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Poacher Review: Highly Recommended for Slow Burners
Hey, nearest and dearest, Prime Video has just dropped its latest series, Poacher, and personally, I'm pretty impressed with the trailer. Now, the big question is: will this show reel us in completely, keeping us hooked and booked, or is it just another attempt at entertainment that might not hit the mark?
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
I had a very short list of must haves for this first season. I gave this show so much leeway, and I tried very hard to be open minded about the inevitable changes that were going to be made to this show. I have complained a lot about said changes because they were all unnecessary and executed very poorly. But words can not express how happy I am that they kept the sexism of the Northern Water Tribe. It is so integral to Katara’s character development and so important to the story as a whole.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
Again the bare minimum of this show has been fulfilled. The monster design looks really good but there is just no depth to the actual body of the show. All of the storylines are so hollow. I think they brought Sokka and Katara to the spirit world in an attempt at cheap character development because they have fucked it up until this point. But again it just comes across as an unearned moment. You wouldn’t need to change a bunch of shit to fill out these characters if you just did what you were supposed to do the first time. This shouldn’t be the first time we see any actual depth to these characters, it's episode 5, that is inexcusable.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Comic Book Recommendations
So we know that I am known for reading, analyzing, and writing about superhero comics. That is definitely the genre where my expertise lies. That said, there are some excellent non-superhero comics that I would love to recommend. These are from a few different genres. We’ve got some cozy ones, some action, magic and mystery but all non-superhero comics so that there is something for everyone.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
Iroh and Aang are captured together, again before we meet Bumi. I would love to know what the hell was going on in that writers room. What led to the decision to just fuck structure and season distinctions? Why exactly did you think that these storylines needed to happen now? Why did we decide to cut actual season 1 moments that would have helped the impact of these eventual storylines? And why exactly don’t you people seem to understand storytelling 101? Here's the deal adaptations are the easiest, simplest form of writing. They take little to no knowledge, creativity or even thought and yet these writers weren't even capable of that. If you are trained as a writer adaptations are easy work, this is ridiculous.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
We are starting to get better, past the first episode it has at least become watchable. We still seem to be having a problem with exposition, but at least the dialogue and delivery has gotten better. The other problem this show faces is its tone. For some reason they wanted to make it darker as if the show didn’t already deal with war, grief, and genocide. At its core it was a kids show. Now it was never JUST a kids show, like I said there were always some very heavy themes and the show got plenty dark but this show centers around children. Which means that they are going to be goofy and get distracted easily and that’s why the show is timeless, it's why it's multi-generational, it's why this show is so impactful and so rewatchable. And the Netflix version is gutting the show of its personality and charm.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
This live action adaptation is riddled with problems. And the biggest one is that all these problems are really easy to fix. They are stupid mistakes and it feels like a film students senior project and not like it was made by professionals and developed over years. Most of the technical elements are at about 70-80% but that last 20-30% is very incohesive. I am holding out hope that the first episode is not indicative of the overall season quality.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar the Last Airbender
Realistically, time wise, they only had to cut 2 hours from the original series’ first season. These episodes are an hour long and there's 8 of them, so literally change nothing about how much time you allowed yourself and you could have given us an almost beat for beat adaptation without cutting anything important. Instead so far, we have gotten an obscene amount of unnecessary context and exposition that does nothing but call the audience stupid. If you need these things spoon fed to you like this then you don’t need to be watching tv you need to be either in therapy, or staring at a blank wall because you are too stupid to consume anything that takes brain cells.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Live Action Avatar The Last Airbender
Okay…Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender has dropped its first season. Now much of the built-in fan base from the animated series is going into this very skeptical, mostly because the creators can’t stop talking and everything they say pisses us off. I want to preface this with, I am cautiously optimistic BUT there are no changes that they can make that will enhance the series. I know for a fact that they are going to fuck some things up because they are trying to shove 20 episodes into 8. They will skip stuff and depending on what it is that’s fine, but there will be some horrible decisions because it's just not possible to cover that much story in that little time. I am going to try and fight through the entire season so that this review is as accurate and honest as possible. But I have very little hope so please bear with me if this takes a while. I consider the animated series absolutely perfect and therefore the live action can only be worse. But let’s see how much worse.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
What If
Okay with season 2 of What If now being released I thought I should actually get around to finishing season 1. I really only watched a few episodes that had the possibility of being tied to the multiverse of madness. But of course the filmmakers weren’t smart enough to spend their time on actual multidimensional exploration. So we are finishing it and ranking the episodes from worst to best.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
