Shout by rafael
In Episode 1, they just pretty much skipped Ye Wenjie's backstory before Red Coast. They crammed everything into 5 minutes. Episode 2 is called 'Red Coast' but we barely pass any time at Red Coast base. Most of the episode is just present day characters talking and playing the VR game. In fact, we barely spent any time inside Red Coast itself. It doesn't even feel like a secret base/project. Besides the death of Ye Wenjie's dad - which wasn't adapted for censorship reasons -, nothing in this adaptation is honestly better than the Chinese version. I knew from the get go that 8 episodes, each with less than 60 minutes, would not be enough, but they are rushing. There's no way her character and motives will come across as understandable. This whole story is based on her past actions.
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have to agree with the other commenter - i understand wenjie's motives entirely from what's been shown so far?
this season had some great twists. i really do love what they've done with the book's original content. will i ever recover from the love quinn slander though?? questionable
loading replies@birdcages Question, as someone who hasn't read the books, is it similar? Or did they make some big changes?
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SUCH a late reply, sorry, but they made some big changes! i think the first season stuck a little closer to the source material but (some examples follow, i try to keep light on book spoilers but just a heads up they're there!) peach had a different ending in the novel. also, candace was actually dead the first time around in the novel, and there was an actual other person named amy in hidden bodies (book 2, equivalent of season 2). love quinn in the book is a pink-haired actress in her thirties who does no killing and forty has no redeeming qualities, and season 3 is virtually all its own because the third book didn't come out prior to its production. instead, the extortion in the beginning of season 4 seems to come from the beginning of book 3 (haven't read it).
a more general change that may or may not affect someone's desire to read the books: book joe is awful. like tv joe has a backstory that explains (obviously doesn't excuse) his twisted ass existence, and at times shows remorse. book joe has less of a savior complex, feels little to no remorse, and also lacks that backstory. my personal takes are that tv love quinn is superior in all ways and tv joe is a little easier to root for than his book counterpart.
This entire season kinda felt like one you make for the viewers to make them be ok with a show being cancelled. Completely untypical for Criminal Minds this season ends with a cliffhanger tho, so that's weird..
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there's a confirmed 17th season so the cliffhanger will get seen through but i also hate cliffhangers as a general rule tbh
Enjoyed the new season. Thought we were only going to get one more after all this time, but that ending certainly hints at a potential extra season.
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they confirmed a 17th season in january of this year!
Shout by Sam Abdel Hamid
Well... I'm glad I still got 15 seasons to watch. This season has it's good moments, but my overall conclusion is: entertaining yet unsatisfactory.
loading replies@mj94 it was too late for me as I had already started watching the show from s16, so you'd understand how I had to get it out of the way.
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i'd definitely suggest rewatching s16 after (if) you watch the other 15 seasons. there's so much backstory and history that made this enjoyable and i know i would've been disappointed without it.
actually, revising my previous comment.
"In February 2022, it was reported that Blumhouse Television and NBC News Studios had declined to share profits from The Thing About Pam with the family of Louis Gumpenberger."
really? you're profiting off of the man's death and despite the family winning a 3million suit against pam hupp which they'll never see a cent for, you don't see a reason to donate part of the profits to them?
gross.
loading replies@birdcages First of all, only parties that contribute to a project should get compensation and they always sign contracts for their services. No sane producer will sign a contract with someone that doesn't bring anything to the table, information in the public record is simply not enough. If someone has something to offer that is valuable can negotiate to be compensated economically. Compensation could be a lump-sum up front or deferred as points over revenue/profit or any mix theseof. Anyways nobody is forced to sign a contract if he doesn't agree with the term but once signed no party can pretend to change its terms unilaterally especially after the fact when they see if it's been a success or a failure.
In this case the family would do better by looking at themselves and their lack of vision, trust in the story or in the show makers.
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i think maybe you missed what my point was. i wasn't talking about being compensated for participation in the series (though i will say the notion of "value" to the production team is strange, given that they wouldn't have anything to portray about his death had the man not died so his story therein has innate value). i was talking about the overarching issue of people profiting off of other people's tragedies that's been going on since humans developed schadenfreude. regardless, i still think that it was gross of them and that's just my personal opinion at the end of the day. doesn't change based on what is and isn't expected of a film or tv production team.
Please tell me Rollins' pregnancy means they're finally going to write her out of the show. She's had a few moments, but I find her such a boring character.
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i've been doing a rewatch of the whole series for fun this month and honestly watched back to back rollins' character arc hit a lot better. the actress honestly kills it in her really intense episodes, and i remember really not caring about her character back when these episodes were airing.
What the hell was with that editing? At about 33:30 (without commercials) you see detectives Stabler and Benson talking, Olivia Benson starts to walk away then returns to say something, then immediately after they show Elliot Stabler and you see Olivia come back into frame and can tell that she's speaking but can't hear anything before they end the scene. Repeat video footage that they forgot to cut or what? Anyone else see this? Also at about 41:20 detective John Munch is speaking but you don't hear anything either. Probably not many people watching this episode anymore.
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it's typical for early 2000s television. channels aired a different aspect ratio, streaming services get the widescreen cut and that usually involves weird unedited moments. malcolm in the middle was notorious for some of its weird widescreen moments on netflix back when people were bingeing it!
I'm not a religious person so it might be difficult for me to accept a series like this.
But it is one of the most boring series I have seen from beginning to end. Usually I watch two or three episodes and if I'm not stuck then I quit. But for some inexplicable reason, I saw the whole series, in two days.
There is talk and talk and then we talk a little more until you think you see a stage set.
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i'm a third generation atheist (about as removed from the church experience as it gets) and enjoyed it so i don't think it's the religious nature. i think it's a matter of pacing—some people just hate this kind of pacing, and honestly i do too! but only in the context of anything released weekly rather than something i can watch in one sitting.
I’m never watching an NBC show again. Literally every show I invest in is canceled on a cliffhanger.
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bibbidibobbidi cummerbund i love your work
i find it strange that the director of this film reportedly claimed that though this was intended to be based on the manson murders that it wasn't actually being directly named.
because i could see there being a decent horror about a home invasion loosely inspired by the real life manson cult story. i mean, something in the vein of the strangers but make it ari aster would be something i'd watch. and while no ones claiming ryan murphy is a moral compass for the ages, he's done a fairly decent job of balancing the exploitation of true crime for entertainment with original content and twists (i mean i think i wrote a group therapy session among different fictional villains once and the serial killer dinner party in ahs hotel was basically the grownup version of that but STILL). so there's space for horror based in truth.
this was not loosely inspired by the tate murders. this took an entirely real, terrible tragedy with awful consequences and pasted it into a film with pretty people. having a mid credits roll that shows the actual photos of the people and reviews the aftermath isn't "loosely" following reality. this movie took everything down to the type of restaurant that the friends ate at prior to the murders and put it in their film, and then they tried to spin it for entertainment with a former scream queen lead and a scene basically making light of the fact that the groundskeeper didn't hear a single sound because he was listening to music. i don't understand who does that and thinks it's not exploitative.
don't watch this. i watched for the leads, expecting a very loose manson connection and a campy horror. instead i got a weird 4k hd reenactment of the tate murders wikipedia entry that left me unhappy and vaguely wanting a shower. i don't honestly know how two women with successful television careers would agree to a film as shitty as this, it's not like they're in desperate need for work.
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wait i'm revising this, i think the morons who made this movie legitimately just modified the last podcast third manson episode into a screenplay.
Alan Cumming forgot how to act! what an unbearable character and over acting performance, thank God we won't watch him again. Horrendous!
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to be fair, i think the character was meant to be that unbearable and exaggerated. people like that do exist in reality, i've had to work with some of them personally!
