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If Liefeld drew that, where are all the pouches?The pinnacle of 90s comic artists
If Liefeld drew that, where are all the pouches?
After about a minute, I figured that the window in which I could acquire a taste for it was long past.
I'm not familiar with Gurenn Lagann,
Holy crap, you should seek this out ASAP! This is up there as one of the greatest series (not just anime) ever made. Its also a story so EPIC it will blow your mind. Like, other stories may call themselves Epic, but GL makes Greek myths look like episodes of David the Gnome in comparison. I dont want to give anything away, suffice to say you start the series at one level, basically the equivalent to worms in the dirt, and by the end, shit is going down that would make Galactus crap his pants!
The closest comparison I can think of is Evangelion, but if you replaced the angst and despair with hardcore optimism and fun. It has just as many mindfuck revelations, but instead of making you go "oh, thats F----ed up," these make you go
"My mind is exploding like a million stars as I am drowning in Awesome!"
A friend of mine, and I used to watch DBZ everyday. Its ok. Nothing to write home about. We also used to smoke a lot of weed, a lot of weed.
I don't watch much television but currently I am enjoying The Mick. Black comedy is my favorite kind.
In reruns I have been watching The High Chaparral. I had never even heard of it until a few weeks ago and started taping it on whatever channel. Pretty good stuff, I was lucky because they had just started over with the first episode the second week or so that I started watching it so now I get to see it from the beginning. It also has the advantage of having cast actual Latinos as Latinos so the Mexican characters all speak fluent Spanish and it sounds like they are using real Apache language as well. As a real-life Latino, I found it novel to come across a Western where the Mexican characters are treated as individual characters with their own personalities. Very good show so far. My favorite main characters are Buck and Manolito. Blue is growing on me as the show progresses.
This is a great Western! One of the best! I saw it all when it first aired, but I occasionally trip across it again, and it is as good as I remember. which most series are very much NOT! HC has excellent writing, great casting, and interesting characters.
That was actually the approach I took. It did not help.A friend of mine, and I used to watch DBZ everyday. Its ok. Nothing to write home about. We also used to smoke a lot of weed, a lot of weed.
Get better weed.That was actually the approach I took. It did not help.
Seriously though, just skip it (DBZ and weed) and just watch Black Lagoon. You and everyone else is better for it.
I'm watching Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime. Ten standalone episodes based on stores by Philip K Dick. There will be inevitable comparisons to Black Mirror, but only because Dick was decades ahead of his time. Also stories nothing like Black Mirror, lots of different kinds of scifi. One episode is basically Body Snatchers + Stranger Things. Another one, that I thought would make a cool RPG setting, was based on the idea that some people (mutants) develop telepathy, maybe in the 40s or so, which seems to make information technology stagnant, since the telepaths take over that role. It also slows down the aesthetics - the setting seems to be 50s mixed with 80s, classic noir plus Miami Vice or something. Then trouble starts a'brewin' between the "normals" and the "teeps" ...
I've watched a couple of episodes, and I'm not all that happy with it. I was concerned when I heard Ronald Moore was doing it, as his work tends to be largely devoid of humor, and humor is an essential part of Dick's work. And both the episodes I watched were dour, serious business.I'm watching Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime. Ten standalone episodes based on stores by Philip K Dick. There will be inevitable comparisons to Black Mirror, but only because Dick was decades ahead of his time. Also stories nothing like Black Mirror, lots of different kinds of scifi. One episode is basically Body Snatchers + Stranger Things. Another one, that I thought would make a cool RPG setting, was based on the idea that some people (mutants) develop telepathy, maybe in the 40s or so, which seems to make information technology stagnant, since the telepaths take over that role. It also slows down the aesthetics - the setting seems to be 50s mixed with 80s, classic noir plus Miami Vice or something. Then trouble starts a'brewin' between the "normals" and the "teeps" ...
I've watched a couple of episodes, and I'm not all that happy with it. I was concerned when I heard Ronald Moore was doing it, as his work tends to be largely devoid of humor, and humor is an essential part of Dick's work. And both the episodes I watched were dour, serious business.
I'll probably get around to more episodes, and I hope there are some gems in there. It sounds like the episode Theo is describing is based on The Father Thing, so maybe I will give that one a shot. It is an anthology show, and they always have some clunkers.
I will definitely own up to approaching the show with a load of preconceptions. Discovering my mother's PKD books on the shelf was one of my first steps into reading science-fiction classics, so I am going to be picky in a way that someone watching the show cold wouldn't be.If it helps, there are definitely some episodes with happy endings. I can PM you some episode titles, if you like (and to avoid spoiling anything for anyone else).
I see it more as loosely based on PDK rather than straight adaptations, which is the intent, I think. They clearly seem to be making something that will compete with Black Mirror and Westworld (including having some of the same actors), and that's definitely going to be a bug or a feature, depending on your preferences and expectations.
Is there one you prefer? By that I mean the UK series, the swedish series, or the film series? I honestly like them all. I would have to rewatch a couple of each if asked to pick a favorite. Right now my answer would be all.Wallander
I will definitely own up to approaching the show with a load of preconceptions. Discovering my mother's PKD books on the shelf was one of my first steps into reading science-fiction classics, so I am going to be picky in a way that someone watching the show cold wouldn't be.
It's not really happy endings I am looking for. Not all PKD stories have happy endings, and I love Black Mirror. There is just a certain tone to PKD's work, and I was hoping it would make it into the show.
The one that's currently (?) on Netflix, starring Kenneth Branagh. We haven't watched any other ones.Is there one you prefer? By that I mean the UK series, the swedish series, or the film series? I honestly like them all. I would have to rewatch a couple of each if asked to pick a favorite. Right now my answer would be all.
My opinion is that he wrote a lot of filler both in short stories and in novels, but there are definitely enough good stories to fill a season of an anthology show. The guy was banging stuff out on speed to pay the bills.I didn't have a lot of interest in Electric Dreams because to me Dick didn't really do his best work in short stories.
I love select PKD novels and his short stories are enjoyable but I never found they had as much meat as his novels. If he had been strictly a short story writer I don't think he'd be much remembered today.
I feel a bit split on the Dick cult these days, he use to be massively underrated sf master, but with the levels of academic overkill, uncritical druggy hipster fandom, etc he is starting to feel overrated. I think that Vintage's decision to publish every book he ever wrote, including unpublished emphera is a money-making move that only obscures his half a dozen best novels in a tidal wave of okay to mediocre work.
I know a few people who faced with a bookshelf of Dick have picked one at random (or picked up Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and been underwhelmed because they didn't start with, say, Man in High Castle or Three Stigmata Palmer Eldritch et al.
I'm watching Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime.
Me and my bro (literally my brother) liked to get drunk and watch Hello Kitty on late night TV. That was some trippy shit.
What does "OP" mean?
What does "OP" mean?
Well, Noman says a lot of critical things about OP, and the Original Poster in this thread is... Noman."Original post/er," or "Overpowered." In this case, I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
Comes up in the context of RPGs where "builds" are a big thing too.Crap, I did it again. Sorry.
OP = Overpowered, usually in the context of anime, manga, and some fantasy-oriented TV shows.
Comes up in the context of RPGs where "builds" are a big thing too.
Well, Noman says a lot of critical things about OP, and the Original Poster in this thread is... Noman.
I wouldn't be surprised if he were using either definition.