If ever I despair of my abilities as a writer…

[Seadog777]

Kate Winslet will always own my soul - apart for the bit of it that's Jodie Foster's personal stomping ground. But if Anya Chalotra sidled up to me and gave me that look, well... I wouldn't put up much of a fight is all I'm saying.

Kate's not bad.
I liked Jodie Foster in Contact.
I have no clue who Anya Chalotra is though.

 

[EmilyMiller]

You should have seen me when I lived in Korea.

My college friend got pretty tired of yellow jokes.

Em

 

[Duleigh]

My college friend got pretty tired of yellow jokes.

Em

My Vietnamese friends were the ones teasing ME! I can't help it, I love Asia and I'm crazy about Asian women. I had some wonderful friends in Korea and it was tough to say goodbye.

 

[EmilyMiller]

My Vietnamese friends were the ones teasing ME! I can't help it, I love Asia and I'm crazy about Asian women. I had some wonderful friends in Korea and it was tough to say goodbye.

OK, hun. I don’t want to fight.

Em

 

[Bramblethorn]

I couldn't stand GoT.

It seemed to be nothing but how violent and miserable can we make the next scene, and if not, can it have one of the blonds having sex instead or as well?

Some years back when one of the child actresses turned 18, there was much fanfare in the GoT community because they'd all been clamoring to see her have sex for years...

Witcher is in the middle space between that and Lord of the Rings. I enjoyed both seasons of Witcher, personally. It wasn't the brutal gore fest of GoT. The character tries to not be a hero but he is. I guess my liking Witcher Season 2 is an outlyer opinion. I don't remember it well enough to say why though so I could hardly debate the point - and that I don't remember why also implies that I only must have just 'enjoyed it' rather than been impressed or appalled.

We can be outliers together. My partner is a GoT fan, I tried, but I never could get into it, for the reasons you mentioned and a couple of others. I've discussed them here before, won't go over it all again now.

Witcher has plenty of grimness e.g. Yennefer's backstory, but it also has a bit more hope and humour and for me that makes it easier to care about the characters.

[reply to NTH deleted because I didn't read the thing I was replying to carefully enough]

 

[tenyari]

Witcher has plenty of grimness e.g. Yennefer's backstory, but it also has a bit more hope and humour and for me that makes it easier to care about the characters.

Yeah.

If I recall right from season one too - they weren't as graphic with her backstory (maybe the video game was, I don't know). It seemed more like the way a Batman movie might show his backstory of losing his parents. You get to know what happened, but you don't need to see the crime scene photos.

And then the story, at least for the TV show, is more about 'this anti-hero slowly becoming an actual hero alongside his frenemies that end up being heroes even when they're trying not to be', with some comedy here and there to keep your mood up.

My only complaint with the Witcher TV show was that the first season being 'time split' - telling 3 different stories at the same time that actually took place decades apart - meant I had to resort to Google at one point to understand what was going on.

 

[tenyari]

What gets me so often with modern TV and movies is that everyone is too emotional. Everything is a dramatic moment as if the cast of 30-50 year olds were actually 14-17 years olds...

When I see grown adult characters deciding to NOT do their duty to save the galaxy from the alien smog monster because Jack caught Fred glancing at Sally flirtatiously, or because Sally and Carmine are angry at how Sally didn't tell Carmine that she was actually Wonder-lass all this time... I'm like... again... you people are supposed to be adults. Teenage stupid is not your forte.

Look at things like the Action Star Trek movies of last decade and compare them to their same movies from the original Star Trek. The new movies - if you didn't visually see that Kirk and cast were adults you'd think you were watching Scooby and the Gang in space... except Scooby and the gang in the 70s were actually more mature than modern day adult characters despite supposedly being teens.

These people were supposed to be trained professionals in their 'fictional universe's' version of the military - discipline and professional conduct under pressure. But they'd rather make crass one liners and break out in fights and ignore the universe falling apart around them because... drama.

It doesn't matter the genre either. I just happened to have just finished some Star Trek reviews on YouTube so that's in my head. Modern drama, action, those MCU flicks, SciFi, crime drama, etc... All modern day TV and movie characters are teenagers. Even when the actor is an 80 year old Shakespearean Actor... their character can spend an entire season having mommy issues.

This has NOTHING to do with politics or social issues so the folks that keep bombing EVERY thread with complaints about 'woke' or 'anti-woke' or whatever can politely fuck off.

It's just something about modern script writing and how they like to achieve dramatic tension that drives me nuts.

 

[TheRedChamber]

My Vietnamese friends were the ones teasing ME! I can't help it, I love Asia and I'm crazy about Asian women. I had some wonderful friends in Korea and it was tough to say goodbye.

Years ago I was teaching English in Asia. I was doing the first lesson with a new class and was doing an ice-breaker where they all ask me a question about myself. (Name, Nationality, Hobbies etc)

One of the students this tiny, quiet, overly kawaii girl dressed in a semi-loli style with pigtails. Her English isn't great and she's one if the last to speak so all the easy questions have gone. She suddenly has a brainwave and asks

"Do you like little yellow people?"

I spent a couple of seconds floundering either for an answer (neither yes or no feels right) or a sensitive clarifying qurstion before I looked at her desk again and replied:

"Yes, I love the Minions"

It was probably entirely innocent, but I still like to think maybe it was an epic Machiavellian shit test.

 

[Zootonius]

Kate Winslet will always own my soul - apart for the bit of it that's Jodie Foster's personal stomping ground. But if Anya Chalotra sidled up to me and gave me that look, well... I wouldn't put up much of a fight is all I'm saying.

Yet, not a word about Cate Blanchett...

 

[onehitwanda]

Yet, not a word about Cate Blanchett...

She is and always shall be Galadriel. What more could one say?

 

[Zootonius]

She is and always shall be Galadriel. What more could one say?

Her performance as Kate Hepburn was a tour de force. And, I suspect, she could kill me with a mere glance from her eyes.

 

[SimonDoom]

It's just something about modern script writing and how they like to achieve dramatic tension that drives me nuts.

I agree wholeheartedly. Sometimes it's hard for me to put my finger on it, but it's the inattention to the basics of writing: characters, plots, dialogue, conflict. I thought what you said about everybody acting like teenagers struck a chord. I sometimes feel like the storyteller lacks the confidence to focus on the basic story and feels an excessive need to introduce unnecessary melodrama to hold the reader's/viewer's interest.

 

[Zootonius]

She is and always shall be Galadriel. What more could one say?

Sorry, I'm a big fan!

 

[TheRedChamber]

What gets me so often with modern TV and movies is that everyone is too emotional. Everything is a dramatic moment as if the cast of 30-50 year olds were actually 14-17 years olds...

When I see grown adult characters deciding to NOT do their duty to save the galaxy from the alien smog monster because Jack caught Fred glancing at Sally flirtatiously, or because Sally and Carmine are angry at how Sally didn't tell Carmine that she was actually Wonder-lass all this time... I'm like... again... you people are supposed to be adults. Teenage stupid is not your forte.

Look at things like the Action Star Trek movies of last decade and compare them to their same movies from the original Star Trek. The new movies - if you didn't visually see that Kirk and cast were adults you'd think you were watching Scooby and the Gang in space... except Scooby and the gang in the 70s were actually more mature than modern day adult characters despite supposedly being teens.

These people were supposed to be trained professionals in their 'fictional universe's' version of the military - discipline and professional conduct under pressure. But they'd rather make crass one liners and break out in fights and ignore the universe falling apart around them because... drama.

It doesn't matter the genre either. I just happened to have just finished some Star Trek reviews on YouTube so that's in my head. Modern drama, action, those MCU flicks, SciFi, crime drama, etc... All modern day TV and movie characters are teenagers. Even when the actor is an 80 year old Shakespearean Actor... their character can spend an entire season having mommy issues.

This has NOTHING to do with politics or social issues so the folks that keep bombing EVERY thread with complaints about 'woke' or 'anti-woke' or whatever can politely fuck off.

It's just something about modern script writing and how they like to achieve dramatic tension that drives me nuts.

I wrote a rant about this on another thread a few weeks ago. Short version - I'm watching Deep Space Nine past season two for the first time and at the same time watching Nu-Trek. While there's a ton of bad Trek in all eras, the comparison is not at all flattering to the new season. If I had to sum it up - the old characters had personalities, the new characters have arcs.

 

[Duleigh]

Years ago I was teaching English in Asia. I was doing the first lesson with a new class and was doing an ice-breaker where they all ask me a question about myself. (Name, Nationality, Hobbies etc)

I had a Korean friend in the ROK, a fellow ham, and he was an English professor and he'd give me a call on the radio and ask if I was available to converse with his students on Saturdays and I would agree and would meet them at a coffee shop in the region of Idi where the Americans hung out. There was a big map of the USA on the wall and I would point out where I was from and the different states I lived in. One student knew a bit about my home town, Buffalo, and asked how deep was the deepest snow we ever got and I told them the truth, "Two meters deep." They thought that was the funniest thing anyone ever told them about America and before I realized it I was known as a comedian and my Saturday afternoon "shows" were quite popular.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Never watched it, not really my thing. Did it have any girls in short shorts and bikinis?

Em

It had an orgy scene around episode 4.

That’s all I remember.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

You missed her:

https://thefappening.pro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Anya-Chalotra-Nude-TheFappening.Pro-5.jpg

So i think TV suffers from too much same shit.

Spy, cop, crime, spy, cop, crime, blah blah blah.

It kills creativity.

The best show I saw all last year was Severence. It was not spy, it was not cop, it was not crime.

The best shows, like the best films at the minute, tend to explore the human condition and that’s where the good stuff is.

And boobs, that’s why I replied to this comment.

 

[onehitwanda]

And boobs, that’s why I replied to this comment.

They are great boobs.

 

[alohadave]

The best show I saw all last year was Severence

When she was revealed at the end, OMG.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

When she was revealed at the end, OMG.

Milchick is one scary mother-f….

But, I sense we might get a Q-arc with him (ST:TNG). I hope so at least.

 

[cuppatea]

Whenever I’m having moments of despair and tearing hair out, I reflect on the fact that someone had to turn Fiddy Shades into a screenplay … then I remember that someone wrote that in the first place.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Kate Winslet will always own my soul - apart for the bit of it that's Jodie Foster's personal stomping ground. But if Anya Chalotra sidled up to me and gave me that look, well... I wouldn't put up much of a fight is all I'm saying.

I can forgive Winslet for the "I'm Flying Scene" and other such things; she didn't direct or write them. She's interesting in Revolutionary Road, being reunited with DiCaprio in a very different kind of movie. However, it falls apart at the end, and that's because the novel it's based on has the same plot.

What has Foster been doing recently? Interesting to watch her press conference immediately after the Hinckley shooting. A longer version is online.

 

[alohadave]

Whenever I’m having moments of despair and tearing hair out, I reflect on the fact that someone had to turn Fiddy Shades into a screenplay … then I remember that someone wrote that in the first place.

As Twilight fanfic.

 

[EmilyMiller]

As Twilight fanfic.

And made millions out of it…

The World is a strange place.

Em

 

[Emilymcplugger]

And made millions out of it…

The World is a strange place.

Em

It’s because female-centric porn is rare.

This is why something like “365 days”, “another 365 days” and the trilogy conclusion “let’s just call it a f#* king year” have kept being commissioned by Netflix in a landscape of cancellations.

Badly simulated Netflix sex is popular for women because it fills a gap…no, not like that! Oh no! That sounds terrible!