What TV are you watching and how would you rate it? [Revive from FRDB]

[ZiprHead]

Just got home and turned on the tv. Twin Peaks: The Return was on. What.The.Fuck am I watching??? I've never seen an episode before and this is totally weird.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Finished True Detective Season 1 - I put it up there with Season 1 of Homicide as far as perfection does (and Homicide was well before its time!). The Wire was great, but there is a grittiness in these two shows that keeps you on edge. TD was more intense, HLOTS was more realistic. The best TV you'll find.


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[Jayjay]

Just got home and turned on the tv. Twin Peaks: The Return was on. What.The.Fuck am I watching??? I've never seen an episode before and this is totally weird.

My thoughts exactly, but 25 years ago.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Finished True Detective Season 1 - I put it up there with Season 1 of Homicide as far as perfection does (and Homicide was well before its time!). The Wire was great, but there is a grittiness in these two shows that keeps you on edge. TD was more intense, HLOTS was more realistic. The best TV you'll find.


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Did you like the ending? I thought it was a bit anti-climactic. Too much all at once.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Finished True Detective Season 1 - I put it up there with Season 1 of Homicide as far as perfection does (and Homicide was well before its time!). The Wire was great, but there is a grittiness in these two shows that keeps you on edge. TD was more intense, HLOTS was more realistic. The best TV you'll find.


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Did you like the ending? I thought it was a bit anti-climactic. Too much all at once.

I was a bit surprised that there was resolution because the pace was so gradual, but effective. I suspected resolution because the first season was rate so well and the second season not as much, so it likely needed to finish. I wouldn't say it was anti-climatic, but perhaps a bit over the top and not in the character of the two leads.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Supergirl - 7/10

This show is surprisingly good. It's a fairly standard Buffy-esque sci-fi show about a young girl learning to deal with her powers and coping with how supervillian attacks on the city can wreak havoc on one's dating life. It's clever and witty and she manages to capture the kind of hopeful naivety about truth and justice that you want in your Kryptonians.

Although it is of course necessary for the plot, they do go kind of overboard with the whole "Well, this is the convoluted rationale as to why I didn't text my cousin to pop by for an assist this week" thing. If you have Superman on speed dial, there really are just some times where you're faced with a situation that just might be a job for Superman.

Also, if you're an evil Kryptonian with a dozen other evil Kryptonians working for you and you all have the power of Superman, why do you need a long, drawn out and overly complex plot to take over the world? Why not just say "Hi world, you're taken over now"? Then there's no need for a step two in the plan. You now own the world.

 

[Jayjay]

Castlevania
8 or 9 out of 10

So Netflix is producing its own anime now? Except I'm not sure if it's anime because it's done by Americans and Koreans. So let's call it just animation for now, but really, not that different from some Japanese productions. The story is written by Warren Ellis, of whom I'm a big fan, and it manages to be a bit more thoughtful than usual vampire tripe... are the vampires creatures of science, or magic? Why do holy water and blessed whips hurt them? Anyway it's a fun ride, especially if you've played the old Nintendo games (I used to own Castlevania III on NES, which this show is loosely based on) and want to feel nostalgic.

 

[bilby]

Supergirl - 7/10

This show is surprisingly good. It's a fairly standard Buffy-esque sci-fi show about a young girl learning to deal with her powers and coping with how supervillian attacks on the city can wreak havoc on one's dating life. It's clever and witty and she manages to capture the kind of hopeful naivety about truth and justice that you want in your Kryptonians.

Although it is of course necessary for the plot, they do go kind of overboard with the whole "Well, this is the convoluted rationale as to why I didn't text my cousin to pop by for an assist this week" thing. If you have Superman on speed dial, there really are just some times where you're faced with a situation that just might be a job for Superman.

Also, if you're an evil Kryptonian with a dozen other evil Kryptonians working for you and you all have the power of Superman, why do you need a long, drawn out and overly complex plot to take over the world? Why not just say "Hi world, you're taken over now"? Then there's no need for a step two in the plan. You now own the world.

I believe that their contract requires them to also say 'Kneel before Zod' a few times (presumably they can vary this line if they happen not to be called 'Zod'. It's just a General guideline).

 

[Jayjay]

Supergirl - 7/10

This show is surprisingly good. It's a fairly standard Buffy-esque sci-fi show about a young girl learning to deal with her powers and coping with how supervillian attacks on the city can wreak havoc on one's dating life. It's clever and witty and she manages to capture the kind of hopeful naivety about truth and justice that you want in your Kryptonians.

Although it is of course necessary for the plot, they do go kind of overboard with the whole "Well, this is the convoluted rationale as to why I didn't text my cousin to pop by for an assist this week" thing. If you have Superman on speed dial, there really are just some times where you're faced with a situation that just might be a job for Superman.

Also, if you're an evil Kryptonian with a dozen other evil Kryptonians working for you and you all have the power of Superman, why do you need a long, drawn out and overly complex plot to take over the world? Why not just say "Hi world, you're taken over now"? Then there's no need for a step two in the plan. You now own the world.

I believe that their contract requires them to also say 'Kneel before Zod' a few times (presumably they can vary this line if they happen not to be called 'Zod'. It's just a General guideline).

Just waiting for someone called Neil to say it.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Supergirl - 7/10

This show is surprisingly good. It's a fairly standard Buffy-esque sci-fi show about a young girl learning to deal with her powers and coping with how supervillian attacks on the city can wreak havoc on one's dating life. It's clever and witty and she manages to capture the kind of hopeful naivety about truth and justice that you want in your Kryptonians.

Although it is of course necessary for the plot, they do go kind of overboard with the whole "Well, this is the convoluted rationale as to why I didn't text my cousin to pop by for an assist this week" thing. If you have Superman on speed dial, there really are just some times where you're faced with a situation that just might be a job for Superman.

There is a Broadway comedy hidden in there.

Also, if you're an evil Kryptonian with a dozen other evil Kryptonians working for you and you all have the power of Superman, why do you need a long, drawn out and overly complex plot to take over the world? Why not just say "Hi world, you're taken over now"? Then there's no need for a step two in the plan. You now own the world.

If you are an evil Kryptonian, you'd go to some other planet which doesn't have a Superman.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Which is the weirdest part. Supergirl said that she'd visited a dozen planets with her parents before she was thirteen and Krypton was destroyed. So, the Kryptonians a spacefaring race with easy access to rockets and yet they were all killed with their planet was destroyed, meaning they there wasn't anybody from their race on another planet. You'd figure there'd be at least several hundred million of them left out there.

Also, they would know fully well that wandering by any solar system with a G-class star would turn them into immortal, invincible gods and yet there isn't an over abundance of Supermen flying around the Galaxy. Especially since about 90% of the Kryptonians immediately try to take over whichever planet they're on once they gain their powers, it's odd that the Galaxy isn't one big Kryptonian dictatorship.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Though I suppose maybe the other issue is they need a particular planet to be all super and stuff.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

No, they're quite clear about how it's a yellow sun that does it and, even if it's our sun specifically end not G-class Stars generally, Jor El was quite specific about how he was sending Superman here because of the effects of the sun, so it's not unknown information.

There should be quite a few more.

 

[Shadowy Man]

No, they're quite clear about how it's a yellow sun that does it and, even if it's our sun specifically end not G-class Stars generally, Jor El was quite specific about how he was sending Superman here because of the effects of the sun, so it's not unknown information.

There should be quite a few more.

Too bad our sun is white.

 

[KeepTalking]

No, they're quite clear about how it's a yellow sun that does it and, even if it's our sun specifically end not G-class Stars generally, Jor El was quite specific about how he was sending Superman here because of the effects of the sun, so it's not unknown information.

There should be quite a few more.

Too bad our sun is white.

Incorrect. F class stars are generally described as "white", while G class stars are described as "yellow". Our sun is a G class star, informally described as a "yellow dwarf".

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Exactly. If our sun was white, how do you explain Superman having powers here in the first place?

You can't just ignore science, dude.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Too bad our sun is white.

Incorrect. F class stars are generally described as "white", while G class stars are described as "yellow". Our sun is a G class star, informally described as a "yellow dwarf".

It may be "called" yellow, but its color is white. You can most easily tell by looking at it and seeing that it is white.

 

[bilby]

Incorrect. F class stars are generally described as "white", while G class stars are described as "yellow". Our sun is a G class star, informally described as a "yellow dwarf".

It may be "called" yellow, but its color is white. You can most easily tell by looking at it and seeing that it is white.

The sun defines white.

If you take a piece of 'white' paper, it appears whatever colour the light shining on it is - if you look at it under a green light, it looks green; If you look at it under a red light it looks red; if you look at it under a yellow light, it looks yellow; and if you look at it under sunlight, it looks white.

White is the colour of sunlight. It's not so much that the sun is white, as that white is the colour of the sun.

 

[Shadowy Man]

It may be "called" yellow, but its color is white. You can most easily tell by looking at it and seeing that it is white.

The sun defines white.

If you take a piece of 'white' paper, it appears whatever colour the light shining on it is - if you look at it under a green light, it looks green; If you look at it under a red light it looks red; if you look at it under a yellow light, it looks yellow; and if you look at it under sunlight, it looks white.

White is the colour of sunlight. It's not so much that the sun is white, as that white is the colour of the sun.

Indeed. And it's not yellow. So, to call our sun a yellow star is not technically correct. It's not even non-technically correct.


ETA: To be fair, one could define "white" as having all colors equally (i.e., flat spectrum). Then one could compare the sun to that and find that although it isn't strictly white it is close enough to actually look white to our eyes. In that sense, white could just be a very bright gray.

 

[KeepTalking]

Incorrect. F class stars are generally described as "white", while G class stars are described as "yellow". Our sun is a G class star, informally described as a "yellow dwarf".

It may be "called" yellow, but its color is white. You can most easily tell by looking at it and seeing that it is white.

But only if you look at it from outside of our atmosphere, which is pretty hard to do for most humans. It most definitely appears yellow if you look at it while standing on the Earth, though I wouldn't recommend doing that if you enjoy using your eyes for looking at other things. This is why it is classified as a yellow star, as the stellar classes that the current spectral classification is based upon were developed before it was discovered that our atmosphere was scattering the light and shifting the color from white to yellow.

So, as it relates to Superman, it doesn't matter that the sun is actually white, what matters is the color of the light after that atmospheric scattering occurs, which is yellow. Or, at least, that is one way to interpret the science so that the comic book logic can make a very small bit of sense.