What Are You Watching?

[squeen]

Shutter Island landed on Netflix and I watched it last Friday. I thought it was brilliant. The gorgeous visuals, film-noir style, and mind bending is right up my alley. I felt mentally unsettled after it ended.

Scorsese nailed it IMO. It was a Twilight Zone episode writ large.

[TRP]

The last episode of The Expanse S5 dropped, and what happened, happened. And, I did *not* see that coming.

Really major book & show spoiler:

They killed Alex! Those bastards! He's still very much alive well past this point in the books.

Yeah, wasn't expecting that...and the way it was handled was very poor.

There's a reason I put this behind spoiler tags.

I disagree that it wasn't handled well.

It happens in a good time. The solar system is in a shitstorm, and it's a good way to pile more hate onto Marco. It's also good enough in the meta aspect. Cas was canned after they finished shooting. Whatever pickup shots they created to make it work was decent. I agree it wasn't ideal all the way, but with what they had to work with, I think they did much better than "poor".

[squeen]

TRP...who IS that in your avatar?

[TRP]

TRP...who IS that in your avatar?

Stan Lee lighting a cigarello with money.

[JCBoney]

TRP...who IS that in your avatar?

Stan Lee lighting a cigarello with money.

Yeah, I always thought that was Stan The Man.

[squeen]

Cool. I thought is was either Lee or Hefner---but that was a "look" in the 70's and I wanted to be sure. (Hefner never had a mustache, IIRC.)

Thanks.

[bobjester]

TRP...who IS that in your avatar?

Stan Lee lighting a cigarello with money.

At low resolution, I always thought it was Frank Zappa, but now that I see it up on my big-screen, his hair is too straight for Zappa's.

[rogatny]

TRP...who IS that in your avatar?

Stan Lee lighting a cigarello with money.

Yeah, I always thought that was Stan The Man.

I thought it was John Astin.

[JCBoney]

I thought it was John Astin.

LOL, yeah, I can see that too. I guess it's the maniacal look while smoking a cigar that gives that appearance.

[francisca]

Just started watching Space: 1999. All of it is available on archive.org.

[JCBoney]

Just started watching Space: 1999. All of it is available on archive.org.

Ya know, I remember being all about that show when it originally aired. I was riding the crest of Star Trek reruns, and this seemed more of the same. I mostly have fond memories of it... BUT... tried to watch an episode a couple of years ago, and couldn't get past the theme song switching back and forth between funk guitar and orchestra music.

[francisca]

Just started watching Space: 1999. All of it is available on archive.org.

Ya know, I remember being all about that show when it originally aired. I was riding the crest of Star Trek reruns, and this seemed more of the same. I mostly have fond memories of it... BUT... tried to watch an episode a couple of years ago, and couldn't get past the theme song switching back and forth between funk guitar and orchestra music.

It was on WGN out of Chicago when I was a kid. Figured I'd give it a shot, with zero expectations.

I do kinda miss "the future and space is WEIRD, MAN!" vibe of the 70s, which this seems to have.

[Falconer]

Watched Star Trek III: TSFS the other day. I’ve seen it only once before, a decade ago. It’s great fun, I can’t hate it, only it’s SOOO 80s.

[Welleran]

it’s SOOO 80s.

That’s a feature, not a bug!

[francisca]

Welleran is SOOO 80s.

That’s a feature, not a bug!

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