Animavore wrote:Do. It's great.

scott1328 wrote:Archer

SafeAsMilk wrote:Not really. Even in the case of Flintstones you had people who actually knew how to design cartoon characters instead of crummy flat outlines that look like they were drawn with ballpoint pen. Just look at Avatar as a quick example: most actual kid's animation these days have art skill well in excess of what you see on the adult shows, character designers and animators that can actually create depth, dimension and motion. I don't understand why all these shows for adults have to look like flat piles of crap. It's like they all saw Beavis And Butthead and decided they didn't have to try anymore. It was fresh and interesting 30 years ago, but now it just looks hackneyed and lazy. Hire some artists, for fuck's sake.

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Really dark ending of Preacher.

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Really dark ending of Preacher.

VazScep wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Really dark ending of Preacher.

We must have different ideas about dark. The Night Of is way darker, IMO, almost nihilistic.

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

VazScep wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Really dark ending of Preacher.

We must have different ideas about dark. The Night Of is way darker, IMO, almost nihilistic.

I never said which was darker.
Also, you don't consider the whole town finding out God is missing and then giving up on live to go murder, watch tv etc. with hopeless stares, all for them to get blown up by the methane plant, not dark?

Pulsar wrote:Stranger Things

Believe the hype. I binged the whole show from start to finish in a single day, I just couldn't stop watching. This show really took me back to my childhood. It's hard to create an homage without making it look like a rip-off, but they pulled it off brilliantly. Spotting all the references is a game in itself: E.T., The Goonies, Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Explorers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Thing, Jaws, basically every classic Stephen King story (The Body aka Stand By Me, It, Firestarter, Carrie, The Mist, Cujo, The Shining,...), and even a few nods to Twin Peaks. It's all in there. And the soundtrack is fantastic. Sure, the story lacked some originality, but I had way too much fun to be bothered about that.

I love the fact that the kids are the protagonists, so that the story is a perfect blend of a light hearted adventure and some classic horror elements. It wouldn't have worked from a purely adult point of view. Child actors are always a risk, but thankfully they did a fantastic job. The young lead actress in particular was phenomenal, she has a bright future ahead of her.

My only gripes are that the backstory and some characters could've been fleshed out more, but those are nitpicks. Best show of 2016 so far, and it came out of nowhere. Highly recommended.

VazScep wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

VazScep wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Really dark ending of Preacher.

We must have different ideas about dark. The Night Of is way darker, IMO, almost nihilistic.

I never said which was darker.
Also, you don't consider the whole town finding out God is missing and then giving up on live to go murder, watch tv etc. with hopeless stares, all for them to get blown up by the methane plant, not dark?

Not really, no. Comically cynical, but that's about it. Nothing really disturbing. Preacher is mostly just a barrel of fun for me.

VazScep wrote:The bit that I thought was dark was Custer accidentally sending a kid to hell and his attitude afterwards. Though even that was (lamely) mitigated by throwing in a story from left-field that the kid had committed a heinous crime.

VazScep wrote:Also, there was Quincannon murdering the Greenacre folk, which at the time I took to be him serving God in a twisted way, but I think that plot got dumped.