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Post by Pinwig on Nov 4, 2024 19:31:03 GMT
Well, I wouldn't use that as a reason not to watch Ludwig. It's a clever series that has an ongoing mystery but each episode has a self-contained one which is tackled by Ludwig, who isn't a detective but is a puzzle setter, so he goes about solving apparently unsolvable crimes using logic and reason rather than police procedure.
It reminds me of Creek only in that he also went about solving apparently unsolvable crimes.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 4, 2024 19:32:53 GMT
I hate Jonathan Creek. -Ralph Further proof.... First two series are FAB. The ones with Julia Swallows and Sheridan Smith are good, but not quite up with earlier Carolyn Quentin ones. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 4, 2024 19:43:09 GMT
David Mitchell's new crime series 'Ludwig' is worth a go, reminds me of Jonathan Creek. It's on iPlayer. I watched the first three on telly then missed a couple and have yet to pick it up again. I thought it was a decent watch. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 4, 2024 22:19:37 GMT
I hate Jonathan Creek. -Ralph Further proof.... First two series are FAB. The ones with Julia Swallows and Sheridan Smith are good, but not quite up with earlier Carolyn Quentin ones. I have ALWAYS hated Jonathan Creek. I can't stand the curly haired twat. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Nov 9, 2024 12:41:16 GMT
Very surprised by Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger - the first few episodes were very funny in a slapstick kind of way. I wasn't expecting it to be able to nimbly pivot so hard to something that hit me square in the emotions. At the episode fifteen mark we have a two part A-story* that is the trigger for a B-story about Abareblue's difficult relationship with his father, and his fear of becoming like him. I don't often feel particularly "seen" by TV shows, but in this case that really resonated with me - I can absolutely understand why his terror and hate of the idea of becoming like his Dad is so strong. A somewhat rare moment of absolutely seeing myself of a decade or so ago reflected in a character. I wouldn't have expected to have that moment in a Super Sentai especially one that leans in more of a comedic direction.
Karl
* an interesting structural choice in itself - Sentai usually seems to to one episode A-stories, compared to Kamen Rider traditionally doing two episode a-stories. Exceptions exist but that seems the norm so far. Abaranger started that way but seems to have switched to two episode A-stories after a few episodes.)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 9, 2024 12:53:42 GMT
I have a few of the western versions of the mecha for this when they were released as Dino Thunder
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Post by legios on Nov 9, 2024 14:03:49 GMT
I think I am fonder of the Bakuryu as characters than I am of them as combined mecha. Their personalities are great, and their verbal ticks are entertaining. (Especialy Brachy, because ending sentences with -bra just makes him sound like he is really laid-back and sitting on the stoop of his house. And Stegodon's attitude I love "Where were you-bra?" "I was doing stuff, what's your problem? I'm here now-stego."). The colour palette on them is good too - I love the pastels on Tricea The combined forms so far are...fine... With the exception of Stegodon turning into a slicy surfboard for other mecha to stand on. That is just so very silly - extremely Abaranger.
Abareoh itself doesn't really do much for me either way, and I have yet to encounter Killer-oh because I'm only on episode sixteen so the Extra Hero has only just shown up (and is still a villain at this point). But the banter between the Bakuryu, and between them and their pilots is one of the highlights of the series.
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 18, 2024 17:50:35 GMT
Finished watching 'Citadel: Honey Bunny'. Amusingly, Amazon Prime remembered my audio preferences from when I watched 'Citadel: Diana' (the Italian series) and so helpfully started playing the Indian series dubbed into Italian, until I corrected its well-meaning mistake.
'Citadel: HB' has its own distinctive style. The kid actor in it is excellent. But overall I think it's my least favourite of the three series to date ('Diana' being the best and 'Citadel' season 1 coming in second).
What next?
Having survived 'Inhumans', shall Martin watch 'Marvel's The Defenders'?
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 18, 2024 18:07:35 GMT
Defenders was alright from what I remember of it, but I think people expected The Avengers and that was never going to happen.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 18, 2024 18:08:52 GMT
356 episodes in to One Piece. Pacing of the last 150 odd episodes has been frustratingly slow.
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Post by legios on Nov 18, 2024 19:45:15 GMT
I found The Defenders to be a little bit hit and miss. When it landed, it landed well, but it felt a bit loggy in places. I think my favourite element of it was watching actors who had been decent in the individual shows getting to interact and have the characters bounce off each other. That was good stuff.
Karl
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Post by legios on Nov 20, 2024 17:40:34 GMT
I consider myself reasonably educated in the Tokusatsu TV show genres now. I mean, the idea of a parallel world where it is always Christmas, and the people there help Santa out by delivering presents once a year to all the children of the main Earth (Gokaiger), a world where _everyone_ is a Ninja (Kamen Rider Shinobi) are things I can take in my stride.
I was still not prepared for Abaranger to have a crossover with a popular Fishing anime... Played entirely straight too. The son of the protagonist of Fishing Fool, and actual fishing themed Anime of the period, and the favourite morning show of Mai (the niece of AbaRed) who never misses an episode, is fished out of the anime by the Trinoid of the week (an Angler Fish/Fishing Rod/Olive Bush), and there he is on the television begging his son's favourite superheroes (apparently his son never misses an episode)to save his son. Which of course they set out to do, because heroes after all!
Cue a confrontation with the Trinoid where the anime fisherman is cheering our heroes on from the television...which they have brought with them riding in the sidecar of the motorcycle belonging to the resturant owner whose place they are based in. (Abaranger, not entirely the most serious even of Sentai). But what I wasn't prepared for was when the fisherman gets so angry that the Trinoid is using its captives (turned into Olives in a bottle) as hostages that he bursts out of the television into the real world and proceeds to demonstrate how to fish properly...catching the bottle and denying the Trinoid its hostages so that the Abarangers can lay a finisher on it, destroying it and turning the people from olives back into normal humans, and one anime son who reunites with his father...
Meanwhile a serious story thread where the renegade Abarekiller is fighting one of the enemy generals, and we are learning that his prototype ABA suit is starting to actually harm him, with an implied threat that he might die of using it...
Yes, it is that odd. It is essentially equivalent to...I dunno Donald Duck, just appearing in an episode of Daredevil or something and it just proceeding entirely the same as a regular episode just guest-starring a cartoon character.
It is mad, utterly mad, but played in entirely the same tone as a normal episode. It was gloriously entertaining, and really does stand as an example of what I am getting out of Japanese Superhero TV that was starting to feel painfully absent from Marvel and DC stuff. Fun!
Karl
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Post by legios on Nov 20, 2024 17:43:48 GMT
Oh, and in fairness the most serious of the Abaranger's does ask "how on Earth did that happen", about the fisherman bursting out of the TV. The only theory offered is:-
"I think his DinoGuts(*) caused a miracle to happen"
Which, as he rightly points out, explains nothing whatsoever!
And then they go back to Dino House for some Dino Curry....
Karl
(*) DinoGuts is...call it innate human heroic courage, for want of a better explanation
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