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Postby John plainman 4 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:15 pm

mostly watching out of respect for the history of Japanese Americans but so far nothing has happened to make me care about the narrative
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Postby John plainman 4 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:17 pm

is that a weird way to phrase that? sorry, I just think it's important that the Japanese internment is being highlighted in the current culture. ive learned more about it from the show then I did in my public school education.
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Postby Merciel » Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:21 pm

No, that's exactly how I feel about it too.

I'll learn some history and look at some pretty clothes and that's enough to keep me on board. I give no shits about any of the characters except George Takei, and that's not even about the character, it's about George Takei had to do this in real life so whatever he wants to put about that experience on screen, I will watch out of respect.
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Postby John plainman 4 » Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:24 pm

the scene with them dancing to the background music worked really well for me. I enjoy the main guy personally, or at least I empathize with him in certain ways. I hope he can save his family :(
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Postby number none » Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:15 pm

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-doomed-1845-expedition-to-the-Arctic-killed-129-14396996.php

For more than 170 years, the HMS Terror rested beneath the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic Ocean holding the secrets to an infamously fatal expedition - until a sunny day earlier this month, when a little robot plunged into the sea to try to find them.

"The impression we witnessed when exploring the HMS Terror is of a ship only recently deserted by its crew, seemingly forgotten by the passage of time," Ryan Harris, a Parks Canada archaeologist who piloted the remote-controlled underwater vehicle, said in a statement.

Of all 20 rooms on the ship, Harris said, Crozier's door was the only one that was closed.

"I'd love to know what's in there," he told Nat Geo.
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:44 pm

Holy shit that’s intriguing!!!
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:55 pm

I've had a pretty rough time paying attention to this season. Pretty disappointed so far despite it being pretty competently made.
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Postby Reliable Tradesman » Sat Sep 21, 2019 11:05 pm

Yeah, is this quite ordinary or what?
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Postby Merciel » Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:54 am

I really wanted to like this season but it's such a blown opportunity.

They just had no idea what story they even wanted to tell here.
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Postby dimetrodons 'r' us » Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:09 pm

I think it was always going to be hard to follow up on the first season, but I still enjoyed this in a similar kind of way as I enjoy, say, reading one of Stephen King’s more mailed in novels when I’m at the beach or on a long plane ride or whatever. It probably helped that I let episodes 4-10 pile up on my DVR and was able to effectively binge the last 2/3 of the season.
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Postby deadwolfbones » Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:36 pm

Heard the ending was kinda good, at least.
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Postby Merciel » Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:48 pm

Depending on how much work "kinda" is doing there, yeah.

I basically agreed with this review (particularly: George Takei's dream is the strongest part of the entire show; the whole narrative structure of the thing is a mess; the ending is satisfying only if you ignore most of what happened before it; the two "terrors" in the show fight against each other for narrative effect when it would have been far, far stronger to use the supernatural horror to underline and complicate the real-life horror, instead of the A and B plots having basically no interaction or reinforcement whatsoever): https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... le/600058/

It was a really frustrating misfire because the production quality was good, the actors did what they could with the material they were given, and there were a lot of clever ideas that just never came together at all. And it would have been SO EASY to make them mutually reinforcing instead of just this chaotic jumble going nowhere.

I liked some things about the show, but overall my feeling at the end was just like "jesus christ, I could have done a better job of writing that season."
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Postby quinine » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:35 pm

finally watched s1 (it's on hulu), damn it's good even though i had a real hard time following some plot points

sooo did anyone like s2?
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Postby evil olive » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:42 pm

Merciel wrote: "jesus christ, I could have done a better job of writing that season."


Agree w this. It went nowhere.
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Postby bluelips » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:49 pm

i loved season 1 so much but i read some really bad reviews for s2 so i never bothered
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Postby CelticFC#1 » Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:56 am

Watched the first season in one sitting yesterday.

Man, I did not expect it to be that good. Cast was amazing.
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Postby Slay Da Pink Fleshy Beast » Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:41 am

Finally got around to watching this. Absolute joy, and the monster didn't ruin it much.
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