I quickly skimmed over episode s3 ep 1… gonna go back and watch it properly.
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ha, my old friend from college got into watching The Strain finally… so finally I have someone to talk about that shit with! (ha, people probably get tired of my fascination with vampire-related shit, I know)
Despite my disappointment with the series, I kinda regret not picking up the complete series when I saw it at Best Buy about a year ago…just to have it in my “vampire stuff collection”. It does stand out as the only vampire show where I would most likely not want to be one. They’re weak and easily killed…and the major deal-killer for most dudes…your dick falls off in the process! Yeah, not worth it.
The best one could hope for is being chosen to be an “elite” like Eichorst (they retain their intelligence and personality, and *some free-will, and they are much stronger and faster than the regular ones)…but even then; your junk falls off AND the Master can still make you a puppet at any time he sees fit…so that free-will can be revoked if Master decides it is necessary.
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Speechless…
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Saved by the Bell 202X…
Why
That channel is doin a few reboots. Theirs a punky Brewster continuation
Fucking why
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I started watching The Expanse. Binged the first half of Season 1. Really fucking good so far.
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It’s a pretty good series, the show is quality but from time to time characters make really bizarre decisions (especially in season 4). Still probably the best science fiction show in rotation right now.
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Have you tried Van Helsing?
Just caught Black Monday season I was not ready for how much they upped the content this season lol.
Don with the relaxed hair had me in stitches.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Trailer #2…
yeah, I’ll get back to it soon…but right off the top, it was a similar thing with The Strain----I don’t like how pitifully weak the common vamps are on Van Helsing. You could kill them with enough hits from a blunt object, actually…and that’s lame. One thing I always see as a “proper” portrayal of vampires… the difficulty to kill even one. It should NOT be easy for an average person.
The common vamps in both shows also seem kinda mindless…like they are barely different from your average zombie horde… and imo, zombies are THE bottom-tier shit when it comes to the popular supernatural creatures…they are stupid and easily destroyed…only a threat in large numbers and even then only if they’re the fast-moving types.
(on top of being incredibly stale by this point. In gaming, I got tired of them back in the 360/PS3 era. I did enjoy Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 though; I had a couple of friends to play that with regularly)
One of the big reasons I enjoyed the CW shows’ vampires --it showed how incredibly dangerous they were…and you could only kill them in very specific ways; stake to the heart, leaving them out in the sun (without the rings)…or beheading…anything short of that would fail and they’d just regenerate the damage… and the original family were even tougher to kill (*only a stake with a particular kind of wood will permanently kill a Mikaelson family vampire.). That’s the way it should be, imo… these badass creatures shouldn’t be weak.
Jennifer Connelly has a soothing voice…
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Looks hella sanitized.
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https://twitter.com/parksandrecnbc/status/1253461556102197251?s=19
Wow…they are actually reuniting.
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One thing that always threw me off is, why a train?
The whole setting makes no sense to me.
At some point without maintenance the train will derail.
Why not a underground bunker?
Because then you lose the blatant class metaphor the train represents. The message is more important then the realism of the train.
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Yeah that sounds like something I would pass.
I not that into symbolism taking front and center.
Then you wouldn’t like Snow Piercer, the whole movie, and most likely show, is symbolic of structures and hierarchies within socioty. That’s specifically why a train was chosen, the rich and well off live in the front cabins comfortably with lots of luxuries and it gets progressively more poor and miserable as you move to the back of the train where in the last cart everyone’s pretty much jammed in like cattle.