I think he'd feel too much shame to go back. And he felt a lot of affinity towards the locals, being one of the few who learnt their language and tried to respect their customs.

He would probably also be concerned that if he did go back, further expeditions would be sent to try and find the beast's corpse or more things like it, bringing more disruption to the locals and the ecology.

Discovery season 1 had a good one, with the villain in control of the loop. Also my favorite Discovery episode

I think she wanted to rule rather than destroy the multiverse. But in any case, having one of the other Stranges being responsible for the destruction of one or more universes is pretty high stakes.

>The latest Doctor Strange movie was more like the earlier movies it was a smaller threat

Multiverse of madness? The one where the entire multiverse was at risk from an unstoppable reality warper?

>they recently announced they will also do the other books in the series.

Hurray! I just finished the show, was hugely impressed. Hadn't seen any Chinese TV shows before.

30 episodes meant they got to take their time and include (almost?) everything from the book. Has been a few years since I read it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist

Obviously an actor can have any background for their character, but it's fun to try and find in story explanations

Yeah. I'll usually only watch one season at a time, then take a small break by watching something else. Only time that doesn't apply is if they're about to be pulled from a streaming service, or if it's a new Netflix show and I wanna boost numbers a bit so they don't kill it.

Yeah I never got Family Guy either. Its like they took the Simpsons, amped up the dumb shit and removed the nice little heart warming moments.

Yeah maybe that's it, I did sub when I ran out of free episodes

Apparently its going to be 30 episodes long for the first book, so it might be better to wait for the Netflix series if that's going too slow.

I enjoyed the countdown photos episode, it helped demonstrate Miao's methodical approach to studying an absolutely bizarre and seemingly inexplicable thing. Only thing that was odd is that his wife went along with it a little too readily.

Regarding the ads, on Youtube I just get a 15 second ad burst at the start and halfway through each episode.. Still more than Netflix, but way less than typical cable TV. I also don't speak Chinese, so all it does is make me curious what Santi(Santee?) is.

I read the book and I'm enjoying the slow pace of the Tencent TV series.

I'm actually quite jealous really. Because they're doing a fairly small book over 30 episodes, each 30-50 minutes long, they really do get to include almost everything. Poor Wheel of Time with a larger book only got 8 episodes, and a drastically changed and shortened story as a result.

Its a fun little heist series, solid 3/5 from me.

The problem with the mixed episode order for every viewer is I had no one to compare notes with, so to speak, so that didn't change anything for me.

Exactly. That's why the idea of "thoughtcrime" from 1984 was so horrific, because you can't fully control what you think even when you have a very strong incentive from a repressive state to do so.

Denying anyone their individual rights because of their political or other beliefs should be a horrifying idea too. Only actions likely to lead to harm should lead to restrictions to your rights. Like public calls to or threats of violence

Weeds season 1 ending definitely caught me by surprise, and I think there were a few other big changes later on too.

First thing I saw him in was Time Bandits , he played a great hammy villain, chucking fireballs about and blowing up his minions on a whim.

Didn't recognise him as Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek 6 at the time, but it was a great performance. Same thing when he played Gul Maldred in the "4 lights" episode in TNG.

Helluva talented guy

I had a similar experience, though episode 3 did hook me in.

Andor is pretty unlikeable in the first two episodes, just a grifter who gets other people to lie or cover for him, and has now accidentally murdered someone and is bringing the heat back home. And the connection between him and the jungle kids is not clear at all(to me, anyway)

Not saying it has to change, as the payoff is there. But I can see people needing a push from a friend's recommendation to keep going past the slow start.

I found it to be very disappointing. Hadn't seen Dark or been aware of who created it.

Had only seen a very short trailer. I was expecting something more like The Terror, another "19th Century mystery horror on a ship in a remote place" kind of thing. So when they pulled the switcheroo I was pretty disappointed. Also I never got to care for any of the characters that much, especially after some of the reveals later in the season.

I'd take those posts over linking a 1+ hour video essay with no editorial comment, or "I just finished watching Very Popular Show, why aren't more people talking about it?"

Combination of article and list.

Those "top 7 shows that ended with a downer ending!" kind of articles

Makes sense. Most of our bigger spaceships will be built or at least assembled in orbit anyway.

"White men everywhere" was just a trend with early US film making. I remember a joke about Lando Calrissian "Look a black man made it to space!" because to the best of my knowledge he was the first black dude in Star Wars.

The Empire has no in universe reason to care about skin color, and is already sufficiently Nazi coded without needing to harm real actor role diversity

Bit unfair to Andor. He's the catalyst for a lot of the events in the show. He leads the corpos to Ferrix, where the failed raid helps radicalize them. attracts Axis' attention and impresses him enough to try to expose himself and hire Andor for the heist, which likely would have failed without his help. The heist leads to an Imperial crackdown and more imperial presence on Ferrix, then the fight there.

Someone pointed out they do 3 episode mini arcs, and I can't unsee it now. Ep 3 is the failed corp security raid on Ferrix, Ep 6 is the heist. I thought those did a good job to keep me going after in-between the slower episodes