Just a little Sports Night at the moment.
What are you watching???
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Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, back to back. The original I'd seen, but my gf hadn't. Ashamed it took me so long to get to 2049. A long movie that felt long because of its restraint and methodical pacing, but it was excellent. Visually stunning and a great soundtrack, just like its predecessor. This may be a somewhat odd association, but it kinda reminded me of Drive. There's a few scenes and shots that look strikingly similar.
Finished Vikings season 1 and got into season 2.
Finished Vikings season 1 and got into season 2.
I'm also hooked! I wasn't quite sure about it during the first handful of episodes, but once I hit episode 5 or 6, that's when it really clicked for me. There's a lot of historical inaccuracies and whatnot, as is to be expected with a show like this, but all the same I'm enjoying it immensely.
Me too. Which inaccuracies bother you the most? For me, it's the occasionally anachronistic clothes. Another thing that bugs me is that the Viking longships had removable creature heads. They only used them when they were raiding. When they were going home or on a trading mission, they didn't use them. The heads were there to scare away any guardian spirits of the land they were raiding. Not to mention the fact that the people were Norse or Northmen, Viking means both raider (as in a profession) and the act of raiding. Still, many of the plots are based on old Norse sagas.
Catching up with SHIELD. Probably OUAT later and more Sports Night.
Yeah the clothes sometimes don't look quite accurate and the accents can be hit and miss. One thing that kind of made me bristle early on was the Chieftain having a murderer executed. The Norse didn't actually have a death penalty -- they practiced outlawry. That murderer would have just been cast out of the tribe, not beheaded. And the Chieftain had way too much power and domination, more like a king, whereas the actual Norse were much more democratic than that. Not as democratic as our modern standards, but quite so for the time. And while human sacrifice was practiced by the Norse, the Uppsala episode is largely based on a Medieval account written by Adam of Bremen which has been dismissed as a fabrication.
Well, the accents being a bit of a hit and miss is understandable, because we don't really know what they sounded like, there are no recordings after all. Never mind that most of the actors are Canadian, Australian, or British. They do a pretty decent job, I think. Although I read somewhere that Gustaf Skarsgård had a bit of a job teaching them to pronounce names "correctly", that is, as they would be pronounced in modern Swedish. I'm a Swedish-speaking Finn and when I speak English, my accent isn't a million miles away from Jessalyn Gilsig's in Vikings.
Scandal Season 7, episode 10, This show jumped the shark a few seasons but I like watching crazy shows lol
They finally put Brooklyn Nine Nine on Sunday after Simpsons, consolidating all the Fox shows I watch on the same day. Bout time.
I just started "Iron Fist". I have watched the first seasons of "Luke Cage" and "Jessica Jones", and am going to watch the other "Defenders" shows first seasons' before going on to any of the season 2s. I'll take a break from these though to watch the second season of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" when it comes out next weekend.
Black Lightning now. I think iZombie is also available, so that'll be next
Wild Wild Country on Netflix. An absolutely insane documentary series about a cult that basically took over a whole town in Oregon.
Jessica Jones S2. The Path S3. Legends of Tomorrow.
I watched The Outsider with Jared Leto on Netflix the other night. Interesting concept and good acting.
I watched The Outsider with Jared Leto on Netflix the other night. Interesting concept and good acting.
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