Watched the first couple episode of Preacher season 2 and it's good to be watching it again! I've heard of some of the crazy stuff they've been doing and can't wait to see for myself. And I finally got around to the last season of Orphan Black - which I still highly recommend for you to check out . Yeah me too, if it's not on Netflix I'm much less likely to watch it. Running out of show ideas that are easily accessible but at least the regular shows like Supernatural are coming back soon.

I'm glad you've re-discovered them! Yeah their Showbiz performance was incredible. It's really aged well and Matt sounded amazing. I can only hope they play it again like that in the future. Europe seems to get the better setlists though.

I should find out if I passed my qualifying exam by the end of this week. Back to school tomorrow... how are things going for you on the school front?

It's a cool atmosphere at least even if you don't know the lyrics but everyone else around you does. Downfall of Us All is the one I know best too. Aww jeez, that lineup situation sounds no fun, I'm glad you weren't in the sun for longer! Too bad for everyone else

I keep meaning to try Jessica Jones one of these days. Speaking of shows I keep forgetting Preacher season 2 is out and have that on my to-do list too.

That's fair (and a good idea for your eyes!), and to be honest it wasn't a big spectacle up here, and I think you would have gotten a similar view as me considering how far we are from Oregon. I did have glasses and took a few peeks, I guess it was kinda cool, but it was nothing compared to what totality would've looked like. I'd like to see that one day!

Great to hear! I didn't realize A Day to Remember was the opener, I like quite a few of their songs. That's too bad , I hope you didn't get too drenched. Did you have floor tickets/were you in the mosh pit?

Thanks... I need all the luck I can get. I'll have about a week before school after the exams and I'm totally just going to just binge TV shows and play video games . I have managed to watch Westworld though, finally - I just finished it. It was really compelling.

Did you have a chance to look at the eclipse today?

Yeah that's what I think too. In Supernatural, no-one ever dies anyways. Yeah it seems so! I really like how they dialed the story down a bit and aren't always trying to up themselves with bigger baddies, and it sounds like they are continuing that next season. I've heard they want to make it to episode 300 and I think that would put them in season 14.

Awesome! And nice , you can never have too much birthday cake. By now you'll have gone to the concert, hope you enjoyed it . I hope you get your chance next time around.

Sorry I've been so late to respond (well, even slower than normal), been studying for my PhD qualifying exam. It's at the end of August... the end is near...

I have! The teaser picture looks great, perfect style and everything. I'm really hoping something as crazy as that means Gabriel is coming back. Still don't completely believe he's gone forever.

Ahh and I'm sorry I missed your birthday... Happy belated birthday!!! I hope it was great! And that you enjoyed the A7X concert too!

That's a relief! I hope you're right!

Sounds just like the show then, from what I've seen and heard. I love how he has a Bat tool for everything! Like shark repellent! Yeah he was such a good fit for the role, and he certainly made the role his own. This is a gem:

Have fun!

Holy crap that's hot! I hope it will cool down a bit before the middle of summer hits

Yeah Gotham has got some really obscure villains, and I don't recognize all of them but it's fun to read people's theories nontheless. Heh I've been planning on doing a watch through of the 1960's show! I haven't actually seen all that much of it, just clips here and there on TV, and haven't seen the movie.

I watched a few more of the videos on the channel and it's definitely given me a new perspective of how bad things can be . This is where I got up to in the Christmas Special... 20 minutes in. And not the worst part:

So I just arrived in Mountain View for the week and I... cannot imagine... how you survive in this heat .

Speaking of good DC shows, Gotham just had its 3rd season finale and it was fantastic. It actually felt like a series finale and is setting up Batman really well.

I see . I'm impressed at your selection! I know Samurai Cop (and it's so hilariously bad ) but not the others. That looks like a fun youtube channel too. I don't know too many really bad movies but I probably would choose the Star Wars Christmas Special... partly because with Star Wars associated with it you'd have high expectations, but it's so bad! I still haven't made it through watching.

That's bold, considering we have the much, much larger games library

Wild Dog got more tolerable for me, but Curtis was still pretty bad I think the other speedster was The Rival, and I don't remember much about him other than that he had a horrible costume! A lot of people have been saying how they were surprised that this season of Arrow was actually better than Flash and I agree with them for sure.

Here's a question: if you were to make a bet, and the winner would get to pick any movie for the loser to be forced to watch, which movie would you pick? My brother and I were discussing this and we unequivocally agreed on our pick... I'm curious if you'll think of one that could be even worse to watch.

Thanks!

Ahh I see - console peasants, the lot of you! I will admit I've probably been assimilated. Except, as I said, when it comes to my Nintendo. Still waiting on getting a Switch though, I'd like to see more games.

I hope I'm not overhyping him for you, but yeah, he was fantastic. Also Prometheus is voiced by Michael Dorn which is pretty great. I'd consider him juuuust edging Deathstroke out, personally. I'm curious what they'll do next season with the flashbacks since they're now all caught up with timeline of the show. I agree, about the writing and the repetitive villain on the Flash... and not even how they all have twist identities, I hope the next villain just isn't a speedster like always. They seem to not know how to challenge Team Flash with anything but speedsters for the big bads and it's getting tiring.

Episode III >>>>> Rogue One imo. That must've been it!

Orphan Black is back for its last season next week and I'm so excited

I was just wondering since I feel like you could always get the game on PC instead of getting it plus a Playstation. It's why I only get Nintendo consoles since you can't replace things like Mario Party, Mario Kart, and Super Smash on the PC. But I know there are benefits too, like multiplayer/playing with friends.

It was pretty good, for sure Season 5 was a huge step up in quality from Season 4! The villain of Season 5 was incredible, namely in the second half of the season when his identity is revealed - I think the best done villain of the whole series actually. Deathstroke had a great role in the finale and some other characters showed up too. Yeah the last few episodes of the Flash were so predictable and how they dealt with Iris felt like a big copout. I'll still watch the next season but I was definitely disappointed.

Yeah and it was as great as I remember! And even if some lines of dialogue were bad, it's easy to get back into the movie. The Anakin vs. Obi Wan scene has aged really well, it still looks incredible and feels emotional ("you were my brother! I loved you!" :'(). Oh and of course Order 66 :'(. Honestly I felt more emotion about the barely known Jedi getting killed with the execution of Order 66 in the few minutes long montage than any of the Rogue One character deaths. And Ewan Mcgregor was definitely one of of the best parts of the trilogy, he was perfectly cast. We watched it on Wednesday and went out for dinner beforehand, and I kid you not, they were actually playing Episode III on TV when we got there it was hilarious! Must've been a sign

All caught up now!

Thanks! Have you played it on PC?

I'm right there with you, Episode III is the only one I remember really well and it was always my favourite of the three! It's so good! For our rewatch we've done I and II so far; going to watch III on Wednesday. Honestly I and II were way better than I was expecting. Like they had some really terrible elements (Jar Jar... was way worse than I remembered but I can see him being fun for kids watching, at least... but wow, he was annoying), and the dialogue was bad (so I really don't fault the actors much), but they had a lot of redeeming moments too and a lot of excitement. I thought little Ani did a great job and it's sad to see so many people hard on him. I still love the podracing scene as much as I did when I was a kid (and I may or may not have popped out my N64 to play podracer afterwards ). And the music for both is top notch.

I'm on episode 5 of season 1 now, so I guess I'll be at season 2 pretty soon. Oooh favourite character, who to choose. Sunny is definitely my favourite, but I like Tilda too. I do know I love to hate Quinn though. I haven't seen too much of Waldo yet but the little I've seen he seems cool! I think I've heard of The Host. I'm noting down the other ones you mentioned too.

I'm one year into my thesis, with three years to go. Heh I'm expected to work on it over the summer, so I do go to school on weekdays for a few hours, but outside of that I'm likely to be found on my computer playing video games . I did take a couple weeks of break after finals.

I've been thinking of doing a Star Wars marathon with my brother. Starting with the prequels . I haven't really seen them since I was a kid and didn't see how terrible they were, so I'm kind of excited to see them .

Yeah Sunny is great. He's so conflicted but has a heart of gold. He doesn't talk much but they've done a great job of showing and not telling what his personality is. I haven't seen too many Asian movies, do you have any to recommend?

I see! It's nice to be unstructured and have the whole summer free ahead of you. Yeah I don't really have plans either, just working on my thesis on my own time. I feel like the Captain Underpants movie is like 10 years too late.

May the Fourth be with you!

Haha yeah, Robert Carlyle is great in it, and it's clear he has a lot of fun with the role. Just started watching Into the Badlands by the way. It's exactly like you said . And the martial arts is SWEET. It's a pretty fun show so far.

Yeah I know what you mean. I mainly use it for TV show post-episode discussions, lots of fun theories to read. I tend to do a lot of lurking

Thanks!! Best of luck with the last bit of school and finals!!! Any plans for the summer other than the A7X concert? Nice . Hopefully you'll get a good movie audience this time around. I forgot the new Alien movie was coming so soon. It Comes At Night looks pretty good too, going to try and see that. Not sure if I'm going to see Captain Underpants... it's probably going to be terrible but I loved that series as a kid

Good point . Speaking of Netflix now I've been distracted by watching Once Upon a Time. It's pretty fun and ever since I was little I've loved stories that had unique spins on fairy tales. Although it can be extremely cheesy at times.

Yeah it's great and the operatic music really makes it. Definitely try it out if you have a chance.

Yeah that's... not that Pennywise I think of from the book! I see what you're saying

That makes sense, the non-Muse discussion here can be pretty lacking or short-lived. I can appreciate that. Reddit took a while to get used to for that reason, but I like how there's always discussion about pretty much everything you can think of; although I'm much more of a lurker than a poster . Yeah 6 years!!! Crazy!

I'm all done finals now . Just waiting on marks now and I'm not concerned about them, which is a good feeling. How's school going for you?

I haven't given Jessica Jones a try yet so maybe I'll give it a shot. Haven't seen Luke Cage yet either.

I thought the Japanese live action films were alright, definitely better than average for an anime-to-live-action movie, though that's not saying much and it could have been way better. Ryuk looked really fake. Yeah I hope it's a mix too! the whole anime is super dramatic. I love the sparkles that fly off the chip. Just watched the trailer for the FMA movie. I can't tell too much from the trailer but I agree, it doesn't... look that great...

Yeah it's pretty good so far, but at the rate I'm getting through it's going to take a looong time. I haven't actually seen the miniseries just a few clips online of some of the more well-known scenes. I'm guessing you have?

That's totally fair. I haven't really posted or browsed much in a while. I spend a lot more time on reddit. (also, wow, we've been talking for over 6 years now)

I hope you're having a good Easter weekend and you're able to enjoy some delicious food!

Yeah I think I'll be skipping over Iron Fist. I haven't actually enjoyed a lot of the Marvel shows . Apparently Daredevil is supposed to be really good but I couldn't get into it.

Yeah I'm sure we have (sorry ), I know we talked about the movie way back near it got announced but I didn't remember your answer. I know it's contraversial but I'm not really bothered by the "whitewashing" here because Deathnote is a story that's not intrinsically Japanese; it can be adapted anywhere and still have all the same themes and story that makes it Deathnote. They were very clear this is an adaptation and have based it in Seattle, and have changed the names of the characters, so it's not like they're basing it in Japan and still making obviously Japanese characters non-Asian. Yeah I'm definitely looking forward to being able to watch it at home, there've been some annoying moviegoers at my last few outings . Dafoe was SO perfectly cast. Based on the trailers I still can't tell how they're going to present him though, like in all CGI or some mix. Not sure if you're aware of the chip-eating scene but it definitely has to be in the movie...

Definitely, ignoring the last bit of the trailer, IT looks great. I'm about a 1/4 way through the book myself. In the middle of finals right now though so not likely going to finish it soon.

No worries!

Yeah it's season 4 right now. Season 3 was alright - it was an interesting concept but it got a bit tiring. That sounds like an amazing description . I just looked it up and it looks just like you described.

Don't remember if you ever watched Deathnote but a teaser trailer for the movie came out and I'm really excited about it! I know a lot of people are disappointed by it but I'm optimistic. Otherwise I hope it's really really bad, like Avatar levels of bad. No in between

It wasn't so much plotholes as just personal nitpicks and things I wish had been changed:

I also wanted to see Manchester by the Sea and never ended up going. You're lucky to have seen it live ! I wasn't watching the Oscars this year so I found out way later. I'll check that out! Speaking of Netflix shows, I finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency a little while ago. It's pretty fun and quirky. Also caught up with The 100. Season 2 was the best so far but season 4 is looking pretty good too. Oh and I started watching Riverdale. And... I'm really enjoying it

Nice!!! Have fun!

But I couldn't wait! I needed to know!

I thought it was a good movie but not great. It had a cool twist that really makes you think but it was a bit on the boring side, and there were a lot of things that still don't make sense to me. Still want to see Lego Batman! I've been slowly going through some of the Oscars movies with my family and we last saw Moonlight. That was really good. I can see how some people would see it as really slow or boring, and it was a slow-paced movie but at the same time it felt like everything deserved to be there.

Yes! Flashpoint was great! I saw it 1 or 2 years ago. It had an amazing voice cast too. I think it's cool how DC used the comic version to explain the revamp/relaunch of all the superhero titles for DC with New 52. Another good DC animated movie is Batman: Under the Red Hood. Although I'm a bit biased since Jensen Ackles is one of the voices

That's pretty great! I find it hard to name since at first Litten is a cute cat and by the last evolution it's a beast! So Brock Lesnar is pretty good for the end game

Don't sweat it, I didn't either. Only reason I knew is that I wondered if the same character was in the comics and if it was as obvious in the comics as in the show, so I looked it up! Really the only DC series I'm somewhat familiar with outside of shows and movies would be Batman. For The Flash I've really only read Flashpoint and seen him as an occasional side character, and everything else I know is from the show and what friends tell me.

Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing Lego Batman! Hope you enjoy it when you go see it!

Thanks! Midterm went really well and I've got reading break to look forward to next week. Litten's been doing fine, but fire's usually pretty strong early. Okay, not sure when I'll be able to play next but that's good to know!

To be fair, Julian being Alchemy was taken straight out of the comics so they were being very true to the source material. Iris being in peril is pretty weak since she's obviously going to be fine in the end, but I'd still like to see how they save her.

Welcome back! Hope things have worked out with your laptop.

Still haven't seen John Wick but will try to do so before the second comes. It's out on the 10th here!

Hope you had a good start to school this term! School's been alright for me, got midterms starting this week though . Ahh well, this one is only worth 10% so it's not a big deal. Wow, 10-2 is great! I've been playing Pokemon Moon finally. I picked Litten as my starter (I always go fire). Haven't run into an Alolan dugtrio yet though... looking forward to it

Yeah I feel the same, about both points. I don't mind so much if the seasons are still short to preserve fresh ideas but I'm hoping they will at least happen every year.

That's totally fair. I'm still enjoying the show but I know what you mean. The Flash has always been lighthearted but this season seems particularly so and you're right about it being predictable. I love Tom Felton in the show though, his character has had some great lines. I think my favourite weekly show is actually Lucifer.

Nooo I'm sorry to hear about your laptop! I hope it's easily repairable!!! That really sucks though

Yeah I heard about what happens to his poor dog... I think I'll take you up on your suggestion.