Come, spill it out! What movies or series did you watch this week? Let us know!
PS: Have made this a monthly thread instead. Easier for me :P
Suddenly binge watching Brooklyn 99 S1 haha
Midway through the third season of the Witcher. Since it’s the last season with Henry Cavill, wonder if they’ll do justice to him on the last episode by giving a nice farewell. His grunts gonna be missed.
Also no spoilerino to me ya, so far this season feeling off the the previous ones. Like pacing more slower and main characters not doing much. Will see if that changes later on.
Oh no… Is S2 the only good one in this case… (I genuinely cannot stand s1. It didn’t take me long to continue just to hatewatch. Horrible pacing and storyboarding.)
Season 2 is probably the best, but I still haven’t finished watching S3 yet. But so far not really seeing it would be better than S2.
I’m rewatching Community again, the first 3 seasons only though.
Cool idea!! I’m working through It’s Always Sunny season 16 and this anime called Tengoku Daimakyou.
The Sunny guys are such gremlins but it’s so fun to watch. And the anime is really charming, it nails that post-apocalyptic but chill vibe, kinda like Cowboy Bebop / Black Lagoon / Samurai Champloo. Like welp the worst has already happened, we might as well get comfortable. With a few excellent storytelling elements too.
Fun fact, the Champloo in Samurai Champloo comes from our “campur” (チャンプルー is an Okinawan mixed stir fry)
Champloo in Samurai Champloo comes from our “campur”
Recall History lesson when Melaka Sultanate had diplomatic relationships with Ryukyu Kingdom? That’s Okinawa Prefecture today.
Ryukyuans really got the short end of the stick. They became vassals to a Japanese daimyo (a local domain lord) which is one step below the Shogun. It means the Shogun bosses the daimyos, and the Satsuma daimyo bosses the entire Ryukyu Kingdom. They’re so low on the runk that it’s not uncommon for slaves to own Ryukyuan slaves. Yes, slaves owning slaves.
Shin Kamen Rider! I wrote up a review
Which made me rewatch Kamen Rider Black Sun (still at ep 1 tho lol).
Tonight if traffic doesn’t kill me, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning for the 2nd time 😌
Very different takes on what it means to do a Kamen Rider story, imo. But they shared the urge to really lean on the body horror and gore tho. Even accounting for the fact that Black Sun has more hours to fill, Shin Kamen Rider has even more sparse world building details than Shin Ultraman. (Also Black Sun was rebooting Black, which I grew up with so I can also have a basis for comparison; Shin is doing a film treatment of the 1971 original, so the specific canon to that series I have very little awareness of)
