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I've been watching a metric butt tonne of horror based series recently. One of the recent ones I finished was Connect. I started this Korean drama with no idea that Takahashi Miike was involved with it. This has a great storyline and very, very good gore fx. Great acting, nice artworks, good score. Only thing let this down for me is the awful subtitles on Disney. 7.5/10
m.imdb.com/title/tt22002370/?r
#tvshows #horror #kdrama

IMDbConnect (TV Series 2022) ⭐ 6.5 | Crime, Drama, Fantasy45m | TV-MA

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The wife and I decided to finally subscribe to AppleTV as of last night. This morning, we started watching Shrinking as this was the number one reason we subscribed since everyone said this show is so good.

We're only one episode in so far, and really enjoying it. We were laughing throughout most of the first episode.

#AppleTV#Apple#TV

Just read that the actor John Amos died back in late August.

The guy had a good and long career (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Roots, West Wing, etc.). But for me, he'll always be associated foremost with Good Times. So glad that show was on when I was a kid.

Here he is in a commercial for McDonald's back in 1971. Also features "Potsie" and a couple other old Hollywood actors.

#RIP #actor #tvshows #GenX

youtube.com/watch?v=8K7XfgByS2

I hate calling people "fake fans," I don't think I've done it before except maybe for some Star Wars incels, but there is one particular discourse about The Rings of Power that rubs me the wrong way.

It's people complaining that Gandalf can't be in Middle-Earth in the Second Age, or that the Balrog can't destroy Khazad-dûm before the War of the Last Alliance and things like that, but who at the same time don't see any problem with Elendil and family being alive at the same time as the forging of the rings, they see no problem with the rings being forged (in a short time, not decades) before the building or Barad-dûr, and many more.

In other words, they can't accept that some events from the Third Age are transposed to the Second Age, but they are fine with events and people being moved around within the Second Age. Why? Probably because they have no clue about the Second Age, but somehow, they feel that they have the moral authority to tell writers what they can and can't do about Middle-Earth.

Now, don't get me wrong. I don't expect people watching The Rings of Power to know their Tolkien lore in and out (and I only do because I was a bored teenager once), but if you're going to complain about inconsistencies, know your stuff.
Or shut up.

So yes, the timeline has been all mixed up in the show. Guess what? It's necessary to have a compelling story (Tolkien never wrote the Second Age as a narrative; he just listed a series of events, detailing only a handful.) If you want to respect the chronology exactly, how do you include humans if you center your story around the Elves? Or how do you do the opposite? And if you focus on only one of the groups and not the other, you can't have a complete story; you'll have to have lame exposition dumps, flashbacks with completely different characters with no development, and similar things (that would be actual "bad writing".)

So yes, if you want to watch The Rings of Power, you need to accept that the chronology is all "messed up."

If you can't handle that, may I advise that you stop watching, and more importantly, that you stop complaining about it online and that you use your time to do something positive that makes you happy?

Just saying.


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