Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations

[Richard Latimer]

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

He wasn't in about half of it haha! Did you even watch it haha??

[John Folan]

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

I'm with you on that. LOTR was next level. I've got high hopes for the television series.

[A Former User]

The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

[Matt Wood]

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

[John Folan]

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

[Dan MacKinnon]

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

[Dan MacKinnon]

@ryan-carruthers said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

Like we all did in drama at school when the teacher sent us off create this in 15 mins, spend 14.30 pissing about and 30 seconds planning it.

Your school gave you 30 minutes to write the ending of GOT? I think your teacher needs to adjust their expectations

[Ryan]

Agree on the GOT one as soon as they left the books it dropped, like they were all sat in a room going Jon would say this wouldn’t he? Nah, surely he would? Then realise s**t we have 10 mins left.

Like we all did in drama at school when the teacher sent us off create this in 15 mins, spend 14.30 pissing about and 30 seconds planning it.

[John Folan]

@martin-futter said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@martin-futter Kinda like a Game of Thrones situation then.

Will have to think about it before I start Lost then. Thanks for the heads up

I would never start Lost based on what I've read of the ending.

I watched them all. Bitterly disappointing. The trifecta. Lost, GOT, and LOD.

Haha me too. I was watching Gogglebox yesterday and the funny girl from Blackpool nailed it about Line Of Duty ending (and the others when you think about it) she said 'It's like they were told they had ten minutes to write an ending'.

I think with LOST they wrote a show that got so tangled up in a deep story that they didn't know how to end it in a satisfying way.

GOT ending was rushed because the author of the books has not even written the last two yet, so he just told them roughly what would happen and it had no depth because there was no real reference material to work with.

Not sure what happened with Line Of Duty, felt like they got six episodes in before being told they had to wrap it all up in one last episode, when they were expecting to have an eighth episode or something.

Exactly that. GOT went down the toilet after it moved away from the source material. (Peaked in series 5). They rushed the last series as originally the two producers were going to make a Star Wars Trilogy but then the sequels were crap so they bailed and are writing stuff for Netflix.

LOST I did love. Didn’t love the ending. Again felt rushed and this writers strike that’s been mentioned probably had an impact.

LOD. That is how it felt. Rushed and thrown together. Shame as I’d rather they finished on a cliffhanger and finished it properly over another series. Plus Buckells? Really?

[A Former User]

@martin-futter If I remember with Lost there was a massive writers strike at the time and there was a huge gap between the first few series and the last one or two. After it came back it just seemed to go off in a strange tangent

It was a great show to start with but like you said it got so tangled that it was hard to bring it together at the end

[Matt Wood]

Think I might still give Lost a go at some point.

Im sure I remember reading years back that it was only intended to be 1 season originally.

It followed on the success of the first couple of 24 seasons didnt it? Loved the 24s.

[Martin]

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@martin-futter Kinda like a Game of Thrones situation then.

Will have to think about it before I start Lost then. Thanks for the heads up

I would never start Lost based on what I've read of the ending.

I watched them all. Bitterly disappointing. The trifecta. Lost, GOT, and LOD.

Haha me too. I was watching Gogglebox yesterday and the funny girl from Blackpool nailed it about Line Of Duty ending (and the others when you think about it) she said 'It's like they were told they had ten minutes to write an ending'.

I think with LOST they wrote a show that got so tangled up in a deep story that they didn't know how to end it in a satisfying way.

GOT ending was rushed because the author of the books has not even written the last two yet, so he just told them roughly what would happen and it had no depth because there was no real reference material to work with.

Not sure what happened with Line Of Duty, felt like they got six episodes in before being told they had to wrap it all up in one last episode, when they were expecting to have an eighth episode or something.

[Martin]

@richard-latimer LOST is still probably one of my top ten TV shows of all time despite the ending, virtually all of the other 120 episodes were really engaging, I love the flashback stories each episode of all the different characters before they were on the island it was such a clever concept.

[John Folan]

[John Folan]

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan havent got disney+ yet, was waiting for the kenobi series and then ill start watching the rest, have a habit of chopping and changing and never getting through the "my list section of netlfix"

I’m the same

[A Former User]

@john-folan havent got disney+ yet, was waiting for the kenobi series and then ill start watching the rest, have a habit of chopping and changing and never getting through the "my list section of netlfix"

[John Folan]

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan They hook us in with gripping story lines for season upon season then suddenly out of nowhere rip up that good storytelling for some sort of deep message instead of giving us a good dramatic ending. Loved every single one of those 3 and use them all as references when im working on videos and production, just feel cheated by the endings.

Yes and oh The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. Some great characters. Some brilliant set pieces let down with crap story telling. Thankfully Disney + putting a lot right. “THE Bad Batch is brilliant

[A Former User]

@john-folan They hook us in with gripping story lines for season upon season then suddenly out of nowhere rip up that good storytelling for some sort of deep message instead of giving us a good dramatic ending. Loved every single one of those 3 and use them all as references when im working on videos and production, just feel cheated by the endings.

[John Folan]

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@martin-futter Kinda like a Game of Thrones situation then.

Will have to think about it before I start Lost then. Thanks for the heads up

I would never start Lost based on what I've read of the ending.

I watched them all. Bitterly disappointing. The trifecta. Lost, GOT, and LOD.

[Richard Latimer]

Only 4 seasons of 6 episodes so well easy to binge