Tocky on 19/12/2020 at 05:29
Quote Posted by howeird
I've been doing this for a while now but thought it's time to share with stay at home boredom on the rise. What i do is too watch 'train, trolley, or bus driver view' videos (with the sound on mute) and listen to music or news while taking a tour of different place around the world. I started doing this in the winters while exercising riding my stationary bicycle. On the long touring videos i just "copy video at current time" and then save it for the next day.
This is the most beautiful city i have seen since i started. Rotterdam (In August of 2019) (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_rQnMbkec) The tram tour of the city starts at the .41 sec of the video.
Here is Japan overhead train. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLrP5eawdY)
Matterhorn in Switzerland. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVZZnx70M0)
Here is New York in 1911. HQ video. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw)
These are some of the really cool ones I've seen over the years.
Been watching these to music from the music thread and I always wonder the same thing. What the fuck are people doing in all those buildings? Okay some are just for living in. But the others don't look like factories right? What goes on? Office work? How? How can there be that much paper shuffling? How?
SubJeff on 19/12/2020 at 08:38
Quote Posted by Brethren
Pretty awesome ending to Season Two of The Mandalorian. I shouldn't say any more, just watch it.
Agreed.
Don't miss that post-credits scene!
After the Mandalorian I am actually psyched for The Book of Boba Fett. First time I've actually been psyched for a new Star Wars effort in about 20 years.
rachel on 19/12/2020 at 21:56
My reaction to that finale was simply "Holy Shit". It capped another great season (IMHO) and it continues being the best SW story since Rogue One. I hope
we keep seeing Mando and the show doesn't switch to Boba only, that would be a shame.
Pretty sad coincidence, in typical 2020 fashion it came out just the day after (
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/18/entertainment/jeremy-bulloch-dies-scli-intl-gbr/index.html) we lost Jeremy Bulloch, the original Boba Fett. :(
SubJeff on 19/12/2020 at 22:12
Book of Boba is going to be a completely separate series so there's no danger of the story switching focus.
Yeah, that was an insane coincidence. Sad and the timing was... wow.
smallfry on 24/12/2020 at 00:53
I'm watching season 5 of The Expanse and it is kicking ass!
SubJeff on 24/12/2020 at 11:38
I watched Edge of Tomorrow again.
That's a great film. I think it might be Tom Cruise's best sci-fi, and I like a few of them.
Also saw The King. I liked it a lot. I did find Pattinson being the awful French prince, insisting on speaking English (with a slightly ropey French accent) to Chalamet's English king, amusing, given that Pattinson is English and Chalamet French-American and a fluent French speaker. I wonder if Timothee gave Robert tips on the accent...
rachel on 26/12/2020 at 12:43
Quote Posted by smallfry
I'm watching season 5 of
The Expanse and it is kicking ass!
Word! I watched the first four episode yesterday back to back. It's both a blessing and a curse there weren't more, I couldn't stop.
I really dig where they're going, and how they deviated from the book for a particular plot.
I also finally finished
Dark. I was on the fence for a bit as it became extremely complicated to follow... But the final two-three episodes closed the loop (literally and figuratively) and overall I was pretty satisfied with how it turned out.
demagogue on 26/12/2020 at 13:14
Shall we talk about some of the spoilers in S2 of The Mandalorian?
In principle it's easy to get why a reconstituted Luke would take on Grogu to train as the finale (and I expect we'll get updates on him in future series). It has a nice symmetry to it, bringing things full circle. Yoda trains Luke. Luke trains baby Yoda. It also kind of rehabilitates the cosmic meaning of Luke that the latest trilogy more or less trashed.
And it's an option technically left open by his fate in E9:RoS (his disappearing act). Evidently we're to understand that he reconstituted himself as a young (possibly perpetually young) Luke at the peak of his power around the time after RotJ.
I got the idea that the show didn't mean for us to overthink it. It was an emotional moment that kind of undoes the last two movies and sets us back on course for a proper timeline where things feel "right" with a little Jedi handwaving, and we can kind of forget where the last two movies put us.
So now Luke's life has a real meaning carrying on the Jedi legacy on to the new generation after the incoherent abyss the last three movies threw us into, not just for the future of the Jedi, but also Luke specifically, what his character even means in the big scheme of things. And I did kind of find it funny that they were pulling or referencing characters from the original trilogy (Boba Fett, Luke, baby Yoda), and some references to the 2nd trilogy (Fett in the clone wars), but I'm not even sure I can recall any references to the last trilogy, although presumably many of those characters are still around too.
While I had an emotional moment probably like most people seeing Luke, being a kid of the '80s where he was practically a religious figure, (although, also probably like most, it still paled compared to the moment between Mando & Grogu, which had been set up the whole show, maybe even predictable in retrospect, but still a beautiful scene all the same; what an emotional pay off!), but it was a kind of return to the orthodoxy after the latest heresies... I thought it would have been better to stick to the purity of the master-disciple cycle, and it really should have been Rey that came, since Luke had served his place in the cycle training Rey, and now it's her time to carry on the legacy. That's what carrying on a legacy means. Each generation of disciple learns from the masters of the past to become masters for the next batch in their turn. So while I understood why they might want to kind of skip over the last trilogy all together, I thought keeping Rey as a central figure would be the least they could keep from it. Of course I don't know all the back story; it could have been she didn't want to be in the show or had a conflict, etc. But it struck me as more of an executive decision, considering that we now know this is setting up a series of series.
But anyway, with that handwave now accomplished, at least it's set itself up to go in a more positive direction from here on out. So that's something. (And I actually expect we'll see Rey sometime in the future, and she'll fit in better in this new framework.)
Anyway, all of that aside, I really loved all of these episodes in both seasons. Great classic action scenes. I loved the characters. It was hokey at times, but in the right way, less Qui-Gon & Jar Jar and more Han and Threepio. I got the feels and appreciated what it was trying to do and where it wants to go. I'm sympathetic with its mission.
So all in all I'm happy, all things considered. The peak really was E2 Empire, but it's okay if the series can't exactly reach back to that level; but practically no series ever could, it was so singular in its time and place. I can just appreciate that the current track is trying to keep it in that neighborhood.
rachel on 26/12/2020 at 15:36
I'm not sure I understand your take on Luke. The Mandalorian takes place between RotJ and TFA, not after Episode 9.
In fact re-reading your post this timeline seems to be a source of confusion...