Roook36
Roook36 t1_ixvmjuo wrote
Reply to comment by DarthMosasaur in andor is one of the first shows in a while,with a nearly perfect season by ButtPlugForPM
That felt right out of Obi-Wan. or Return of the Jedi with the ewoks taking them out with rocks and sticks I guess. Stuck out like a sore thumb due to how much work they've done to make the Empire look scary and not like something a bunch of kids with ropes could take down.
Roook36 t1_ixvkzqq wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Did the “Wednesday” script start as a Harry Potter copy cat? by robbed_blind
lol. I read the Harry Potter series when they came out. But I was so over the "chosen one orphan being brought up by assholes who finds they're talented in magic and are trained by an old wizard". From Star Wars, Wheel of Time, David Eddings, Sword of Truth, blah blah blah
By the time Harry Potter came out I was so over it. Hero of a Thousand Faces and all that.
Roook36 t1_iujhqgn wrote
Reply to No More Medical/Cop Shows by Any-Low9727
Good luck. Cop, doctor and lawyer shows are what brings most viewers in on network TV. Been that way for awhile. L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere.
Combine a couple and you have mega hits like Law and Order.
They aren't going anywhere. Best you can hope for is some kind of genre bend. Like vampire cop or immortal doctor or werewolf lawyer
Roook36 t1_iuj11ks wrote
That sucks. This was a fun show. Wonder if they'll even get a chance to wrap things up this season or if it'll end on a cliffhanger
Roook36 t1_iuifz7y wrote
Reply to comment by stumpcity in What is with this flooding of this subreddit today with 80's theme intros? by inksmudgedhands
Yeah can we get back to whining in every thread with a positive review of something that the site is full of shills and bots trying to lie to us about how everything sucks
Roook36 t1_iui5qeq wrote
I used to watch the original british series back on Nickleodeon in the 80s. CW remkes are usually not good.
Roook36 t1_iu00bhx wrote
Reply to Old shows,bumpers and commercials? by tysongalaxy
Not exactly what you're asking. But if you want to take a nostalgia trip of old commercials or TV show promos you can usually find collections of them on YouTube. Lots of long videos that are just commercial after commercial from specific years.
Roook36 t1_itzze7k wrote
Reply to The Price is Right has become unwatchable. by [deleted]
Can we not return back to the days when Price of Right contestants had some dignity and manners?!?
Roook36 t1_itzz9o2 wrote
Reply to comment by tr3v1n in The Price is Right has become unwatchable. by [deleted]
Yeah that sounds exactly like what I watched when I'd stay home sick from school in the 80s lol
OP better not check out Let's Make a Deal
Roook36 t1_itmujim wrote
Reply to Masters of horror so much boobies by WilliamTCipher
What streaming service is this on?
Roook36 t1_it3ba0l wrote
Reply to If You Could Apply Rings of Power Budget to Any IP Adaptation, What Would You Choose? by Any-Low9727
Perdido Street Station or any book in the Bas Lag saga
Roook36 t1_is5d748 wrote
Deep Space 9. I watched it as it aired, just like I watched every episode of TNG. But at some point I moved out on my own and didn't have an actual TV for a few months.
I also dipped out on Hannibal, but just becomes I had some tragedies in my family and I couldn't deal with anything dark.
And I jumped off the GoT train once they started bypassing the material from the books. Not only did I want to avoid book spoilers as much as possible. But I could tell the show was starting to veer into "give the fans what they want" territory, which is kind of the opposite of the book series. Plus leaving important elements out that made me question how close they were even going to be trying to get to the book series.
My friends, who I got into the show because I loved the books, called me a fool because GoT was too good and would stay good forever!
Roook36 t1_is5cfjm wrote
Reply to comment by CMelody in Which show did you watch the most of before quitting and why? by spectacleskeptic
Season 5 really is a good place to quit the show. There are still good episodes after that. But season 5 completes a massive arc in a very satisfying way and it'd honestly be the perfect series finale except for the last 5 seconds.
Either way though, I always recommend the S10E05 episode "Fan Fiction" You can watch it right after the S5 finale as it doesn't have much to do with anything that happened after that, and it's a fun meta episode as Sam and Dean find a school putting on a musical play based on their lives.
(Well, technically I guess it does have spoilers for the S6 premiere as it lets you know neither Sam or Dean are dead...but considering the show has 15 seasons that's not really a big giveaway)
Roook36 t1_ixvmrso wrote
Reply to comment by Jackattack736 in andor is one of the first shows in a while,with a nearly perfect season by ButtPlugForPM
r/television has devolved into just two types of posts
Posts made by redditors to praise a show they like so that other redditors can come in and tell them how wrong they are and to shut up
News articles posted from sites that report on movies and tv shows, which are just flooded with comments about "ads" "bots" "Shills" "disney checks" "it's about ethics in journalism" stuff.
The recommendation topic pinned to the top is the only reason to bother to come in here anymore sadly