drumbeg wrote:

Enjoyed Foundation ep 1. Hopefully more character development to come. It's mega-budget looking stuff in terms of how it's shot, but sets were a bit sparse.

The trailer for Invasion on Apple TV is very good.

Sets on the ships are better for second episode. Liking it still and Gaal is the most interesting character so far. Don’t know who the actress is but she’s great.

I was bit disappointed to see some recognisable story characters in the Cowboy Bebop opening suggesting they're essentially just retelling the anime. What's the point. Tell me some new stories in that world. When the anime is so perfect, why would I choose to watch it live action. Obviously it's probably less for me and more for people who haven't watched the anime but then again it seems to want to appease the anime fans too. We'll see. I think the casting is great at least.

I still need to read Sandman but, for me, Charles Dance can't get anywhere near Sam Neill's performance in the recent-ish audio version. He goes full Event Horizon and it's definitely worth a listen.

Started it fell asleep will try again

So Vigil was … alright? Decent little thriller, didn’t outstay it’s welcome, had a satisfying ending.

Plenty of ‘aye, right’ moments, but not enough to shark-jump.

poprock wrote:

So Vigil was … alright? Decent little thriller, didn’t outstay it’s welcome, had a satisfying ending. Plenty of ‘aye, right’ moments, but not enough to shark-jump.

I gave up a bit though ep4.  I tried but did not enjoy.

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ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

tin_robot wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

I was bit disappointed to see some recognisable story characters in the Cowboy Bebop opening suggesting they're essentially just retelling the anime. What's the point. Tell me some new stories in that world. When the anime is so perfect, why would I choose to watch it live action. Obviously it's probably less for me and more for people who haven't watched the anime but then again it seems to want to appease the anime fans too. We'll see. I think the casting is great at least. I still need to read Sandman but, for me, Charles Dance can't get anywhere near Sam Neill's performance in the recent-ish audio version. He goes full Event Horizon and it's definitely worth a listen.

My take on the live action Cowboy Bebop is almost exactly the same.  (I will of course watch it) Equally agree on Sandman - I thought the audio version was surprisingly good given that the source is so inherently visual. (Though Kat Dennings as Death took a bit of getting used to.) @Liv - just started Squid Game, enjoying it so far. (If "enjoying" is the word..)

Need to go back and finish the audio version. We noped out of it during the diner sequence which was probably a section that didn't need to be such a direct translation from the graphic novel. I'm imagining it's probably just a double page spread in the book but 10/15 minutes of audio of that was a bit too much for the gf. Very nice production values throughout though.

The diner is, if anything, worse in the book.  (Though the trouble with audio of course is that your imagination fills the visual gaps.)  A standard comic book's 24 pages, so Gaiman decided to do 24 hours over those pages.  It's pretty much intended as a warning not to get too comfortable I think. (It never gets quite that bad again.)
What surprised me most about the audio book is that it also covers the little stand alone comics that he threw in near the end.  Some of those seem inconsequential but are essential later, but others are just as they appear and I rather assumed they would fall by the wayside.  But they clearly decided to do the lot. It will be interesting to see if the TV show decides to keep as close to the source material.

Speaking of which...

I also watched the first episode of Y: The Last Man last night.  So far it, erm, doesn't stick that closely to the original - though the central premise, one man and his monkey are the only males left alive on Earth, remains.  They first episode is almost entirely pre-catastrophe, and fills in a lot of back story for characters that didn't really have it in the comic book.  (Or were on an entirely different part of the planet.)

I'm not sure what I think of it yet, and whilst I spent much of that first episode willing it to get on with The Thing, when it hits I appreciated that spending an hour with a few of these people first made it considerably more effective.  I'll give it a few more episodes at least.

Just caught the tail end of 'Alma's not Normal' on BBC2 - brilliant new Northern comedy written by an ex-call girl : highly recommended.

Colour me interested. B5 without the plinky plonky 90's music and graphics rendered on a 486.

Toaster.

Yossarian wrote:

Babylon 5’s getting a reboot: https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202

Well now.

I seem to remember Babylon 5 being complete shite. But then I'm not really into the whole soap opera in space thing.

According to that Twitter thread from the writer it was.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Babylon 5's a big pile of shit.