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I watched YMS' breakdown of why the series sucks and it was so informative and infuriating.
Basically the director hired friends and colleagues for the cast of the show and after a few disagreements on story direction, the director got the boot while the actors were stuck by the contract.
The director felt like he betrayed them, with quite a few signing on just to work with him.
HBO's watchmen. Big fan of the graphic novel, and a friend said he'd read capitalist realism if I watched it.
Dogshit copaganda. Should've turned it off when the very first scene was a cop getting killed because he couldn't draw his gun fast enough. Then my friend didn't read CR anyway. 0/10.
Spoilers:
It's heavily implied way later that he purposely had his gun be unable to get drawn so that the police could exploit the "tragedy" in their case to derestrict police.
More spoilers:
The head chief and close friend to the main character turned out to have a KKK outfit hidden in his office and had this whole racist convoluted plan with members of the elite.
Legit there was a whole black-and-white flashback episode that had a pretty big moment of showing the hollowness of libs.
It is not presented as a systemic issue, it is presented as a "few bad apples" issue. Literally all the protagonists are cops. Maybe in the flashbacks it is presented as systemic, but this is classic liberal attitude of "yeah the CIA used to run drugs and overthrow democracies, but no one was ever held accountable so they probably don't do that anymore, you conspiracy theorist."
It's also pro-torture and pro-imperialism. The main character decides to become a cop after the extrajudicial killing of an anti-imperialist vietnamese by cops based on the word of a 9-year-old.
Yea that scene with the gun massive turned me off at the start. Happy I stuck around till episode 5 and especially 6, which were both fucking brilliant. Lindelof is definitely a lib but seems he genuinely tried to engange with some more radical themes and didn't hold back on expressing the inherent white supremacy inherent in the American police system (im sure other people on the writing team had a lot of input into this as well, don't wanna give him all the credit.)
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Nothing, I eat all my slop like a good hog. :feral-hog:
Dr Who, Farscape, and warehouse 13. All shows exes have loved that I begrudgingly sat through even though I couldn't stand them most of the time.
What if we did Star Trek but bring back Winston Churchill the same way Futurama brought back Nixon bur forget it's a gag.
Yeah, I enjoyed it at first. Idk what went wrong it just felt like it got overly campy and jumped the shark. Then again, the relationship was also going down the drain at that point so that might have influenced how I felt about it.
Idk I liked it, I've also watched it slowly over the course of a few years though so 🤷
I watched because I like Rami Malek, but I just couldn't stay invested.
I thought it was sort of incredible that it actually had nothing to do with hacking or China or evil megacorporations but was ultimately about
spoiler
___Elliot coming to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he endured.
The final season goes down among the greatest seasons of TV ever IMO, up there with the Wire season 4 and Breaking Bad season 5.
edit I cannot count for shit and completely skipped a season in my mind
I watched all of this mostly before I was radicalised and wonder what I'd think of it now if I went back to it :(
The 100. The first episode was genuine "so bad it's good," and I kept watching. It got very slightly better every episode, so I kept watching in the hopes that it would reach the level of "good", but it peaked at "okay I guess" by the third season or so. I kept watching until it ended because I'm a dingus.
The Sopranos. First season was good, guy has cancer but is smart and turns to drugs for his family, ok decent plot. But I can't really get invested in "West Baltimore" as idk where that is, and as it went on and the main family got super fucked by some bastard blonde kid, all the flashbacks to "bands" of brothers without any actual instruments, and literally out of nowhere a removed Matthew Mcconaughey as some washed up cop...idk I gave it like 7 seasons and had to tap out
Probably Fairy Tale. Not even the worst anime out there, but it gets so repetitive and childish that like, I dunno, 20 odd episodes in you realize it's like baby's first Shonen anime
I watched the massive destruction in the first few episodes and realized that there was going to be no real logical consistency in worldbuilding and thankfully checked out early.
Season six is for sure the worst so I guess you picked the right time to quit
You beat me to it. Season 1 is good and they kick Nazi ass in S2, but goes downhill very fast from there. Regret watching all 7 seasons.
