I saw Mr. Holmes yesterday. It was good. It is not an action adventure movie like the Sherlock Holmes' films that starred Iron Man. Rather it is a moving drama, about a very old Mr. Holmes, who is losing his memory and facing his mortality. Plus, Ian McKellan.

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I started watching season one of Rebels last week. I am liking it a lot. It is much lighter in tone than The Clone Wars, and I like that it is focused on a much smaller cast, allowing us to see more of each individual character than Clone Wars could allow for. It is also fun seeing a show set in the same general era as the original trilogy, with Tie Fighters, Stormtroopers, and the like. Most of all I like the characters, and have a good time watching them.

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I'm watching Pitch Black. It's a damn good film, and the closest I get to a horror film. And I have to say, I prefer Riddick in this, as opposed to Chronicles of Riddick(haven't seen Riddick, no idea what he's like in that) because they don't try to make him a hero.

I watched The Force Awakens today. It was alright, but nothing spectacular. Basically what I expected once I saw that JJ Abrams was in charge. The plot is such a carbon copy of A New Hope that before it was even half-way through I was thinking "Ok this has to happen now, then this, than this, etc..." And of course it all went on schedule. That is always the case with JJ Abrams, he doesn't have an original bone in his body. All he can do is copy other people's work.

But I did like the new characters, and the old ones. Han Solo is still the coolest guy in the galaxy, and the Falcon is still the coolest ship to ever fly. I was very pleasantly surprised to see a female protagonist who actually gets to use a lightsaber and the force. We have never seen that in a Star Wars film before (just a few female Jedi in the prequels who are so far in the back that they never have names or dialogue). And wow, a second black man in the entire galaxy. It only took seven movies for that (oh wait, he's the third black man in the galaxy, I guess each trilogy gets to have one black man). It was also nice to see some aliens in the Rebel Alliance Resistance, instead of only humans. That is a lot more iconoclasm than one normally sees in a sequel, so I cannot complain about JJ Abrams too much.

But the Big Bad is named Snooki? Really? The Jersey Shore is now running the Empire? How the mighty have fallen...

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I love Pitch Black.

I’m about to watch the last Harry Potter movie with the family.

Pitch Black was a great movie. There are no heroes in it. Some people might look like they are at times, but the way this movie is, no one is what they appear to be. I loved that ambiguity about the film.

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I've not done much 'serious' watching these past several days . . . a little of this, a little of that, nothing particularly post worthy.

However, yesterday afternoon/evening I got wind of a 79 year old woman who began making gaming videos with commentary for post on YouTube several months ago (as of late Dec 2015). Here is episode one of her Skyrim LP. Even discounting the age factor it's a fine episode, better than a good many TES LP episodes I've attempted to watch.

I´d say the mighty fell with the announcement of the first prequel...

Thanks to Decrepit, I have been watching Junketsu no Maria. I am three episodes in, and so far it is a lot of fun. It is half gritty real world ugliness of the Hundred Years War, and half wild anime magic girlness. I noticed that it is done by Production I.G., which explains a lot. They always create excellent shows.

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I finished season one of Rebels today. I absolutely loved it! Especially Sabine's Tie Fighter! Sabine is definitely my favorite character. She has the whole Mandalorian thing going, plus she's an artist.

I was also tickled pink to find out that I had guessed who Fulcrum was! Yaay! My favorite character from The Clone Wars!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 27 2015, 11:10 PM

Heh, I was waiting to see your reaction when she finally appeared. She looks great, and just gets better in S2


I just watched the first episode of Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands. Pretty good start, with some nice CGI beasties mixed into the medieval norse setting. Looks like it'll be a fun show.

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I’m watching season 5 of The Walking Dead. It got much better after the first two seasons, and though I haven’t checked because I don’t want plot spoilers it’s pretty obvious that the writing team has changed since the beginning. I really doubt that the first crew had even met people like most of the characters, much less understood them.

It helped my enjoyment tremendously when some actors with authentic-sounding accents joined the cast. One guy in particular has a beautiful Atlanta accent, and another guy who is supposed to be from the same area but from a different social stratum sounds exactly right. Some of the original actors make my ears bleed. To be fair it’s not their fault when someone writes “ain’t” into their lines thinking that all southerners speak the same dialect. Ugh.

There are believable and complicated characters now, though it’s still a cliffhanger-of-the-week kind of show. I think they knew how characters were supposed to develop and went too far starting them as weak/self-centered/idiots/assholes in the beginning to show that later they had changed. I spent two seasons cheerfully rooting for the zombies. That probably wasn’t the plan.


Clone Wars and Rebels are next on our viewing list.

I just started Season 2 of Rebels. Rex!!!

I am putting Beowulf down on my to watch list for the future.



I think the tv series is based off the comic, which I never read. But from some of the making off interviews in the bonus materials the tv show moves at a much slower pace. Some characters who die in season two only survived it one or two comic issues. So maybe they were supposed to grow up into non-disgusting people a whole lot sooner.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 28 2015, 11:56 PM

I found some concept art for the next Star Wars movie. I am looking forward to this one! Here is a page about it

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 29 2015, 03:18 AM

That first vid was amazing! It was hard to imagine the way he was holding that sword that he could cause any real harm, but the guy actually got sick and disoriented by the blows on his helmet!

I really enjoy this guy narrating the next two vids, and most especially got a kick out of his rant about insulting art - and boy weren't those last figurines awesome!

Just watched Jurassic Park

I love that film so much

Oh, man. Got that movie on VHS many years ago. It came in a special "rocky" case and not a standard VHS case. Groovy

That first film was EPIC!!! Didn't care much for the sequels, though.

Yup, they've tried three times to make a proper sequel to Jurassic Park, and they've failed every time

Have you seen the one that came out this year? I haven't seen it yet.