Fighting with Netflix is worse than the eternal struggle with Pandora.
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The Passage Trilogy is one of the best sci-fi reads I’ve experienced in a long time, and the producers of the show have taken the books and flushed them down the toilet. The timeline is butchered. Babcock is now an angsty teen girl. Holy crap.
The one bright hope to come out of this is Saniyya Sidney, who is a remarkable screen presence. I hope she has a good career ahead of her.
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Hey, if you pick up a product with that name, and expect anything but sorrows, and possibly the hope for something better, to come out of that box, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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I use Spotify now, but man, there wasn’t much choice there for a few years.
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the trailer looks interesting.
You’re a special one, Mandy. I too, am a special one. Let us be so very special together
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Dang teasers. It was revenge best served viewed cold.
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It’s been too long since I read the books. I thought they were okay, but a bit dry for my taste. So I don’t mind some of the digressions, like some of the Twelve being female… but Babcock as a literal seductive vamp isn’t playing out as well as I’d initially hoped. It’s pretty cliche.
I agree with you on Saniyya Sidney-- she is terrific, and the interactions between her and Gosselar are the main reason I keep tuning in. Though that might not be much longer, because the show’s not keeping my interest that well.
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Yes, for clarity’s sake, I applaud the striving for diversity, but changing Babcock feels just sooo wrong.
ETA for spoiler explanation: Babcock before his transformation was a male rapist/killer who was rather subhuman. This is why the choice seems so bad.
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Just finished Luther season 5.
Am exhausted, emotionally.
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Currently watching Rent “Live” which isn’t.
Don’t.
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Annihilation.
(prime video)
weird movie. well made.the end credits are pretty. not sure it means anything.
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That sums it up.
Pretty and pointless
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The book is better. Borrows heavily from movies like Solaris and Stalker.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?, based on the memoirs of Lee israel.
Good movie, but probably better saved for a matinee. Melissa McCarthy does very good work, drawing from her darker side.
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Oooh, thank you for reminding me. (It’s been, what, five years or so since I read the first two novels, I think.)
Which makes last night’s backstory for Babcock a huge swerve in narrative. They seem to be working really hard to give us sympathy for the devils, so to speak. The third book did pause the action to describe Fanning in the time Before, so it’s not completely unprecedented. But, IIRC, originally the only sympathetic one out of the Twelve was Carter, the wrongly convicted one. Are they trying to create doubt which side Babcock will fall on? And why, since her actions as a Viral show she’s Team Fanning all the way?
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I think a lot of that would have sorted itself out if they had simply followed the timeline/time jumps of the novels, and left Babcock a mystery to unfold as it was written.
I thought about how neatly each novel would fit into a season of shows, and I think it would have worked well.
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Just saw it. Nice one. Good to see a movie without shoot em ups or jumps and thrills. More low key. Great performances, I thought.
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It’s very much a point of view-driven, noir Batman tale. It’s told very squarely on his shoulders, and I hope it’s going to be a story that will be thrilling but also emotional. It’s more Batman in his detective mode than we’ve seen in the films. The comics have a history of that. He’s supposed to be the world’s greatest detective, and that’s not necessarily been a part of what the movies have been. I’d love this to be one where when we go on that journey of tracking down the criminals and trying to solve a crime, it’s going to allow his character to have an arc so that he can go through a transformation.
… This is the exactly the Batman movie I’ve been wanting ever since the Dark Knight trilogy wrapped.
I’ve been largely staying away from the DC movies since hearing how badly they screwed up (especially the characterization of Superman) in Man of Steel/Batman v Superman/Justice League, but with the good things I’ve heard about Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and now Shazam and The Batman coming up, it sounds like they’re finally turning a corner.
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Excellent soundtrack to boot!
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Blossom Dearie.
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