Like 6 months of TV & movies
Sep. 1st, 2019 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smilebackwardsI've been watching a lot of TV and movies as usual but I haven't posted about any of it.
Justice League Action
What I most enjoyed lately was Justice League Action. I have very little interest in the live action Justice League stuff because I find it weird and overly dark but I love Justice League animated stuff. Action is...not nuanced. The pilot was pretty bad. But, I mean, it's a kids show, it's not really meant for me. Regardless, it got a lot better? Some of the story ideas were quite interesting (powerloss! bodyswap!), just it's hard to develop things when the episodes are 10 minutes long. I grew up with the original Justice League animated show and they did multipart episodes that were like movie length.
Anyway, I like the art in Action and Kevin Conroy voiced Batman which is always extremely important to me. Also, the whole thing is pretty hilarious. I feel very certain this show was written by millennials. It's that kind of humor. Which is to say, my humor. Green Arrow has to fight velociraptors. There is a train heist IN SPACE. Everyone is very Flash-casual with their villians. And Batman is central to the whole thing which is what I care about. He's a good mentor to the younger League members. Everyone in the League is obsessed with having his approval. And he gives it to them! He validates them!! This is a good Batman.
It's all on Hulu until DC probably takes it for their separate streaming service which I apparently need to watch Young Justice, argh.
Other stuff I've watched:
Justice League Action
What I most enjoyed lately was Justice League Action. I have very little interest in the live action Justice League stuff because I find it weird and overly dark but I love Justice League animated stuff. Action is...not nuanced. The pilot was pretty bad. But, I mean, it's a kids show, it's not really meant for me. Regardless, it got a lot better? Some of the story ideas were quite interesting (powerloss! bodyswap!), just it's hard to develop things when the episodes are 10 minutes long. I grew up with the original Justice League animated show and they did multipart episodes that were like movie length.
Anyway, I like the art in Action and Kevin Conroy voiced Batman which is always extremely important to me. Also, the whole thing is pretty hilarious. I feel very certain this show was written by millennials. It's that kind of humor. Which is to say, my humor. Green Arrow has to fight velociraptors. There is a train heist IN SPACE. Everyone is very Flash-casual with their villians. And Batman is central to the whole thing which is what I care about. He's a good mentor to the younger League members. Everyone in the League is obsessed with having his approval. And he gives it to them! He validates them!! This is a good Batman.
It's all on Hulu until DC probably takes it for their separate streaming service which I apparently need to watch Young Justice, argh.
Other stuff I've watched:
- Star Wars: Rebels - Seasons 1 & 2 - A good space family. I have seasons 3 & 4 to watch now. Apparently this will include THRAWN? I need that 'was I just supposed to find this out for myself' gif set.
- The Expanse - Season 3 - SO GOOD. I'm glad it was rescued and it will be on Amazon which I have so I can watch season 4 immediately when it comes out.
- Lucifer - Season 4 - I actually would have been okay with this as an ending but I'll take season 5.
- Humans - Season 3 - I didn't like where the end of this season was going so I'm okay it was cancelled.
- Santa Clarita Diet - Season 3 - This I AM NOT OKAY was cancelled. This season made me laugh so hard.
- Good Omens - Mildly obsessed with this like the rest of fandom but strangely I have little desire to read or write fic
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix - I thought this was fine. I mean, I don't really care about any of the movies post First Class, but I didn't think this was worse than the others. Idk why critics panned it so hard.
- Red Sea Diving Resort - I thought this was going to be in theaters and then it was on Netflix? Anyway, it was good although some of it was certainly hard to watch.
- Probably other stuff I've forgotten
