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[kevindavis007]

The Expanse Season 4 Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jc76QrX5Vg

[Free Vulcan]

‘Babylon 5’ Reunion 2020 — Is It Happening?

Rumors of a Babylon 5 reunion had the internet in a frenzy on Sunday (October 13) as reports claimed that PTEN confirmed a revival of the popular sitcom for 2020.

UPDATE 14/10/2019 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Can you believe it's been 26 years since Babylon 5 first aired?! (26 years, 7 months, 22 days to be exact.)

https://en.mediamass.net/culture/babylon-5/reunion.html

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

‘Babylon 5’ Reunion 2020 — Is It Happening?

Rumors of a Babylon 5 reunion had the internet in a frenzy on Sunday (October 13) as reports claimed that PTEN confirmed a revival of the popular sitcom for 2020.

UPDATE 14/10/2019 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Can you believe it's been 26 years since Babylon 5 first aired?! (26 years, 7 months, 22 days to be exact.)

https://en.mediamass.net/culture/babylon-5/reunion.html

Curious they refer to it as a 'sitcom'.

I didn't make it through an entire episode, but I never got the impression from others that it was supposed to be comedy.

[Ghost Bear]

‘Babylon 5’ Reunion 2020 — Is It Happening?

Rumors of a Babylon 5 reunion had the internet in a frenzy on Sunday (October 13) as reports claimed that PTEN confirmed a revival of the popular sitcom for 2020.

UPDATE 14/10/2019 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Can you believe it's been 26 years since Babylon 5 first aired?! (26 years, 7 months, 22 days to be exact.)

https://en.mediamass.net/culture/babylon-5/reunion.html

Sitcom? 

My first thought on reading the headline (before I got to the update) was, how can they have a reunion, half the main cast are dead. 

[Smokin Joe]

Curious they refer to it as a 'sitcom'.

I didn't make it through an entire episode, but I never got the impression from others that it was supposed to be comedy.

Sitcom? Either they didn't see the show, or their autocorrect jumped up and bit them in a spot the editor didn't look.

[sneakypete]

Sitcom? 

 

@Ghost Bear

I'm betting the money men,the cast,and the writers are not real happy with that one.

[Ghost Bear]

@sneakypete you're probably right about that. The show did have it's funny moments, but comedy wasn't the focus of the show...


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[catfish1957]

Star Trek Piccard Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySrgrKJguE

I am afraid to watch, as I am almost 100% sure Roddenberry, Jr. and Patrick Stewart are going to make this a SJW Puke-fest

[240B]

The Expanse Season 4 Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jc76QrX5Vg

The Expanse Season 4 Release Date, Trailer, Cast, and Other News
With The Expanse season 4 coming at the end of the year, we've got all the news surrounding the show's move to Amazon Prime Video.

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-expanse/273399/the-expanse-season-4-release-date-and-other-news

[Snarknado]

Anybody here tried the 2005 Charlie Jade on Prime - similar premise to Counterpart? I watched 3 eps and would have continued except the frenetically jerky camera work gave me a raging headache.

[kevindavis007]

Anybody here tried the 2005 Charlie Jade on Prime - similar premise to Counterpart? I watched 3 eps and would have continued except the frenetically jerky camera work gave me a raging headache.

I tried to watch it when it was on the SciFi channel.. Blech..

[kevindavis007]

Check this movie out:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIkU69-RBI

[kevindavis007]

FYI, the last season of The Man in the High Castle is now streaming.

[Gefn]

FYI, the last season of The Man in the High Castle is now streaming.

Hurray!!!! Pass the 

[Snarknado]

FYI, the last season of The Man in the High Castle is now streaming.

Someday I'm going to check that out. I wasn't impressed with the book but from what I've heard the show sounds pretty good...

[sneakypete]

Someday I'm going to check that out. I wasn't impressed with the book but from what I've heard the show sounds pretty good...

@Snarknado

I tried to watch the first season,but kept falling asleep.

Maybe I will give it a chance again?

[Ghost Bear]

@Snarknado

I tried to watch the first season,but kept falling asleep.

Maybe I will give it a chance again?

@sneakypete , I would suggest you give it another try. As I recall, the first season had a slow build to a pretty good finish, and the second season kept building from there. By the middle of the second season I couldn't stop watching it.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete , I would suggest you give it another try. As I recall, the first season had a slow build to a pretty good finish, and the second season kept building from there. By the middle of the second season I couldn't stop watching it.

@Ghost Bear

Thanks for the tip! I can trudge through the slop if I know there is a reward at the end.

[verga]

Someday I'm going to check that out. I wasn't impressed with the book but from what I've heard the show sounds pretty good...

@Snarknado, @sneakypete The first half of the first season is confusing as all get out, but after that I loved it. Wife and i binge watched it.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

I have read that there are 2 unique American art forms.  Jazz and Comic Books.  I like them both but I'm a comic nerd above all and I see Superheroes as modern day American myths.  I started reading comics in the late 60's and I grew up watching Batman with Adam West, Wonder Woman with Linda Carter and the Hulk with Bill Bixby on TV.  I saw Christopher Reeves fly and Jack Nicholson bring the Joker to life.
A decade later live action films would bring Blade, Spiderman, the X-men and ultimate Batman film "The Dark Knght!"
A decade later Marvel would release the greatest Super Hero movies of all time including Iron Man, Avengers, Captain American Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America Civil War, Thor Ragnarok.  Avengers infinity War, and Avengers Endgame.

Also during this time Marvel produced some of the greatest Super Hero Television with Daredevil 1 and 2, Jessica Jones, and the Punisher.

Sadly some of the worst dreck ever created has also been produced in the last 10 years.  The DC TV universe is mired in woke, and their feature films are a mixed bag of mediocre (Aquaman, Suicide Squad)

Marvel's Phase 4 announcements leave me unimpressed.  Other than the next season of "The Boys" on Amazon I'm not seeing much to look forward too for superhero fans.

What say you?

[Smokin Joe]

I have read that there are 2 unique American art forms.  Jazz and Comic Books.  I like them both but I'm a comic nerd above all and I see Superheroes as modern day American myths.  I started reading comics in the late 60's and I grew up watching Batman with Adam West, Wonder Woman with Linda Carter and the Hulk with Bill Bixby on TV.  I saw Christopher Reeves fly and Jack Nicholson bring the Joker to life.
A decade later live action films would bring Blade, Spiderman, the X-men and ultimate Batman film "The Dark Knght!"
A decade later Marvel would release the greatest Super Hero movies of all time including Iron Man, Avengers, Captain American Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America Civil War, Thor Ragnarok.  Avengers infinity War, and Avengers Endgame.

Also during this time Marvel produced some of the greatest Super Hero Television with Daredevil 1 and 2, Jessica Jones, and the Punisher.

Sadly some of the worst dreck ever created has also been produced in the last 10 years.  The DC TV universe is mired in woke, and their feature films are a mixed bag of mediocre (Aquaman, Suicide Squad)

Marvel's Phase 4 announcements leave me unimpressed.  Other than the next season of "The Boys" on Amazon I'm not seeing much to look forward too for superhero fans.

What say you?

It's always a game of 'Can you top this' in the superhero genre, but when once straight characters turn gay, well, you lost me. The 'wokeness' is a definite no-go. Marvel reached its pinnacle with Stan Lee, and I doubt there will be another. His superhumans were ultimately, human, too. That is part of the allure they hold for budding Homo Sapiens, and adult forms of the species alike. Unfortunately, The Rat has reared, and I doubt the genre will be the same--along with the Star Wars franchise. While spinoff marketing has ever been important, my guess is that with Disney the creativity will drop and the merchandising will step to the fore.

While "The Boys" is a mite disturbing considering the whole conditioning of the reader/viewer to see superheroes as, well, heroes, it is a fresh twist on the topic and gets points for being creative, even if chewing at the feet of a previously iconic class of character. 

[kevindavis007]

Well, I binged watch The Man in High Castle, and it was good. In the final episode, there are more questions than answers.  I'm not going to say anything more.

[kevindavis007]

Here is another trailer of The Expanse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdzpVt5rbk, it starts December 13th.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

It's always a game of 'Can you top this' in the superhero genre, but when once straight characters turn gay, well, you lost me. The 'wokeness' is a definite no-go. Marvel reached its pinnacle with Stan Lee, and I doubt there will be another. His superhumans were ultimately, human, too. That is part of the allure they hold for budding Homo Sapiens, and adult forms of the species alike. Unfortunately, The Rat has reared, and I doubt the genre will be the same--along with the Star Wars franchise. While spinoff marketing has ever been important, my guess is that with Disney the creativity will drop and the merchandising will step to the fore.

While "The Boys" is a mite disturbing considering the whole conditioning of the reader/viewer to see superheroes as, well, heroes, it is a fresh twist on the topic and gets points for being creative, even if chewing at the feet of a previously iconic class of character.

@Smokin Joe
Thanx for the reply

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe
Thanx for the reply

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