I think this may be based on one of the books by his son and Anderson.
Just finished Dark Winds S2.
Fantastic show. Great acting, plot, dialogue, setting, scenery. Highly recommend it.
She looks reasonably attractive, ill give it at least a episode.
Mixed bag so far.
I loved the first one with the babies. I really thought it was great.
Not such a fan of the second, which I thought was just daft. And not in a good Dr Who way. Jinx Monsoon was great, and I like seeing more of the Celestials.
But what is the point of doing Doctor Who meets the Beatles if you clearly canāt get the rights to any of the music? It was screamingly obvious that they were writing around not being able to use any Beatles Tracks. And the song and dance number at the end was really crap. If you are going to crowbar a musical number into Doctor Who, the very least you can do is make it a good one.
Donāt listen to people going on about it being Woke. They donāt have the first fucking clue what they are on about.
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Iām always bewildered that self proclaimed fans of a show that famously thrives on reinvention and renewal get cross whenever it reinvents and renews itself.
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But it has to reinvent and renew to their standards.
As long as you can distinguish between intelligently reinventing vs being a lazy bunch of fuckwits that just change some random shit in order to line their pockets.
TBH, I donāt think the royalties would have been an issue as Disney is pretty much the home of the Beatles anyway. I suppose the irony is that back in the 1960s when the budget would stretch to a sticky backed plastic monster, they had the actual Beatles on.
I know a few people have suggested that the episode borrowed heavily from the film Yesterday, which was based around the idea of what if the Beatles never made it. My only thought was that having defeated the threat, they should have had something Beatles related.
I get the idea of where they are going with this series, altering reality, I just donāt know if RTD will tie it up satisfactorily. He doesnāt have great form on that.
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I tried to find some info on it but I didnāt have much luck. It seems that the first season will focus exclusively on the creation of Bene Gesserit. Again, knowing the financial success (and critical but Iāll be cynical and focus on the financial part) of Villeneuveās Dune films, it seems that powers that be will do their best to capitalise on this particular intellectual property. Once the trilogy is done, I wouldnāt exclude some prequel films that would explain the likes of Butlerian Jihad.
Iām just interested as to what people think of the various streaming services. Iām thinking of cancelling Netflix because they put their price up again. I checked with the rest of the family and my eldest son doesnāt think it is up to much whereas our youngest likes it.
At the moment, we also have:
Apple+, which we use quite a bit and seems to be good quality.
Disney+, I currently have on a cheap deal from Telekom and is the one my eldest son thinks is best. I like a fair bit of the content although I seem to be the only one who still likes their original family films.
Amazon Prime, I basically regard this as a freebie because I get it for the free deliveries. My wife likes this.
Magenta, again, I essentially get this for the German channels so the additional bits are a bonus.
Sky - I cancelled their films and TV packages. I may subscribe to this for off months if there is significant series that I want to watch.
Obviously, this is a German-centric list and we can also access the various ARD, ZDF, RTL players. I can also access the UK based free players (iPlayer, ITVx etc) but the throughput can be a bit ropey as it is just through our works VPN. (and also of dubious legality).
Is there anything else worth checking out? Iād love to get more stuff with British and Irish comedians on as we donāt really get any of this from the main providers.
Whatās the monthly bill for all that?
Loads, thatās why I want to bin some of it.
Apple+ is 10ā¬, Disney is 5ā¬ but will be going up in November. Amazon is 9ā¬ (but I claim that back as much of it is for office supplies), Magenta is included with the broadband, Sky was 15ā¬. Netflix is going up to 14ā¬.
Additionally I have sports subscriptions but Iāve cancelled RTL+ and DAZN because we arenāt in any of their competitions and Iām be cancelling Sky after Sundayās game and will see what offers I can get for next season.
The trick with the TV subscriptions is to do them monthly and watch them do death. Unfortunately, they are always harder to cancel than to subscribe to.
I use HBO Max, Sky Showtime and Apple+ a lot, I think I would recommend them to anyone willing to sign up for a streaming service (and Iām a devout opponent of anything Apple, by the way). That said, Sky Showtimeās library isnāt as big as that of its competitors but thereās Twin Peaks there and itās enough of a reason for me to pay the subscription.
My best man has shared his Disney, Amazon Prime and Netflix accounts with me, though Netflix is killing password sharing, meaning that I wonāt be using it for much longer.
Disney - if you want to have The Simpsons, The X-Files, Marvel and Star Wars all in one place, itās an easy decision.
Prime has a few great shows (The Expanse, The Man in the High Castle, Fleabag, Fallout, The Boys) but I donāt know it that warrants more than a few months of paying the subscription in regular circumstances.
Netflix was a decent watch, though I wasnāt big on it after I had finished every show that was of interest to me.
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I did cancel Netflix once before but subscribed again as a Christmas present to the kids when Squid Game was the big new thing.
Iām increasingly finding that there is no compelling reason to watch it. There are some things of interest but it isnāt anything that I would miss.
TBH, the sports channels dwarf what the TV and film ones cost. Iāll have to go for DAZN again if I want to see our CL matches next year. 45ā¬ per month unless you go for a yearly subscription. Even then, some games are still on Prime.
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Have mentioned this before, but I think Netflix turned to shit quite some time ago. Still havenāt cancelled it, because I used to really like a lot of their content and I guess I was hoping they might turn it around. Used to have a whole list of stuff I wanted to watch, now I usually end up opening the app, trying to find anything and then quit after a few minutes of frustrated searching.
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I listen to Richard Osmanās podcast (the TV producer) and he said that Netflixās business model has moved from making lots of premium, marquee productions to simply retaining their existing subscribers. This means that the highest number of overall steams isnāt from the new $10million production but some 10 year old series that they have bought from another broadcaster for $40,000 for three years.
I think what we are looking at is a case of āwhat do we really want to watchā rather than aimlessly grazing through the channels looking for something to fill the screen with.
To be honest, with me, you could probably narrow that down to Liverpool games.
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ā¦and Attenborough.
Donāt have Apple TV.
Disney plus has enough content to sink the Titanic. But unless youāre a fan of the old films, thereās little point as pretty much all the new stuff across Marvel and Starwars is at best awful. Put a chick in it and make her gay in the words of Southpark.
Netflix. Sone interesting content and again, loads of it but tends to be more niche, arty, low budget etc
Amazon. Worth it for our saviour Jeremy Clarkson. Love him or loath him, Diddly Squat farm is excellent TV.
VPN and anonymous Google account, ahemā¦ā¦.
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I kind of wish Netflix still had more low budget niche stuff. Or itās just not my niches.
Keeping Prime. And Disney for the Mrs, Simpsons especially. And for the gay stuff of course.
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