• 74 183.84@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Endgame is the end of the MCU. After endgame disney pished out too much MCU shit and ruined it. They should’ve stopped at endgame and not try to make many shows that also factor into the overall MCU. Some may argue that this problem was already too much before endgame premiered. That is a valid argument.

  • Notamoosen@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    Aliens ended the franchise. Slightly different answer, nothing occurred between the release of Predator and Prey.

  • hactar42@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Terminator 2 (T2) is a masterclass in combining CGI with practical effect and its ending is a rare cinematic full stop.

    The T-1000’s liquid metal form was revolutionary, the morphing effects were cutting-edge in 1991, yet Cameron used them sparingly and only where practical effects couldn’t work. That restraint made the CGI more impactful and has made it so they still hold up 35 years later.

    The truck chase through the storm drain, the helicopter flying under an overpass, the Cyberdyne building blowing up; it was all real and you can feel that when you watch the movie. There is no way any movie studio would do that nowadays when they could just CGI giant Michael Bay explosions.

    The destruction of Cyberdyne and the Terminators meant the timeline was reset. Judgment Day was averted. The T-800 lowering itself into molten steel is an iconic moment; a machine choosing self-sacrifice for humanity. It’s a perfect final note, not just for the character, but for the franchise. Bringing him back again and again weakens that sacrifice. Any sequel has to undo all of this just to exist. Which is why to this day, I have not watched a single Terminator film after T2.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      10 days ago

      Which is why to this day, I have not watched a single Terminator film after T2.

      I don’t want to spoil anything, but you might be interested in knowing that some of us feel that Terminator: Dark Fate avoids the issues you mention, and works as a direct and worthy sequel to T2.

  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    Season 1 of Westworld. It’s okay to have an ambiguous ending, you can leave it to viewer’s imagination. That show went downhill with every season because it was trying too hard to be smart.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Vikings ended like an episode or two after Ragnar died. It didn’t need to drag on with everyone’s stories so Ling after amd it all just went nowhere. It needed to end after the sons got their vengeance and celebrated. Everything after that was stupid.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    11 days ago

    Episode IV. That’s my hill.

    NeuTrek. TNG squeeks by, but any Trek with a dysfunctional, corrupt Federation with a Black Ops team is out.

    The West Wing, season 4. After Sorkin left it went to shit.

    Ren & Stimpy was hit or miss, but really after the first season it fell off a cliff pretty fast.

    Nobody’s ever done an adaptation of Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy, which is too bad.

    TLoTR had 3 movies; everything after has been just a shitty job of milking the success of the first 3. Which is too bad, because Cumberbuzzle was brilliant as Smaug.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        1·
        11 days ago

        I have. It’s not bad, despite my several grievances with it. Mainly the Gorn redesign as cheap knock-offs of Xenomorphs, that Kirk could never have hand-to-handed. And I really, really dislike the whole Spock/nurse Chapel story line. T’Pring was grossly mistreated, and it makes Spock’s surprise at her behavior in Amok Time completely out of character: he knew what he did. I’m also not fond of jumping directly to musical episodes in so early; shows usually only do that when they start running out of other ideas. I had to fast-forward through most of that one. I was really unhappy about killing off… who they killed off. I would have preferred almost any other character be sacrificed if they really felt it necessary.

        But all that said, there is a lot of good, and I’ll keep watching it. I think my biggest gripe is that they picked SNW to continue, over Lower Decks‽ That was bogus; LD was a far better show.

        • Ideonek@lemm.ee
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          9 days ago

          I think that Chapel arc s brilliant and it retrospectively fixed part of the TOS that didn’t age well, by adding hidden depth to character who was nothing more than a cheep joke.

          Also without it we wouldn’t get “I’m the X”, which is objectively the best thing ever.

            • Ideonek@lemm.ee
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              9 days ago

              I believe that idea behind it is that his future TOS restrain is - partially - caused by his unhealed emotional wounds that he gained during his youth.

                • Ideonek@lemm.ee
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                  9 days ago

                  One the other hand, we have a lot of evidence that young human males are very horny… I don’t think it takes away from original Spock’s “maybe I’m suppressing more than I should” arc. It ads to it. And writing prequels is always hard, because your characters can’t evolve above certain point. The need to end low, because low is where they started TOS - their journey need to happen there. Most are basically pointless and lead nowhere. Young Sheldon can’t learn his lessons and grow because old Sheldon need to start broken.

                  Having secret “there is more story behind his silence and cold indifference” is a great way to have the arc and not brake the arc.

        • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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          11 days ago

          I am also a huge fan of Lower Decks. It will be missed! The crossover episode with SNW was fantastic.