Season 1
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Loki — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 12:18 PM)
I keep saying it's so beautiful but it is! Certain things stuck in my kind, like that underwater scene (so many stunning shots in general throughout the season), and things like cutting from focusing in Lady Jane's mouth (beginning of ep 7) to the
decapitated-at-the
-mouth body of Mr Honey, the carpenter
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 06:45 PM)
i'll add some elaborate thoughts on the first season in a bit but besides i agree it's immensely beautifully shot i just wanted to point out that also the dialogue is so well written… just an example
Crozier: As a trusted friend once put it, this place wants us dead.
Fitzjames: Who is this friend? Does he also write melodrama?
Crozier: Sir John, myself, Mr. Blanky and Mr. Reed. Only four of us at this table are arctic veterans. There'll be no melodramas here. Just live men or dead men.
sick burn by Fitz
suck it. -
Sophievirus — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 06:54 PM)
i know…
and does Tobias ever disappoint? he's fantastic here, and in Outlander and Rome, even his brief appearances in GoT were rather memorable… well at least i always wanted his character to have a more sustainable role. such a great actor.
suck it. -
Loki — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 07:00 PM)
I never saw
Outlander
. GoT had a bunch of really good actors in smaller roles. Ciarán Hinds again…
Orson needs to see this series. It has not only these 2 from GoT but also 2 from
Chernobyl
. And I really like Kevin Guthrie too (
Dunkirk, The English Game
). Damn, the whole cast on this was top notch. -
Sophievirus — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 08:26 PM)
Outlander really starts great, and Tobias is such an evil villain in it, but really well written with enough depth for me to actually grow to "love" his character even if i despise him in the show… bc he's the devil in person lol
as the show went on tho, i grew to kinda really get frustrated with the main protagonist, Claire. i don't think the writers really got her right. she increasingly comes off as obnoxious and really annoying and she gets worse and worse each season… maybe it's just me, but in the end i stopped watching Outlander altogether after the 4th season, bc my tolerance threshold was only that much to bear her any longer. lol the actress didn't really help either as she is really not good, kinda tryhard overacting. all other actors in the cast were fine. i really liked the other main protagonist, Jamie
, Claire's love interest, tho, and he was the only reason i kept on watching for a while. well, and for Tobias Menzies, too, but his character was written off after season 3 (if i remember correctly). and that's a real pity cuz, story-wise, Outlander really has potential, only the lead actress and character was too unbearable for me to stick with it.
and yep, Orson really should watch The Terror.
suck it. -
MovieManCin2 — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 01:51 AM)
I enjoyed season one, but season two, not so much. I got bored after three or four episodes, and deleted it.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 08:50 PM)
sorry for this tl;dr comment, but i sort of needed to get some things off my chest.
first off, how did u manage the binging?
i gave each episode a day, at least. i needed my thoughts to work it up. i know everyone is different of course, and i'm just asking bc i've never been the binge-type of a viewer and when i have binged in the past, like watched 4-5 episodes in a row, it was usually super thrilling and gripping stuff.., however, a lot of emotions and pondering about certain things that happened in an episode fell on the wayside in the course of that binging. the pondering, that is sometimes needed and intended by the show-runners and writers and which i would have had if i had watched the episodes with at least one day in between..
the last time i binged through a couple of episodes and deeply regretted it, was during the 4th season of The Americans, where i didn't give myself enough time to mourn a certain character's death and didn't give myself enough time to feel the entire emotional impact of that one episode, bc my thoughts were already ahead to the next episode to see what the aftermath of that death would play out like, which in the end, of course, only marginally was dealt with and left me a bit disappointed. so i wasted time that could have been used to let it all impact on me and work on me.
i think, sometimes, there's a reason why episodes usually are aired in one week's time, but that's just me, of course.
i also think it varies. some shows put a lot of development into each hour, and yes, The Terror not so much. especially in these last four episodes, which are basically an extended escalator to hell, and every important moment is memorable enough to maintain impact. actually, if i think about it, separating these sequences with weeks in between will **** with the impact. also, binging helps with immersion if u have the time for it. u get lost in it for hours, and are fully absorbed. all that said, i prefer the weekly format for the sake of weekly discussions and the story crafting.
and there are different kind of shows.. character studies usually need more time to percolate in the old nogging, shows like The Americans that doesn't build on cliffhangers too much, but where each episode has one coherent plot issue that it deals with. same goes for The Sopranos, i assume.. Mad Men, maybe, but this one hasn't so much emotional depth in its story, and is more episodical, as opposed to LOST or Breaking Bad (except of maybe Jesse's arc) which would be just like The Terror, in that, little momentum is lost in binging bc it's just one amazing ride, from start to finish, right?
however, particularly after seeing The Terror's 6th episode it was a moment when i had to pause for some time (days), and rack my brain around the stuff i just saw, and why.. why did he do that? someone who was not on my radar, other than being extremely uptight about everything.
i thought tho the final episode wasn't quite up to the same quality for various reasons. episode 9 is a good contender for bleakest episode of any tv show ever. it was as if they were in purgatory, a bleached rocky plain that stretches on forever.
i'm also amazed how much gravitas each major death had, considering the space between them. they really did their best to make them memorable. even characters who had bit parts in the first few episodes.
i mean what they did with Jopson, damn.
despite all the deaths, it's not completely tragedy at least. the friendship that develops between Fitzjames and Crozier is just beautiful, (i quoted one great dialogue they had above) to think they hated each others guts at the start. that was lovely, but then it's also one of the only positive developments after episode 5.
ok i'll stop here for now, but we also need to talk about the carnivale episode in particular.
suck it. -
Loki — 5 years ago(June 17, 2020 09:19 PM)
The short answer is: cats. I am often stuck under two cats and I don't want to disturb them as they snooze hard on me, so I need something that immerses me for some hours.
I also don't like waiting a week between episodes unless it's a procedural/episodic tv show, as in, each episode being a new story, like
Poirot
, or the various Sherlock Holmes shows, for example. Otherwise waiting a week takes me out of it and makes me not care much. With GoT I watched each episode as they aired because even though I read the books, I didn't want the show spoiled, and avoiding spoilers for that was impossible. I hated having to wait a week for every episode. Then after each season was done I would rewatch it in binge mode and it was always better binged.
I actually binged
The Terror
a little slower than my normal pace.
I have no complaints about anything in this. It worked really well.
I realised at one point oh god everyone is going to die awfully… Oh lord the carnival episode.