Game of Thrones
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if you had everyone involved in production be actual fans of the book series then an animated series could theoretically be a whole lot better than a live action show if the live action version doesn't get a huge-as-hell budget
the descriptions of locations, the aes sedai characters using magic a lot, Rand Al Thor reaching into the Void [and doing other magic stuff], the people communicating through the tel'aran'rhiod, the trollocs, these things [and possibly many more things] would require spectacular special effects [and props and make-up] that could look just fucking horrible [in live-action] if the show has a low-budget
an animated wheel of time, wouldn't have these problems and could introduce the WOT universe to people who love animation anyway [children who weren't even born when the series came out and/or older Otaku guys who love fantasy-genre but just haven't read this specific series]
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making it animated doesn't necessarily need to involve Japan
IIRC that early 90s X-Men cartoon was made without any one in Japan being involved
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i personally love when a show does "stand-alone" episodes
i love all of the "stand alone episodes" of Supernatural
and for me the first 2 seasons of Smallville were really truly way-the-fuck-better than the 3rd season [Smallville had a total of 10 seasons and i consider season 3 the worst really]
Clark Kent already had his most of his Superman superpowers in episode 1 and i really really loved the whole "Clark vs monster-of-the-week" thing they did for seasons 1 and 2 and season 5 [after the "2nd metoer shower" at the very end of season 4]
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I like how you do multi-posts rather than just putting all your responses into a single post. It's the shit icing on the shit cake that is you.
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i personally love when a show does "stand-alone" episodes
i love all of the "stand alone episodes" of Supernatural
and for me the first 2 seasons of Smallville were really truly way-the-fuck-better than the 3rd season [Smallville had a total of 10 seasons and i consider season 3 the worst really]
Clark Kent already had his most of his Superman superpowers in episode 1 and i really really loved the whole "Clark vs monster-of-the-week" thing they did for seasons 1 and 2 and season 5 [after the "2nd metoer shower" at the very end of season 4][/QUOTE]
Even so I just have a low tolerance for standalone episodes in any quantity[/QUOTE]
