TV Series



Jamiednm said:
The Obi Wan series was absolute trash, Ewan McGregor was the only good thing about it.

It has recontextualised A New Hope in a bad way and has made some of it nonsensical.

They really should’ve dropped the entire Inquisitor plot because they were rubbish, not involved Leia and kept it as a psychological thing between Obi Wan and Vader.

Disney just doesn’t produce good Star Wars, other than the lightning in a bottle that was Rogue One.
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Is ewan mcgregor even that good?
 
Didn't think I'd enjoy Ms Marvel as much as I have in the first 3 episodes. If you just treat it as a pure teen comedy type show it's pretty good.

Very impressed with the lead considering that she apparently wasn't even an actress prior to getting cast in this.
 

Nymzee said:
To me, they could have followed the story exactly like the comics do it. I have no idea why they went another way. They could possibly tie it up at the end but very doubtful. Love it but to me it's just weird what they've done.
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I like this question and used to think that.. it does seem simple but theres loads of reasons. Just a few here coz im having trouble sleeping. Budget. To keep a consistent quality you have to streamline everything. Even something simple like butchers dog on screen for a season might cost twenty grand for the dog and wranglers over so many days, then you’ve costs in its specialised training for indivual actions, ‘mulitples’ ie dogs on standby just in case, prop dogs for lining up shots and lighting, CGI dog assets and then all the time (money) spent preparing and shooting. That 1 dog in every scene is going to have you behind schedule and over budget day 1. I might do a simple budget breakdown of a boys issue to highlight if i get time.

The other thing is human nature. The first thing your going to do is cast Huey, and thats when you realise a 5’4 bald, pudgy, Scottish git with a goatee and skin like an A4 sheet of paper won’t translate how you’d expect..youre trying to get bums on seats to a show that 98% of people have nver heard of. And when you do cast the perfect Huey, boy is he going to have some suggestions as to what he’d like to input into his character. Suggestions that will change and interpet the character for the perfect Huey might cause friction if you don’t allow him to do his job.

Thats creatives though, and you’ve now got to find a Director willing to have no creative input into the Direction of the show, because its already been laid out. You’ll also be reducing the Camera dept, and its going to take you three times longer to shoot anything because you’ll only need one camera to shoot specifically framed scenes. You might figure that to counter you can shoot muliple Units simultainiously, but once you work out hiring (and finding!) multiple crews with the same quality of work will cost an absolute fortune. In TV you’d usually shoot between 4-8 pages every day with every page reflecting 1 minute of screen time so to shoot a 50 - 60 minute ep will take approx 2 weeks, 8 eps / 16 weeks. You might get through it in double that, and thats not accounting for the big set pieces with lots of cast, costumes, makeup, locations and CGI.
 
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McBain said:
I like this question and used to think that.. it does seem simple but theres loads of reasons. Just a few here coz im having trouble sleeping. Budget. To keep a consistent quality you have to streamline everything. Even something simple like butchers dog on screen for a season might cost twenty grand for the dog and wranglers over so many days, then you’ve costs in its specialised training for indivual actions, ‘mulitples’ ie dogs on standby just in case, prop dogs for lining up shots and lighting, CGI dog assets and then all the time (money) spent preparing and shooting. That 1 dog in every scene is going to have you behind schedule and over budget day 1. I might do a simple budget breakdown of a boys issue to highlight if i get time.

The other thing is human nature. The first thing your going to do is cast Huey, and thats when you realise a 5’4 bald, pudgy, Scottish git with a goatee and skin like an A4 sheet of paper won’t translate how you’d expect..youre trying to get bums on seats to a show that 98% of people have nver heard of. And when you do cast the perfect Huey, boy is he going to have some suggestions as to what he’d like to input into his character. Suggestions that will change and interpet the character for the perfect Huey might cause friction if you don’t allow him to do his job.

Thats creatives though, and you’ve now got to find a Director willing to have no creative input into the Direction of the show, because its already been laid out. You’ll also be reducing the Camera dept, and its going to take you three times longer to shoot anything because you’ll only need one camera to shoot specifically framed scenes. You might figure that to counter you can shoot muliple Units simultainiously, but once you work out hiring (and finding!) multiple crews with the same quality of work will cost an absolute fortune. In TV you’d usually shoot between 4-8 pages every day with every page reflecting 1 minute of screen time so to shoot a 50 - 60 minute ep will take approx 2 weeks, 8 eps / 16 weeks. You might get through it in double that, and thats not accounting for the big set pieces with lots of cast, costumes, makeup, locations and CGI.
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It's not necessarily stuff like casting etc. that bother me it's just the main storyline - it's not like they've gone a different way to shorten it for the series as you'd argue there are as many main events in the comics as in the series, maybe even more in the series. A small collection of the things I hate:

- What they did with Stillwell who is my favourite character in the comics
- What they did with Vic the Veep
- Stormfront
- What I suspect they'll do with Black Noir
- Jack from Jupiter getting canned (suspect this was a money thing on the CGI)
- Frenchie & Kimiko getting some sort of love arc
- Waiting 3 seasons to give The Boys a taste of compound V and then giving them in with ludicrous powers

Ugh, just annoys me. They should have just made the show animated and followed the comics. Like I just don't see how they can finish the show the same way they do in the comics now.
 
Del-boy said:
We own this City. If you liked The Wire, well worth a watch and quite a few of the Wire cast in it. Absolute madness what went on and the ending is interesting and leaves a lot of questions.
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The last five minutes were it goes through what happened in the months after just left me dumbfounded. Reaction was some mixture of laughter and head shaking.
 

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